608   Appendix to council Proceedings, 1696—1729.

              C.  P. 2dly If you have such a Power, in what manner may they

                  be best regulated by such Power, and how can you Enable

                  the Officers to Exact such fees Effectually.

                   3dIy If your Charter may not warrant such a Power,

                  whither must the Officers resort to, for a Settlement thereof

                  certain and secure on the Assemblys refusall to conhrm to

                  them such fees, as they have hitherto Enjoy'd; or what Course

                  can the Officers take to recover their fees.

                   4thly Whether, whilst there is no Law here for fees nor

                  any other Certain Establishmt the Officers may not recover

                  fees at Law According as they are Settled in the Courts of

                  England by the Very Rule Lay'd down by these people, that

                  the Laws of England are to take place, where our own are

                  Silent. And in Generall How it may be possible and more

                  Convenient to Come to Certainty in this Affair.

              p. 18     The Consequence of some such Inquirys as these to the

                  Honour and quiet of your Government seems very Evident;

                  for wee here know not which way to turn ourselves in such

                  nice and important matters. Wee can do no more then insist

                  on yor regulation of 1719, pursuant to your Instruction, but

                  that will not get us the fees, unless wee can be put into some

                  method to Exact them, without the help of an Act of Assem

                  bly, which cannot easily be Obtained.

                   I have for this time done with Publick Affairs, wherein if I

                  have tired your Patience, tho I hope I have not beyond Ex

                  cuse trespassed on your goodness.

                   In your kind Letter of April 3d 1729 wherewth you favoured

                  me, you order'd me to Acquaint Mr Lloyd, to remit to Capt

                  Hyde for yr. use the Quota out of the Secretary's Office wch

                  Mr Lowe used to have; before I saw Mr Lloyd after the receipt

              P. ‘9     of yours, I received a Letter from Mr Beake wherein he De

                  sired me, to send him a Copy of the Commission to him and

                  Lowe, which is here recorded, Upon perusall whereof (in the

                  Copy herein Inclosed) you will find the sd Office Granted to

                  the Survivor of them, which being a transaction, so very early

                  in your minority, I imagined you might possibly have forgot

                  when you wrote your letter, and as Mr Beake by Desiring

                  a Copy of the Commission, seems to have that Survivorship

                  in View, and doubtless long agoe has apprized you of his

                  thoughts that way, if he has that View, I thought it most

                  convenient, to deferr Speaking to Mr Lloyd, untill I should

                  receive yr further Commands therein which I will answer, will

                  be time Enough for any payments he will make on that Score;

                  I have sent Mr Beake a like Copy of the Commission, which

                  in Common Civility was not to be refused, and Which being

                  publick on record, might Easily have been had from any one

                  Else.