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 282 INTRODUCTION. chap. vn. money, the house requesting a statement of 1706. disbursements, and the appointment of a pub- lic treasurer who should be under their con- trol. At length in 1706, an act was passed, raising three thousand pounds for fortifications, and directing the money to be placed in the hands of a person named by the legislature. This act did not receive the assent of the go- vernor until the succeeding year, when he informed the legislature that he had it in com- mand from the queen " to permit the general assembly to name their own treasurer, when they raised extraordinary supplies for particu- lar uses, and which are no part of the standing and constant revenue." The irritation between the governor and the legislature, occasioned by his perpetual de- mands of money, his misapplication of it, his extortions in the way of fees, and his haughty tyrannical conduct in other respects, continued to increase until the queen, moved by the com- plaints both of New York and New Jersey, consented to recal him. During these alter- cations, some spirited resolutions were entered into by the assembly, one of which deserves particular notice. It is in these words, " re- solved, that the imposing and levying of any monies upon her majesty's subjects of this co- lony, under any pretence or colour whatsoever, without their consent in general assembly, is a grievance and violation of the people's pro- perty."