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 INTRODUCTION. 293 session, a committee was appointed "to vin- chap. vm . dicate the proceedings of the house from the 1721. insinuations, made by the governor, of their want of duty and loyalty to his majesty." This committee made a report, in the form of a narrative and justification of the proceedings of the last assembly, which the house received and ordered to be printed. The usual provision for the support of the governor and other crown officers was post- poned, and in return, the governor laid by the list of treasurer and other officers elected by the two houses, without approving or disap- proving the choice which had been made. A committee was deputed from the house, to inquire of the council, whether the governor had passed on the list. He abruptly answered, that he should take his own time for it. This produced a long altercation, which terminated in a vote of the house not to go into the con- sideration of grants and allowances, until his excellency should have passed upon the acts, resolves and elections of that session. Some friends of the governor too, among whom was Mr. Dummer, the agent for the colony in England, experienced the effects of this quarrel. The house passed a vote of dis- mission, which, though non-concurred in by the council, rendered the office by no means desirable to a person depending for his salary on an annual vote of the legislature. In the