The very name of an arbitrary government is ready to put an Englishman's blood into a fermentation; but when it really comes, and shakes its whip over their ears, and tells them it is their master, it makes them stark mad.
c. Boston's Action Relative to the Proposed Permanent Salary for the Governor in 1729
Boston Town Records (for dates given).
The full records of the meeting are given, that the student may see how great matters of state were mingled with trivial and local business. The attempt of England to secure a fixed salary for the Governor of Massachusetts would, if successful, have made that officer wholly independent of popular control. Cf. American History and Government, § 118, for the whole story.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston Duly Qualified being Regulerly Assembled in a Publick Town meeting at the Town House Tuesday May the 6th 1729—
After Prayer by the Revd mr Thomas Prince [and after] Elisha Cooke Esqr Chose[n] Moderator for this Meeting.
- Sundry Petitions Read Vizt
- About a place for the Grainery
- About m. [Mr.] Peleg Wiswalls Sallary
- About m. Edward Mills Sallary
- m. Samuel Oakes Petition
- m. Jerā [Jeremiah] Condys Petition
- The Selectmens Report of Sundry things left to them
- Voted to Chuse 4 Representatives
- The Number of Voters Were 192
| votes. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Elisha Cooke Esqr | 188 | Chose[n] Representatives |
| m. Thomas Cushing | 190 | |
| m. Ezekll Lewis | 190 | |
| m. Samll Welles | 184 | |