made by the severall Capts. Viz. That this money is by them
distributed to the Inferiour Officers but take it upon the face of the
order that the money is paid them to their own use And with regret
observe that two of the DeputyLieutenants who appear to have
sign'd the order for the Distribution have thereby carved for
themselves and reced eath their £10 as Capts. your Committee are the
rather enclined to think that the Capts. have no legal title to this
money from the Consideration of the 9th Section of the same
Statute which seems to distinguish between Inferiour and
Commissioned officers and provided another sort of Recompents
for the Commissioned Foot Officers, Whereby it is provided
" That every commissioned Foot officer in the trained Bands or
" Militia of this Kingdom (settled according to Act of Parliament
" shall be and is thereby exempted and excused from finding and
" contributing towards the finding any Horse Horseman or arms
" for his whole estate if at anytime it is charged but with one Horse or a
" less charge or for such part of his of late as is or shall be charged with
" one Horse if his whole estate be charged with a greater charge than
" one Horse in the County or Lieutenancy where he so serves as a
" Foot Officer in repsect of the expense which the said employment
" doth necesearily engage him in As to the Kent for their Office and
Officers salarys and charges Your Committee think they may be
reasonably enough included within the words of the Act The
Trophy money being raised for furnishing ammunition and other
necessarys. But as for Trophies which give the name to this tax
Your Committee are informed that only one set has been provided
for the Militia since his present Maties Accession altho money has
been raised for that purpose every year but one since that time
Your Committee cannot conclude without taking notice that much
of their trouble had been saved if the Board of Lieutenancy had
taken the accounts of the Treasurer upon oath every six months
and certified a duplicate thereof to this Court as they are obliged to
do by the Statue made 13th and 14th Car 2d cap 9 Sert 12.

Upon the whole matter Your Committee are come to the
following Resolutions viz.

That it is the opinion of this Committee That the assessing mo [..]
than the legal sum upon any parish on any pretence what Soever
is an illegal oppression Highly tending to discourage his Maties.
faithfull subjects from contributing chearfully towards those
supplys which the necessitys of the State may require to be laid
upon them.