for the Distribution have thereby carved for themselves and
reced each 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 provides an other sort of Recompenses
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 any time it is charged but with one horse
"or a less charge or for such part of his estate 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 respect of the expence
"which the said employment doth necessarily engage him in
As to the Rent 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 Statute made 13th and 14th
Cor 2d cap 9 Sect 12.

Upon the whole matter Your Committee are come to the
following Resolutions Viz:

1

That it is the opinion of this Committee That the assessing
more than the legal Sum upon any parish on any pretence
whatsoever is an illegal oppression Highly tending to discourage
his Maties faithfull Subjects from contributing chearfully toward
those supplys which the necessitys of the State may require to be
laid upon them.

2

That the not casting up the Assessments has been a great neglect on
the part of the Deputy Lieutenants and an encouragement to the said
oppression.