APPENDIX.
(No. 1.)
The MESSAGE of the Town of BOSTON
to the GOVERNOR.
May it please your Excellency,
THE Freeholders and other Inhabitants
of the Town of Boston, legally assembled
in Faneuil-Hall, be Leave to acquaint your
Excellency, that a Report has prevailed, which
they have reason to apprehend is well ground-
ed, that Stipends are affixed to the Offices of
the Judges of the Superior Court of Judica-
ture, &c. of this Province, whereby they are
become Independent of the Grants of the Ge-
neral Assembly for their Support; contrary to
ancient and invariable Usage. This Report has
spread an Alarm among all considerate persons
who have heard of it in Town and Country;
being viewed, as tending rapidly to compleat
the System of their Slavery; which originated
in the House of Commons of Great-Britain,
assuming a Power and Authority, to give and
grant the Monies of the Colonists without
their Consent, and against their repeated Re-
monstrances. And, as the Judges hold their