Petition to the General Court from the Town of Dracut

taking into Consideration the Retrenchment of a Governors Ex
pence which has taken place, as eleven hundred pounds did when
the Governors Salary was Established; if that be true Surely the
Salary ought to be lowered to five hundred pounds; if eleven
hundred was enough when it was Established; which we be=
leive no one will Doubt; and We Quere if these Ideas are just,
whether an alteration will render the Salary less Honorable or
Permanent, in the Sense of the Constitution.

We also Request Your Honors to move the General Court out
of the town of Boston 1^t Because considering the depravity
of human Nature, & how liable Men are to be Biased, the Num=
ber & Abilities of y^e Inhabitants of that town, and the opport=
nity they have to converse with the Members of y^e General Court,
We think throws more than a Proportionable weight into the
Seale of Legeslation in their Favour. And that, without any
Reflection on the Inhabitants of the town of Boston, for we are
convinced, that the disposition of Town & Country are the
same, where the same opportunity Presents.

2.^dly. Because when part of the Members while the Court is Setting are
attending to their Merchandize Speculation &c the business of y^e
Government is Procrastinated, and the Expence Consequently
Enhanced.

3^dly Because the Expence of the Members is much higher
in the town of Boston, then it would see in a Country
Town.

The town of Dracut have Troubled the General Court
with Petitions as little Perhaps as any town in the Common=
wealth, and should not do it at this time, did- not we
think the Necessaties of the People in General, good Oe=
conemy, and even Common Justice Required an
alteration in the System of Civil Policy within this
State, and that such alteration, may take place
as