7694. SALARIES, Legislators'.—
It is
just that members of General Assembly,
delegated by the people to transact for them
the legislative business, should, while attending
that business, have their reasonable
sustenance defrayed, dedicating to the public
service their time and labors freely and without
account: and it is also expedient that the
public councils should not be deprived of the
aid of good and able men, who might be
deterred from entering into them by the insufficiency
of their private fortunes to [meet]
the extraordinary expenses they must necessarily
incur.—
Adequate Allowance Bill.
Ford ed., ii, 165.
(1778)
