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Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
I should not have conven'd you at this Season of the year if
the Necessity of Affairs did not make it Absolutely requisite,
and that I promise myself the Same Assiduous and Unani-
mous application to the Dispatch of business for the publick
good, will be emulated and Exerted, as well in this as in the
late happy Assemblys, I have had the pleasure to meet & part
with.

I have it in Command from the Right Hon^rble my Lord Guil-
ford and Proprietor, to let you Know how Grateful your
asserting the publick authority of their Courts, and the per-
sons of their ministers is to their Lordships And also to

L. H. J.

acquaint you, that the proceedings of the last Assembly was
for the most part approved by them.

Their Lordships have thought fit, that the Act made in last
Sessions, intituled an Act for the better Supporting of Magis-
trates in the Administration of Justice, and for the disabling
Thomas Macnemara to practice the Law therein should be
declared to be null void and of no effect.
Their Lordships are pleased to express themselves on this
particular, That they do think such a law very necessary But
forasmuch as there is tack'd to it a clause, against a particular
person, without hearing the party which is the undoubted
right of every one of his Majestys Subjects, for this reason,
their Lordships on very good Advice & Deliberation are ob-
liged to dissent to the s Act.

Gent, of the Lower House.
I am ignorant of the motives induc'd you to pass the afore-
mention'd bill, more then from the reasons Set forth therein,
which in my Opinion are Strong and well Exprest, and the
facts alledged such Known truths, that I doubted not you
had taken all Measures proper to the Occasion. But I must
averr and declare that the party named in the bill, did not
apply himself to the Upper House, where, if he had cause he
might have been reliev'd, nor to me as Gov^r who had a Nega-
tive Voice on that Bill, Tho there was Some time between the
passing it in both houses, and my fixing the Scale, and Assent-
ing to it as an Act.

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I shall Send down to your house, the Opinion of Council
learned in the Laws of Great Britain on the partys Suspension
from his practice by that act. The Cases as they are Stated to
the Lawyers and their Sentiments on them, are worthie your
Observation.
But I must remark to you, should this party or others, be
Suffered to insult the Courts as he has so Often done with

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