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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 361
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People of the Province from Supplying the French or their
Indian Allies with Stores or Provisions of any kind, sent to the
Upper House, who return'd it with some Amendments.
That the 19th The Upper House again return'd the Supply
Bill Insisting upon their former objections, and further that the
Clause to appropriate the Fines of ordinary Licences was an
Attempt which struck at the Lord Proprietor's Rights.
That the 20th — The Upper House return'd the Bill for
Regulating the Rates of Carriages and Quartering Soldiers
&c. with Amendments, the next day agreed to by the Dele-
gates; who likewise agreed to the Bill for preventing the
Province from Supplying the French &c.
That the 21st The Delegates again sent a further Message
to the Upper House upon the Supply Bill, Insisting that the
Intended Emission would not Effect the Credit of the money
then Current; And that the Appropriation of the Fines
arising on the ordinary Licences was no Infringement of the
Lord Proprietor's Rights, But even had his Lordship a Right
to such Fines by Virtue of his Prerogative; The Upper House
ought not in that Critical Conjuncture to be against the intended
Application of them.
That the 24th — The Upper House return'd an Answer to the
last Message upon the Supply Bill, showing the Lord Pro-
prietor's Right under his Charter to the Fines from Licences,
and that this Right had been acknowledged by the Lower
House and Acquiesced in by the People near one Hundred
years ago; with Various Instances in which it had been Exer-
cised during that Period, and that his Right thereto devolved
by Inheritance under the Royal Charter to his Ancestors, and
was not in the least weaken'd by any of their Acts; However
they had no design to Enter into any Controversys upon that
point at that improper Season, when their Duty to the best of
Kings call'd loudly to imploy their time more to the Advantage
of the Common Cause against the Common Enemys. Assur-
ing the Lower House of their Hearty Concurrence with them
in any other unexceptionable measures of raising the Supply.
The same day .... The Lieut Governor sent a Message to
the Lower House Communicating to them a Letter he had
received from Genl Braddock, and Expressing his Hopes that
it would Add some weight to Sir Thos Robinson's Letter and
incline them to answer in some measure His Majesty's Expec-
tations, at least so far as to provide Victuals for such of His
Majesty's Forces as might at their Arrival befor a short time
Quarter'd in or have occasion to March thro the Province;
And further that they would not be averse to Continuing on
Foot those men that had been already raised in the Govern-
ment, and to granting a Sum of Money for that purpose, as
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