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362 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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well as for defraying such Incidental Charges as would be
Occasion'd by Hiring or Impressing Horses or Carriages in
the Province to Convey the Soldiers Baggage, and by his
Appointment of Persons at proper Places to Carry any Dis-
patches between the General's Head Quarters and that Place,
or else where His Majesty's Service might require.
The 25th In Answer to this Message, The Lower House in
an Address to the Lieut Governor Express'd a Concern at the
Negative put upon the Supply Bill by the Upper House, Con-
cluding with a request to the Lieut Governor to put a speedy
End to this Sessions.
The 26th — The Lieut Governor sent a further Message to
the Lower House, again recommending it to them to Appro-
priate a Sum of Money to the uses mention'd in his former
Message and in Genl Braddock's Letter; as the same might
be raised without having Recourse to any of the proposed
means in their said Bill, and as they were Services of a Local
peculiar nature arising Entirely within that Government.
The same day. — The Lower House came to several Resolu-
tions Insisting that the Fines arising on ordinary Licences
were the undoubted Right of the Country and that the Lord
Proprietor had no Right thereto.
The same day .... They again address'd the Lieut Gov-
ernor refusing to make further Proposal than had been already
made, for replacing any moneys to be granted to provide for
the Requisitions made by the Letters of Sir Thos Robinson
and Genl Braddock and every other purpose relative to His
Majesty's Services on the then Exigency; And again Insisting
that the Appropriation of the ordinary Licences Fines (which
had at last appear'd to be the great Obstacle to their repeated
Generous Grants) was the undoubted Right of the Country,
That nothing ever would induce them to give up or do any
thing which might weaken that Right; and since the Upper
House by their Messages seemed determined not to depart
from what they look'd upon in that Particular as the Lord
Proprietor's Right, there was no room to Expect any thing
further to be done, And therefore they again requested the
Lieut Governor to put an End to the Sessions accordingly.
The same day .... The Lieut Governor with the Advice of
the Council Prorogued the Assembly to the Ist of July then
next, after first Passing two Acts, the one for Regulating the
Rates of Carriages and Quartering Soldiers &c. and the
other to Prevent the People of the Province from Supplying
the French or their Indian Allies with Ammunition Warlike
Stores or Provisions of any kind.
The 22d of May 1755 .... The Lieut Governor mentions in
his Letter to the Secretary of the Province, That a Company
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