510 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Annapolis 30^th April 1761. transmitted by Capt Rothery,
Duplicate by Capt Walker. Trip^l by
Sir
In my Letters of the 19^th & 20^th Inst I intimated to His Ldp
& Yourself my Apprehensions that the Lower House would
not join with me & the members of the Upper in an Address
of Condolance & Congratulation to our most gracious Sover-
eign unless we would suffer them to add a Clause reflecting
on the Upper House for rejecting the Assessment Bill & the
Bill which they have at times offered for the Support of an
Agent, as we could never think of countenancing such a pro-
posal & those who compose a Majority in the Lower House
seemed determined to make a Point of it the Gentlemen of
the Upper House & Myself have now transmitted a seperate
Address to His sacred Majesty & another to the Ld prry
begging the favour of him to present it, The Assessment
Bill having been again rejected I should now prorogue the
Assembly had the Committee of both Houses which hath been
appointed to examine into the proceedings of the Commission-
ers of the Loan Office & other publick Accounts made their
Report. I am.

Annapolis the 2^d of May 1761.
Sir
I am sorry to inform Your Excellency that notwithstanding
the Professions they made at the Beginning of the Session of
their readiness to comply with His Majesty's Requisition sig-
nified to them by M^r Secretary Pitts Letter the Majority of our
Lower House of Assembly would not be prevailed on to send
up any other Supply Bill besides that which had been already
rejected eight times by the Upper House it being in their
opinion & indeed in the opinion of M^r Pratt His Majesty's
Attorney Gen^l an unconstitutional & unequitable one & such
as ought not to be passed into a Law, & as the Lower House
Resolved last night that they will not grant Supplies by any
other Bill whatever I dispatch this to advise Your Excellency