The Lower House. 71

Col^o Addison enters the House and delivers M^r Speaker
the said Ordinance indorsed

3^d Nov. 1711
Read and assented to by her Majesty's Honble Council
Signed p Order W. Bladen Cl. Co.

M^r Paca has Leave to go Home
The Honble Col^o Coursey, Col^o Ennalls, M^r Young, Col^o
Greenberry and Col^o Whittington enter the House and deliver
M^r Speaker the following Message

By the Honble President and Council in Assembly
November 3^d 1711.

In Answer to your Address this Day by L^t Col^o Gale and
nine others of your Members we must observe to you that
the present Justices of the Provincial Court holding their
Offices by Patent made them in Governor Seymour's Time
and her Majesty's Royal Instructions prohibiting the Governor
&^ta to displace any of them without sufficient Cause re-
presented to her Majesty, we do not take what is offered from
your House as an Aggrievance to be a sufficient Reason to
displace any of them without some particular Misfeazance in
their Offices assigned against them which we shall at all
Times be ready to hear

We cannot but resent your saying you had very freely con-
sented to charge yourselves & the People you represent with
very great Sums for our Attendance in Council which you
assert to be the great Cause of calling us together; and ab-
solutely deny an Imputation so untrue and unworthy of your
Representative Body which her Majesty's several Commands
laid before you this Session and the absolute Necessity of
Enacting and reviving some good Laws for the Preservation
and Welfare of the Province plainly demonstrate. Many Coun-
cils this Year having been occasioned by her Majesty's Ex-
pedition designed against Canada, As they burthen the
Country with Charge so have they been to our Fatigue and
Loss in our private Affairs. And as for your Threats of going
Home without assessing the publick charge you must believe
it will as little affect this Board as the Members of your House
But if the Province, in the Condition it now is, surrounded
with Enemies should suffer for Want of the good Laws now
reenacted especially that regulating the Militia and be bur-
thened with another speedy Assembly let it be at your Doors.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

We are sorry the Deference we have and always shall pay

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