142 Assembly Proceedings, July 18- August 5, 1721.

U.H.J.

The following Message prepared and Considered of Viz

By the Upper house of Assembly
July the 26^th 1721
Gentlemen. Waveing all Disputes about the Antient Cus-
toms and Priviledges of your house w^ch yet we Cannot Agree
you have any Title to in the manner set forth in Your Message
of this Day by M^r Lee and M^r Benson the Mutuall Agreement
& good Correspondency that always Ought to Subsist between
the two houses gave us a great deal of reason to believe that
we should not have been Denyd the Perusall of his Lordships
Originall Speech for if we had required it as being a branch
of the Legislature to whom it was in the first place Addressed
we should not in our Oppinion have Exceeded that measure
of Right which is Justly due to the prehemancy both in the
order and Dignity of Our house but we were not for pro-
longing the Sessions nor spending our Countreys mony in
Trifling Debates and therefore Contented ourselves in re-
questing barely the Perusall of the Originall Speech w^th
Designe only to Correct the Errors that we Imagine are
to be found in the Copy Attested and Sent us by the Clk of
your house But that we may Inform you in this matter Which

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you Seem at Present to misapprehend We take that Speech
to be the Governours proper Authority for Delivering in his
Lordship's name the Subject matter of it And which Cer-
tainly neither belongs to you nor us Otherwise than as we have
the favour of our Perusing it for the refreshing of our
Memories and Entring it Correctly on our respective Journalls.
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Upp^r ho.

Sent to the lower house by Col Ward Who returns and
says he Delivered it
These following three bills Viz.
A Bill for reviving and Continuing an Act of Assembly
Intituled an Act for Relieving the Inhabitants of this Province
from some Aggrievances in the Prosecution of Suits at Law
A bill reviving & Continuing the Act Intituled an Act
Ascertaining the Gage and Tare of Tob^o hogsheads
A bill for reviving an Act Entituled an act for Raising a
duty of three Pence p hh^d on Tobacco Exported out of this
Province for the use therein Mentioned
Which three bills being read are Severally thus Endorst
Viz.
By the Upp^r house of Assembly
July the 26^th 1721

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Read and will Pass
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Upp^r ho.