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as may be necessary for his Carrying on the Business of the
Publick, that no Delay be Suffered for Want thereof.
Signed p Order Jno Beale Cl Up Ho...

The following Message is Prepared Viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly Aug' 5^th 1721.
May it Please Your Hon^rs
We are Concerned to find the Reasons offered in Our last
Message to your Honours should not be Satisfactory: but
that this should be lookt upon by Your Honours as a Matter
of such weight as to take up so much of the Country's Time ;
and what ever Compliments the Journals of Each House make
Manifest to have been given Coll Blackiston of Real Services
This House is fully Satisfied, none has been done worthey so
great a Reward; neither hath the New York Affair the least
Influence to perswade us to Burthen the Country further; and
we Desire to be Excused for not Esteeming it of sufficient
weight to alter our well Grounded (as we hope) Resolutions.
Wherefore we pray Y^r Hon^rs to press no farther on this
Subject.
Signed p Order. M Jenifer Q Lo Ho.

And sent to the Upper House by M^r Tyler and three more.
They Return and Say They have Delivered it.
The following Message is Ordered to be prepared Viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly August the 5^th 1721.

L. H. J.

May it Please your Honours.
This House is much Troubled that the Reasons offered by
us to his Lordship in Our Address should be [Pressed] by you
to be Communicated; whereas we Conceive Ourselves Obliged
to give them to none save his L^p with whom We hope they will
so far prevail as to incline his Lordship not to Dissent to the
Act for Regulating Officers ffees: and as Your House and
this Differ chiefly about that Affair it would be Imprudent
(as we think) to Communicate Our Reasons on that Head;
and this House believes it more Parliamentary to Offer them
Seperately than Conjunctly with your Honours.
And as we humbly hope we have pressed things to his Lord-
ship no farther than the Countrey's Interest did Oblige: if it
should otherwise happen, the Sin will lye at Our Doors.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho

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