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The second and third of these your and our Journals which
you so Often Appeal to, be the Evidence, and let an Impartial
Reader Judge. We are Resolved not to be lead from our
Country's Busieness by any thing you shall offer to divert
us nor take further notice of the manner wherein you are
pleased to dress your Reasonings in your last Essay, save
that we think your former Messages Exprest yo^r Intent with
Elegance and Conciseness and this late One with less of those
and much more prolixity and Circumlocution.
We therefore Again (in your method) repeat our Conclu-
sion that the Acts you insist on to support y^r Claim are and
long since all Repealed
That the Custom you Insist on has no foundation for the
Reasons we have already shown in our former Messages
and because The Journals you last quote in your favor were in
1696 & 97 when the Acts in being that setled the Revenue for

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the Support of Governm^t One whereof in the Russet Cover'd
Book of Laws Folio 117 is Intituled an Act for Settlem^t of
An Annual Revenue upon their Majestys Governor of this
Province for the Time being Anno 1692 Another Act of the
same purport and Title Anno 1699 in the Large Vellam Law
Book fo: 30. By these Acts there was no Room left for the
Council but the whole Applied to the Govern^t Support. This
made it Reasonable to Allow them Wages out of the Publick,
there being no other provision for them. But by the Act for
setling the Revenue now in force, there is Room Left and
plain Provision made for them. If his Ldp pleases to Apply
it, so; if not, we can lay no restraint on him, and yo^r Hon^rs
may more properly apply to him on this Occasion than we.
We therefore again tell your Hon^rs we are convinced in our
Consciences, you have neither' Law nor Reasonable Custom
to support your Claims, and that we will not Act Contrary
to this Conviction on any Consideration whatever let the
Consequence be what it will.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho :

Which Message being Read the following Answer was
prepared thereto

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 25^th 1723
Gentlemen.
As it was not the Design of this House to prolong the Ses-
sion by giving you occasion of Comments or by Enlarging our
last Message further then was necessary for our own Justifi-

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cation, we shall now purposely avoid anything that may give
a Handle to Disputes that are foreign to the present Debate

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