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ciously, and Using us with Indecencies unbecoming your
House to Offer, or ours to bear: And therefore think it seems
but too Plain, that you are pleased to Use that Superiority,
you lately Valued yo^r selves upon to us, as a Commission to
insult us, which lessens that Tenderness and Respect we have
hitherto treated and should still treat you with, did you use
us as Creatures Rational. But when we see you shake off all
respect, except in what you respectfully and Often promise,
but never perform viz. to Endeavour to End this Session, we
may be well Allowed to treat you with that plainness that is
due to the Impositions offered us. And for avoiding such other
plain but proper Usage, as perhaps may give you further
Pretences of Complaining of our freedom, We desire you will
rest Satisfied with our late Conclusions which no necessities
shall ever Oblige us to depart from
Sign'd p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

The Message Above being read the following Answer
was prepared thereto viz.

U. H. J.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 26^th 1723
Gentlemen.
We shall not enter into the Debate with you, whether you
be in your Senses or no but this we may very Justly Affirm,
that any man in his Wits may read in Plain English your
Message of Yesterday Viz. that the whole Revenue being ap-
plied to the Governor left no Room for the Council; and this,
as you lay down for a Rule, makes it Reasonable to allow them
wages out of the Publick, there being, as you Allege, no pro-
vision made for them. This Rule you say the former Assem-
blies Walked by; and by the same Rule it is that we are willing
to be govern'd now; and Affirm from the Terms of the Mes-
sage af^d that there is now no more Room for the Council
than at those Times, when the same Allowances w^ch we now
Claim, were thought reasonable. For in yo^r Message you
acknowledge that no Restraint can be laid upon the Lord
Proprietary by the Terms of the Act, how then, or by what
means shall we come by our Allowances, or what provision
is there more for us now than if no such Law had been ever
made, as that which you refer us to, in which we are not so
much as mentioned, nor included within the Intention thereof,
as we apprehend.
But if in your Opinion Gentlemen, there be any Certain
Provision made for us which we know nothing of, it had been
much more Agreeable to us, & much more becoming the Low^r
House to have pointed out to us such Provision, that we might

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