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They return and Say they Delivered it.
Col. Addison and Col^o Tilghman from the Upper House
deliver M^r Speaker the following Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly

Octo^r the 19^th 1723.
Gentlemen.
We Perceive that you are Inclined to Make a very Ad-
vantageous Bargain with us by your proposall in your Mes-
sage this day by Col^o Mackall and three more that we should
give up our pretensions of right to our Allowances for the
future, for your Consent to Allow us what we ought to have
at this time; an offer which we think unbecomeing your
House, and which we reject with Indignation If you please
to Consent to allow what we Claim as our right we are ready
to Assent to the Journall of your Committee of Accounts, but
have nothing to do w^th your Resolutions, and the terms you
propose we shall never Agree to.
Sign'd p Order Sam^ll Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Thereupon the following Message is prepared Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly

Octob^r the 19^th 1723.
May it Please Your Honours
Since your Honours will not Agree to our proposalls we
desire you'll be pleas'd to send Down the Journall of the Com-
mittee of Accounts that a Committee may be Appointed to
Lay the Publick Levy or else as we have nothing before us
we shall Adjourn.
Signd p Order Michaell Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

Which was sent to the Upper House by M^r Beale and three
other members. They return and say they Delivered it.

L. H. J.

James Bowles Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the Journall of the Committee of Accounts with [the]
following Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
Octob^r the 19^tk 1723.
We have herewith sent you the Journall of the Committee
of Accounts but Cannot Assent to it as it now Stands.
Sign'd p Order. Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

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