168 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

L. H. J.

Wherefore we are of opinion that one of the Com^rys Gen^ll &
the Secretary have no Right to the Severall ffees of their
offices untill Security is given pursuant to the Act of Assem-
bly and Directions of the Commissioners af^d and desire your
Honours will be pleas'd to advise the Severall officers afores^d

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who have not yet given Bond being members of your House
and therefore referr the further consideracon to your
Honours.
Sign'd p order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

Which was Sent to the Upper House with the Journall
therein mencon'd by M^r Beale and Cap^t Hooper. They return
and say they Delivered them.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r
Speaker the Orriginall and Engrost reviving Bills to the Act
for Limitation of officers ffees &c with the following Message
Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Novemb^r the 2^d 1724.
Gentlemen.
We are much concern'cl to find by your message of the 3 I^st
of October by M^r Tyler & M^r Taylor that you Endeavour by
a foreign Construction of our Intentions relateing to the
alteracons propos'd and an unreasonable Construction of the
words in the Bill for reviving officers ffees to Justifie a practice
unheard of till now in parliamentary proceedings; which
we were willing (for the Sake of Cultivating an amicable
understanding between the two Houses and that we might
pursue the busieness before us) to have lookt upon as a mis-
take and not a design to impose upon us. But you oblige us
to insist; That for either House to alter a Bill past in both
Houses without the knowledge and consent of the other is a
Violation of that priviledge that ought to be Sacred to both
and that you have done so is apparent; for instead of Exclud-
ing the whole paragraph that makes hemp & fflax Current in
paym^t of Tobacco Debts due to merchants and others Trade-
ing or Commercing in or to this province (which was the true
intent & meaning of the alteration propos'd by us in our
former message) you have by the Interlineation formerly
menconed, artfully Excused such merchants and Involv'd the
Inhabitants of this province in the same mischief, w^ch is an
Alteracon so farr from our Intentions that it was not so much
as once Spoke of to or by our House. Certainly Gentlemen,
when you consider this affair you will no longer En-
deavour to perswade us to part with our priviledge by con-
senting to the ingros'd Bill as it now stands which we have