240 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

U. H. J.

Sent down by Col^o Ward who returns and savs he Deliv-
ered it.

Read the Bill for Relief and Release of poor prisoners &c^a
which was ordered to be thus Endors'd viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Octo the 28^th 1725
Read and will pass.
Signed p Order Geo: Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent by Col^o Ward, Who returns and says he Delivered it.
A Message from the Lower House by Col^o Ward and M^r
Wright as follows

p. 62

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 28^th 1725
May it please Your Hon^rs
We are very sorry to find our selves mistaken when we.
understood by yo^r Message of the 25^th Instant that you were
far from desiring to Enter into Unnecessary Debates with
us You are pleased to say you cannot Imagine any Injury done
to the priviledge of our House by the practice you insist on
or what Inconvenience may arise from it. You will please to
Observe every Innovation contrary to a good Constitution
is an Injury to it and the practice we pray a Renovation of has
been the constant practice Used and Approved during the
Government of his Lordships Ancestors and of the Crown
and only Suffered Alteration in the beginning of his present
Lordships Domⁿ without any notice being taken of it, by
either House that Appears on the Journals and conse-
quently without Argument, and Alterations of Antient Cus-
toms thus made Sub Silentio are never accounted of weight
Sufficient to Sanction them Every Innovation is to be Care-
fully watched against by those that like and have mind to pre-
serve their Establishment There may happen Ilconveniences
by Alterations that we may not foresee at the time of making
them, but may afterwards feel by bad Experience when it
may be insisted on as too late to remedy them. An Instance of
this your Hon^rs give us by insisting now on a Ten years prac-
tice crept in amongst us unobserved, without any Sanction
against the general practice of former times. We therefore
think it our Duty to interpose in time that this young obstacle
to old experience, may not it self grow stiff through Age and
Obstinate by Use; Your Honours give us Occasion to remark
that tho you be an Acting Body in this Legislature, Yet it is
We that are the Peoples Representatives for whom all Laws