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are made and human Government Establisht Your Honours
seem to be assistants to Prerogative and dependant on it
rather than a State in which the people place a Confidence

U. H. J.

Dependant on it we may be allowed to say since your Hon^rs
at the time when you were pleased to think it your Glory and
Priviledge to Assimilate your Constitution to that of Great
Brittain in its three Estates of Legislature were pleased to
declare it his Lordships undoubted Right to Discharge at
pleasure any member of his Councill and Consequently of
your House as you there agree, which things when your
Hon^rs fully Consider, we hope you will not so much Insist on
Your having the sole keeping of the Bills prepared for the
Assent But that you will agree to trust our Speaker with the
presenting them to his Honour the Governour for his As-
sent as hath been Usual who for Dispatch may appoint two
or more of our Members to see the Seal affixed and fiat wrote
to them according to former practice in readiness for his
Hon^rs Sanction who by the perusal of them at the oppor-
tunitys Mentioned in our late Message, may be well Apprised
whether they be proper for his Assent or not Yo^r Hon^rs Con-
clusion in this matter will Demonstrate how far you are
pleased to Decline Unnecessary Debates with us
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

To which Message the following answer was prepared viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Octo^r the 28^th 1725
Gentlemen
You were not mistaken when you understood that we were
far from desireing to Enter into Unnecessary Debates with
your House, for so we really were and are. But we are not
(to avoid Debates) Obliged to Submit our Judgment to your
demands as often as you are pleased to require things of us,
which we do not think reasonable to Comply with, and your

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persisting in those debates rather lays the Imputation of pro-
moting that at your Doors, than ours. We once more
Observe to you that we do not find any certain rule has been
ever made in the Case now debated but that the practice has
been various and since the latest tho' of no longer a Continu-
ance than Ten or Eleven years for the reasons given in our
former Messages is in Our Opinion the best, we cannot con-
sent to depart from it. If you please to Consult the former
Journals of both Houses of Assembly you will find many
Alterations in the Practice of both Houses in things of much
greater Consequence than this at present in Debate and that
without any Express Resolutions Concerning them and if we

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