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raising a sufficient support for all the necessary Uses of Gov-
ernment and are under no ties of duty to raise more, because
those that are raised are not apply'd to your likeing; Once paid
well paid, His Lordship who employs you is paid by the people,
and 'tis no less then unreasonable for you to insist on further
Demands from the people for the same Service.
We cannot guess to what degrees of Unhandsome and
insulting usage you would grow to in your Messages to us
if we shou'd Continue to pass by this yo^r last with the like dis-
regard and Tameness that we did yo^r former of the 28^th & 29^th
of October last; we hoped that tho you were pleased to treat
the lower House of Assembly in 1723 by your Message of the
26^th of that October at the Close of their Sessions, with
Questioning whether they were in their witts or not, who to
avoid unnecessary debates gave you no Answer, and tho' you
were pleased at the Close of that Sessions to treat that House
with Language better drop'd than Copyed after, and tho you
have been pleased this Sessions to declare your Sentiments
against unnecessary debates, yet you now seem resolved to
lay us under the Dilemma of Spending time in Shewing you
how you derogate from yo^r sometime boasted Superiority in
good manners or of submitting to such treatment as would
demonstrate us unworthy of the Trust our Country places in
us, and a sett of Men Void of all Sence of Honour or just
resentment. Please to Consider again your Messages, and
since in a former Assembly you were pleased to declare good

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manners inseperable from an Upper House, please to Judge
if you have not given us Cause to Question whether you be
an Upper House or not, after your parting with what your
selves have declared so eminent a Characteristick of it. We
shall be very desirous (not only of Deferring) but avoiding
all further Debates with you unless you are pleased to Joyn
a meeker temper to Your Correspondence with us, this we give
you to advise upon, and assure you your reproaching us with
being Obstinate shall never divert us from being resolute in
our Duty, nor Maintaining the Character due to our Station.
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which is Ordered to lye on the Table
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Kirk and M^r
Walter Smith, viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly Novem^r the 2^d 1725
May it please your Hon^rs
Yo^r message of this Instant concerning the Bill relating to
Servants Imprisoned is so very foreign to the Subject under

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