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

U. H. J.

Which being read the following Answer was prepared
thereto viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Nov^r the 3^d 1725

Gentlemen.
On Reading yo^r Message this Day by Capt Harrison and
M^r Wright relating to the Bill for regulating Officers frees
we find no reason to recced from our Amendments heretofore
propos'd without which this Bill will not pass
Signed p Order Geo Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bill and Message was sent by Coll^o Tilghman who
says he Delivered it
Upon Reading the Message of Yesterday by Coll^o Ephraim
Augustine Herman and M^r Courts the following answer was
prepared thereto viz.

p. 94

By the Upper House of Assembly November the 3^d 1725
Gentlemen.
We cannot see any more unreasonableness in Expecting
an Allowance from the publick for our Attendance on the
Countrys Service in Councill, then for the representatives
in time of Assembly; Each have their distinct Offices tho'
both Act for the publick Weal of the Country; nor can we
see any reason why the bare mention of your Obstinate
adherence to your former Opinions should Super induce such
a heavy Charge as you are pleased to lay at our doors of
unhandsome and insulting Usage; We are at a loss to find
any thing of that nature among the Publick Proceedings
unless it be in your own messages where upon many Occasions
you are very Liberal of such Usage, and particularly in that
of the 28^th of October last, wherein you are pleased to give us
the Characteristick of Assistants only to the Prerogative, in
whom the people place no Confidence; But we can very truly
say whatever opinion your House or the people may have of
us, that we are by Office and Inclination as hearty well wishers
to the Common weal of this province, as any of your House
and for that reason do not think we deserve so gross a
reflection upon the integrity of this House as the bare ques-
tioning the Security of the Bills with us when prepared for
the Assent, which yet we are Assured you will find very
safely preserved in our hands, nor could we imagine that our
declineing any further debates upon the Subject of the Coun-
cills allowances rather than to prolong the Sessions could have
Inflam'd Your House to such a Degree of Unhandsomeness as