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Which Journal so Subscribed was sent down by Philip Lee
Esq^r who returns & says he delivered it
This House Adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight of
the Clock.

Friday Morning November the 5^th 1725
Met again according to Adjournment
Present

U. H. J.

the Honble

Col. William Holland
Col^o Samuel Young
Philemon Lloyd Esq^r
Col^o Richard Tilghman
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Philip Lee Esq^r

Members
of the
Upper
House

A Message from the Lower House by M^r Crabb and M^r
Courts as follows (viz.)

By the Lower House of Assembly November the 4^th 1725
May it please Your Hon^rs
There would be no more Unreasonableness in your expect-
ing another Allowance from the publick than in ours if we
had one Allowance already rais'd for us by the Country, and
expected another as you do. If you be at a loss to find
Unhandsome usage in your own Messages towards us, it
must at least be owing to your forget fullness or Oversight. It
seems even by your Message of Yesterday, as if you thought
the Treatment we Complained of before, as unhandsome
and insulting was yet too good for the representatives of
yourselves and the people in this Legislature; or otherwise
we cannot think you would have so considerately insisted that
we deserved the Character you gave us of being an Obstinate
people and Obstinately Adhering to our opinions; if you had
intended to have Expressed yo^rselves in A parliamentary way
we are sure you might have found Softer Terms: But if
you were resolved to stirr dissentions you could not well
have Chosen rougher to Express Your Sense in. We Com-
plained of this as ill Treatment in yo^r forms, But now by this
Message Yo^r Correspondence itself becomes vexatious; You
fully Satisfie us by your latter that when in your former
Message you seem'd displeas'd with us, for Saying you were
only Assistants to the prerogative it was not a Mistake which
we at first neglected as one but by yo^r more considerately
reflecting on it and repeating the same thing in yesterdays

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