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The following Message prepared viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly
Novemr the 2d 1725
May it please Your Honours.
The force of the New Authority your Honours Quote to
Justify your Claim of One Hunderd and fifty pounds of To-
bacco p day for attending private Councills has been in our
first Debates Sufficiently Refuted, That being at a time when
the Crown had the Government and when the Revenue was
wholy Settled for the Support of the Government and not
as it is now for the like Support, and Such other Necessary
uses of Government as to his Lordship Should seem meet.
We pray you will be pleas'd to be referred to our Message of
the 25th October 1723, as you will readily find it in your
printed proceedings page 32: and you [may] thereby percieve
how little Cause you have from this new found proceeding to
Renew your Claim
Sign'd p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho :
Which was sent to the [Upper] House by Collo Ward and
Major Maldin
They Return and Say they delivered it.
The following Message Prepared viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly
Novemr the 2d 1725
May it please Your Honours.
In pursuance of our Message to Your Honrs of this day
by Capt Hooper and Mr Gordon we propose to Your Honours
the following amendments of the Bill for Relieving the In-
habitants the adding these words (which have arisen or
become due since 25th Decemr 1722) in the seventh Line after
the Words for Levy's or fees, and these words which hath
arisen or become due since the time aforesaid in the tenth
Line in the Room of the Words due before the 11th May 1725
and these words unless such Sheriff Voluntarily purchased
such fees of such Attorney or Officer after these Words in
the 16th Line Attorney or Officer, and the adding the follow-
ing proviso, that Nothing in that Act Contained Shall be Con-
strued to prejudice any Mercht or other person trading to
and from this province who has Actually bought and paid for
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