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we ought to make some other provision for you. This would
Indeed be agreeable to your Interest and perhaps your Con-
sciences, but not [at] all agreeable to our Duty. We have
done our Duty in Raising a Sufficient Support for all the
Necessary uses of Government, and are under no ties of
Duty to raise More because those that are raised, are not
apply'd to your good Liking. Once paid well paid: his Lord-
ship who Employs you is paid by the people, and 'tis no less
than 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 should Continue to pass by this your Last with the like
disregard and tameness that we did your former of the 28^th
and 29^th of Oct^r Last.
We hoped that tho you were pleas'd to treat the Lower
house 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 pleas'd at the Close
of Last Sessions to treat that house with Language better
dropt than Copy'd 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 Your Sometime boasted Superiority in good Manners
or of Submitting to such treatment as would demonstrate
us Unworthy the trust our Country places on 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 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 Characteristic of it. We shall be very
desirous not only of Deferring but avoiding all future debates

L. H. J.

with You, unless you are pleas'd to join a Meeker temper to
your Correspondence with us. This we give you to advise
upon, and assure you your Reproaching us with being Ob-
stinate Shall never Divert us from being Resolute in our
Duty nor Maintaining the Character due to our Station.
Signed p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl Lo: Ho :

Which was sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Herman and
M^r Courts. They Return and Say they delivered it.

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