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heavy Charge as you are pleased to Lay at our Doors of an
unhandsome and Insulting Usage. We are at a loss to find
any thing of that Nature among the publick proceedings, un-
less it be in Your own Messages where upon many Occasions
you are very Liberall of such Usage and particularly in that
of the 28th of Octr 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 deserved 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
declining any further Debates upon the Subject of the Councell
allowances Rather than to prolong the Sessions Could have
Inflamed your House to such a Degree of Unhandsomness
as to fill a long Message with Reflections, upon the Subject
of using the Word Obstinate which we think however to
have been very properly Apply'd to the Substance of your
Message, wherein you tell us that a Support was evidently
Raised for us, yet Confess in the same Message (as also in the
Message of Octor the 25th 1723) that we Cannot possibly
come at it.
Sign'd p Order Geo: Plater Cl. Up: Ho :
The following Message prepared Viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly
Novemr the 3d 1725
May it please Your Honours.
It is thought proper by this House in order to the Dispatch
of Business to Inform your Honours, that the Bill for Limi-
tation of Officers fees for the Reasons already given will not
pass any otherways than as it now Stands.
Sign'd p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl: Lo: Ho :
Which was sent to the Upper House by Collo Greenfield and
Mr Crabb.
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