The Lower House. 403

to add a word of your own to it and from that very word of
your own adding, you take Occasion to accuse us. We said
in our Message you were Assistants to Prerogative. Had
we said you were not, no Doubt you would have been Of-
fended, but we happened to be so happy in our Expression
that you Could find no Cause to Cavill with us on it, without
adding the Word (only) to it, therefore not to Slipp an Op-
pertunity of Wrangling with us, you are pleas'd to Add the
Word (only) Charging us with Saying you were only As-
sistants to Prerogative, and from that very Word you Multi-
ply Accusations. Does this Look like friendly dealing with
us or pursuing the Business of the Country? or do's it Rather
tend to Confound it? Is it agreeable to your proposall of
Avoiding Unnecessary Debates? or Rather an Indication
that you are Resolved not to do your Duty as an Upper House
untill you should be wrongfully paid as Councellors by your
Country; as you Misrecite one of our Messages in two of
Yours by an Interpolation of the Word (only) in it, so you do
likewise in the Message you now Complain of, as well as in
that of Octo^r 1723, where you say, We Confess you Cannot
possibly Come at the Support Raised for you; If you Can find
any words in those Messages that will bear such a Construc-
tion, you have some pretence of Justice in your Charge but
as, there are none such, Your Usage is Unfair and tends only
to Involve us in tedious Searches after the truth of what you
argue from. You are appointed and Intrusted by prerogative,
.We by the people. Give us leave to make the Distinction and
to Mind the Discharge of our own Trust in Relation to the
Bills we propose, which we Expect to be sent us from Your
House According to Your Promise, that we may be Ready
to Close the Sessions. We are Resolved to take what further
from you your Sense of good Treatment will allow you to
Offer to us, That no pretence of Delay in the Dispatch oi
Business may lye at our Doors.
Sign'd p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho :

Which was sent to the Upper House by M^r Crabb & M'
Courts.
They Return and Say they Delivered it
The following Message Prepared viz:

By the Lower House of Assembly

Novem^r the 5^th 1725
May it please Your Honours.
We desire to know whether Your Honours will Concurr
with us in allowing a Sume of Money to an Agent to be ap-

L. H. J.