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By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th August 1729

Read a second Time & will pass with the following Amendment ;
that in the 2^d Line of 6^th Page the Words after, Commissary Gen^l
to the End of the fourth Line be left out
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent to the lower house with the following Message by Coll
Rider

By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th August 1729
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message of August the first by M^r Hanson &
M^r Stoughton We think ourselves obliged, by a Resentment becom-
ing the Candour of this house, to signify our Detestation of all
such Practices as have any Tendency towards obstructing that per-
fect harmony & good Correspondency which ought always to sub-
sist, and be reciprocally cultivated between the two houses, in order
to the better dispatch of publick Affairs: Wherefore, We take this
Occasion of telling you, that We think Ourselves very ill used, in
your Message by an airy & drolling Way of expressing a great deal
of Indifferency, whether this house be in the Right or the Wrong ;
even tho in Matters of the lightest Consequence, in Relation to the
Order & ancient Custom of Proceedings in Legislation, which We
think to be injurious to Ourselves, and a Neglect of Our happy

Constitution

U. H. J.

As to the rest of your Message, We can very truly assert, that
We were not mistaken, neither, as you affirm, can the facts be quite
otherwise than we apprehend them to be; for if your house intended
the Amendments said to be agreed upon, to relate to anything at
all, they must strictly relate to the bill for the better Administration
of Justice &c sent down to your house with the Amendm^ts & to no
other, or former Acts, relating to Testamentary Affairs; but whether
you concurred with us, or no, in the Concessions made in our Mes-
sage by Jn^o Hall & Benjamin Tasker Esq^rs appeared then to be un-
certain, your house having been silent thereon: And inasmuch as
none of the other Amendments, in the nature of them, can have
possible Analogy or adequate Reason to any of the former Testa-
mentary Acts, We had Reason to apprehend the Amendments said
to be agreed to (in the Manner whereof you were best acquainted)
by both houses, had had Relation to the Bill began this Session.
However, if your house had thought fit to have acquainted Us, by
your former Message, that you could not concur in the rest of the
Amendments, or that the Bill would not pass your house, there
would not have been any Occasion then of multiplying Messages, nor

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