The Upper House. 377

therein in Derogation of His Majestys Sovereign Prerogative; such
an Intention We disown, of which we have as zealous & dutiful a
Detestation as your house can have, & therefore We desire You'l

avoid all Insinuations for the future of calling our Loyalty in Ques-

tion, which We doubt not will always appear equal to your own
We think you have no Reason to doubt what We mean by dernier
Resort since it cannot in this Case be properly applyed to any but his
most sacred Majesty; to whose Sovereign Prerogative, as inherent
in his Royal Person, or such Prerogatives as are delegated to Our
Proprietary, when executed by him as a Substitute we shall always
pay an awful Regard; & endeavour so to behave ourselves in all the
Acts of Legislation as not to forfeit that inestimable Privilege, for
which Reason We are unwilling to make repeated Acts to the same
Purpose so soon the One after the Other lest we should justly be
suspected of endeavouring thereby to avoid the Effect of a Dissent
to Our Laws & so by abusing Our Legislative Power draw upon
Ourselves such Restraints as may in a great Measure deprive Us
of it

U. H. J.

To Conclude We are & always shall be ready to do anything that
reasonably We can for the Benefit & Advantage of Our Country, &
as an Instance of that good Disposition proposed to your house in
our former Message the preparing a Supplementary bill to supply
the Defects in the former Tobacco Law, & therein you have been
pleased to concur with Us by sending up to Our house such a Bill
which We have maturely considered & returned to your house with
the proper Endorsement
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

This House does appoint Benjamin Tasker Esq^r to join two Mem-
bers of the Lower house to wait upon his Excellency the Governor
to know when & where he will be pleased to receive the Address of
both houses, who returns & says; his Excellency is pleased to re-
ceive it in the Conference Chamber in half an hour
An Engrossed Bill from the lower house by M^r Key & Coll Ennals
Entituled an Add^l & supplementary Act to the several Acts for the
Administration of Justice in Testamentary Affairs thus Subscribed

By the Lower house of Assembly 6^th August 1729
Read & assented to
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read & assented to by this house & ordered to be so subscribed,
the Paper bill so Endorsed is sent to the lower house by John Hall
Esq^r

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