440 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

U. H. J.

as may empower the Governor or President of the Councill for the
time being to Nominate Comm^rs to put the Act in Execution should
prove the only obstruction in your House to the passing bill for
emitting 72000£ in Bills of Credit; which is allowed by a Majority
Among your selves to be of the Greatest Consequence to the Common
wealth of this Province; as well by encreasing the Trade & Naviga-
tion thereof as by taking great numbers of People off from Manufac-
turing Tobacco
You say Gentlemen that it is not from any Disrespect to the Gov^r
for whom you have the utmost Regard imaginable but from an Opin-
ion of a right lodged in the Assembly of nominating Comm^rs or
Trustees to a Money bill of the nature of this now depending, and
that you are unwilling any Act passed Sub silentio as you seem to
suggest the former Paper Money Act did, should be drawn into a
president to the prejudice of the People: The force of your reasoning
therefore (as we conceive) against our Amendment Subsists prin-
cipally on the Nature & Quality of the Bill as it is of the nature of
Money Bills, We must take the Liberty to Distinguish unto you upon
the nature of this & other money Bills raising money to be Collected
for the Support of Government and other publick uses & Con-
veniencys; for this bill cannot properly be said to be of the Nature
of those which are Enacted for raising and Levying Moneys & for
laying Duties & other Impositions upon Merchandize, but rather a
bill for Establishing a Mint or Manner of Coinage for Emitting
Paper Money

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But were it otherwise instances are not wanting wherein Powers
have been given to the King of nominating Comm^rs even in the Case
of raising and Collecting Moneys to the most publick uses what-
soever such as the Carrying on a War for the Defence & Safety of
the Nation, as by the Act of 5^th & 6^th William & Mary & in other
Acts of the like nature as well as in Acts of Parliament relating
entirely to the use & benefitt of the Subject, as in the Acts for regu-

lating and Licensing Hackney Coaches and in that for the better

Admeasurement of Keel and Keel Boats in both which Acts as in
many other of the like kind the Parliament in all these Cases thought
it most Consistant with the due Execution of the Acts themselves
that the King should have the Nomination of the Comm^rs as may
be seen likewise in 5th & 6^th W^m & Mary & 6th & 7^th King William
from whence we conclude that the Rights of your house will not be in
the Least infringed nor the People prejudiced in their Libertys by
your Complying with the Amendment proposed.
Nor do we conceive that the Obligation the Country may lay under
of Supporting the Act at all Events doth in Anyways alter the
Nature of the thing for the Event or Success thereof so far as