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By the Upper House of Assembly 7 April 1736

Gentlemen
On Consideration of the Bill sent from your House entituled an
Act for the explaining and more effectual carrying into Execution
some part of an Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for emitting and
making Current ninety thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit this house
cannot but be of Opinion that it would conduce more to the Credit
of the Paper Currency, if no Liberty was allowed for the Payment

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of the Levies and Taxes in Tobacco and Every Person obliged to
discharge the same in Paper Money, and as the two houses have
agreed to a Report for the Advancement of that Currency and to
address the right Honourable the Lord Prop^ry thereon, this house
hath resolved to deferr any further Debate on the said Bill untill
next Sessions
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

A Message from the Lower House by M^r Key and three Others

By the Lower house of Assembly 7 April 1736
May it please your Honours
We are greatly surprized that your Honours should refuse the
Conference proposed by this house on Occasion of your not passing
M^r Carrols Bill, which Refusal We look on to affect by its Conse-
quences many of the Inhabitants of this Province, and as We are
of Opinion that a Conference between some Members of both
houses might be the best means to come to a good Understanding
on that head, We were in hopes your Honours would have agreed
thereto, but as this Session is, as we apprehend, drawing near to an
End, and the Subject Matter of that Message of so great Importance,
that there may not be time for considering so maturely, as should
be, a Case which so nearly concerns the Usage and Constitution of
this Province We find Ourselves obliged to defer the Consideration
thereof, till next Session of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

The following Message is sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 7 April 1736
Gentlemen.
This house is so much surprized at your Message of this Day by
M^r Key and Others as your House possibly could be at Our Refusal
of your proposed Conference; for We hoped this house would not

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be doubted to continue to act consistent with such of their own
Resolutions as have been taken so often on the subject Matter of

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