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A Message from the Lower house by M^rs Hooper & Ward

By the Lower house of Assembly 5 May 1736
May it please Your Honours
To avoid any further unnecessary Expence to the Country, We
are content to allow your Honours as a Council of State from the
laying the last publick Levy but cannot agree to allow anything
heretofore denyed by Our house, and if your Hon^rs agree to what
we herein propose desire you'l let the Claims of the several Mem-
bers be sent us in Order to be inserted in the Journal of Accounts
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

The following Message is sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r

By the Upper house of Assembly 5^th May 1736
Gentlemen
Nothing can give this House greater Pleasure than any En-
deavour for or Appearance of Harmony and good Agreement be-
tween the two Houses, in this Light we received your Message of
this Day by M^rs Hooper and Ward, which convinces us of your real
Intention of serving the Country without burthening it with large
Charges by unnecessary Disputes: As on the One hand we have
the greatest Satisfaction in being assured that the Claims of Coun-

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cillors of State will not meet with any Opposition hereafter; so on
the other hand we do assure you Gentlemen of not less Joy on Our
Part, that we shall not charge the Country with any Claims since
the time of laying the last publick Levy to this Session
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

The following Message from the Lower ho by M^rs Dashiel &
Gordon

By the Lower House of Assembly 5 May 1736
May it please Your Honours
The Message sent to Your Honours from this House by Col
Hooper and Col Ward could not possibly be more agreeable to you
than Your Answer to it is to this house, and as the putting so happy
an End to all Disputes concerning the Councillors Allowances, as is
proposed in your last Message must contribute to keep up that har-
mony between the two Houses which is so absolutely necessary to
dispatch the Publick business, so it cannot but be very advantageous
to the People as it will certainly prevent the Charge which would
unavoidably attend unnecessary Disputes, and therefore this house

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