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acquainted the Serjeant thereof that he attended with a Message
from the Upper House to be delivered to the Speaker which Message
the Speaker coming to the Door of the Lower House took from him

By the Upper house of Assembly 18 May 1738
Gentlemen

U. H. J.
No. 33

The unexpected and extraordinary Treatment which we Yester-
day received in the Person of one of our members who was sent with
a Message from us and not admitted to deliver it but desired to wait
obliges us in Vindication of the Respect due to this house & to pre-
vent unnecessary debates to the delay of the Publick Business and
the like Indignity hereafter to send our Messages by our Clerk
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

Read the. Petition of sundry Owners of Vessels and Merchants
Inhabitants of this Province praying that the Act prohibiting the Ex-
portation of Indian Corn may be Repealed Referred to the Con-
sideration of the Lower house of Assembly
A Message from the Lower house with the Paper Bills aforemen-
tioned by Mess^rs Hooper and Courts

p. 534

By the Lower house of Assembly 18^th May 1738
May it please your Honours
Our speaker was called out of the Chair and out of the house by
your Clerk and had several Papers delivered to him by the said
Clerk and one among them which we should have taken as a Mes-
sage from your Honours if it had been brought or delivered in the
usual manner
This Behaviour of your Clerk we Conceive to be such an Indig-
nity to this House as Obliges us to demand immediate Reparation
As to the unexpected and extraordinary treatment mentioned in
that Paper delivered to our Speaker we can with the Greatest Truth
and Sincerity declare we had no intention to treat your House or
any member of it but with the greatest decency and Good manners
and that if any thing has happened which seemed to have a different
appearance it was not designed and if your Honours had not a very
strong inclination to enter into unnecessary disputes with this House
which must retard the dispatch of publick Business and of Course
be very injurious to the whole Province Your Honours would have
taken a very different Course from that which you have been pleased
to Choose

Vide

Black Book

No. 4
Letter No.65

As to what is mentioned in the Paper under Consideration of
sending future messages by your Clerk we shall be very well Content
with it and follow your Example in sending all our Messages by our
Clerk

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