214 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

interrupt or divert Us from the Care and Earnestness We ought
to have by the Duty of Our Stations, without any private Views,
for the Publick Welfare and Prosperity
Notwithstanding the ill Success of the Generous Pains which your
Excellency formerly took for the Benefit and Advantage of the
People, in your Endeavours to continue the Bill for the Payment of
his Lordships Rents & Alienation fines by a Duty on Tobacco, and
for enlarging the Currency and Circulation of Our Paper Money
by the Payment of Officers fees and the 40 p Poll therewith; yet
Your Excell^cys recommending this Affair of Our Currency once
more to Our Consideration will engage that Attention and Candour
from Us, which a Matter of so great Importance to the Country
requires; Nor can We despair of a reasonable Medium being fixt
to the Satisfaction of all Parties, since We are perswaded every
Officer will most chearfully joyn with the Clergy towards procuring
the many Advantages that would accrue to the Country by so great
an Addition to the Uses of Our Paper Money; And although Our
present Endeavours should not have the desired Effect by a General
Law, the next best Step must certainly be, to put Our Back Inhabi-
tants in such a Situation, as may not only free them from the Neces-
sity of making Tobacco, and leave them at Liberty to be industrious
in other Commodities more useful to the Country as well as them-
selves, but also may be a means to prove more plainly and effect-
ually the Expediency of a General Act
Signed p Order Benj^a Tasker

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning 9 a Clock

May 5

Saturday Morning 5 May 1739
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

His Excellency is pleased to communicate his Answer to the
Address of this House in the following Words

p. 7

Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
I return you my hearty Thanks for Your kind Address: Your
Resolution to avoid as much as possible every Occasion of interrupt-
ing the Publick Business, and Readiness to proceed to the Considera-
tion of such Points as are of real Importance to the Welfare and
Prosperity of the Province, are such Instances of your true Regard
for Your Country, as cannot fail of procuring you the Esteem of
every sensible and impartial Man in it
Sam: Ogle