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tion to your Excellency to interpose your Authority in such manner
as might best prevent a further needless Expence and Burthen to
the Province
This being the true State of the late Misunderstanding between
the Upper House and the late Lower House we cannot but think
the present Lower House had very little Reason to impute it to the
Misapprehension of a Gentleman whose Honour and Understanding
cannot be Doubted and more especially since the late Lower House
did not think fit to Point out or even suggest any such Misappre-
hension
We do with much Truth and sincerity declare to your Excellency
that we shauld have been very well Pleased if the Duty we owe to
the Honour of this House and to Our own Characters had not
Exacted Our Endeavours to Free Ourselves from every ill Con-
struction that may be put on the many Insinuations in the Address
of the Present Lower House as if this House retarded the dispatch
of the publick Business in the last Assembly and we Cannot make the
least Question but that Every Impartial Person must be Convinced
that whatever Advances this present Lower House made in the last
Assembly for the dispatch of publick Business yet that the late Lower
House did not make such as were Proper to Remove that Stop
which was put to Business by the Misunderstanding between the
Two Houses
M. T. Ward President

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock

U. H. J.
No. 734

Friday Morning 18 May 1739

This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday except Col Hammond
His Excellency is pleased to communicate his Answer, to the
Address of this House, in the following Words

Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
I have perused your Address delivered to me yesterday which
gives an Account at large of that unhappy Misunderstanding be-
twixt the Two Houses, which laid me under such an absolute Neces-
sity of dissolving the last Assembly

May 18

I shall not take upon me to judge which of the Two Houses was
in the wrong upon that Occasion, however I must do you the Justice
to own, that it was impossible to shew more Temper and Modera-
tion than Your House did at the Opening of this Session, which I
was in hopes would have entirely prevented the least Revival of a

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