256 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

matter we doubt not you Imputed our making Use of such Argu-
ments rather to our Good nature than our Weakness And therefore
we might have expected a like Return of Goodness from you in
pointing out to us particularly what Force those Arguments had to
perswade you of the Justice of your Proceeding, Especially since by
that means We might perhaps have been also Convinced of the same
thing, But as you have not been Pleased to Vouchsafe to us that
Satisfaction We must Conclude that you are unwilling or Unable to
sett us right
You indeed deny his Lordships right of Levying money by Vir-
tue of the Act of 1704 But as we Cannot be convinced barely by the
Authority of such a Denyall without some Reasons to inforce it we
are still of Opinion that His Lordship has such Right, by that Law
of 1704 which as you very truly Insinuate is not repealed And al-
though you will not Agree with us as to the right yet you very
Candidly Admit His Lordship has been in Possession of a Support
of Government ever since the year 1733 If that is his Lordships
Case as you say it is, We are at a Loss to know How you can be said
to be Attacked on the Contrary, not only We. But even you and the
rest of the World must say That the Government Confessedly in
Possession of a Support is Attacked in Order to Deprive them
of it
We should not be less Pleased to be Convinced than to Convince,
And we are Assured you would not have been at a Loss to show the
same Terms of appropriation and uses in other Laws as were incerted
in the Bill for raising and Annual Revenue &c. if there had been any
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We must Acknowledge Ourselves greatly Mistaken in what Con-
cerns His Majestys other Plantations if the Doctrine of Raising-
money by perpetual Laws Is so Harsh as you are Pleased to Repre-
sent it But the Perpetual Law Amongst Our Neighbours in the
Colony of Virginia for the Support of that Government the late
Perpetual Law of 1692 and the Present of 1704 in this Province for
the same Purpose As also the frequent Royal Instructions requiring
the same in other Plantations satisfy us that the mention of such
Laws is not only usual to English Ears but Agreable to His Majestys
Pleasure
The Bill Intituled an Act to raise a Fund to be Applied for the
Payment of an Agent and other necessary Uses of this Province
which you were Pleased to send to us We now return with our
negative to it, For However necessary and convenient it may be
that there should be an Agent at the Imperial Seat, or (If we may
be Permitted to say) at the Court, of Great Britain, yet We cannot
but think it reasonable and Decent that the Concurrence of the Gov-
ernor and Upper House, should be made necessary in the Nomina-
tion and Appointment of the Person Designed for that Imployment.