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some where else, the Case of a Proprietary alters the nature of things,
and makes that just in the Lord, which would be very unlawful in
the Tenant
We are as little surprized at your Negative to the Bill for Payment
of an Agent, as at Your Happiness in finding so proper a Definition
for a Minister However as you desire Your Reason for not assent-
ing to be made Publick, We hope you'l not take it amiss, if we set
it in its proper Light, and so the meanest Capacity may be able to
judge of it
The People of Maryland thinks the Proprietary takes Money from
them unlawfully
The Proprietary says he has a Right to take that Money
This Matter must be determined by his Majesty who is indifferent
to both
The Proprietary is at home, and has this same Money to enable
him to negotiate the Affair on his Part.
The People have no way of negotiating it on their Part but by
employing fit Persons in London to act for them, and those Persons
must be paid for their trouble, and propose a Bill for raising a Fund
to that Purpose
The Upper House tells us, you shall not have that Bill, unless you
let the Governor and Us, or rather the Proprietary (with whom We
contest) have as well the Nomination of the Persons to be made Use
of on this Occasion, as to determine what, or if any thing, shall be
paid them for their Trouble
The Reproach not only on this House but on all the Province
couched under the Word, Relative, to a Guardian, should We assure
you have been answered in Terms it deserved, were it not, that We
are fully determined, Nothing you can say or do, shall draw Us into
anything may give you the least Pretence for a Rupture, which might
prevent the Execution of the Publick Business, and prove an intol-
erable Charge to the People

U. H. J.

No. 734

The Possibility you mention of the Trustees betraying the Trust
reposed in them, will have very little Weight with the World, since
the like supposition may with equal Propriety, be applyed to all
Trusts of the Kind: Unless you would have us believe your Honours
to be the only infallible Persons in the World, and so commit this
Guardianship you speak of to your selves, but how convenient that
might be for the People whoever reads your Message may easily
judge
We cannot help thinking that the denying this looks too much
like an Unwillingness to have the Matter in Dispute brought to
Light however We shall give you no further Trouble in it, than to
tell you, the People of Maryland have Spirit enough, and We hope
will find means, without this Bill, to do themselves Justice
Signed p Order W^m Ghiselin Cl Assist^t to Lo. Ho.

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