The Lower House. 367

you will be perswaded that those made in the one have never been
deemed to extend to the other, nor that his Lordship had a Right to
the money Granted to the Crown, for the support of Government
any more than to the Fines and Forfeitures arising on the Breach of
Penal laws then made, until Acts in his favour were past in both
cases on his being restored to the Government with regard to which,
and to the sence of this House thereupon, we beg leave to refer your
Excellency to a Report made to us from our Committee of Aggriev-
ances, and concurred to by this House, A copy of which we have
herewith sent for your Excellencys perusal
Your Excellency is too well acquainted with the nature of the
British constitution to be informed from us that it is the peculiar
Right of his Majestys Subjects not to be liable to any Tax or other
Imposition but what is laid on them by Laws to which they them-
selves are a Party: and we do with the greatest Sincerity assure
your Excellency that it is in pursuance of this our undoubted Right
and for no other Cause that we give you the Trouble of this Address.
We well know that a people living under a Government ought
to be at the charge of supporting it, nor have we any other Inten-
tion than to give his Lordship such an Honourable one as shall be
Adequate to the Ability of those we represent
We have now prepared a Bill for an Honourable Support of
Government which is sent to the Upper House, and hope it will pass
into a Law which will manifest the Desire this House has of Cul-
tivating A Good Understanding betwixt the Government and people,
to perfect which nothing on our part shall be wanting, and we doubt
not of your Excellencys Endeavours and Concurrence to so desir-
able an end.
We therefore pray your Excellency for quieting the minds of the
People we represent, and to preserve to them the Rights of British
Subjects that from whatever mistake or misapprehension that duty
has lately been raised the same may now cease.
Which was read approved and ordered to be Ingrossed.
The House adjourned until two of the Clock in the afternoon

Post Meridiem. The House met according to adjournment &c^a
James Holliday Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the following message (See page 243.)
M^r Mathews from the Committee of Aggrievances &c^a delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report

By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice
May 29^th 1739

Your Committee humbly Observe that the several Collectors and
Naval Officers within this province Insist on and Receive from the
respective persons trading into the same for all Entries and Clearing

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45