402 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Your Committee further find by the several Naval Officers Ac-
counts laid before your Committee this Session on comparing such
parts of them as related to the 15^d p hhd with the said Trustees
Accounts an Omission of Credit for the following Bills remitted
them viz.
James Billings on Richard Gildart November 1735 by Levin
Gale Esq^r 20.. 0.0
Edmond Hough on James Wilson May 1737 by ditto 5..0..0
George Gibson on Thomas Lutridge May 1737 by Philip
Lee Esq 4..0.. 4
As also sundry other Bills remitted since the year 1737 which we
Conceive were not Come to hand at the making up of the aforesaid
Account all which is submitted by your Committee to the Considera-
tion of the House
Signed p Order Com. Rich^d Dorsey Ctk.

p. 892

M^r Tasker from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the fol-
lowing message ( See page 261. )
The Governors answer to the General Address about Aggrie-
vances communicated to this House was read and is as follows

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
I have considered your Address delivered to me by M^r Speaker
on the 6^th Instant and assure you that I am and always shall be
sincerely desirous of the welfare of the Province, and ready at all
times to give a helping hand to the Removal of every Obstacle to its
happiness and Prosperity and particularly of such Grievances repre-
sented by the Lower House of Assembly as shall upon a due Con-
sideration appear to me to be real & not imaginary ones.
But then you must allow that whatever are his Lordships Legal
and Just Rights can be no way affected by any Resolution or Repre-
sentation of your House but must remain in the same state as if
you had never taken the same under your Consideration.
Of this nature is the first Grievance set forth in your present Ad-
dress relating to the 14^d p Ton which his Lordship receives for every
Vessel not properly belonging to this province which I must be so
candid as to say his Lordship has in my Opinion as good a right to
as any Gentleman in your House or in the province can have to his
own Estate
That no man may find he has a worse Title to what he at present
Possesses is a wish that I believe very many will Join with me very
sincerely in the Law of 1661 which you mention having not only
stood an Attack from the Lower House of Assembly but from the
whole Legislative Body of this Province which passed An Act to
repeal it and take the said 14^d p Ton from his Lordships Noble