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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

I further set forth, that I could not find the law of 1699 that
continued the Law of 1692 nor could your Committee that made the
Report point out to me such a one but found on the Contrary two
Repealing Acts, Out of both which the Law of 1692 was excepted,
which made it plain that it was looked upon as a Perpetual law, &
that it continued accordingly without any new force being added
to it by any Act passed in 1699 till the year 1704 as above mentioned.
Now let us see what you say in answer to this it hereby Appears
to this house as it did to their Committee and which they were ready
to Evince and to which purpose ordered their Clerk to attend that
the Act made in 1692 Entituled An Act for Settlement of An
Annual Revenue upon their Majestys Governor within this province
for the time being and Recorded in Liber L. L. Folio 21 &^ca was
at a Session of Assembly held at the port of Annapolis the 28^th
day of June 1699 continued as a law of this province and as such is
recorded among other Laws then past and continued in another
Record Book L. L. folio 30 &c with some small Variation from the
former and is likewise named in a Catalogue of the Titles of laws
which are Continued in force by An Act passed at the said Session
of 1699 and recorded in the same Book and which Act of 1699 is
acknowledged to be such by both Houses of Assembly in several
Messages which passed At a Session Anno 1723
Now I must say that however you may Endeavour by this Para-
graph to Palliate or Conceal such a fundamental Error in the Report
as destroys the whole Frame of Reasoning in it it certainly neither
denys nor contradicts what I advanced in the paragraph above
Recited

p. 900

I know very well that the Act of 1692 was at A Session of Assem-
bly held at Annapolis the 28^th day of June 1699 continued as a law
of this Province but I affirm that it was no other way continued but by
not being repealed and I now desire your House to shew me the law of
1699 that Continued it and which law of 1699 you say Con-
tinued till the year 1704 if your House knows of such a law it is
certainly using the Government very unkindly not to point it out
and if you have found that there is no such law it is but doing Justice
to the Government to own it the Committee did indeed order their
Clerk to attend but I believe he will not say he told me where to
find the said law of 1699 now in Question if he had I should not
have applied to your Committee and now at last have been obliged
to your House for Information
I Return you thanks for what you say of your readiness to do
any Reasonable thing In your power to procure a good understand-
ing between the Government and people and I can in return truly
Assure you that this is all I desire of you and that I shall never