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our Meeting, with a Message pressing us to dispatch the Passage
of it, that you could have been so easy and contented in the Want of
that, or some other Bill to the same Purpose, as you seem to be by
your Message of the 10^th Instant, where you make such Pretences for
not taking further Notice of what we proposed in Our Message of
the 8^th Instant, as would hardly serve in an Affair of much less
Consequences than this, where Our Duty to His Majesty, and the
Honour and Prosperity of Our Mother Country are immediately
concerned; You say "that had Our Objections been proposed as
Amendments, or had We left any Room to expect Our Approbation
of it with such Amendments, you would certainly have concurred with
many of them, and the Others by Conference have been accommo-
dated " the Reason of Our not amending your Bill we apprehend to
be very obvious, in that the Bill was improper and mischievous to
the Ends proposed in so many Parts, that Our Amendments or
Observations sent to you would have made it a new Bill, and there-
fore We thought it would be less troublesome and more proper to
frame a new Bill in your House, than amend that; for this purpose
We sent you Our thought on the Subject, but you have not given
us any Answer, whether they were satisfactory to you, or useful for
a Bill of that kind; This Silence you thought yourselves under a
Necessity of accounting for, which you endeavour at by insinuating
" that We did not leave you any Room to expect Our Approbation
&c because We gave an absolute and general Negative to that and
all other Bills either of this or any other kind, unless upon terms
and Conditions no way relating (as you urge) to his Majestys
Service, but in your Apprehensions destructive of the Rights of your
Constituents " We do not find on Our Journals that we have
returned any other Bills except those for Arms & Ammunition, and

U. H. J.
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for raising the 2636:16:3 at this Meeting with an absolute and
general or any other Negative, and therefore, We cannot understand
Your Meaning of Our having given Our Negative to that and all
other Bills &c. As to the Terms and Conditions which you mention
to be not relative to his Majestys Service, but destructive to your
Constituents, we are really at a Loss to know what Terms and
Conditions you mean; we have not insisted on any other Point than
the Passage or Revival of the Bill for Arms and Ammunition for the
Defence of the Province for a determined time and to the End
of the next Session as usual; Surely you cannot (whatever you say)
think, that Bill no way relates to his Majestys Service, or that it is
destructive to your Constituents; On the contrary, the subject Mat-
ter of it concerns the Preservation & Defence of this Part of his
Majestys Dominions, and the Lives and Properties of Our Inhab-
itants against Our Enemies and how such a Bill or the Continuance
of it for a determined time and to the End of the next Session, or
even perpetually, can be said to relate no way to his Majestys Service

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