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still possessed by the said Indians; Referred to the Consideration
of the Lower House of Assembly & sent by Col Hammond
The following Message is sent by Col Hollyday
By the Upper House of Assembly 15 May 1740
Gentlemen
It must be on reading the several Messages, that a Judgment can
be formed, whether We had sufficient Reasons to mention your In-
differency, with Regard to the Duty we all owe to his Majesty and
This Country; and if your first Unwillingness to pass, at this Junc-
ture of a present War with Spain and an impending One with
France, a Bill for Arms &c for the Defence of this Province for any
longer Time than 'till September 1741; if your Readiness to answer
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Calvert
Paper
No. 735
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for the quiet Behaviour of such, who were never imagined to have the
most cordial Dispositions or Inclinations to Our present happy
Establishment in Church and State; if your passing over, in so
slight a manner as you have done, the late Conspiracy amongst Our
Negroes, or the Reasonableness of making some better Provision
against any of the like kind for the future; We say, if these Passages
confirm your Care and Watchfulness for this Part of his Majestys
Dominions, and our own immediate Preservation, we must own our
Surmise of your Indifferency in these Points was groundless; but
if they should be understood in a different Light, we hope, we shall
be thought to have Reason on Our side, when we mentioned, that
your Indifferency at this Juncture required from us more Vigilance
and Care
It is true you did not (nor do we charge that you did) say in
express Terms, " that the Bill for Arms &c did not in any Way relate
to his Majesty's Service or was destructive to Your Constituents "
But this you did say That " we gave an absolute Negative to That
(meaning the Bill for Encouragement of Levies) and all Other
Bills, except on such Conditions, which in no way related to his
Majestys Service, but were in your Apprehensions destructive of the
Rights of those you represent " In Answer to which We told you
" that we never insisted on any other Point than the Passage or Re-
vival of the Bill for Arms &c for the Defence of the Province for a
determined Time, and to the End of the next Session as usually " :
This Assertion was so true that it cannot be denyed, nor indeed
have you offered to deny it; and as you cannot gainsay but such
an Act related to his Majestys Service in the Preservation of this
Part of his Majestys Dominions as well as of .the Rights of your
Constituents; we should be very glad to know whether by unavoid-
able Consequence from your Words and the Condition or Point
We only insisted on, you will not appear to have suggested, that the
Bill for Arms &c for Defence of the Province did not relate to his
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