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U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
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Estates and may expect to leave Posterity in the Country, equally
with us and Our Constituents, and should private Interest or any
other temporary Views Influence you not to join with us to prevent
such Mischiefs as possibly may happen, yet we are determined not to
repeat the Evils arising from either the too long, or the uncertain
duration of any money Bill reserving still a due Regard to any par-
ticular Exigence, the certain duration and short Continuance of this
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p. 55
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Bill, being now the only means left us, Whereby we can have any
Assurance of frequent Assemblies, And we are still the more
Induced to this from the fatal Experience of being kept without
a Session of Assembly for near three years past (altho the Circum-
stances of the Province never more required one) meerly for the
sake as you pretend of this one Law, with the Clause of ending with
a Session put to it at the last revival in 1734 When all the former
Laws since his Lordships Accession to the Government, whereby
this three pence has been given, have not had duration above three
years and always ended at a certain day, altho' your Honours have
not stuck to say that the manner of Ending with a Session has been
usual
Would it not be dealing more Ingeniously with the World to de-
clare the Real Obstacle of your not agreing to a Session, than the
plausible pretence of the three pence per Hogshead alledged to be
so necessary for the Safety and Defence of the province, and en-
deavouring to make Strangers believe, that the Country must Perish
without it ? If this be so, Why has that money for these last seven
years, to go no farther back been hoarded up at London to a
great Sum ? And in all that time not much above the value of one
years receipt laid out or Imported for our Safety ? How can it be
answered for, that after so long an Apprehension of a rupture,
Application has not been made of that money, till an Actual War is
broke out, and our Enemies as you say, within Eight or ten days
march of us ? And when the Arms sent for are in danger of being
taken by them, and We of being destroyed with the produce of our
own Money ? not to say any thing at this time of the fourth part of
what his Lordship has for some years taken for Support of Govern-
ment, which by the Act under which it is claimed was Intended and
by express Instructions from the Throne in the time of the Crown
Government, was actually applied to the same use, altho' his Lord-
ship has never parted with one farthing of it that we know of for
that or any other purpose that concerns the defence or Safety of the
Province
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Your Honours surely could not be in Earnest when you drew your
Consequence from the Case stated about a house of Peers, we in very
express terms said, that if there was any Similitude between your
House and the other (not that which now composes a Separate
Branch of the British Legislature but such a dependent house as was
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