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By the Lower House of Assembly 27 May 1740
Read the second time by an Especial Order and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
and the following Message
By the Lower House of Assembly 27 May 1740
May 1t please Your Honours
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U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No 735
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We herewith send you the Bill for Encouragement of his Majes-
ty's Levies: As it is to be presumed all the Bills, which shall pass
both Houses will receive the Assent of his Excellency, and pass the
Seals at One and the same time, We are at a Loss to know wherein
the Decency and Duty we owe to his Majesty, and the Safety of the
Province, can be any ways concerned in the Precedency given to
any of them in Either House, however, as we have too well grounded
Apprehensions that contrary to the usual Mode of Proceedings in
Assembly you keep up the several Bills now before you, wherein
the Publick Administration of Justice, the Payment of Publick
Taxes, and general Utility of the Province are most essentially
concerned, with Design to pass them with Duration to a Day
certain only, and not to the End of a Session as usual, which in Our
Opinion would be of the most pernicious Consequence to the People
We have thought it, absolutely necessary to keep back that for Arms
& Ammunition until you send us down such of those other Bills as
you shall think fit to pass with the usual Duration.
As We hope there is no Ground to suspect Our Loyalty to his
Majesty to Our Care for the Safety of the Province, so we hereby
sincerely declare to your Honours and the World, that We never
had any other Intention than to pass the Bill for Arms &c according
to the Terms agreed upon by the Conferees of both Houses; and
that We retain it in Our hands now, for no other Reason than what
We have here mentioned, for whatever may be the Consequence of
not having it at this Time, We are well assured that losing either
all or most of the Bills now before you with Others of the like kind,
or having them with any other Determination than with a Session
of Assembly would prove much more fatal; and therefore We Have
thought Ourselves in Prudence obliged of two Evils to choose the
least
As We cannot suppose Your Honours unacquainted with the
many other Reasons which govern Us in this Matter, We shall not
trouble you with them; and this being Our firm and unalterable
Resolution We hope it will be needless to spin out any more time
about it; We shall therefore wait the final Result of Your House
therein
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
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