492 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper

No. 735

The aforegoing Bill was read the first time in this House and
Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

May 28

Wednesday Morning 28 May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday with the addition of Col Hammond
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the afternoon

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Eodem Die post Meridiem

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
in the Morning
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

May 29

Thursday Morning 29 May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday
The following Message is sent by Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 29 May 1740
Gentlemen
In answer to your Message of the 27^th Instant We assure you that
We have understood that Bills or other Business of the greatest
Consequence to Our King and Country had the Preference in Par-
liamentary Transactions and were first taken under Our Considera-
tion nor can such a Method seem strange since it is reasonable in
Private as well as Publick Affairs, and as We look on the Fund for
Defence of the Province to be of the utmost Importance for De-
fence of the Province at this important Juncture, and the Bill for
Encouragement of Levies for his Majestys Service to be a seasonable
and dutiful Testimony of Our Loyalty to his Majesty We think
the Decency and Duty We owe to his Majesty and the Safety of the
Province ought to give those Bills which had employed both Houses
above a month before they could agree to the Heads of them the first
Place in Our Consultations, although the Lower House should think
fit Contrary to the usual Practice in Parliament to offer some other
Bills before them for the Governors Fiat
It was this Opinion of the Precedency due to Bills of this Nature
that occasioned our Deferring the Consideration of your Bills now
On our Table until we should receive and give a Passage to those
two Bills, But We must candidly acknowledge that your above men-
tioned Message has given us another and invincible Reason against