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or ridiculous, nor is it different from your own Conduct upon a late
Occasion, where you actually withheld two of Our Engrossed Bills
'till we should satisfy your House in what you required by your
Messages
It is the not reading the Bills before you a second time, and send-
ing them with the former Duration that We complain of, since that
would remove all Obstacles to a Session
We are glad however, that without that Reading you have agreed
the Duration We contend for is reasonable, by your offering it to us
in the Conclusion of your Message of this Day; although the Con-
clusion annexed to that Offer is very extraordinary, Viz. that We
should give Three Pence p hogshd for Arms &c although at your
Honours Request, and by Consent of the Conferees and both Houses,
Six Pence had been agreed to be absolutely necessary at this dan-
gerous Juncture
Therefore as that would lessen the necessary Provision for Our
present Safety against Our foreign and domestick, as well as contra-
dict Our former Resolution about the Determination of Money Bills,
We cannot agree to your proposed Expedient
You have now the Bill for Encouragement of his Majestys
Levies in your Possession, and We have put it in your Power, by
sending down Our other Bills with their usual Duration, to have
that for Defence of the Province, so that we hope it will not be
imputed to us that they are not passed into Laws
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo Ho.
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock
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U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No, 735
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