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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46

On our part we are truely Obliged to your Excellency for Ex-
pressing your kind intention and View towards promoting our hap-
piness and prosperity we are fully perswaded that all Gentlemen of
understanding and Humanity must find A real and lasting pleasure
and Satisfaction in doing Benevolent and good offices and that to
be governed by one of such Dispositions is A great Happiness to A
People We Assure your Excellency that we shall very heartily Join
in whatever you shall propose for the real Interest and Service of
this Country.
We shall Endeavour to pursue your Excellency's Advice and weigh
with all Candour and Impartiality every matter laid before us
whether it Comes from any Gentleman in place or one that wants one
and shall be ready to Approve what our Consciences dictate will be
for the good of our Country and are well pleased your Excellency
recommends so Just and laudable A Rule for our proceedings in what
instances your Excellency may have Experienced that matters of very

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great advantage to the Province which have been proposed by the
Government have been Opposed for that Reason we know not and
we do sincerely Assure your Excellency we are not Conscious of any
such motives having Influenced our Conducts nor shall such hereafter.
We Sincerely wish there had been no occasion of Applying to
your Excellency about Aggrievances but many such having been
laid before us of a most Oppressive Nature we could not but think
it incumbent on us to Endeavour to restore and preserve our Natural
Rights and Priviledges
We Pretend not to oppose the prerogatives of the Crown (which
we Conceive are in no manner Concerned in our present Differ-
ences) nor his Lordships Just and Legal Rights granted him by the
Royal Charter or Laws of the Country. We hope by the many kind
Assurances in your Excellencys Speech and the good Intentions you
witness of his Lordship that our Complaints may have A favour-
able hearing and redress either from your Excellency or his Lordship
wherein if we are so unfortunate as to fail we shall humbly hope from
the Justice and Clemency of his Majesty to find Releif In which
Case we hope your Excellency will grant us all sufficient means to
Enable us to lay our Complaints before his Majesty to whose Royal
Determination we shall most dutyfully and Chearfully submit and
in the mean time shall Join our best Endeavours for promoting the
trade of this Province so far as the Difficulties it labours under will

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admit us being so much Concerned in its prosperity that we Cannot
but have it wholly at heart.
Signed per Order of the Lower House, per
p. Hammond Speaker
April the 26^th 1740