16 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U. H. J.

Read the first time the Bill Entituled An Act for the Tryal of all
Matters of Fact in the several Counties where they have arisen or
shall arise and ordered to lye on the Table
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs King and Colville Enti-
tuled An Act for the Indemnity of such Persons as shall be employed
in transporting his Majestys Troops to be raised in this Province to
the General Rendezvous in the West Indies thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 16 July 1740
Read the first and 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 16 July 1740
May it please Your Honours
There having been at the last Session, so much of Our time and

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the Countrys money mispent in long and useless Messages We re-
solved without an absolute Necessity not to enter into the like Inter-
course with Your Honours for the future; Wherefore We shall only
in general observe on yours of yesterday by George Plater Esq^r that
the granting of Money as well as raising the proper Fund, for the
repaying it is the peculiar Privilege and Right of this House, nor
have Your Honours offered any Reason sufficient to induce us to
alter that Fund
We should have been glad Your Honours had pointed out wherein
His Lordships Right to Fines for Ordinary Licenses consists when
there is no Law in being for that Purpose; if those had been hereto-
fore given to the Proprietaries, their Governors or Secretaries, it
was doubtless as a Gratuity for Services done and favours received
by the People, but surely there cannot be the like Claim for such or
any other Gift or Gratuity at a time when We labour under intoler-
able Aggrievances, and have lost Our temporary and useful Laws
unless We would buy or bargain for them, for want of which, the
People are left a Prey [to] Officers and subjected to many Extortions
and Inconveniencies; And altho' It may be true that an Ordinary Bill
is not so necessary as you have heretofore insisted when you expected
the Application of the Monies to his Lordship, yet We think the
urgent Necessity of raising Money for his Majesty's Service is a
sufficient Reason for such a Law at this Time.
We are truly sorry that Your Honours should so far forget that
Temper and Moderation, so often recommended to both Houses,
as to let private Prejudice and personal Reflections have any Share
in your Publick Proceedings; as neither you nor We can judge of
Mens Hearts, by any other Rule than their Actions, We cannot in
Justice to the Character of Doctor Carrol but say, that from his
whole Deportment as a Member of this House, as well as his Be-
haviour in private Life since his Recantation from the Church of