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cult unless in this particular you are pleased to mention which is the
losing Our temporary and useful Laws and this we freely acknowl-
edge to be a very great Aggrievance but then be pleased to give us
leave to enquire how these Laws came to be lost; and we believe it
will be found by the Journals of both Houses of Assembly last Ses-
sion that the occasion of their being lost was the Absolute Refusal of
the Lower House of Assembly to pass and send to the Upper House
a Bill for raising a duty of three Pence per Hogshead on Tobacco
Exported out of this Province for the purchasing Arms and Ammu-
nition for the Defence of the Province which themselves in a Con-
ference between both Houses had before agreed to do and which in
this time of War was highly necessary to be done and this Refusal
founded upon no other Reason than a bare Suggestion that the
Upper House would not pass and send down the other Bills then
lying before them with the same Duration which the Lower House
had fixed upon them so that the true State of the Case is this the
Lower House of Assembly lost all their good and useful Laws rather
than pass a Bill which themselves had before agreed to, and which
was equally good and useful to the whole Province in general with
any of those Laws, because the Other Bills then in the Upper House
were not first passed and sent to the Lower House in such a manner
as they themselves directed
As to what you are pleased to say in answer to that part of Our
Message relating to Doctor Carroll we shall only desire you will be
pleased to consider it again and (to make a grateful Return of your
good Wishes in Our Favour) We wish you would be pleased to do
it with the same good Temper and Moderation you are pleased to
recommend to Us and then we are sure you will not find any Signs
of Personal Prejudice or unjust Reflections in it nor any thing more
then a modest Recital of Matters of Fact, which we are well assured
that Gentleman himself will not deny and which We thought Our-
selves under a necessity of observing to you for the Reasons men-
tioned in that Message.
As to the Imputation you have fixed upon us of being instru-
mental in the Appointment of those Officers you find fault withal,
We deny that ever we were any Ways concerned in the Appointment
of them, and if you think them improper Persons to serve, We doubt
not but upon a proper Application they will be removed, but We must
at the same time Observe that there is not the same Reason to Object
against them, as in the present Case because there is not the same
national Antipathy Subsisting as between the English and Irish
founded upon the Consideration of the Conquest of the latter by the
former and the continual Subjection and Restraint the Irish are
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