20 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U. H. J.
July 18

To conclude notwithstanding we are sensible many things in the
Bill at present before us might have been altered for the better if you
had been pleased to Join with us in a conference, Yet inasmuch as
you have refused so to do We have according to our promise and in
complyance with our Duty to his Sacred Majesty passed the Bill as
you were pleased to send it to us and herewith return it again to your
House although it is very certain if you had Granted A Conference
it would not have been any Infringement of Your Priviledges and to
shew how inconsistent you Yourselves are in Your Proceedings We
here insert a Paragraph in your Message of the 10^th of May last in
these Words Viz. " Had the many Objections made in Your Message
" of the 8^th Instant by Col^o Harris to Our Bill for issuing £2636.. 1 6...3
" for Encouragement of Persons Voluntarily enlisting themselves
" in his Majestys Service been proposed as Amendments, or had you
" left us any Room to expect Your Approbation of it with such
" Amendments we certainly should have concurred with many of
" them and the others by Conferences or otherwise might have been
" so accommodated as that the Bill might have been agreed upon
" and passed by both Houses " which plainly shews that your House
was then of opinion that Conferences between the two Houses about
Money Bills were not then thought any Infringement of your Prin-
ciples and the Heads of that Bill was accordingly agreed upon by a
Conference of both Houses and passed into a Law
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for the Indempnity
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, passed, & sent to the Lower House by Col Harris
Adjourned till to morrow Morning ten of the Clock.

Friday morning 18 July 1740
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
The following Message is sent by Col Hammond
By the Upper House of Assembly 18 July 1740
Gentlemen

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As Both Houses have now passed the Bill for raising and issuing
Money for Maintaining his Majestys Forces to be raised in this
Province and transporting them to the Place of Rendezvous in the
West Indies; We are desirous (in Conjunction with Your House)
to make a Congratulatory Address to the King on the Success of his
Majestys Arms, which if You approve of We are ready to joyn some