The Upper House. 15

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
The Bill entituled an Act for raising the Sum of £3000 Current
Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his Majestys Service
towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh on Cape Breton and
for other Purposes therein mentioned is brought from the Lower
House by M^r Hammond and twelve others with the following
Message
By the Lower House of Assembly 22 August 1745

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

May it please Your Honours
You have herewith the Bill Entituled an Act for raising the sum
of £3000 Current Money and two Pence Sterling p hhd for his
Majestys Service towards supporting the Garrison of Louisburgh
on Cape Breton and other Purposes therein mentioned returned to
You with such Amendments proposed in Your Message of Yesterday
as could be made without Altering the Material or Substantial Parts
of that Bill and as to any other Alterations or Amendments, We
have not nor can agree thereto, as well because We conceive it to
be the undoubted Right of the House of Delegates alone to raise
upon the People of this Province any Sum of Money or other Tax,
and for such Time and in such manner and to be applied to such
Uses and Purposes as that House shall think proper, and that Your
House have no right to propose any Alteration or Amendments, as
to sum time uses or Substance or otherwise to interpose concerning
the substantial or material parts of such Bills then generally to pass
or refuse the same as because in the particular Instance of this Bill
We are well Satisfied these Amendments proposed by you, other
than what We have agreed to and made accordingly are some of
them entirely unnecessary as not in any wise productive of those
ends for which you would seem to propose them and others of them
tend to lessen that Advantage which may undoubtedly be made for
the Garrison of Louisburgh in the manner that Bill now stands
We little expected You would have given it under Your Hands
that the raising a Sum of Money for the Support of an Agent at
home, to transact with his Majesty his Ministers Business for his
Subjects of this Province was foreign to his Majestys Service in
General since We always presumed it was not only for his Majestys
Service, but also from his known Goodness and Paternal Care over
all his People, agreeable to his Royal Will and Pleasure that all his
Subjects tho' ever so remote, should be enabled in the best manner
their distance would admit as well to keep up a Congratulatory Cor-
respondence of Praise & Thanks for the Benefits they receive from
him as on every Occasion by Oppressions and hardships imposed on
them in humble and decent manner to lay their Compl^ts before him,

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