16 Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

And altho' We readily admit that a Fund for the Support of such
Agent was not that part of his Majestys Service which gave rise to
that Bill Yet are we Confident that from his Majestys tender Regard
for his People if while We are endeavouring to support his Subjects
at Louisburgh, We can likewise take any Step to preserve his Loyal
and Dutiful Subjects of this Province or to restore them to their
former Ease and Happiness it must be highly agreable to his Royal
Pleasure; nor can We entertain the Worse Opinion of this Bill as it
now stands from the Expressions in Your Message of blending or
tacking two different matters in the same Bill, and Unparliamentary
and Unjust and Violent Proceedings for We beg Leave to deny
that this is tacking, or if it is, Yet it is not a Tacking in an Unpar-
liamentary manner, because if We may call our Proceedings in
Assembly here Parliamentary as We presume We may infer, as the
Legislative Power of this Province may direct themselves by them,
We have Instances of several Bills having within these few Years
been passed into Laws by the several parts of this Legislature each
Bill containing several matters and to entirely distinct Purposes
without any such Charge against them as You are now pleased to

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make against this Bill and from Whence too We apprehend We may
justly Conclude that such a proceeding is not an unjust & Violent
Proceeding Nor can We by means agree to what You term an
Undoubted Truth in General that such who have offered to Clog
any Bill by a Tack, were always thought Enemies or ill Wishers to
such Bill and those who refused the Bill on Account of such Unpar-
liamentary Steps, And to Our particular Motive for such proceeding
We apprehend Ourselves justified by the Practice here, and from
the Nature of the matter it self as well as by the Necessity We are
reduced to of some such Method, by your Honours having hereto-
fore refused us the subject matter of that which you are pleased
to call a Tack when sent you in a seperate Bill, Tho the Circum-
stances of his Majestys Subjects the People of this Province were
such as loudly called for some such Assistance; And We assure Your
Honours that when the Affair of Louisburgh was first recommended
to Our Consideration, We had not this matter within Our View, nor
had We any other Motive than our hearty and unfeigned Loyalty
and Zeal for his Service for those proceedings which We then so
Unanimously and Chearfully agreed upon as We doubt not will
render the same more acceptable to his Majesty, And We will Ven-
ture to Promise, that We will at all times be ready to the best of Our
Abilities to go as far in any Step for his Majestys Service as Your
Honours or any other Persons whatever shall, and in this Instance
further than You seem willing to do, And We are not without the
strongest Assurances that as the several Purposes of that Bill are by
no means inconsistent or contradictory, but both tend to the Care and
Preservation of his Majestys Service which undoubtedly is for his