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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

ever made; but when a small part of that House by the most Violent
Means usurped the whole Authority as well Legislative, as Execu-
tive, which is such a Precedent as We hope You will not think for
your Purpose, had You been pleased to have contented Yourselves
with Asserting that it was your undoubted Right to begin a Money
Bill in your House, We could at this time for the sake of dispatch,
forborn to have made any Observation on such an Assertion, But
We hope You will not think We act beside Our Duty in letting you
know what Objections We have to any Money Bills, so that you
may if they are reasonable remove them and make the Bill proper
for its passage here Secondly You say some of the Amendments
are unnecessary, and others tend to lessen the Advantage which may
be made for the Garrison of Louisburgh, As You do not Particu-
larize which of them, and why they are unnecessary We cannot be
Satisfied barely by such a General Allegation that they are so; and
as to the other Part of a Proposal of Expediting Our intended sup-
ply of Provision so as not to be prevented by the frost or remitting
A Sum of Money immediately without Loss of time or Expence of
Commission and Charges can tend to lessen any Advantage for the
Garrison of Louisburgh We must Acknowledge Ourselves mistaken
in Judgment
We did Assent in Our former Message on the Subject of this Bill
and now avowedly repeat, that the Establishing a Fund for raising
a Sum of Money for the Support of an Agent is foreign to his
Majestys Service in general and were we inclinable to enter into the
reasoning You have made use of on this Occasion We might prove
beyond any reasonable Contradiction that the Agency designed by
the Bill would be so far preserving or procuring Ease and tran-
quility to his Subjects that it would be the greatest foundation of
disturbances in this Province but it is sufficient for us to say that
in Parliamentary Language on the subject of any Money Bill no
Clause was ever lookt on as relative to his Majestys Service, or
proper for such Bill which did not either immediately grant Money

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i to his Majesty or to his Use or was an Appendix to some other Bill
which had before Granted Money to his Majesty, And when any
Instance can be produced contrary to this Observation, We shall
own our Assertion to be as improper as Yours of your House having
alone the Right to raise Money
The same Arguments by which you urge this Agency to be for
his Majestys Service, may prove every Suit at Law between private
Persons for the Recovery of a Debt, to be also for his Majestys
Service since it tends to the quietness & Satisfaction of his Subjects,
perhaps in a more eminent manner than this Agency would do, And
yet it must be Granted that a Man would not thought to know what
he said, if he should think his Majestys Service concerned in almost
thing that happened in Society