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U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
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A little Reflection on Your Proceedings may perhaps account how
this Agency afterwards came to Your View
The Governor acquainted Us in his Speech, that he should lay
nothing before Us till We had discharged Our Duty to his Majesty
on this Point of A supply for Louisburgh, on Wednesday the third
day of your Sitting you Voted 2000£ Our Paper Money for Louis-
burgh Garrison and after making a private Committee of Ways and
Means, tho every Body knew the Money must be taken (as it is
Ordered by the Bill) out of the Loan Office, Yet thus stood the Bill
till Tuesday afterwards, when the Governor was pleased to press
You to a dispatch of it, but the very next day You resolved to add
a Clause in the Bill for raising a Fund for the Payment of an Agent
We shall for the sake of Decency forbear making any further Re-
mark than that this Business seemed at first to be carried on not with
the greatest forwardness or chearfulness, but when above a whole
Week had been spent and no Bill framed and the Governor appeared
so Zealous & urgent in his Majestys Service as that a further delay
could not be coloured with any Pretence then We suppose this Clause
of an Agent (no other Expedient offering for the Purpose was
thought of in Order to Obstruct and even destroy the whole Bill
Upon the whole Gentlemen We conceive the Provision intended
for Louisburgh Garrison will not in all probability in the manner
the Bill provides be procured time enough to serve that Place
We conceive this Tack or Clog to be Unparliamentary and unjust
and of a Violent Tendency and therefore We have Absolutely re-
fused to pass the Bill Signed p Order J Ross Ci Up Ho.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock
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