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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 25
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Instructions, and met the Conferees of the Upper House in the Con-
ference Chamber, and delivered to them the Instructions as follow,
viz.
We are directed by the Lower House of Assembly to acquaint
your Honours, that they (for the Reasons assigned Yesterday), will
not depart from their Resolution upon the Second Amendment, pro-
posed by the Upper House to the Bill, for his Majesty's Service;
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and, in Order that an End be put to the Conference, desire to know
the final Resolution of the Upper House, whether they will agree to
that Part of the Bill, as it was sent up from the Lower House, to
which, if the Upper House doth concede, we are at large to proceed
to the other Amendments; Then the Conferees of the Upper House
retired to their House for Instructions, and the Conferees of both
Houses being met again in the Conference Chamber, the Conferees
of the Upper House delivered the following Answer, to the Con-
ferees of the Lower House, as Instructions from the Upper House,
viz.
In Answer to what you have delivered to us by the Direction of
your House, we are instructed, by the Upper House, to say, that by
our Second Amendment of the Bill for his Majesty's Service, all
the Purposes of that Service will be more effectually answered, than
by the Bill as it was sent up from your House, and refer you to the
Reasons we gave you Yesterday, in Answer to your Objections;
which, as you have not been pleased to confute, we think sufficient to
support our Amendment, and therefore cannot recede from it upon
the Force of those Objections.
Upon receiving of which, your Conferees acquainted the Conferees
of the Upper House, that they conceived from the Sense of their
House, that the Conference was at an End.
All which is submitted to the Consideration of your Honourable
House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
His Excellency communicates to Mr. Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
Though I learn that the Conferees from the Upper and Lower
Houses, have not been able to agree on Means for raising such Sup-
plies as both Houses have thought expedient, for supporting the
neighbouring Colonies against their and our formidable Enemies;
yet your Professions at the Beginning of this Session, make me
indulge myself with the Hopes of finding you disposed to comply with
my present Request, by making some immediate and separate Pro-
vision for the Indian Allies.
As the Day appointed for the Interview is so near at Hand, you
must be sensible that the least Delay, will absolutely make it impossible
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