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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
March 26
p. 91
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Purport of the Message sent you last Monday, hoping you will not
continue averse to complying with the Requests therein made. As
my taking any Notice of the second Paragraph of your Address,
might possibly lead into Disputes, at this Time, for the Sake of
expediting Business, to be avoided, I purposely wave it; conceiving
that a Sum for the particular Services mentioned in my Message,
with General Braddock's Letter, may be raised without having Re-
course to any of the Means proposed in your other Bill: You will
be pleased to observe, that Sir Thomas Robinson has more particu-
larly recommended to us, to make some necessary Provision for those
Articles, as they are of a local and peculiar Nature, and arising
entirely within this Government. Such Charges, at least, his Majesty
will most undoubtedly expect his Subjects of this Province readily
and chearfully to defray, thought they do not contribute to the com-
mon Fund, which it is his royal Pleasure should be established, for
the Benefit of all the Colonies collectively. You must be sensible,
Gentlemen, that unless you will be now prevailed on to appropriate a
Sum of Money to those Uses, I shall be under a Necessity, as often
as the General may make any Application to me, of meeting you
again; wherefore, let me desire you to take my Message once more
under Consideration, and by granting such a Supply as might be
requisite for these particular Purposes, to give some actual Proof
of the Sincerity of your Intentions to answer our most gracious
Sovereign's Expectations, and to consult and provide for the Ease
of your Constituents.
Hor.o Sharpe.
On reading and considering the Governor's Message: Ordered,
That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in an Address to
his Excellency hereon.
Philip Hammond, Esq; from the Committee of Laws, brings in,
and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address to his Excellency; which
was read, approved, and ordered to be ingrossed.
Ordered, That the following be entered on the Journal, as the
Resolves of this House Viz.t
Resolved, That this House have voted, on the present Occasion,
from a deep Sense of Gratitude and Duty to his Majesty, an Aid
proportionate to, if not beyond, the Circumstances of the Country.
Resolved, That the Ways and Means fallen upon, for raising and
replacing the Sum (to be granted for that Aid) are such as wou'd
best answer the Intention of the designed Grant, are most consistent
with the Interest and Inclinations of the People we represent, and the
most expeditious and effectual that could be thought of for raising
so large a Sum.
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