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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
March 10
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Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act for raising a
Supply towards his Majestys Service and will not pass, sent to the
Lower house with the following Message by Richard Lee Esq.r
By the Upper house of Assembly 10th March 1755.
Gentlemen
After duly Considering the Bill that you was Pleased to Send to
us under the Title of an Act for raising a Supply towards his
Majestys Service We have thought fit to return it with a Negative
for Reasons which We hope will in Your Opinion justify our Refusal
of that Bill and incline you to frame a less exceptionable one for
the Important Service which by this you proposed to promote to
that part of the Bill which directs, the issuing and making Current
the Sum of £4015.. 6.. 0 as an Additional Sum to the Bills of Credit
that have been made Current and is at Present in Circulation accord-
ing to a Law of this Province Enacted in the Year 1733 We object,
because we we are persuaded that an Emission of such a Number
of New Bills manifestly tends to depreciate the Credit of our Paper
Currency, which We think it the Duty of each Branch of the Leg-
islature for many obvious and weighty Causes to Support, We ob-
serve also that to answer the Purposes of this Bill the Several Sums
now lent on Loan according to the Intent and Direction of the said
Law of 1733 must be called in which We apprehend would in Some
Proportion lessen the Security or fund of our Currency to Repay the
Loan Office part of the £10000. We observe that the Bill appro-
priates the Fines and Forfeitures Accruing from Ordinary Licences
which had we no other Motives to Object to that part of the Bill
and to such an Appropriation, We think are too far Mortgaged
already to be Subjected to the Payment of other Monies of which
We Remember the late house of Delegates were Convinced when
they insisted about a Year Since that the Ordinary Licence Fund
was too far engaged to to be made liable to the Payment of so
Small a Sum as £500. And Gentlemen as We think the Bill now
returned in many parts improper so We Conceive that some Parts
of it if passed into a Law would be so far from promoting the
End which We Suppose is designed, that hardly any thing could
be imagined more destructive thereto as a means of preventing the
farther Encroachments of his Majestys Enemies on these his Ameri-
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