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U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
April IS
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thereof in Bills of Credit and Raising a fund for Sinking the same
and have Several Material Objections to the Passing of it in its
present form, Conceiving that was it to pass into a Law as it now is
it could not be well carried into Execution so as to have the Effects
Proposed by it and therefore think proper to take Notice of and
Particularize some of those Objections that you may if you think
proper have an oppertunity of removeing them, that the Distresses
of Our Inhabitants to the westward may be thereby in some degree
removed and Our Country in General be put into some Condition of
Defence against the Invasion of a Foreign Enemy We are Sincerely
desireous of doing every thing in our power for the Safety and
Preservation of the People of this Province and his Majestys domin-
ions in General and shall be Ready to concur with you in any proper
measures to obtain an act more perfect and Adequate to the Service
intended and therefore shall make the following Observations and
leave them to your Consideration hoping that you will on your part en-
deavour to obviate and remove all Just objections that may be made to
a Bill of such great Importance We then propose that instead of Per-
emptorily directing that the fort & Block houses shall be Built on the
Eastermost side of the North Mountain it shall be left to the Governor
to Direct that they shall be Built and Constructed at such place
or places as he shall think most proper for the Defence and Security
of this Province that as the Bill does not oblige either of the Agents to
attend the Troops as Commissary of Stores or of the Musters which
is absolutely necessary we conceive a Clause should be inserted to
oblige one of them or some other person Properly Qualified to attend
the Troops to receive Examine and Deliver out Provisions and also
to take and return proper Muster Rolls and that to assist him in the
performance of such duty the said Commissary should be allowed a
Clerk or Deputy That as no pay Master is appointed by the Bill one
of the Agents or some other proper Person should be appointed to
that office that in stead of positively directing that all the Troops
which may be raised by Virtue of this Bill shall be disbanded at all
Events on the 25 :th of December next we apprehend it should be
left to the Governor or Commander in Chief of those Troops to keep
them on foot longer if he shall Judge proper and the Situation of
affairs shall require it and that if his Excellency or Commander in
Chief shall find it expedient for the Security of the Province or the
more effectual annoyance of the Enemy that those Troops should be
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