254 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
April 16

inconsistent with the Candour that ought to be preserved between
the Branches of the Legislature Therefore in Answer to your Im-
parliamentary Message of Yesterday wherein you say you have
mentioned some of the Material Objections you have to the Bill for
Granting a Supply of Forty Thousand pounds for His Majestys
Service and for Striking Thirty four Thousand and fifteen pounds
six Shillings thereof in Bills of Credit and raising a fund for Sinking
the same sent up to your Honours for Concurrence on the 8^th day
of this Instant and that they are the observations you think neces-
sary to make on that Bill at present We shall Just observe that when
your Honours shall have taken Notice of and particularized all the
Objections to and Observations upon that Bill which you may think
necessary finally to make (and this we hope you will do as soon as you
can) we shall then with the utmost dispatch do everything Consistent
with out Rights and Priviledges to Remedy every defect that may
have Escaped our Observation in the draft of a Bill so long and
Complicated.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho
The following Answer is sent to the Lower house by Col :^o Tasker
By the Upper house of Assembly 16^th April 1756
Gentlemen
In Answer to your Message sent us this day by Mess:^rs Tilghman
and Bracco we must Observe that when you Speake of the daily
Increase of the heavy Publick Debt by Our Siting here to Spend
our time in a method of Proceeding which you conceive beneath the

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dignity and inconsistent with the Candour which ought to be pre-
served between the Branches of the Legislature we apprehend you
cannot mean to throw any Reflections upon the Conduct of the house
since over seven Weeks of this Session were expired before your
Bill for raising a Supply for His Majestys Service (and for which
purposes we were principally convened) was sent up to us and to
which we sent you a Message Stating objections as soon as could
well be considered how imparliamentary our Message may be must
be Submitted to better Judges of those matters than either your
house or ours but as we have proceeded in such mode as might
condone to the more easy passage of the Bill we shall Rest Contented
with having done in this Instance what we apprehend to be Right in
Pointing out to you such objections as if not removed must be
fatal to your Bill and therefore can only now say that as the
Objections already made to the Bill are such as are reasonable and
Just we do not look upon ourselves as obliged to give any other
untill we know whether they will be removed or not. However to
put matters upon such a footing between us as may prevent future
Controversy and Shew that we are Ready and willing to do every
thing in our power towards the Relief of those poor unhappy