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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 17
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any Reflection upon the Conduct of your Honble house as misspending
the time you took in Considering the Bill when we mentioned that
our deep Sensibility of the distress of the Frontier Inhabitants the
dangers Threatening His Majestys American dominions in General
and our concern at the daily Increase of Our heavy Publick debt
would not permit us to spend our Time (the time of this House)
in a Method of Proceeding we conceived beneath the dignity and
Inconsistent with the Candour that ought to be preserved between
the branches of the Legislature and we are Confident every cool
Reader must in this Particular agree with your Honours The method
of Proceeding your Honours Propose and would feign draw us unto
we ought to take no further notice of than to Repeat that it is im-
parliamentary and to Judges better than either of the houses (and to
such we should gladly appeal) it must be Obvious, But lest others
should be prejudiced against our Conduct by the Plausibility of yours
in Proceeding as you say in such Mode as might Conduce to the more
easy passage of Bill we shall Just take time to observe that should we
upon your sending us some of the Several Material Objections you
have to the Bill proceed Contrary to Established Rules to take into
Consideration those objections and even Contrary to the undoubted
Rights and Priviledges of this house concur with you in all of them
what might reasonably be concluded would be the Consequence
Why most clearly that according to the Temper you should discover
in this House of Giving up Rights your demand would raise and
after Spending a long time in considering new objections and for the
Relief of the poor unhappy people on the Borders and for his
Majestys Service in General giving up some of the Rights of the
whole you would still proceed in Starting new Objections and we
must go on in giving up Rights till you had now formed our Bill
and what Shape it would appeare in when intirely agreeable to your
Honours must remain in Conjuncture only We shall at an oppor-
tunity of Shewing in any Regular way of Proceeding on this Bill
how much we have at heart his Majestys Service in General the
Safety and wellfare of this Province in Particular and more especially
the Relief of Our poor distressed Inhabitants on the Western Fron-
tier from the Horrible Effects of Savage Cruelty But in our Reso-
lution not to proceed in an unheard of imparliamentary and endless
Method of Obviating old and receiving new Objections we firmly
persist And Hope after your Honours have taken up such time in
Considering the Bill as to be able to make all your objections you
will proceed in such Regular manner as may Conduce to an happy
and Speedy Conclusion of this Important affair
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock
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