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

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
April 23

Friday Morning 23^d April 1756
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

A Bill from the Lower House by M.^r Hammond and others
Entituled an Act 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 thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 21^st April 1756
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo: Ho :

By the Lower House of Assembly 23^d April 1756
Read the Second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho

And the following Message
By the Lower House of Assembly April 23 :^d 1756
May it Please your Honours
We are not less concerned than your Honours that your Senti-
ments on a Bill of such importance as that sent up by us for his
Majestys Service in General and our Security in Particular should
be communicated to us in a Method not only disagreeable to us but
such as must be disagreeable to this house as long as either Estab-
lished Rules or Reason exists

The Suspicion of Your being Capable of Endeavouring to draw
us into measures Contrary to the Established Rules and destructive
to the Rights and Priviledges of our house so naturally arising from
the method of Proceeding proposed in your Messages tho we would
willingly forget we are afraid must appear to be too well grounded
to every Judicious Reader

We are Extremely sory to find your Honours after saying you
have neither Leasure nor Inclination to enter into Controversies with
us immediately Proceeding to Justify your own and Blame our
Conduct in the dispute between us a Behaviour which can tend to
nothing but to promote Controversy

p.80

Our determination not to give you any Answer to what objections
you mentioned against our Bill did not proceed as you are pleased to
say from your Honours not having been so fortunate as to make
use of the word all but very Justly from your having been so
fortunate or whatever you'll please to term it is to make use of the
word some
If your Honours had at first or afterwards when we desired it
said as you did in your last Message that you had made what