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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 3
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ments you have made in Consequence of your first Bill that it may
appear what alterations and concessions you have made even con-
trary to your own Just Rights. If your Intention herein was that
those alterations may appear to us it was not necessary unless you
could Imagine that we had not observed them If it was to make
them appear to others we can't conceive how that could be fairly
done without giving them an Opportunity of Comparing those
alterations with the Bills thereby altered, which remain in your
own hands But whatever might be your Intention in that enumera-
tion of your amendments we do not think it necessary in a Message
to take any further Notice of them or of the Embelishments bestowed
on some of them, for reasons that you have given us in a former
Message this Session Besides we are still of the Opinion that what-
ever alterations it may seem that you have agreed to or whatever
concessions it may seem that you have made yet our objection in the
most essential points are not obviated or Sufficiently removed, Espe-
cialy that which relates to the Credit of and sinking the new Emission
of the money in five years, and if you realy and indeed have made
any Concessions contrary to your Just Rights we assure you we
never desired any such or expected such a declaration from you,
We only desire that Consistent with your Just Rights and our own,
and for the General Good of the People such a Law may be obtained
as may be for the Safety and defence of us all, For these reasons
we made our objections to the Bills you sent us, in hopes they
might have been removed you are now pleased to say, that you shall
very Chearfully agree to a free Conference not on the Subject matter
of a Bill sent down with a Negative but on the Subject matter of
our objections to Several Bills, in order to bring about the passage
of the Bill last sent up, This seems to us to be an extraordinary
kind of Conference for realy Gentlemen we Confess, that we do
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not clearly understand your distinction. We apprehend that in order
to bring about the passage of the Bill last sent up, the Subject matter
of that Bill ought to be Considered rather than any objections that
we may have made to any former Bill or Bills we are Neverthless
willing to Confer with you on the Subject matter of these objections
also, But you go further and add "excepting however the Tax on
Liquors Consumed by Persons not being retailers and the appoint-
ment of the Sheriffs to be Collectors of the Excise as provided by
the last Bill being points that we are determined not to depart from
and therefore cannot agree to Conference upon " these preliminary
points so possitively insisted on to be excepted out of the matters
of the Conference we readily allow to be the most irregular expe-
dient that could be proposed to obtain any good issue from it, you
are however carefull that your present Concessions shall not be drawn
into precedent or anyways construed as derogatory to your Antient
and undoubted Rights And we cannot but observe how willing you
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