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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 16

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 every Thing, consistent with our
Rights and Privileges, to remedy every Defect that may have escaped

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our Observation in the Draft of a Bill so Long and Complicated.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

Was sent to the Upper House by M.^r Matthew Tilghman and M.^r
Bracco.
M.^r Murdock brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the ingrossed
Address to his Excellency, in Answer to his Message of the 8th of
July last :
Which was read and assented to, and signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Murdock and M.^r Crabb do acquaint his
Excellency, That this House hath prepared an Address, to be pre-
sented to him, and desires to know when and where he will be
pleased to receive the same: They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker
that the Governor was pleased to signify he would receive the
Address immediately in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That Philip Hammond, Esq; and Fourteen more, do
present the Address.
Col. Tasker, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker the
following Message, viz.^t

By the Upper House of Assembly, April 16, 1756.
Gentlemen,
In Answer to your Message of this Day, by Mess.^rs Tilghman
and Bracco, we must observe, that when you speak of the daily
Increase of the heavy Public Debt by our sitting here to spend our
Time in a Method of Proceeding, which you conceive, beneath the
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 Reflection upon the Conduct of this House,
since near seven Weeks of this Session were expired, before your
Bill for raising a Supply for his Majesty's Service (and for which
Purpose we were principally convened) was sent up to us, and to
which we sent you a Message stating Objections as soon as it could
well be considered. How unparliamentary 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
conduce 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 those
Objections, already made to the Bill, are such as are reasonable and