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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 17
p. 234

past, for carrying Letters directed for his Majesty's Service; which
Account you will be pleased to take under your Consideration, and
reimburse me what I have expended on such Occasions.
April 16.^th 1756 Hor.^o Sharpe.

Richard Lee, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker
the Bill entituled, A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act
impowering the Justices of Worcester County to levy on the taxable
Inhabitants of Allhallows Parish, &c. and the Bill entituled, An
Act impowering the Justices of Somerset County to levy not exceed-
ing 20,000 lbs. of Tobacco, upon the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said County for the Use therein mentioned severally indorsed by
the Upper House of Assembly, April 17, 1756. Read the second
Time, and will pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bills were severally read here, and passed for ingrossing.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.

The following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, 17^th April, 1756.
May it please your Honours,
The Bill for granting a Supply for his Majesty's Service and our
Safety, now under your Consideration, it is true, took us up a good
deal of Time; and perhaps a Week spent in an imperfect Considera-
tion, may not be thought inadequate to near Seven in drawing and
framing it. We are glad to find that you apprehend we did not
mean to throw any Reflection upon the Conduct of your Honourable
House, as misspending the Time you took in considering the Bill,
when we mentioned that our deep Sensibility of the Distresses of
our Frontier Inhabitants, the Dangers threatening his Majesty's
American Dominions in general, and our Concern at the daily In-
crease of our heavy Public 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 into, we ought to take no further
Notice of than to repeat, that it is unparliamentary, and to Judges,
better than either of our 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