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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 19

Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker
the Bill entituled, An Act for granting a Supply of Forty Thousand
Pounds for his Majesty's Service, &c. indorsed, By the Upper House
of Assembly, April 9, 1756. Read the first Time, and ordered to
lie on the Table.
Signed per Order, J Ross, Cl Up Ho

And thus, By the Upper House of Assembly, April 19^th, 1756.
Read the second Time, and will not pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

And the following Message, viz.
By the Upper House of Assembly, April 19, 1756.
Gentlemen,
As the Bill for his Majesty's Service must be acknowledged to be
of great Importance in the common Cause against our Enemies,
and to this Province in particular, we are much concerned, that
the Method we have taken to communicate our Sentiments to you
thereon, should not be agreeable to you, and more so, when we are
suspected of being capable of endeavouring to draw you into Mea-
sures cntrary to the established Rules of your House, and destruc-
tive of the Rights and Privileges of it, by continuing to start new
Objections, and rising in our Demands upon you, as we find you
give Way to the Removal of those already made, until we had new
formed your Bill; a Suspicion so unworthy, that, as we are conscious
of the Injustice of it, so we think it not deserving of any further
Notice; and therefore, Gentlemen, as we have neither Leisure nor
Inclination to enter into Controversies with you, which can produce
no good Effect towards the End of our being called here, and hav-
ing made what Objections we have to your Bill, and such as we
apprehend must clearly obviate the Imperfection of it in many Parts,
to which you seem determined to give us no Answer, because we
have not been so fortunate as to make use of the Word all, we con-
ceive nothing remains for us to do now, but to be quite regular and
parliamentary in our Proceedings, and to return your Bill with a
Negative; taking it for granted, that our Objections made to it, and

not removed, or attempted in any .Sort to be removed, will well justify

our Conduct, and clearly evince to all impartial and indifferent Per-
sons how fruitlessly we have done our Endeavour, for the Relief of
those distressed People on the Western Frontiers from Savage Bar-
barities, for the Protection of the Province from the Invasion of a
Foreign Enemy, and towards the Support of his Majesty's undoubted
Rights on this Continent.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

M.^r Matthew Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in
and delivers to M.^r Speaker the ingrosed Bill entituled, A Supple-
mentary Act to the Act entituled, An Act impowering the Justices of