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and raising a Fund for sinking the same was read the second Time,
and will pass; and, with the following Message, viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, 23^d April, 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
Majesty's 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 Privileges of our House, so naturally arising from
the Method of Proceeding proposed in your Message, tho' we would
willingly forget, we are afraid must appear to be too well grounded
to every judicious Reader.
We are extremely sorry to find your Honours, after saying you
have neither Leisure nor Inclination to enter into Controversies with
us, immediately proceeding to justify your own, and blame our Con-
duct, in the Dispute between us; a Behaviour which can tend to
nothing but to promote Controversy.

Our Determination not to give you any Answer to what Objec-
tions 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 unfortunate, or whatever you'll please to term it, as 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
Objections you had to our Bill, we should immediately have consid-
ered them, and we are persuaded should have found Means to have
obviated such as we thought unreasonable; and we cannot see why
you might not as well have kept the Bill till you had known our
Result upon that Message, as to have sent it then down with a Nega-
tive: Nor do we apprehend, tho' you take it for granted, because
we had refused to answer your Objections, when you told us you
had taken Notice of and particularized only some of them, that those
Objections, not being removed, will justify your Conduct, when,
by sending down the Bill with your Negative, with the only Mes-
sage whereby we could understand you had no more Objections
to make to it, you precluded us from falling upon any regular
Method of Proceeding, which might have brought about the desired
Event as to that Bill. But as we are still earnestly desirous to relieve
the unhappy People on our Frontier from their Distresses, and to
prevent, if possible, the Desolation of that Part of our Country, as

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
April 23