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

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 3

By the Upper House of Assembly, May 3, 1756.
Gentlemen,
We have considered your Message of the 30th of April, wherein
you tell us, That you think it necessary to enumerate all the Amend-
ments you have made, in Consequence of your first Bill, that it may
appear what Alterations and Concessions you have made, even
contrary 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 Enumeration
of your Amendments, we do not think it necessary, in a Message,
to take any further Notice of them, or of the Embellishments be-
stowed on some of them, for Reasons that you have given us in a
former Message this Session: Besides, we are still of Opinion, that
whatever Alterations it may seem that you have agreed to, or what-
ever Concessions it may seem that you have made, yet our Objec-
tions in the most essential Points are not obviated, or sufficiently
removed, especially that which relates to the Credit of, and sinking
the new Emission of the Money in Five Years; and if you really,
and indeed have, made any Concessions, contrary to your just Rights,

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: we assure you we never desired any such, or expected such a Declara-
tion 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 Bill you sent us,
in Hopes they might have been removed.
You are now pleased to say, That you shall very chear fully 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 really, Gentlemen, we confess, that we do 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, nevertheless, willing
to confer with you on the Subject-Matter of those Objections also.
But you go farther, 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 a Conference upon: These preliminary