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of the Public Money, appropriated to another Purpose, to reimburse
yourself that Expence: A Suspicion, at this Time, as unseasonable,
as it is groundless and unjust. We are impowered not only to raise,
but to enquire into the Disposition of all Public Money; and as it is
our Duty, so it is our Resolution, to preserve this essential and
peculiar Privilege of our House, by giving Discountenance to every
Misapplication of it.
And now, to convince you how groundless your Suspicions were,
we beg Leave to acquaint your Excellency, that, as we are thoroughly
satisfied of the Misapplication of that Money by the Agents, and
therefore look on them as accountable for it, and that your Excellency
cannot hesitate to repay the same into their Hands, to be applied
according to the Directions of the Act, in Virtue of which it was
raised, we have, by a Bill now before us, made Provision for your
immediate Reimbursement of the Expences of those Troops.
In the same Message you are pleased to say, that we have at length
intimated to you, that you must not expect any Bill for Levying
Men, in this Province, for the Royal Americans, till towards the
Conclusion of the Session: This is an Insinuation that we are want-
ing in Duty to his Majesty, and that, instead of forwarding his
Service, we postpone the Consideration of it to every other Matter.
We shall no farther take Notice of the great Injustice done us
herein, than to desire your Excellency to recur to our Address of
the Twenty-fourth of September, to which the above Message is an
Answer, and examine what possible Foundation there is for it;
and we shall readily appeal to that, and to all other our Proceedings,

L. H. J.

Liber No. 48
October 2

to evince, not only our Warmth of Zeal for his Majesty's Service,
but to shew, that we have ever given it the first Place in our
Deliberations.
What your Excellency recommends, concerning a Light-House to
be built on Cape-Henry, is a Matter altogether new, and therefore
we choose to postpone the Consideration of it to the next Session of
Assembly.
On Reading the said Address, the Question was put, Whether in
that Part of it, viz. [And we must beg your Excellency to be
assured, that no Person, in whatever Station, can be more indus-
trious in contriving, that we are active and vigilant in detecting
all Misapplications,] shall be Altered, or Not? Resolved in the
Affirmitive.

p. 352

For the Affirmative,
Hynson, Waggaman, Casson,
Wallis, Travers, Scarborough,
Jenifer, Govane, Henry,
J. Handy, Ward, Evans,
Dennis, D. Dulany, B. Handy,
Gray, W. Dulany, Chapline. 18