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Gentlemen
We are extremely sorry that the Bill for reducing the Allowances
of the Members of both Houses, from which so much Benefit would
redound to the Province in the Dispatch of public Business, and the
Reduction of the Taxes from your Constituents should fail with you
upon so slight a Pretence as that intimated in your Message of this
Day when no substantial Objection could be made by you to the
Justice, or Propriety of the Alterations we proposed, the general
Assertion that we have proceeded in an unparliamentary manner may
be more easily made as an Evasion than proved or defended, and is
somewhat surprising considering the many Instances in which your
House hath observed the same Method and it should seem that had
there been some little Mistake in the Mode of our Proceeding it
might have been obviated if not overlooked with no great Difficulty,
were there not really wanting a sincere Disposition to pass this very
useful Bill
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho. [sic]
Benjamin Tasker Esq: attended by the Members of this House
presents to his Excellency their Address which follows in these
Words
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq. Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
May it please your Excellency
The Letter from the Right honourable the Earl of Loudoun,
which you have been pleased to communicate to us, contains such
clear and engaging Reasons, and urges such strong and interesting
Motives for a Compliance with his Lordship's Requisition, that had
we no other Objection to the Supply Bill sent us by the Lower House,
than its Disregard of and direct Repugnance to his Lordship's
Recommendation we could not have assented to it
Every Part of this prolix, intangled, and impracticable Bill, rela-
tive to the and Service of the Troops is so apparently
derogatory to the Powers of his Lordship's Commission invasive
of the Indubitable Prerogative of the Crown, and incumber'd with
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Liber No. 35
Dec. 16
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such absurd Restrictions as hardly to admit of the least Doubt that
in these as well as in many other Instances it was framed with a
View to evade the granting of any Money
The divided State of the Colonies is justly deplored by all sensible
Men who are interested in their Safety and Prosperity, and animated
with an adequate Zeal for their Welfare, the only Provision amidst
the Distraction of such various Views as are entertained in the
different Colonies notwithstanding the common Danger, which has
the least Tendency towards an Union, or can conduce to an uniform
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