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tations, all the Assistance in my Power, you can have no Reason
to doubt my pursuing the same Conduct for the future, whenever
a proper Application shall be made to me for that Purpose; and had
you, instead of sending for my Secretary to your Bar, addressed me
upon the Occasion, I should, were the Subject proper for the Knowl-
edge of the Public, have given you Satisfaction on the Point of your
Enquiry; and by this Means these Irregularities, and my Cause of
Complaint, and other Consequences resulting from them, might have
been avoided.

Gentlemen,

Having now given you a general View of the Rights of the several
Branches of the Legislature, with Regard to each other, and my
Sense of your late Treatment of me in the Person of my Secretary,
I shall conclude with intreating you to give the Matters I recom-
mended to your Consideration, an immediate Place in your Delibera-
tions; and as you must, by making suitable Provision for those
Services, necessarily lay a heavy Load on the People, I think it
behoves us the more to lighten their Burthens in other Respects:
To this, Gentlemen, you may greatly contribute, by diligently attend-
ing the public Business, and carefully avoiding all such Steps, as can
only tend to protract the Session.

nth October, 1757. Hor.^o Sharpe.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Oct. n

The House adjourns until the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.

p. 38

Wednesday, 12^th October, 1757.

The House met according to Adjournment: The members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday. The Proceedings were Read.

Mr. Plater and Mr. Wilson appeared in the House.

On Motion, Ordered, That Mr. Hammond, Mr. Murdock, and
Mr. Dorsey, be a Committee to inspect the Records in the Provincial
Office, and Report to the House, Whether any Commission, appoint-
ing Mr. John Ridout Secretary to his Excellency the Governor, be
on Record there; and whatever it there appears that he has taken
the Oaths to the Government, to Qualify him on such Commission;
and that they likewise inspect the said Records, and Report, whether
it appears on Record in the said Office, that a Commission hath been
granted by any former Governor of this Province, appointing any
Person as his Secretary.

Mr. Hammond brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the follow-
ing Report, viz.^t

By the Committee appointed by the Honourable Lower House
of Assembly to inspect the Records in the Provincial Office, and

Oct. 12