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Successor; we hope it will be rejected as unknown and unconstitu-
tional in this Government.
We would not willingly, from what is past, conclude your Ex-
cellency has been " endeavouring to conceal any Thing from our
Knowledge, which it may be proper we should know; " if the dis-
interested Reader should, we cannot help it. The Assistance hereto-
fore given by you to the Lower House of Assembly, in their public
Consultations, would have afforded us some Reason, to have expected
you would have pursued the same Conduct now, had not this unlucky
Affair of Mr. Ridout's, convinced us of the contrary; and there
seems but too much Room to apprehend, that had we, before we
sent to request Mr. Ridout to attend, addressed your Excellency upon
the Occasion, you would have judged the Subject improper for the
Knowledge of the Public, and we should have had as little Satis-
faction, upon the Point of our Enquiry, as we are like to have at
present.
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Liber No. 49
Dec. I
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After the View your Excellency was pleased to give us, of the
Rights of the several Branches of the Legislature, with Regard to
each other and your Sense of our Treatment of you, in the Person
of the Gentleman you were pleased to distinguish by the Appellation
of your Secretary, it is no Wonder you should conclude with intreat-
ing us to give the Matters you recommended to our Consideration
an immediate Place in our Deliberations, and putting us in Mind of
the heavy Load, the making suitable Provision for those Services,
must necessarily lay upon the People; that it behoved us the more
to lighten their Burthens, in other Respects; and that we might greatly
contribute to it, by diligently attending the Public Business, and care-
fully avoiding all such Steps as could only tend to protract the
Session; as you might possibly entertain Hopes, by that Means,
totally to draw off our Attention from a Vindication of our Rights
and Privileges. And we must here take the Freedom to observe, that
tho' the Time spent in public Enquiries, in Endeavours for Redress
of the Grievances the People labour under, and in the Support of the
Rights and Privileges of this House, must necessarily lay upon
them an heavy Burthen; yet, we are well assured, by the People them-
selves, that as they plainly see it unavoidable, they shall chearfully
submit to it, as the lesser Evil.
And, may it please your Excellency, as we have, with all the Dis-
patch in our Power, done what is incumbent on us, towards making
Provision for the Services recommended to us, we shall hope for the
full and uninterrupted Enjoyment of our Rights and Privileges,
while we proceed on such other Matters as we think may tend to the
public Good.
On Reading the said Address, the Question was put, Whether th(
House Approves thereof, or Not ?
Resolved in the Affirmative.
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