The Lower House. 621

Wednesday, April 26, 1758.

The House met according to Adjournment: The Members were
called, and all appeared as Yesterday, except Mr. Sulivane. The Pro-
ceedings were Read.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. Lecompte and Mr. Fraser appeared in the House.

Mr. Lloyd brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Message, viz.'
By the Lower House of Assembly, April 27, 1758.
May it please your Honours,
As we have always been desirous of promoting his Majesty's
Service to the utmost of our Abilities, we could not but observe with
Concern, Three Bills prepared by us, granting very considerable
Aids for that Purpose, at three succeeding Meetings, defeated by
your Honours positive Negative to each of them, and therefore we
thought it our Duty in this peculiar Circumstance, by our Message
of the 12th Instant, however we might deviate from strict Rules,
to enquire into the Cause, and to request you would point out your
Objections to those Bills: In Answer to this, your Honours, by
your Message of the 18th, tell us, that our Concern, expressed in

L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
April 26

that Message, was unexpected by you, considering the late Resolves
of the Lower House, " That you had no Right but to Pass or Reject
Money-Bills, that you had not indeed been convinced, that our Privi-
leges could be extended, or your Rights abridged, by such Resolves ;
but that you chose to avoid Disputes on the Subject of Privileges."
We do not recollect any Resolves of this House in the Words you
mention; but whatever they may be, your Honours must know,
they are made not to extend, but to confirm our own Rights and
Privileges, not to abridge the Rights of the other Branches of the
Legislature, but to prevent any Attempts in them by the Destruction
of ours to enlarge their own. We shall, however, avoid entering into
Disputes on this Subject, since your Honours have been so ex-
tremely scrupulous in this Respect with Regard to those Money-
Bills, that you have carefully avoided every Mode of Proceeding,
which you have in any other Instance of the like Kind lately pur-
sued, and which (saving our Rights) we have, out of an earnest
Desire to promote to the utmost his Majesty's Service, come into.
What has induced your Honours, on those Occasions, to depart
from them, we shall not take upon us to say, nor would we willingly
ascribe to any other than the Motive you would seem to intimate, the
Fear of alarming us in respect of our Privileges, giving up your
own Rights, or subjecting yourselves to the Animadversion of hav-
ing deviated from the strict Rules of Intercourse between the Two
Houses; but we cannot help remarking that this extreme and unusual

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