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Consideration the Bill, entituled, An Act for Reducing the Allowances
of the Councillors, Deputies and Delegates, that shall serve in the
General Assembly, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, and the
Commissioners of the Provincial and County Courts of this Prov-
ince, for ascertaining the Allowances of the Clerks and other Officers
of both Houses of Assembly, and securing the Independency of the
said Deputies and Delegates, and other Purposes therein mentioned.
We did not think proper to lay by our Bill, which you might see
by the Title was so much better calculated for the good Purposes,
to make Way for yours; and therefore sent it up to your Honours:
But we think ourselves obliged now, in order to put a Stop to your
sending down to this House any more Bills relative to the imposing
or altering Taxes, to let you know, that if any such shall hereafter
be sent to us, they shall be rejected upon a View of the Title, as it is
the undoubted Right of this House, that all Bills any Way relative
to Taxes should take their Rise here.
Signed p Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
May 9
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Was sent to the Upper House, with the Bill for Reducing the
Allowances of the Members of the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly, by Alexander Williamson, Esq; and Mr. Cockey Deye.
Col. Henry, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker, the
Paper Bills, of which the Ingrossed Bills were severally Read and
Assented to by both Houses; which Paper Bills were severally thus
Indorsed, viz. " By the Upper House of Assembly, May 9th, 1758.
The Ingrossed Bill, whereof this is the Original, is Read and As-
sented to.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Ordered, That Mr. Carroll and Mr. Edmondson do acquaint his
Excellency the Governor, that no Public Business lies now before
this House to transact.
His Excellency the Governor communicated to Mr. Speaker, the
following Message, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I Am not a little surprized at your desiring me to put an End to
this Session, when it does not appear by any of the Bills which are
now lying before me, that you have made any Provision for raising
a Number of Men in this Government, to act in Conjunction with
such other Forces as are to be employed this Summer under the Com-
mand of Brigadier Forbes, or even for the Support of the Five
Companies that have been heretofore raised in this Government for
his Majesty's Service, and the more immediate Defence and Pro-
tection of our Frontier Inhabitants. I must take the Liberty, Gentle-
men, to remind you of the Promises you made at the Opening of
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