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Present as in the Morning
Read the first time the Bill for granting 45000 Pounds for his
Majestys Service and will not pass
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 12

Tuesday Morning 13 April 1762
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
The Bill Entituled an Act for granting 45000 Pounds for his
Majestys Service, is sent to the Lower House with the following
Message. By Richard Lee Esq^r
By the Upper House of Assembly 13 April 1762
Gentlemen
Extremely desirous that His Majestys Requisitions signified to
us at the Opening of this Session should be complied with We cannot
but lament that while you on your parts express the same Inclination
you have offered Us such a Bill for raising the Supplies as you must
have been satisfied this House would never agree to: It having as
the Journals shew been usual for the Upper House of Assembly in

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this Province when it hath been heretofore thought Expedient to
raise Money for the King's Service, the Security & Defence of the
Inhabitants or for other purposes not only to amend Supply Bills
that had been in the Lower House but often to prepare such Bills
themselves and send them down for the Concurrence of the Lower
House (tho indeed Bills of this Sort were commonly drawn by a
Committee of both Houses) We are confident it would not have
been irregular or contrary to the established Mode of Proceeding
for this House to have proposed amendments to the Bill you were
pleased to send us last Friday, nor should we have declined to exert
the Rights we have to doing so had not the little regard you have
shewn to the many Objections which this House in April 1758 made
to the Bill then Offered confirmed Us in an Opinion that there was
no probability of the two Houses coming to any Agreement upon the
Bill which we now return with a Negative From your having pro-
vided for the Levying Cloathing & paying of only 400 Provincials
we presume you are of Opinion that over & above the 84 Recruits
required as our Quota towards compleating the Regular Regiments
on this Continent it would be impossible for this Province to levey &
keep up a greater Number now according to the Calculations &
allowances you yourselves have made Less than one third part of the
Sum proposed by your Bill to be granted will be sufficient for these
purposes but at the same time we are inclined to believe that if all
the Real & Personal Estate in the Province was to be taxed agreable
to your Plan could it be carried into Execution a Sum at least twice

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