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The following Message (Vizt)
By the Lower House of Assembly Nov.r 25,th 1763.
May it please your Honours
We are very Sorry you Shou'd return with a Negative the Bill for
the Speedy payment of such Persons as have been Ordered to March
to the Western Frontiers of this Province for the Defence thereof
and of the Expences of Carriages and Provisions for such Persons,
and of such as have been put to the Expences of quartering his Maj-
estys Regular Forces within this Province and the Necessary Ex-
pences during the late War.
We must beg leave to differ in Opinion with your Honours when
you intimate these Claims are upon the Same footing with those of
Other Creditors and should therefore be paid in the same manner,
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 25
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all these Claims are from persons that have Suffered great Hardships
and Dangers for our Defence and Security, or such as have either
had their property forced from them, or have, through necessity and
to prevent greater Evils to themselves and many Others during the
late War, advanced their own money several years past and are Only
to be repaid for the real Value or principal so forced from them or
advanced. Whereas most other Public Creditors lay out of profits
expected from the Fees and Perquisites of Office or Rewards fur
Services performed in Ease and Safety and in this Light, the Persons
who are the Objects of the present Bill have been distinguished in
all our late Resolutions for Raising money to defray the Expences of
the War. those People having been Constantly provided for by us,
to be paid out of the first monies we shou'd raise, and we the more
Wonder your Honours Should refuse the payment now proposed in
the manner, especially when the money raised by the Over plus of the
funds particularly Established to Support the expence of the War is
by this Bill appropriated for that purpose, and when to the payment
of those Claims have Constantly heretofore, as well as at the Opening
of this Session been so warmly recommended by his Excellency the
Governor
That every Creditor employed by the Public and who has served
the Public, is intituled to Satisfaction We readily admit, and it is not
our fault that they have not been long ago Satisfied, or that the Public
debt is now Swelled to so great an Amount, But as to your proposal
of paying of all other Public Creditors except the Members of the
two Houses however just it may be with regard to your Honours
who have so long defeated the passage of the Journal by an unreason-
able Claim upon the Public, We cannot think that the Steady Oppo-
sition we have made against it should place us upon the same footing,
nor shall we ever be induced to pay so poor a Compliment to our
Service as to Consent to a measure which woud amount to an Implied
acknowledgement that our Conduct ought to distinguish us from
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