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slender Scrutiny into the Conduct of the Peoples Representatives
to the present time, they were thrice called to meet in Assembly
to raise supplies for his Majestys Service and in their first meeting
to shew their Loyalty to his Majesty and Earnest desire to comply
with his Requisitions they sent to the upper House a Bill upon the
Plan of a General Assessment upon Real and Personal Estates this
Plan you so lately as your Message of the 9.^th Instant call a new
System, Intricate in its nature liable to Objections which you

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 24

suppose may Escape your House, the Bill was accordingly rejected
for reasons wherein the Lower House was afterwards made ac-
quainted the second and third meeting in Assembly for the Like
purpose Influences by the Like Earnest desire to raise Supplies for
his Majestys Service produced the like Bill in the Lower House,
which from this House met with the like fate; the Lower House
rinding by this time their favourite new System Intricate in its
nature and liable to objections could not be obtained without an
uncommon degree of perservance and apprehensive at the same time
that the Sincerity of Earnest desire so often Expressed, to raise
Supplies for his Majestys Service from so repeatedly proposing
only the same Bill for Raising those supplies which had been as
frequently rejected, began to be doubted; to obviate if Possible
these unfavourable Impressions they thought proper to Express their
Concern as you do now, to find that after refusing two Bills sent to
us at their two Last meetings for his Majestys Service without
Mentioning the Objections we might have to either of them we
had returned a third for the same purpose in the same manner and
declear that if Our objections had been made to either of those
or to the then present Bill they would have shewed the utmost
readiness to do every thing they could Consistent with their Rights
and Priviledges to have brought about the Passage of them; but
without Scrupulously Examining into the means of Escape from
this Declaration left by the manner of penning it, it is Sufficient
to observe that this House accordingly Informed the Lower House
of many objections to that Bill without Obviating which by amend-
ing their Draft that Bill could not meet with our Assent and in
order to manifest their Earnest Desire to raise for his Majesty
the supplies he Demanded instead of altering their Bill in any manner
Conformable thereto they Endeavoured to answer those Objections
which Brought on a Dispute Between the two Houses and that
session Ended with as little Effect to his Majestys Service as the

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two former and tho every Man of Common sense who would give
himself the trouble of perusing those Messages must Consider those
objections as Unanswered & in this we are Supported by the Opinion
of his Majestys late Attorney General upon that Bill and those
Messages; the Lower House Continued for five Successive Sessions
to send the same Bill to the Upper House for their Assent without

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