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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 24
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were removed tho we have bestowed our best attention upon this
Bill we could not observe from it that the foundations for many of
those Objections were removed; we observe indeed that some few
of those only of the least Importance are Obviated; but by much
the greater part in Number and Importance still remain and par-
ticularly all those parts of the Bill Calculated to interduce an Un-
constitutional Influence remain Untouched; why were not these parts
of the Bill altered Conformable to the Objections that your affording
One proof of a real Concern for His Majestys Service, we might
have had an oppertunity of Coming to an agreement with you on
that Occasion, in a word Gentlemen we shall adhere to our objections,
nor may you ever expect our assent to any Bill what ever may be
the Occasion to which they are Applicable, for we are satisfied that
nothing is so likely to preserve the tranquility of the Province as
the maintaining with a Strict and steady hand the Necessary powers
and just prerogatives of the Crown and the presering an Uniform
and Settled Principle of Government to an Occasional Departure
from it for temporary Convenience every Days Experience Con-
vinces Us that it is in vain to Negotiate away His Majestys pre-
rogatives every new Concession becoming the foundation of some
new demand, And that of some new dispute
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p. 92
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Your Maxim in Politicks almost universally adopted that the
Representatives Justifyed by the Instructions of his Constituent, in
acting even against his own Judgment we neither Understand nor
see Any present use of; would you Insinuate that the Conduct of
the Lower Houses relative to His Majesty's Service has been agree-
able to the Instructions of your Constituents and by thus Excusing
your selves leave them Accountable for your Extraordinary Conduct
we know that the Inhabitants of this Province in General are an
Honest well meaning People as Loyal Subjects as any in his Majestys
Dominions and Endued with a Spirit Condusive to His Majestys
Service to the utmost of their Abilities; But we are sorry to say
at the same time they are not Exempt from Imposition and whether
the Conduct of former Lower Houses and the Other Branches of
the Legislature may not have been misrepresented to them by such
as may have thought the People seeming Concurrence a necessary
Countenance, to their own Ambitious Scheems, we shall not at present
determine, but to us it seems Extremely natural that the People upon
the Breaking up of a Long Session without any thing done for His
Majestys Service tho with a very heavy Charge to themselves should
Enquire into the Occasion of these frequent disappointments, And
it is as probable they may be told of the just and Equal methods
proposed by the Lower House to raise Supplies for the Title of the
Bill which is called an Equal assessment may be Cited as an Authority
to this purpose and if necessary to proceed further the Substance
thereof may be represented in such a manner as may best Suit the
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