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then present purpose Concluding that in short, the Bill is in itself
highly just and reasonable, but that the Upper House will not pass
it for no other reason than because it Contains a Tax upon the
Proprietary Estate and the great Offices of the Government; and as
Probably they may not see the Propriety of leaving these Objects
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
April 24
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untaxed they no doubt will Conclude their delegates are right in
persisting that these shall come in as well as the rest nor can it be a
matter of Surprize that the People Imposed upon by such arts as these
should in some Instances be Induced to give such Instructions to their
Delegates as you allude to however that this is far from being
Generally the Case, is Evident from the constant and almost Equal
Opposition, the proposal of this Plan has of late met with in the
Lower House, But whatever Measures some Members of that House
may have thought fit to take to impose upon the Credulity of their
Constituents, we could not have Conceived you will have given
us so flagrant a prof of such practices as to Assert this matter to
Ourselves and yet you are pleased to Entertain hopes that we might
be more at large than heretofore with respect to the tax upon the
proprietary Estate and the great Offices of the Government, which
you take to have been our Real Objection to the Supply Bill in
1758, to Cover which most of the others were only thrown in as a
Barrier these are your words why did not you Gentlemen Inform
what foundation you have for this Indecent and untrue Suggestion
what Authority have you for Insinuating that this House ever was
under any restraint with regard to either of those points or what
reason have you to hope we are now more at large in respect to
them than heretofore if you have no foundation for this behaviour,
what regard will any thing you say deserve, you tell us you take
the Tax upon the Proprietary Estate and the Great Offices of Govern-
ment to have been our real Objections to the Supply Bill in 1758,
and ought to have shewn us where we made these Objections but
if you Cannot do this what must the World think not only of your
Insinuations but your Express Allegations, your having recourse to
those Objections in 1758. will not serve your purpose for you will
there find no Objections to either of those perticulars being at all
Taxed as you would have it understood, but only to the Manner and
the quantum the Lower House was than pleased to Impose on those
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Objections of Tax, as being to liable to abuse and greatly above the
proportion they ought to bear, We wish Gentlemen you would pay
some regard to truth and Decency at least while you Aspire to the
Rights and Priviledges of the British House of Commons; the truth
is as far as we can Judge the whole tenor of your Conduct both
within doors and without that you are endeavouring to persuade
your Constituents the frequent Miscarriages of this your favourite
Bill are Owing Only to a dispute between the Lord Proprietary and
the great Officers of Government of One of your Selves on the other
upon the point of taxing or not Taxing his Estate and their Offices,
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