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That Part of your Hon.rs Proposal that respects taxing the People
to support an Agent for themselves had it stood singly we should
have gladly embraced and for that Purpose we have this Session
as Lower Houses of Assembly have for a long Time past generally
done sent a Bill to your Honours which hath as usual met with your
Negative we think a Tax on the People at the Request of their
Reprsentatives so well known to be their Sense a natural and in-
dubitable Right and though the Obstructions it has hitherto met
with may have procured temporary Conveniencies to the Government
the Termination of all points in Dispute should we think be much
more desirable to the Government itself
With what Idea of Justice or real Utility to the Country your
Hon.rs have made the spacious Proposition "that all the public
Creditors be immediately satisfied except the Members of the two
Houses and the Clerk of the Council who may wait 'till a Decision
of the Question shall be notified to us" we cannot conceive; your
own Allowances you may with Justice defer the payment of as
long as you please but this House actuated by no other Motives than
those of Justice and an Attachment to the Rights and Interests of
their Constituents cannot esteem their best Endeavours of so little
Merit as to place them on a Level with the Clerk of the Council as
to his unjust Claim Have your Honours objected in any Manner
to the Justice of our Allowances ? are they not given by an express
Law ? Is there a more rightful Claim in the Journal ? Suppose the
King and Council should determine in Favour of the Salary to the
Clerk of the Council would the Clerk of the Council get his Salary
the sooner or be in any Manner benefited by our laying out of our
just Rights? Thinking the Expences incurred on Account of the
late War ought from the peculiar Hardships to the Claimants to be
preferred in Payment to all other public Debts we sent a List of
those Debts and a Bill for their immediate Payment to your House
you were pleased to indorse your Negative for no other Reason than
"that there were other Persons equally entitled to Satisfaction from
the Public who ought to be considered at the same Time with those
who were favoured by the above Bill" How then can you the same
Session propose such an Inconsistency to your own Reasoning?
besides a full Payment would immediately circulate the more Money
and consequently be more beneficial to the Country. But we are
Apprehensive that the Payment of those Debts which we still wish
Instant was obstructed and the new Proposition of a partial Pay-
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