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severe censure from the Throne, for putting one of his Majesty's
plantations under the power of certain persons called trustees, whose
trust was to survive to each other, and their persons irremovable
during the continuance of the law." Copy.
By the Lower House of Assembly, June 6th, 1739.
We are as little surprised at your Negative to the bill for pay-
ment of an agent, as at your happiness in finding so proper a defini-
tion for a minister: however, as you desire your reason for not
assenting to be made public, we hope you'll not take it amiss, if we
set it in its proper light, that so the meanest capacity may be able
to judge of it.

The people of Maryland think the Proprietor takes money from
them unlawfully.
The Proprietor says, he has a right to take that money.
This matter must be determined by his Majesty, who is indifferent
to both.
The Proprietor is at home, and has this same money to enable
him to negociate the affair on his part.

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The people have no way of negociating on their part, but by em-
ploying fit persons in London to act for them; and these persons
must be paid for their trouble, and propose a bill for raising a
fund to that purpose.

The Upper House tells us, You shall not have that bill, unless
you let the Governor and us, or rather the Proprietor, (with whom
we contest) have, as well the nomination of the persons to be made
use of on this occasion, as determine what, or if any thing shall
be paid them for their trouble.
The reproach not only on this House, but on all the Province,
couched under the world relative to a guardian, should, we assure
you, have been answered in terms it deserved, were it not that we
are fully determined, nothing you can say or do, shall draw us
into any thing may give you the least pretence for a rupture, which
might prevent the execution of the public business, and prove an
intollerable charge to the people.
The possibility you mention of the trustees betraying the trust
reposed in them, will have very little weight with the world, since
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trusts of the kind, unless you would have us believe your Honours
to be the only infallible persons in the world, and so commit this
guardianship you speak of to yourselves: but how convenient that
might be for the people, whoever reads your message may easily
judge.
We cannot help thinking, that the denying this, looks too much
like an unwillingness to have the matter in dispute brought to light;
however, we shall give you no farther trouble in it, than to tell