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Parliamentary forms, and point them out to us, and we assure your
Honours they shall have their due weight.
Signed per Order,
J. A. Thomas, Cl. Lo. Ho.

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The following Message by the Upper House of Assembly, i3th
April, 1762.

Gentlemen,
Extremely desirous that his Majesty's requisitions, signified to us
at the opening of this session, should be complied with, we cannot
but lament, that while you, on your parts, express the same inclina-
tion, you have offered us such a bill for raising the supplies, as you
must have been satisfied this House would never agree to: It having
as the Journals shew, been usual for the Upper House of Assembly
in this Province, when it hath been heretofore thought expedient
to raise money for the King's service, the security and defence of
the inhabitants, or for other purposes, not only to amend supply bills
that had been framed in the Lower, but often to prepare such bills
themselves, and send them down for the concurrence of the Lower
House, (though indeed bills of this fort were commonly drawn by a
committee of both Houses) we are confident it would not have
been irregular, or contrary to the established mode of proceeding,

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for this House to have proposed amendments to the bill you were
pleased to send us last Friday, nor should we have declined to exer-
cise the right we have to do so, had not the little regard you have
shewn to the many objections, which this House in April, 1758,
made to the bill. then offered, confirmed us in an opinion, that there
was no probability of the two Houses coming to any agreement upon
the bill, which we now return with a negative. From your having
provided for the levying, cloathing, and paying of only 400 Pro-
vincials, we presume you are of opinion, that over and above the
eighty-four recruits, required as our quota towards compleating the
regular regiments on this continent, it would be impossible for this
Province to levy and keep up a greater number. Now, according to
the calculations and allowances you yourselves have made, less than
one third part of the sum proposed by your bill to be granted, will be
sufficient for these purposes; but at the same time we are inclined
to believe, that if all the real and personal estate in the Province
was to be taxed agreeable to your plan, could it be carried into
execution, a sum at least twice as great as what you have mentioned,
would be raised even in one year. And as we conceive, a sum ade-

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quate to the purposes of levying, cloathing and paying the men,
which you have thought fit to vote, may be easily raised in this
Province, without creating such confusion or discord among the
inhabitants, as would certainly be occasioned, was this new intricate
system of yours to be carried into execution, we are in hopes, that