102 Assembly Proceedings, November 1—December 6, 1766.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 15

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning

The following Message together with the Journal of Accounts is
sent by John Ridout Esq.^r
By the Upper House of Assembly 15..^th Nov.^r 1766.

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Gentlemen

We have returned the Journal of Accounts with Our Negative,
because no Allowance hath been therein made to the Governor for
the Seals to Proclamations, issued by him, in Consequence of the
Advice of the Privy Council, in Order to Notify to the People of
this Province several Acts of Parliament, relative to the British
Colonies, or to M.^r Green for Printing those Acts
The above Statutes were transmitted to the Governor by his
Grace the Duke of Richmond, one of his Majestys Principal Secre-
taries of State, and the Lords of Trade and Plantations, not only
with the View that his Excellency, but also, that the People, over
whom he presided, might be informed of them, and it was therefore
thought Advisable to issue Proclamations, as the best and most
effectual Means of a general and regular Notification
Of our own Local Acts, it has been the usage to give notice by
Proclamation, and no Instance has occurred to us of a refusal to
make an Allowance for the Seals to such Proclamations, wherefore
since this has been the Practice in respect of our own Acts, the
Propriety of Notifying Acts of the British Legislature, expressly
relative to the Colonies, in the same manner, seems to us to be
obvious, the Notice in the former being at least presumable as in
the latter Instance
Conceiving, for the Reasons we have Suggested, that the Procla-
mations were proper, we also think the Printer is intituled to an
Allowance, for as it was necessary, to answer the end, and purpose
of the Proclamations, to send Copies of the Statutes, so were they
probably more accurate and less expensive, in being Printed, than if
Clerks had been employed to transcribe them
We have, too, dissented to the Journal of Accounts, because the
usual Allowance hath not been, in it, inserted to the late and present
Clerks of the Council
Signed p Order Upton Scott Cl: Up: Ho:

Mess.^rs Allen and F: Gant, bring up the following Engrossed
Bills Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.
A Bill Entituled An Act to impower the Justices of Somerset
County to Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Somerset Parish in
said County the Quantity of One hundred and forty four Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco for the uses therein mentioned