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Part of the Number might act, and if any Thing was acted amiss,
the Public sent on the vain Enquiry of, who did it? That the
Service in recording Bonds and Orders, and in the safe Custody of
them, might well have been paid for by the Commissioners out of
their Salary.

That the Recital of the Agreement between the Two Houses,
is done with Truth and Candour, and leaves no Room for an In-
ference, that either House has held a Conduct different from the
ffact, and that tho' the Upper House have not always dissented to
the List of Debts, that yet they have in the Language of the
Bill, as well this Session, as many others heretofore, done so, and
it might have been added, always; but twice, one of which Times
was the last Session, and the other towards the Close of the pre-
ceding Session, at a Time this House had formed a Resolution
of discharging all public Claims by an Emission of Bills on the
Credit of the publick Money, and after their Honours had dis-
sented to that List the same Session, which shows their Want of
Care to prevent an Inference, that their then Assent to the List
of Debts, was calculated to destroy the ffund, or shift the Odium
of the Non-Payment thereof on this House. That the Upper House
might well presume, that as the Attendance of those to whom the
Keys of the Repository and Iron Chests are to be delivered, is not
required, it was not intended, and, it is necessary clearly to express
every Thing not intended by the Bill, the same might be spun
out to such Length, that the Money to be emitted would be
insufficient to pay for recording it.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Dec. 4

That the Notion of a Propriety in their being two Commission-
ers to receive the Bills of Credit, and draw Bills of Exchange, as
well as the Increase of Salary, to induce Gentlemen, properly quali-
fied, to accept of the Appointment, may well enough correspond
with the Ideas of numerous Dependents, but can answer no valuable
Purpose, with Respect to the Public.
Which the House ordered to be entered on the Journal, as such.
And the following Message, Viz.
By the Lower House of Assembly, December 4, 1766.
May it please your Honours,

This House, claim as their inherent, undoubted, and funda-
mental Right, the sole and exclusive Formation of all Money Bills,
and therein to limit the Matter, Manner, Measure and Time, of all
Grants and Dispositions of Public Money, whatsoever; a Right
so essential to the Liberties and Properties of those we represent,
that we are determined never to give it up, or wave or weaken it

in any Manner.

We therefore return to your Honours, the Bill for the Payment
of the Public Claims, for emitting Bills of Credit, and for other

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