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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 36
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Monday Afternoon 11.th of November 1771.
The Conferees met according to Adjournment
Present as on Saturday except W.m Hayward Esq of the Upper
House and M.r Littleton Dennis of the Lower House.
The Conferees of the Lower House deliver to those of the Upper
House the following.
From an Expectation that if the most material points could be
settled there would be little difficulty in Matters of less Importance
..... [The Message beginning thus is printed in full in the Lower
House Journal, pp. 163-105].
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Wednesday Morning 13.th November 1771.
The Conferees met according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday except M.r Chase of the Lower House
The Conferees of the Upper House deliver to those of the Lower
House the following.
The Alternative in respect of the Clergy's dues originally sprang
from your House, the Addition of two to the thirty per poll in Case
of Money Payments from our [sic]. If the Ideas of Propriety and
Dignity ought to preclude the Revision, and hinder the Modification,
or Rejection of a mere Proposition, how are they to be excused who
have rescinded Regulations, to which they had recently given the
most solemn Sanction ? The late Inspection Act passed after mature
Consideration It had been continued with a full Experience of its
Effects for more than Twenty Years, by five Successive Acts of the
Legislature, and yet it ought not to be said that those who suffered
it to fall, after they had continued it, forgot Propriety and were
regardless of Dignity.
We have now a ground of Objection to what respects the Clergy
which did not exist the last Session, and have no Scruple in avow-
ing it.
The last Session we had no particular reason to apprehend, that
what the two Houses might concert would finally fail; but now
have the utmost persuasion that the Governor will dissent to the
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