58 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 26

Whereupon the Conferees of the Lower House Recur to their
House for Instructions.
They return and acquaint the Conferees of the Upper House that
their House have directed them to agree to a further Adjournment
of the Conference.

The Conferees Adjourn until Monday 4 oClock in the Afternoon

Monday Afternoon 25.^th November 1771.
The Conferees met according to Adjournment

Present as on Saturday.
The Conferees Adjourn until to Morrow Morning n oClock

Tuesday Morning 26.^th of 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.

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When Applications were made to Us from time to time by the
Conferees of the Lower House to defer our Meeting we were
nattered by our ardent Wishes for a reasonable Settlement that the
Interval gained by the frequent Adjournments, would be productive
of some expedient, by which Dissent might be reconciled and the
Passage of the Inspection Bill facilitated and were therefore struck
with concern and Surprise when we found that the Time had been
misemployed in perverting Facts and indulging a petulance, which
the least Idea of Decorum unextinguished by the Inveteracy of Habit
would have repressed.
You hoped, so you have professed, that Reason and Argument
would reconcile the differing Sentiments of the two Houses and
therefore agreed to a Conference. If such was really your hope it is
unfortunate indeed that you so entirely forgot the Grounds of it as
instead of Reason and Argument to offer professions for proofs
Evasions for Answers, Assertions to convince, and rudeness to
conciliate.
The Eulogy's on your "unbiassed Judgment," "immutable Justice"
and "soundest policy" would have been more graceful and Honour-
able, had they not been bestowed by yourselves, and better Credited
too, unless your Reliance be infallible, that Credulity will keep pace
with Confidence.
The Regulation of Officers Fees is as certainly of Importance, as
that an express Law preventive of Contest is better than opinions