The Lower House. 641

We think our selves obliged as near as may be to follow the
Example of Great Britain in all our Parliamentary Proceed-
ings, and Acknowledge your Lordships great favour in ap-
prizing us with the practice thereof in respect to private Acts,
but with all Deference to that happy Constitution and Sub-
mission to your Lordships Observations thereon, we are
forced to acknowledge that the Infancy of our Country does
not yet admit of such An Extensive Administration in the Or-
dinary Courts of Justice here but that in some particular and
extraordinary Cases the Assistance of the Legislature may be
Absolutely necessary to Supply the Defects thereof.
We shall alwayes have a due regard to your Lordships Sen-
timents Relateing to the Act for Officers fees being fully Sat-
tisfied of the necessity of supporting Officers agreeable to their
Severall Stations, but shall begg your Lordships to permit us
to Deferr that Consideration Likewise to another Sessions.
An Engrost Bill for Reviving the Act ascertaining the

L.H.J.

Gauge and Tare of Tobacco hh^ds untill the twenty ninth day of
September Seventeen hundred and twenty one had past both
Houses of Assembly before the receipt of your Lordships'
Speech, which we hope will be accepted as a Compliance with
your Lordships Commands in Respect to that Law till a fur-
ther Opportunity and the Act for Regulateing Ordinaries is
likewise revived for the same time.
We most humbly acknowledge the tender Regard your
Lordships Express for the Encouragement of Learning here,
and have great reason to be Concerned that your Lordships
favourable Endeavours for the Application of the Duty on
Tobacco, Exported from Plantation to Plantation are not
Likely to prove so Effectuall as is wisht, for the Propagation
of Schools in this Province, and we shall with great Alacrity
embrace any oppertunity that your Lordships shall favour-
ably offer to so good and pious an End.
And we most Unanimously offer to your Lordships our
joint and most Sincere Acknowledgement for the repeated
favours bestowed on us from time to time by your Lordship
for whose Long and prosperous Lives, as in duty bound, we
shall offer up our prayers to Divine Providence
We are &c.

Which address being first Signed by the members of the
Upper House was also Signed by the Severall Members of
this house.
Coll Holland from the Upper house Acquaints M^r Speaker
that his Excellency Commands him and the whole House to
attend him Immediately in the Upper House, and withdrew.

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