114 Assembly Proceedings, April 8-May 9, 1757.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 7

Ordered, That Mr. Wallis and Mr. Dennis do present the Address
to the Governor.

Mr. Lloyd brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an ingrossed
Bill, entituled, An Act for the speedy Payment of sundry Persons
therein mentioned :
And an ingrossed Bill, entituled, An Act to prevent the Exporta-
tion or Carrying out of this Province, Ammunition, Warlike stores
or provisions of any kind towards supplying the French, or their
Allies.

Which Bills were severally Read and Assented to, and were sent
to the Upper House, with the Paper Bills thereof, by Mr. Reynolds
and Mr. Govane.

His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker, the following Mes-
sage, viz.^t

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,

Had you presented your long Address about Mr. Rawlings more
early in the Session, you might probably have received a more par-
ticular Answer that you can now expect: Though I cannot help
thinking that I might even then have been excused for taking no
Notice of it, as the Man has been now dead a considerable Time, and
as, for Reasons best known to yourselves, you hindered your Clerk

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from entering in the Journal of your Proceedings, the greatest Part
of the Message that I sent you the 25th of March, 1755, in Answer
to your last Address concerning him. Not suspecting that you would
bring Mr. Rawlings's Character in Question again at this Time, I
brought no Copy of that Message hither; but if you recur to the
Original, you will, I believe, find a sufficient Answer to your Obser-
vation on the Warrant against Benjamin Harris. With regard to
Kelly 's Complaint, I shall only say, that if he suffered any Incon-
venience from being taken up for a Soldier, he ought to blame no
one but himself. In Justice to the Memory of Mr. Rawlings, I think
it incumbent on me to tell you, that by what I could learn from his
Neighbours, he was not that Passionate and Revengeful Man that
you would represent him; and I am apt to think, that if he had been
less zealous to promote his Majesty's Service, and had not unfortu-
nately given Offence to Mr. Crabb (who is not remarkable, as I
understand, for a peaceable Disposition, or forgiving Temper) he
would never have been so severely Treated. Of the charitable Con-
struction you put on Mr. Rawlings's Desire to have his Conduct
examined into in a legal Manner, I shall take no Notice; and on the
preceding Paragraph I shall only observe, that it is easy to guess

what Weight such Denial, if he had made it, would have had with

your House, by the Regard that was paid to what he did urge before
your House, and in the Narrative which made a Part of my Message.
You have not, in your Address, taken the least Notice of the Papers