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Show 420 PREFACE to Jllr. Galloway'r Spray/J. [RR] OfGoes awry émgmz‘a/ng wz't/Jflflmélzla. 42t were not paflbd, the prefents were Withhelds-é \Vhen a ditholition to agree enfucd, there {ometimes {till remained lbmedéfidmru. The Governors would not pafs the laws that were wanted, without being: {are of the money, even all that they called their arrears; nor the Atlernblies give the money without beingr {are of the laws. _ Thence the necellity ot'fome private conference, in which mutual afl‘urances of good faith might be received and given, that the tranlactions {hould go llll‘ld in hand-V‘Vhat name the impartial reader will give to this kind of commerce, I cannot lay 2‘ To me it appears an extortion 0t more money from the people, for that to which they hadbelore an ‘ may expect it :' The gentlemen return, and report, " Tlirit they \x ,iitcd upon the Governor, and ‘ delivered the gr ridge of the Home according to undoubted right, both by the conftitution and by purchafe; but there was no other {hop they could go to for the commodity they wanted, and they were obliged to comply. Time el'tablilhcd the cuf'tom, and made it feem honeft; {0 that our Governors, even thofe of the melt undoubted honour, have praétifed it. ~-- Governor "fl/0mm, after a long mifunderfianding with the Aflembly, went more openly to work with them in manag- ing this commerce, and they with him. 'I he fact is curious, as it fitnds recorded in the votes of 17423. Sundry bills fent up to the Governor for his aficiit had lain long in his hands, without any anfwer. Jan. 4. the [10qu ‘ Ordered, That ‘ Thomas Leech and Edward Warner wait upon ‘ the Governor; and acquaint him, that the I'loufe ( had long waited for his rel‘ult on the bills that ‘ lie before him, and defire to know when they ‘ may ‘ order; and that the Governor was pleated to lay, ‘ He had had the bills long under confideration, ‘ and awaited z/m 71/221" of the IIczf/i'.' The Home well underftoed this hint, and immediately re« folved into a committee of the whole Houle, to take what was called [by Governor's fizpport into confideration ; in vrhicn they made (the minutes flay) fll,'2."]>/'ogl‘;_/l‘; and the next morning it ap- pears, that that frag/my}, \n‘hateucr it was, had been communicated to him; for he rent them down this [116":th by his lecretary: ‘ Mr. Speaker, ‘ The Governor commands me to acquaint you, ‘ that as he has received aflhrances of a goad ry‘ fgfltz'cm in the Houfe, he thinks it incumbent on i him to fhew [/18 [27:0 on his part; and therefore K {ends down the hills which lay before him, ‘ without any amendment.' As this meflage only fliewed a good difpofition, but contained no pro- mife to pals the bills, the Houfe feem to have had their doubts; and therefore, February 2, when they came to refolve, on the report of the grand. committee, to give the money, they guarded their rel'olvesrvery cautioufly, viz. ‘ Refolved, Thaw the pa nge of fueh bills as now lie before the Governor, (the naturalization bill, and fuch other bills as may be prefcnted to him during this fitting) there be PAID him the firm osz‘er bum/rad palm/r. Relelved alfo, That on the paflage of fuch bills as now he before the Go‘ vernor 113-... ‘Hllll lllfll ""1 'l'tWr |