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Show 424 PREFACE 2‘0 Mr. Galloway': Spear/5. [P. P.] OfGovernor; bargaining tavz't/Jflflézyzé/z't' . 4.2 5 their particular INTEix'IiST.tO pats .thcm‘ We hope, however, that if this practice has ever been begun, it will never be continued in this province; and that tince, as this very paragraph allows, we have an undoubted right to luch laws, we {hall always be able to obtain them from the goodnefs of our fovereign, Without gomg to market for them to a fubjeét.'--T1me has fliewn that thofe hopes were vain; they haye been obliged to go to that market ever fince, dn‘eetly or indireétly; or go without their laws. The praé‘riee has continued: and will continue, as long as the proprietary government fubfills, intervening be- tween the crown and the people. Do not, my courteous reader, take pct at our proprietary conflitutiontfor thefe our-bargain and {ale proceedings in legiflation.--It IS a happy country where juftice, and what. was your own before, can be had for ready money. It is ano- ther addition to the value of money, and of courfe another fpur to indul'try-Every land is not f0 blefled. There are countries where the princely proprietor claims to be lord of all pro- perty, where what is your own thall not only be wrefted from you; but the money you give tohave it ref'tored thall be kept with it; and yanroftering {0 much, being a lign of your being too rich, you {hall be plundered of every thing that remained. Thefe times are not come here yet: Your preterit proprietors have never been more unrivafonable hitherto, than barely to intit't on your lighting in defence of tbez'r property, and paying the expence your-r- yourlblves; or if their eftates muf't [ah ! mag/fl be taxed towards it, that the érfl of their lands {hall be taxed no higher than the war/Z of yours. Pardon this digrellion, and I return to Covernor Dcnny;-But firl't let me do Governor Hamz'ltolz the juftice to obferve, that whether from the uprightnel‘s of his own difpofition, or from the odious light the praé‘tice had been fet in on Denny's account, or from both; he did not at- tempt thefe bargains, but Failed fuch laws as he thought fit to pats, without any prm'z‘om llipula- tion of pay for them. But, then, when he Paw the aflErilbly tardy in the payment he expeéted, and yet calling upon him {till to pats more laws; he openly put them in mind of the money, as a a'eriz‘ due to him from cutlom. ‘ in the courfe oi. the prelhnt year trays he, in his meflage of July 8, 1763,) a great deal of public bulinefs hath been tranfaéted by me, andI believe as many Lileful laws enaé'red, as by any of my pre~ deceilors in the lame {pace of time; yet I have not underltood that any allowance hath hitherto been made to me for my fupport, as hath been cui‘tomary in this province.' The houfe having then tome bills in hand, tool; the matter into iin~ mediate eonilderatien, and voted him five hundred pounds; for which an order or certificate was accordingly drawn : And on the time day the fpeaker, after the houte had been with the gover- nor, reported, ‘ That his Honour had been pleated ‘ to give his zilleiit to the bills, by enacting the ‘- fame into laws. And Mr. Speaker farther re. .1 i i ‘ ported, :P'w fit, m. 1:); lllllllilillllll lf |
