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Show [RR] OfGO‘L'L'i‘IZOI'J ourgm'niflg witbflflmoérs. PREFACE to Mr. Galloway? Spore/J. ‘ ‘ of One t/Jozg/imd pawn/J, for the current year's ‘ fupport; and that orders be drawn on the trea‘ furer and truf'rees of the loan-office, purfuant to ‘ thefe refolves.' The orders were accordingly drawn,- with which being acquainted, he appointed a time to pafs the bills; which was done with one hand, while he received the orders in the other: and then with the utmoll politenefs [he] thanked the Houfe for the Fifteen hundred pounds, as if it had been a pure free gift, and a mere mark oftheir refpeét andaffeét'ion. ‘ It/szk "you, Gentlemen (fays he) for this lnf'cance of ‘ your regard; which I am the more pleafed wrth, " as it gives an agreeable profpeét otfutm‘e lizar‘ many between me and the reprefentatives of the ' people. '-This, reader, is an exaél; counterpart of the tranfaé‘tion with Governor Demzy ; except that Denny fent word to the Houfe, that he would pafs the bills oefore they voted the fupport. And, yet bare was no proprietary clamour about bri- bery, (Sta-And why f0? Why at that time the proprz'rz‘ory family, by Virtue of a/écrez‘ own! they had obtained of the Governor at his appointment, were to flmrer will) him the fums fo obtained of the people ! This refervation of the proprietaries they were. at that time a little afhamed of; and therefore fuch bonds were then to be fecrets. But as In every kind of finning frequent repetition lefiens fhame, 423 flame, and increafes boldnefs; we find the pro- ];rz'et‘arz'er ten years afterwards, open lyinfifling on thefe advantages to themfelves, over mzo'o oo'oe what was paid to their deputy: ‘ Wherefore (fay they *) on this occafion it is neceffary that we {hou ld inform the people, through yourfelves their reprefentatives; that as by the conflitution 0U R «nun-«Aaflh ‘ vernor (the naturalization bill, and fuch other bills as may be prefented to him this fitting) ‘ there be PAID to the Governor thefart/Jar fum CONSENT IS NECESSARY to their LAW S, at the fame time that they have an undoubted rig/J ! to fuch as are necelihry for the defence and real fervice of the country; {0 it will tend the bett er to firezYziz‘rzle the feveral matters which mui't be tranfaéled with us, for their reprefentati ves to thew a regardio m and our INTEREST.' This was in their anfwer to the reprefentation of the aflEmbly, [Votes, December, 1754, p. 4.8.] on the juf'tice of theircontributing to Indian expences , which they had refufed.-And on this claufe the committee make the following remark: ‘ They ‘ tell us, their confisnt is necefl‘ary to our laws, and that it will tend the better to facilitate the matters which muf'c be tranfacted with them, for the reprefentatives to fhew a regard to their «manqunnanq 422 I NTER EST: That is, (as we underftand it) though the Proprietaries have a deputy here, fupported by the province, who is, or ought to be, fully impowered to pafs all laws neceflary for - the fervice of the country; yet, before we can obtain fuch laws, we I'nuft facilitate their pafihge by paying money for the proprietaries, which they ought to pay; or in fome {hope make it * [L e. to the Afl'embly. E.] ‘ their M 1mm"Ililtlllllllillllllliw MA? . r "I ll':l‘ ff |