Their reply to the proprietary's answer to the representation on In-

dian expences 102, (and at length in the appendix, p. 340)

Unanimous resolution of the assembly concerning the necessity of a

re-emission of their paper-currency

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Lord Holdernesse's letter and other papers laid before them, together
with a written message from the governor thereon

The assembly's answer, accompanied with their currency-bill

The governor rejects it; but offers to pass a bill for striking a farther
sum on a proper fund for sinking the same in a few years

The assembly prudently avail themselves of the cautions in lord Hol-

dernesse's letter concerning undoubted limits, to decline taking any

part in the broil, till the government of Virginia, as first concerned,

should set the first example

110

111

ib.

115

ib.

116

117

The governor revives the old controversy, concerning the paper-

money instruction

Declares in another paper he had undoubted assuranee, that part of

his majesty's dominions within his government, was at that time

invaded, and demands supplies to arm the province, &c.

The assembly demur, and desire a short adjournment

The governor not only persists in his former declaration, but maintains

that the case was the same, whether the invasion of the enemy was

made in Virginia or Pennsylvania

118

119

121

The assembly adjourn to May 6, and are assembled by the governor

April 2, in order to lay before them certain papers from governor

Dinwiddie ; and demand a supply

Debates in the assembly on the quantum, and a new adjournment

Another session, and a message from the governor, accompanied with

intelligence, that the French were before the fort built by the Vir-

ginians on the Ohio; with dispatches and a proposition from the go-

vernors of Boston and New York, for an union of the colonies, &c.

A joint bill for granting an aid of 10,000l. to the king and 20,0001. for

replacing torn and ragged bills, offered

Amendments proposed by the governor

Unanimously rejected by the assembly, and for what reasons

123

ib.

ib.

125

ib.

126

They are reconvened by special summons on the occasion of Washing-

ton's defeat, and required to form cheerful and vigorous resolutions

for dislodging the enemy, in concurrence with Virginia

The proceedings of the commissioners at Albany laid before them

They prepare and present a bill for striking 35,000/. in bills of credit;

15,000%. for the king's use, and the rest for replacing defective bills 134

Which the governor evades for want of sufficient powers to pass it 135

132

133

Governor Morris's arrival at Philadelphia, and first speech to a new

assembly

The assembly's answer and adjournment

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136

Being assembled again, a letter from sir Thomas Robinson, secretary

of state, is laid before them; and the governor in his speech re-

quires them to raise and keep up a considerable body of troops

They present a bill for raising 40,0007. on the former plan; half of this

sum for the public service; with a message, expressing their con-

cern at a paragraph im the secretary of state's letter, by which it

appeared their conduct had not been fairly represented at home

The old instruction, and an opinion of the attorney general's, pleaded

by the governor in bar of his assent, unless the money was raised

on a five years fund

ib.

137

140

141

A letter from Sir Thomas Robinson to the governor of Pennsylvania,

dispatched at the same time with others of similar tendency to the

other governors of the northern colonies

Which the governor, in his comment upon it, endeavours to narrow

the application of, to Pennsylvania only

A message from the assembly fully demonstrating that Pennsylvania
was not comprehended in the instruction insisted upon; and that in
case it was, the present emergence was one of those, which, accord-
ing to the very letter of that instruction, might be provided for not-
withstanding; also desiring a sight of the instructions he himself
had received from his principles

142

145

ib.

A second message, in which they call upon the governor to give his

assent to the bill, as what would answer all the purposes recommen-

ed to them in Thomas Robinson's letter

The governor's reply, declining the bill as before; because the supply

might be otherwise raised, and evading the communication of his

instructions

146

The assembly's rejoinder, justifying the requisition they made of his

instructions; and intimating that an appeal to the crown was the

only method left them of being continued in the use and benefit of

their birth-right, and charter liberties

150

154

The governor questions their right to have these instructions laid be-
fore them, and endeavours to put them beside their point, by mag-
nifying the preparations of the French, &c.

ib.

The assembly orders the papers which had passed between the pro-

prietaries and them to be printed, which till then they had avoided

(vide appendix)

155

Their unanimous resolutions concerning the proprietary instructions,

in which they declare it as their opinion, that the said instructions

were the principal if not the sole obstruction to their bill; also the

most essential points contained in their reply to the governor's

charge against them

156

A brief of the governor's sur-rejoinder

Some general remarks

The assembly make their appeal to the crown, inform the governor

thereof, signify their inclination to adjourn till May, and give his in-

structions the coup de grace,

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158

167

168

The governor's expostulatory message thereon

171

He demands a copy of their minutes; they order him one when the
printed copies were finished, and adjourn

ib.

Upon Braddock's arrival in Virginia, they are re-assembled by special

summons; the demands made by message on that occasion

The governor reprimands them for having published sir Thomas Ro-

binson's letter in their minutes, and for not delivering him a copy

of those minutes so soon as he had required them

172

173

174

The assembly's answer thereto

Orders and counter-orders to the printer of these minutes

Two messages from the governor; one communicating a design-of
general Shirley's to build a fort within the limits of his majesty's
territories near Crown Point, to which the assembly is required to
contribute; and the other, notifying first the arrival of Braddock's
forces, and then the expectations entertained at home, that the colo-
nies would raise an additional number of forces, furnish provisions,
&c. all terminated with a kind of menace of the resentment of his
majesty and the parliament, in case of a disappointment

Twenty-five thousand pounds granted to the king's use, to be raised

by an emission of paper bills to the same amount, and to be sunk by

an extension of the excise for ten years

Refused by the governor, on the old pretence of a contrary instruc-
tion

A provision demanded for the expence of an Indian treaty

A memorial to the assembly from Mr. Quincy, a commissioner from
the government of Massachusetts-bay, expressing both his concern
that the governor could not be induced to pass the said money-bill,
and his acknowlegments of the cheerfulness shewn by them in
granting 10,000l. for victualling the forces to be employed in New
England, being part of the money so granted; and urging them to.
find out some other means of rendering their purpose effectual

The assembly resolves to raise the said sum on the credit of the pro-

vince

176

178

ib.

179

130

181

ib.

Another paper of acknowlegement from the said Mr. Quincy

The governor refuses to return the said bill to the assembly; informs

them the French had fitted out fifteen sail of the line, with 6000

land forces, and calls upon them to put the province into a state of

defence, as the enemy could not be ignorant how plentiful and de-

defenceless it was; yet advises a short adjournment

They meet again, and a squabble arising between them about a bill

merely provincial, he revives the former controversy

182

183

A hardy assertion concerning the paper-money act passed by governor
Thomas, refuted by a fact

ib.

An acknowlegment from the officers of the regular forces of certain
presents made to them by the assembly

ib.

The governor's message to the assembly, said to be founded on a re-
presentation of general Braddock's requiring them to enable him
to furnish the said general with provisions under proper convoys,

&c. &c.

The assembly desire to have the general's letter laid before them,

which the governor declines, and thereby occasions a new contro-

versy

The assembly send up two other bills, one of 10,0007. for exchanging

old bills; and one of 15,000l. for the king's use, on the model of

that formerly passed by governor Thomas, and confirmed at home

by the royal authority, since the instruction so often cited had been

sent to the said governor

ib.

198

201

4

Such amendments offered to it by the governor, as he could not but

be pre-convincd, would not be allowed

203

The assembly adjourn till September; but are again convoked in July

on occasion of Braddock's defeat

204

The governor's speech

205

The assembly vote an aid of 50,000l. by a tax on all real and personal

ib.

estates

The governor makes a pompous offer in the proprietary's name, of

certain lands west of the Allegheny mountains, to such military ad-

venturers as would fight for them; and calls upon the assembly to

afford some assistance to such as should accept the same

206

A remonstrance which certain inhabitants of certain places were in-
duced to present to the assembly

ib.

The address of the assembly to the governor

207

Their 50,000l. money-bill returned, with an amendment, by which the

whole proprietary-estate was to be exempted from the tax

208

The message of the assembly to the governor on that occasion, de-

Other papers which passed between them at the same crisis

216

The residue of Braddock's troops being recalled from the frontier,

notwithstanding on application of the assembly to the governor, re-

questing their continuance there, he calls upon the house to provide

for the security of the back inhabitants

A remark thereon

218

220

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The governor alarms and embarrasses them with petitions from cer-

tain persons requiring to be armed; intelligence of Indians actually

set out, to fall upon their frontier; recommendations to provide by

law against exporting provisions to the enemy, as a requisite to fa-

cilitate the reduction of Louisburgh; and demands of all manner of

things for the assistance of col. Dunbar, who, by orders from gene-

ral Shirley, was again to proceed towards fort Duquesne

A proposal from certain gentlemen of Philadelphia to subscribe 5001.

in lieu of the proprietary proportion of the tax in question, and upon

a presumption that the proprietaries would honorably reimburse

them

The assembly send up their bill to the governor again, together with

the said proposal as containing by implication an acknowlegment

that the tax was founded in equity, and also farther security to the

governor, in case he should give his assent to the bill

Their message to the governor, correcting his manner of stating the

Louisburg Point, and observing, that all required of them from

New England was to prolong the excellent laws they had already

made

220

222

223

224

Some seasonable remark

ib.

The governor's verbal answer to the assembly's message concerning

the money-bill, adhering to his amendment

225

He contends for a militia

226

The assembly order 1000l. if so much remained in their treasury, to
arm the back inhabitants

ib.

They signify their purpose to adjourn; and refer the affair of a militia
to a new assembly

ib.

Their proceedings at the next meeting; the governor demands an ad-

ditional supply of provision to be sent to Albany, at the requisition

of governor Phipps, for the use of the forces of Massachusetts-bay,

and another supply for the provincial troops of Connecticut and

Rhode-island, which he was informed were raised in addition to

those already employed in the reduction of Crown Point

The assembly apply for a sight of Phipp's letter, which is refused

The old controversy renewed

228

230

A new one concerning the roads opened at the expence of the pro-

vince for the convenience of the king's forces, which is carried ou

with much acrimony on both sides

231

As a last effort for the public service the assembly authorize by vote

a loan, or voluntary subscription, of 10,000l. to be raised in a fort-

night, and refer the lenders to the next assembly for payment

An apology for the length of this treatise; and a brief state of the

province at this period

239

240

The new assembly, after a session of four days, suffered to adjourn

themselves without proceeding to business, for want of having the

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