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Dec. 3, 1762

Mr Speaker & Gentlemen of the Assembly

On reading your message of yesterday we
cannot but Observe with equal surprize and concern upon that manifest
want of Decency and Decorum which appears upon the face of it. A proper
respect is certainly due by the different Branches of the Legislature to each other
and we are sorry to find ourselves under a necessity in this Public manner
of resenting the Mode of Expression which you have made use of in your last
Message; Taxing us as a Branch of the Legislature with Insisting upon the
Introduction of Commissions unknown, contrary to Law, and in their
consequences pernicious are charges that We cannot pass over in Silence
especially as We are fully convinced That you cannot be Ignorant, that
general Commissions to Enable the Members of His Majestys Council and
the Officers of the Crown to Act as Conservators of the Peace, are neither unknown
to you, in their consequences pernicious, or against Law. We therefore must
Insist upon the Amendments proposed by us to the Bill for Establishing
Inferior Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in the several Countys in this
Province; To which if you agree you will Send Such of your Members
as you think proper to See the Same made.

3d Decer 1762
In the Upper House
By Order Jno Burgwin Clk

27c