The Governor was pleased, in his Message of the Fourteenth Instant, to tell us, that “he was not yet satisfied it was in his Power, or consistent with his Trust, to pass our Bill without his Amendments, whatever he might be when he heard what we proposed to say to him on that Head;” and we understood those Words to express a Suspension of his Determination for that Time. We since sent him a long Message, containing the Reasons of our Judgment, that it was both in his Power, and consistent with his Trust, to pass the Bill without those Amendments: And yet, in Answer to our Message of Yesterday, requesting his final Resolution, he is only pleased to say, that he is surprized at such a Message, having told us in his said Message of the Fourteenth, that he adhered to his Amendments. We cannot see the Reasons of the Governor’s Surprize on this Occasion, since from all that had passed between us, and especially as he had not then sent down our Bill, we think the Governor could not but expect such a Message from us.

The Governor thought fit in his Message of the Sixteenth to acquaint us, “That he would readily pass a Bill for striking any Sum in Paper-Money the present Exigency may require, provided Funds are established for sinking the same in five Years.”

But as we have no Funds capable of sinking so great a Sum in five Years, without the Assistance of an equitable Tax, to which the Governor would still have his Objections in Favour of the Proprietary Estate; and the Proposal of striking Paper Money, might lead us again into many Disputes, which we chose, by the Form of this Bill, to avoid, agreeable to the Governor’s Advice in his Speech at the Opening of the Session; we, in our Turn, should be surprized to receive such a Proposal now from him, if we had the least Reason to think he was sincerely desirous of having any Thing done for the Defence of the Province.

Being now convinced, that no farther Benefit to the Country can arise from our continuing longer together at this Time; and being under a Necessity of meeting again in a few Weeks to settle the Accounts of the Year, we take Leave to acquaint the Governor, that we incline to adjourn this Day to the Fifteenth of September ensuing, if he hath no Objection to that Time.

Signed, by Order of the House,