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And, with all due submission, we judge it even impossible to adapt 

 laws to the present constitution, so as not to admit of often and great al- 

 terations j for, according to our experience hitherto, we have found ur- 

 gent occasions to alter and amend the laws, that have more immediately 

 concerned us here, at the least every two years j and we cannot foresee 

 but we shall lie under the same necessity still j so that if his majesty gra- 

 ciously please to take it into his princely consideration, and either restore 

 to us our former power and way or method of pa-sing law?, or at least 

 remit that part of the present method of making laws which only con- 

 cerns us here, as they may pass without transmuting the same, we hope, 

 by our present submission and entire obedience to all his laws here, his 

 majesty will be a glorious prince and his subjects here a happy people. 



And whereas the gentlemen of the assembly, in their address to his 

 majesty read here in council the 151!! of November, 1679, do declare, 

 that as to the bill of revenue wherein his majesty's name was left cur, that 

 there are several of the members of their assembly now sitting who were 

 members when the bill passed three t : mes in form in the assembly, and 

 upon the best recollection of their memories, they are fully persuaded and 

 do believe the bill was at;ain sent down with that amendment from the 

 governor and council, according as it passed at the last: we, the gentle- 

 men of his majesty's council here present at the passing of the bill, do 

 most humbly and with all seriou c ness aver and declare, that we were so 

 far from consenting the said bill should pass without his majesty's name 

 in it, that we do not remember it was ever debated or mentioned in coun- 

 cil ; and further, that to the best of our reppective knowledge, it was 

 read three times, and passed the council board with his majesty's name 

 in it : and we are the rather induced to this our confidence, because we 

 find the original act was razed, and by the then speaker's own hand, in- 

 terlined ; and moreover, the several amendments of the said bill, that 

 were made in council, were all taken not'Ce of in the minutes in cur coun- 

 cil books, and no mention made of this; and the gentlemen cf the assem- 

 bly do produce nothing out of their journal to justify the rejections upon 

 us ; therefore it is to be presumed they cannot. 



And we do further humbly and unanimously declare, we never did'st 

 any time, either jointly or severally, make any complaint to the assembly, 

 or any of them, of the power given by his majesty to his excellency cur 

 present governor to suspend any of his majesty's council here : for as we 

 have hitherto yielded all due obedience and submission to his majesty's 

 royal will and pleasure concerning us, so we hope we shall approve ouv- 



