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ARTICLE II.
theſe extraordinary bills, provided only that a clauſe were inſerted, ſuſpending the operation of the law till his Majeſty's pleafure ſhould be known.
Attempts of the Colonies to have this inſtruction recalled, in the year 1733.It would not, I believe, be eaſy to fix upon any period, where it would have been proper to have recalled an inſtruction, firſt ſuggeſted by reaſons which were then concluſive, and which have ever ſince been acquiring new force. The Colonies indeed have thought otherwiſe. Twice at leaſt have they adreſſed the Britiſh Houſe of Commons to intercede with the Crown for the very purpoſe of recalling this inſtruction. How were their petitions received? The Journals ſhall anſwer for us. In the year 1733, in the ſixth of George II. "A memorial of the Counſel and Repreſentatives of the province of the Maſſachuſet's Bay was preſented to the Houſe and read; laying before the houſe the difficulties and diſtreſſes they laboured under, ariſing from a Royal Inſtruction, given to the Governor of the ſaid province, in relation to the iſſuing and diſpoſing of the public monies of the ſaid province: And moving the Houſe to allow their agent to be heard by counſel upon this affair: Repreſenting alſo the difficulties they were under from a Royal Inſtruction, given as aforefaid, reſtraining the emiſſion of bills of credit: And concluding with a petition, that the Houſe would take their caſe into conſideration and become interceſſors for them with his Majeſty, That he would be graciouſly pleaſed to withdraw the ſaid Inſtructions, as contrary to their Charter, and tending, in their own nature, to diſtreſs, if not ruin, them[1]."
- ↑ See Comm. Journ. vol xxii, p. 145.
