that has been given us, to express the warm
Attachment we have to our Sister Colonies
in general, and the Heartfelt Compassion
we entertain for the deplorable State of the
Town of Boston in particular, and also to
declare the fixed and determined Resolution
of this Colony, to unite with the other
Colonies in every Effort to retain those just
Rights and Liberties which, as Subjects to a
British King, we possess, and which it is
our absolute and indispensible Duty to hand
down to Posterity unimpaired.
The Exhausted State of the Public Funds, of
which your Excellency complains, we contemplate
with great Concern; alleviated, however, by the
Reflection, that it has not been owing to any
Misconduct of the Assembly. We were withheld
from passing any Inferior Court Law, but
upon such Terms our Duty rendered it im-
possible to accept, by which Means no List
of Taxables could be taken for the Year 1773, and
consequently no Money collected to defray the Charges
of Government for that Year; and as your Ex-
cellency did not think proper to meet the Assem-
bly at their usual Time of Meeting in the Fall,
no Act could be passed to defray the contingent
that has been given us to express the warm
with great Concern; alleviated, however by the
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