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 290 INTRODUCTION. chap. viii. negatived in the council. A warm altercation 1719. on this subject took place between the two houses, and it was not until a subsequent ses- sion, that a bill imposing duties, leaving out the English tonnage and manufactures, was agreed to by the representatives. At the commencement of the session of the 1720. general court in this year, a difference arose between the house of representatives and the governor, concerning his right to negative a speaker chosen by them. The house having persisted in its choice of Mr. Cooke, and the governor in negativing him, the general court was dissolved, and writs for a new election were issued. The same members being generally re- elected, the session commenced with a warm remonstrance to the governor on the dissolution of the preceding assembly, in which they said " that whoever was of advice to his excellency, in the matter, did not consult his majesty's interest, nor the public weal and quiet of the government, but officiously endeavoured to beget the unhappy misunderstandings between his excellency and the house, and break off that desirable harmony which every one ought to keep up." Such was the ill temper of this session that the house even negatived a propo- sition for making a present to some Indians of" the Penobscot tribe, who were then at Boston treating with the governor ; and when afte^r-