rmanent provision for the civil
list, and it interfered with monies already appropriated. The Council
resolved that it would not proceed upon any bill of supply, which
should not have been applied for by the king's representative; the
Council would not proceed upon any bill appropriating public money that
should not have been recommended by the king's representative; the
Council would not proceed upon any bill of appropriation, for money
issued, in consequence of an address of the Assembly to the king's
representative, unless upon some extraordinary emergency; the Council
would not proceed upon any appropriation of public money for any salary
or pension hereafter to be created, unless the _quantum_ of such
salary or pension had been recommended by the king's representative;
and the Council would not proceed upon any bill of appropriation for
the civil list, which should contain specifications therein, by
chapters or items, nor unless the same should be granted during the
life of the king. The Assembly were also quite resolved as to the
course to be pursued by them. They would pass no bill of supply without
specifications, nor for any period longer than a year. They would not
pass any bill at all for the purposes of defraying the expenses of the
government, unless the right of applying and apportioning by vote, the
monies previously appropriated towards the support of the civil
government, was also conceded to them. This quarrel between the two
Houses was an exceedingly interesting one. The members of the Upper
House, or the majority of them, felt themselves to be personally
interested--and were uneasy, while the Assembly, having no other
interest in the matter, than principle and a sense of expediency, could
maintain their position, without flinching, for almost any length of
time. Nay, the Assembly were positively generous. As the rejection of
the supply bill had left the Executive without the means of defraying
the civil expenditure for the year, the Assembly tendered the sum of
L46,060 sterling to His Excellency, pledging themselves to make good
the amount by a bill at the ensuing session. But His Excellency would
not have it. He was of opinion that the grant, now proposed, was wholly
ineffectual without the concurrence of the Legislative Council. There
was no answer. Mr. Neilson moved, and the Assembly resolved that, the
speech of His Grace the Governor-in-Chief, on the 24th of April, 1819,
contained a censure of the