The History of the Insurrections, by George Minot

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of a further consideration of the subject, took measures for examining it in the recess, and referred their decision to their next assembling.

The other proceedings of either house, were hardly so correspondent with the views of the discontented party. The session was made memorable by the grant of the supplementary funds to the United States ; a measure, which, though dictated by the principles of national credit, did not fail to stand high in the catalogue of future grievances. The advocates for a paper money system also lost their confidence in the House. A petition was presented from delegates of all the towns in the county of Bristol, praying for an emission of that kind of currency. This measure was probably suggested by the example of their neighbours in the state of Rhode Island, who had just emitted a large quantity ; and it was expected, no doubt, that this precedent would have influenced the legislature to favour the proposal ; but, on a trial of parties in the House, there were found to be, out of one hundred and twenty four, in support of the still more popular plan of making real and personal estate a tender, at an appraisement, in discharge of executions. Indeed,