Governor Tryon's Speech and Dissolution of the North Carolina Assembly
- Mark Shubert
- Aug 22
- 2 min read
Gentlemen of His Majesty's Honble Council,
Mr Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly.
I met this Assembly with a most sincere disposition to forward the public business of the Country, and I make this public acknowledgement of my thanks to the Gentlemen of His Majestys Council for the chearfulness they have shewn to Co-operate with me; and my gratitude to the House of Assembly for the Honorable opinion they have declared in favour of my administration. You may be assured Gentlemen that the interruption which has been given to the business of this Session, has not occasioned more disappointment to you than the cause of it has occasioned real affliction to me.
The plan I laid before you for your public funds, if adopted by Legislature and invariably pursued (otherwise it will be insufficient) will produce the happyest effects to this Country: and I will be bold to affirm, if ever carried into any future Session, into an Act of the Legislature, it will be acknowledged the most beneficial session this Country ever experienced, though it should be the only Act passed in that Session; But this blessing is not to be obtained for the Country while the Treasurers, late Sheriffs and their Sureties, can command a Majority in the lower House, and while a Treasurer is suffered to absent himself, and withhold the public accounts from the General Assembly let the pretence of his absence be ever so urgent.
This Morning I saw some public Accounts of the Treasurer for the Southern District, those Accounts are so very irregularly and negligently kept, that the public must be abused, if an Amendment is not made to the mode pursued, but as I am told it is the method his predecessors followed, no censure can lay upon that Gentleman.
As my duty preceeds every other consideration I do now dissolve this Assembly, and this Assembly is accordingly dissolved,
Wm. TRYON.
6th November 1769.
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