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"teeming with fraud." and Inconsistent with the public faith,
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rejected the bill. Confidently anticipating the Governor's
action, the Assembly prepared resolutions discontinuing the
tax and indemnifying the sheriffs for non-collection. It
was the Assembly*s intent to enter the resolutions in their
official Journal at such time as the Governor should reject
their proposal. Martin, however, upon somehow learning of
the plan, shrewdly prorogued the Assembly at the same time
he rejected the bill, thereby preventing the resolutions from
being recorded.1-*
Upon learning of the Governor*s action, the Speaker of
the Assembly, Richard* Caswell, in an attempt to outwit Martin,
communicated the resolutions to the treasurer as an order
from the Assembly, and as a result, the taxes were omitted
from the tax lists sent to the counties for collection.1^
An enraged Governor Martin, viewing the Assembly's ac-
tion as a "monsterous usurption of authority" and as proving
irrevocably the propensity of the colonists for democracy,
Immediately called together the Council to seek advice on how
to prevent "the 111 consequences that might attend a Procedure
so contrary to the public faith.h1^ The Council, inclined
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McCarty, Jerry L. The Provincial Congress of North Carolina 1774-1776, thesis, January 1970; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131213/m1/12/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .