APPENDIX.
(No. IV.)
The GOVERNOR's ANSWER to the
foregoing PETITION.
GENTLEMEN,
THE Royal Charter reserves to the Governor
full Power and Authority, from time to
time, as he shall judge necessary, to adjourn,
prorogue and dissolve the General Assembly.
In the Excercise of this Power, both as to
Time and Place, I have always been governed
by a Regard to his Majesty's Service and to the
Interest of the Province.
It did not appear to me necessary for those
Purposes that the Assembly should meet at the
Time to which it now stands prorogued, and,
before I was informed of your Address, I had
determined to prorogued it to a further Time.
The Reasons which you have advanced have
not altered my Opinion.
If, notwithstanding, in Compliance with your
Petition, I should alter my Determination and
meet the Assembly, contrary to my own Judg-
ment, at such Time as you judge necessary, I
should, in Effect, yield to you the Excercise of
that Part of the Prerogative, and should be
unable to justify my Conduct to the King.