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how came these Words vizt ? Please to give Answer which
they do expect & shall not debate those two Acts &c. into your
paper sent within half a quarter of an hour after your proposals
which with so plausible a pretence of my Lords Interest You
offered to the mature deliberation of the Governour & Upper
House. Whence that Hast?
And if You do truly value my Lord's Interest here how
comes it that with one breath You make an Act for carrying a
War on without the Bounds of the Province in order to the de-
fence of the Province & with the next refuse to take true Care
for the means of procuring Arms & Ammunition, We mean
the Act for Encouragement of Trade in which is included the
Cessation for Assure Yourselves unless You find the way to
lessen the vast Quantity of Tobo It is impossible to make it
worth fetching & by Consequence less worth the importing
Arms & Ammunition to purchase it with, neither will it pro-
cure any Credit for persons to be sent abroad upon a Treaty
This Gentlemen is down right Truth & carrys as little fallacy
in the Arguments as Gloss of Words to sett it of with Where-
fore as You tender the preservation of Yourselves Your Wives
& Familys reassume the Debate & prepare yourselves to join
with this house in a Grand Committee to settle this Business
of a Cessation upon which depends the Preservation of the
Province not only in relation to its trade but also its defence
against the foreign Indians
Then came a Member from the Lower House with two Acts
One of them Entituled an Act for the regulating of future Sur-
veys & the Other An Act providing against Runaways & all
such as shall Entertain them
Ordered that the said Act be took into Debate by the Upper
House after the Upper & Lower House are joined together in
a grand Committee concerning the Cessation
Ordered that a Member of this House go to the Lower
House & make known to the Speaker that the Governour ex-
pects him with the whole Lower house in the room where the
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