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Ordered that the Act for Encouragemt of Trade & the Act
for advance of more staple Commoditys than Tobacco be sent
to the Lower House again & that if they Consent not to it
that they send their particular reasons why they disassent
JG:
The House Adjourned for two hours
The House met again Present as before
Then was sent an Act touching payment of Debts in the
Year 1667 Ordered that a Member of this House go to the
Lower, with this Act & read it to them & desire them to Con-
sider of it
Then came a Member from the Lower House with their
Reasons against a Cessation which is as followeth & ordered a
Reply be drawn to them
The Reasons of the Lower House why
they think a Cessation from planting
Tobacco to be Unnecessary in this Province
We Conceive our Cessation will rather Encrease than lessen
the quantity of Tobacco for it will Encourage the People of
those parts to plant Tobacco where now there is little or none
made, and the rather because other American Plantations are
in the same State & plight as We are as to their Commoditys
which by reason of the Want & supply of Shipping their Com-
moditys usually planted as Sugar Ginger Cotton & Indico are
now as contemptible as Tobacco can possibly be And should
We now conclude to make a Cessation they would undoubtedly
fall upon planting Tobacco their Lands being more proper for
its production & will yearly produce not only one Crop but
most commonly two & sometimes three Crops, so that their
Abundance will render our Cessation in this Province ineffectual
& thereby We lose the main End of a Cessation as to advance
our Commodity Tobacco which by that Occasion We judge
will never the more for our Cessation be advanced unless a
total Cessation in all his Majesty's Plantations in America be
Enforced & therefore We judge a Cessation in this Province
unnecessary & ineffectual
2 A Cessation shall disencourage Merchants from sending
Ships to these Parts We not having the Commodity which
they chiefly seek for here nor any probability or hopes in any
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