Lower house of Assembly 31 Augt 1681
This house have Appointed Mr Attorney General Col
William Burges Captain Sibrey, Captain Waterton, Mr Iohn
Stone, Captain Ladd and Captain Henley to Conferr and
Advise about the Defence of the Province against the Indians
Signed pr Order C Boteler Cl Assistant of the Lower house
of Assembly.
They return to their own house an Answere if Needfull to
be Sent them by a Member of this house,
The Act for the Ordering and Regulating the Militia of this
Province and for the better Security and Defence thereof read
in this house and Observations thereon Taken as followeth
Vizt—
Ordered that the Chancellor and Col Lowe Ioin with the
Committe for drawing up a New Law, and that the Lower
house be acquainted therewith in a Message from this house
Vizt—
Upper house of Assembly 31 Augt 1681.
The Honourable the Chancellor and Col Lowe are Designed
by this house to Join with the Members of the Lower house
Named in a Committee for Drawing up a Law for the Defence
of the Province—
Signed pr Order pr J LLewellin Cl of Assembly—
Sent pr the Secretary to the Lower house he returns again
A Message from the Lower house pr Mr Ennalls and Mr
Stevens
Lower house of Assembly 31 Augt 1681.
This house upon Inspecting the Iournal of the Lower house
of the last Sessions of Assembly, and finding therein Severall
Matters which as they Conceive are much Conducing to the
Benefit and Utility of the Publick which were then Considered
and Debated of in this house, and no Conclusion thereupon
had: Thereupon this house do Humbly Conceive it Necessary
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