296 Assembly Proceedings, April—May 1682.

U. H. Journal
1659-98

Agents shall See we make peace for Ourselves and Abandon
them, they will and ought in Prudence to make Articles for
themselves Seperate from us, and upon their Submission to

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the Enemy will be Admitted to become one Nation with them,
and that will be Our ruine, and therefore this house still insist
upon that Point that Our Agents be peremptorily Instructed
not to make any Peace with the Northern Indians without
Including therein all Our Neighbouring and friend Indians—
Signed per Order p^r Iohn LLewellin Cl of Assembly.

Severall Bills from the Lower house by M^r Robert Carvile
and M^r Iohn Rousby Viz^t—
For Encouragement of Sowing and making hemp & flax
within this Province—
For the Encouragement of making Linnen and Wollen
Cloth &c:
For Encouragement of Tillage &^t all past both houses &
with them this foil Message V^t

Lower house nth May 1682
This house have taken into Consideration that the Encour-
agement would be the More if the Bills for Sowing and making
hemp and flax, and making Linnen and Woollen and for
Encouragement of Tillage and raising Provisions being three
Bills were made certain for three years and not to Determine
upon the Next Sessions of Assembly; This house have there-
fore Voted that the said three Bills shall be certain for three
Years and not to Determine upon the next Sessions; and
desire the Concurrence of the Upper house
Signed p^r Order Tho: Grunwin Cl of the Lower house of
Assembly

Jn Answer to the Votes of this house Concerning the
Reviving Act and other Bills Sent them by his Honour the
Secretary they have in Charge from their house to acquaint
this house that
As concerning the Act of Revivall Jt is the desire of the
Lower house that the Act for Killing of Woolves may be
reduced to Statu quo prius and so be made Temporary, That
for Explanation of a Clause in the Act prohibiting the Impor-
tation of Horses, Mares &c: and that against Wooll and old Iron
if the same be fairly Transcribed into the Book of Laws and
Mentioned in the Reviving Act they humbly Conceive may be
Sufficient without Drawing the same de novo to be passed into
an Act this Sessions The Act for Limitting of Actions against
the Surveyor General the Lower house did conceive was too
Narrowly Stinted, Six Months (for Severall reasons by them