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Upper house 4th November 1682.
In Answer to the Message of the Lower house relating to
the Bill for Electing and Summoning Burgesses and Dele-
gates and Representatives &a: This house do say that after
the Transmitting the said Bill to this house from the Lower
house; there was Delivered an Address from the Lower house
to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary while he was
present in the Upper house relating to that Bill as this house
cannot but Confess that the Lower house did rightly Apply
themselves in that Address so we must Desire them to Expect
the Answer of his said Lordship to their Address, who may
perhaps by his undoubted right Settle the Matters in that Bill
Contained by Instrument under his Great Seal, or otherwise
direct the two Houses to form his Pleasure therein into a Bill
to be passed by him with the Consent of the Two houses (who
Legally Represent the Freemen of this Province) into a Per-
petuall Act—
Signed p Order J LL Cl of Assembly
Upper house 4th November 1682.
This house having duely weighed the Crimes of Jacob
Young Committed are of Opinion that they are in themselves
high Treason, could they be proved by two Witnesses Viva
Voce upon Oath but such two Witnesses are not to be had
they being Indians and far distant from us this House is Like-
wise of Opinion that the said Jacob is a Person so dangerous
for his Malice and power with the Indians that he is not fitt to
Live att liberty, and this will appear by the Depositions taken
by the Attorney General which he is Ordered to Communicate
to the Lower house Wherefore We are of Opinion that it is
Safest for the Province, for the Lower house to Impeach him
for his high Misdeameanours before the Upper house, that so
the two Houses may Join in the certain Evidence we have to
Confine him for Life; though We cannot take his Life away
by any Act in force for Treason at this Day; and desire the
Answer of the Lower house in this affair so to Conclude this
Sessions—
Signed p. Order J LL Clk of Assembly—
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