462 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 6-0ct. 2, 1696.

U. H. J.

Read the following message sent from the House viz^t
By the House of Burgesses September 30^th 1696

p. 918

This House humbly desire his Excellency to expedite the
Bills and other things down to this House that an end may be
put to this present Sessions which hinders all other Business
at Present and that thereby the Sollicitors attending the
Provincial Court may be the better accommodated for want of
which they Grievously complain
Signed p Order W Bladen Clk assembly

The said Several Bills and other matters lying before this
Board were accordingly sent down together with the following
Proposalls viz^t

Proposed that the Treasurers and Naval Officers prepare
their accounts ready to be sworn to at the Passing the Laws
in like nature as they did the last Assembly

October 1st 1696 The Council Again sate and were present
as Yesterday

Drawn up by Order several Proposalls in Order to be laid
before the House viz^t

Proposed that an Ordinance pass for endeavouring to
satisfy and quiet the minds of all his Majestys Loving Subjects
within this province and for taking of Scandalous and milicious
Reports viz^t That when his Excellency came first to this
Government he found the same much indebted both in money
and Tobacco and tho several Assemblies have been called
since his Arrival in this Place that the same were never called
but upon special Accounts viz^t for the Glory of God the Service
of the King and good of the Country and that tho the Country
was so much in Arrears and Indebted yet that the same now
(God be thanked) this very Assembly Gott Clear and out of
Debt and the Court House paid for and is hoped will be now
kept so that it be signified that the money raised by the
several Impositions and duties from time to time have been
duly Appropriated to the uses they were so raised and that
neither the Tobacco nor money has been Appropriated to his
Majestys Service nor his Excellencys use but the money paid
now his Excellency out of the Impositions is what his
Excellency lent them and without Interest
That it is hoped in God there will be no occasion for an
Assembly to sit this twelve month
Proposed that the said Ordinance be made publick in all
Churches Chappels and Court Houses