Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 20-Oct. 18, 1694. 57

By the Assembly October 9^th 1694:

May it please yo^r Ex^ncy
Wee haue by a verball Message this day signifyed to y^r
Ex^ncy the sence of this house as to the Stile of the Laws of this
province now (by the favour of God to be passed) Wee haue
by the same Messingers understood yo^r Ex^ncys Intimation
Relateing to the same & haue read th' Clause in your Ex^ncys
Comission for makeing of Laws for w^ch honor Done us by y^r
Ex^ncy therein Wee Returne you our most dutyfull Thankes
Wee beseech your Ex^ncy to believe that next to God their
Ma^ts & our Countrey not only your Comands but your very
Intimations hath the Chiefe Comand in our hearts w^ch upon
all occasions wee shall readily manifest, And most sorry wee
are that after all our Endeavours wee can not w^th out violence
to our Reasons receed from our Opinions in continueing the
Laws of this assembly in the same Stile as the last was (viz^t)
in their Ma^ts name being what wee humbly Conceive most
agreeable to the former Laws and to all writts precepts &
process of their Maj^ties in this province, Even the writts by
which this Assembly was convened & w^th humble Submission
to your Ex^ncy therein wee humbly conceive not disconsonant or
ag^t the Tenor of yo^r Ex^ncies Comission, Wee therefore humbly
pray yo^r Ex^ncy to permit those Laws to pass under the same
Stile as the former was Untill their Maj^ts pleasure may be
further Imparted to your Excellency in the premisses
Signed p Ord^r
Cleborne Lomax Clk Assembly.

Original
Journal.

The house sent a Comittee of Tenn persons to meet
according to the Conference appointed relateing to the Land
office (Cap^t Dent being Chaireman) And thereupon produced
again the Hono^bLe the Solicitor Genll^s Report & Read the
latter Clause relateing thereto.
S^r Thomas Laurence Offers the Proposall before made in
the morning & Thereupon Ordered that Coll Darnall be
againe sent for to know whether he will agree to the said
proposall whoe accordingly appeared His Ex^ncy does demand
of the said Coll Darnall whether he will accept of the said
proposall to which he makes Answer that the same question
was put in the Morning & that he desired the Opinion of the
Board therein, to which was answered that the proposall made
did seem but Reasonable & therefore, willed him to Consider
of it; whereupon Coll Darnall did desire to know whether he
should have Recourse to the Records of the Land Office for to
Settle the Rent Roll by alone, to which was answered that he
might have Recourse to that Office & the Records therein for

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