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

Original
Journal.

manners in all persons first to treate & interceed before they
presume to make any peremptory result in a case of soe high
a Nature as this may be.
13. Wee cannot omitt to represent to your Ex^ncie that the
very last Assembly held in the time of the late dec^d Gov^r
Anno 1692: It was then put to the Vote of a full house
whether the holding of Courts and Assemblyes at Sn^t Maries
were a greviance or not and carried in the Negative.
14 At w^ch time Wee humbly conceive that house did
well consider all difficulties as well as the vast charge and
Expence they already had been at (to noe purpose if the
Courts &^ca should be removed) as alsoe what must Necessarily
follow (and it may be to as little purpose) in building of New
Courts & Offices in other places and makeing provisions for
the holding and keeping the same, besides the hazard and
casualties of removeing & transporting the Records from one
place to another of which already some Experience hath been
had.
15 To remoove some Scruple & Objection and (as wee
humbly conceive) the Maine one that hath been made against
the conveniency of the place that the Gentlmen the members
of the house haue been forced to their great Trouble often-
times to travell on foote from Pottuxen to Sn^t Maries and soe
back again.

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It is humbly proposed and we doe Offer to obleige our
selves forthwith and soe soone as possibly workemen and
Materialls can be provided for the greater Ease and Conveni-
ency of all persons at such times as also at all other times, to
provide and procure a coach or carvan or both to goe in all
times of publick meeteings of Assemblyes and provinciall
Courts &^ca every day daily betweene Sn^t Maries & pottuxen
River and at all other times once a weeke and also to keep
constantly half a dozen horses at least with Suitable furniture
for any person or persons haveing occasion to ride post or
otherwise with or without a guide to any part of the province
on the Western Shore.
16 That the Scituation of the place being not in the Center
of the province and consequently not soe convenient for some
persons to apply to. Wee hope the proposeall aboue may
somewhat mitigate that Objection besides Wee humbly rep^r-
sent Even the place of our Nativity the Kingdom of England
and the Imperiall Court their held in the City of London, as
farr from the Center of England, as Sn^t Maries in this Pro-
vince Boston in New England Port Royall in Jamacia James
Towne in Virginia and almost all other their Maj^ties American
plantations where are still kept and continued in their first
antient Stations & places the Chiefe Seat of Governm^t and
Courts of Judicature.