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yours among us, and make your Government long and
happy over us.
Aprill 27^th 1704.
Sign'd p Ord^r of the House of Delegates,
W Taylard Clk house of Dell.

P. R. O.

The two Bills this Day brought up & read at the board
were again Sett Down to the house with the following Answer
to the house
By the hon^ble Thomas Tench & Thomas Brooke Esq^s viz^t

Gentⁿ
Yours by Coll Harris and other members of your house I
haue rec^d with a due sense of your ready and hearty recogni-
tion of her most Sacred Majesty, and respect to my selfe, for
w^ch I returne you my hearty thanks, and will always endeavour
to preserue among you, the good Esteem you conceiue of me,
as to what you pray, that you should take further tyme to
consider about building the house by her Majestyes Royall
instructions required for her Governour here, this being, for
the reasons you mention a very busy Tyme, I shall be very
well satisfied to referr the same till I shall see you together
againe, being willing to gratifie you in shortning the present
Sessions
The severall indian Treatyes shall be layed before you as
you desired, and tho' herewith are sent you such of her
Majesties Royall instruction, which I am directed to advise
and consult you in, yett her Majesties hon^ble Councill w^th
my selfe judgeing that the revisemg all the Laws of this
Province, will be a worke of tyme, which this present junc-
ture (the shipping goeing away) will not admitt of without
great inconveniency, doe propose that a certaine Comittee
or a certaine number of persons best qualified for that pur-
pose, may be appointed by this Assembly to review the said
Laws, and putt them in a ready method by them to be
reported to the next Sessions of Assembly pursuant to her
Majestyes Royall instructions, which will be of great Ease
to the generall Assembly, and save charges, soe th^t att present
it is expected you should answer the other matters layed
before you, wherein I cannot doubt of your ready advice and
assistance, Therefore desire that what can conveniently be
done this Sessions, and is most Essentiall may be Effected,
and that you'll giue such proper answers in writeing to her
Majestyes Royall commands, as you shall judge best fitting
soe worthy a body, now mett together at this present generall
assembly, and those you represent, in promoteing whose

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