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   remote that they cannot well be called together in a short       Lib. X.

   time

     2dIy That this being a matter of great & weighty momt

   which may have Influences on the Courts of Law & Justice

   within this Province in their Judgments and Proceedings it

   would be for his Majestys Service & the Great Benefit of the

   Province to defer the publishing of such proclamation until the

   meeting of the General Assembly

      That this being so publick a concern wherein his most

   Sacred Majesty & his good Subjects of this Province are so

   nearly interested it is absolutely necessary that the General

   Assembly should be consulted therein which at present is

   much facilitated by the nearness of their meeting to wit the

   26th Instant to which day they Stand Prorogued

     His Excy is pleased further to ask the advice of the Gen

   tlemen present whether in regard he has rec'd no late Com

   mands from his most sacred Majesty or from the right Honble

   the Lords of the Council for trade & Foreigne Plantations

   the meeting of the Assembly should not be further deferred

   & put of in expectation of some of his Majestys Royal Com

   mands which may be sent him or other directions from the

   right honble their Ldshps the Commsrs of Trade & Foreign          p. 230

   Plantations.

     Whereto this Board do advise & give their Opinions that

   forasmuch as no other Ships are expected to arrive here until

   October next by which such Letters might be expected Cap

   tain Harbin who is now Come in being the last the meeting

   of the Assembly should be no further deferred but that it is

   most absolutely necessary they should sitt upon the 26th Inst

   according to Prorogation

     His Excellency represents to the Board that the last year

   1699 finding that Colonel Nicholson his Predecessor had for

   some time received the 3d p hhd given by his Majesty to the

   Country for purchasing Arms &ca he also had received the

   said Duty for that year but that he was resolved since he

   understood his Majestys Receivers Geo Plater & Geo Mus

   champ Esqr were thereunto appointed & Commissionated he

   would no longer Act or meddle therein

     His Excellency informs them that he had advanced & lent

   the Country two hundred pounds Sterl which he had sent to

   Collo Addison to pay & Subsist the Rangers on the falls of

   Potomack who were in great want thereof and could not

   have had that money without the meeting of the Committee

   which would have been a great charge to the Country

     His Excellency further gives them to understand that he is

   informed by Mr Hermage Robinson an Indian Trader that the

   Emperor of Piscattoway & his Indians will Come to Town on