The Lower House. 171

Bill for Releife of Credittors.
Read the 2^d time w^th Amendm^t and do pass.
The reporte of the Conferrence relating to New York
Affaires Was read and orderd to be entred Viz^t.
By the Conferrence appointed for the Affaires of New York.
I^st It is conceivd that if the Seat of Gou^enment be at New
York it will not only be A means to Allure and entice Many
trades men Artificers And others Now among us Who follow
the trade of planting here to desert this province And fly to
that of New Yorke where they may follow their Seuerall trades
& Callings and Gaine to themselves more ease and Advantage,
thereby lessening the Revenue of the Crowne of England And
Alsoe by these Meanes they will in A Short time be Enabled
to Supply us with Such Manufactory's and other necessary's
which now Are Imported from England & inevittably destroy
our Comerce with the same.
2 Wee conceive that New York having power and Au-
thority will upon All Occasions Comand from us such forces
as they Shall think fitt for the Safety and Strengthning them-
selves as Will in A great Measure weaken this province (Now
but thinly Seated) And thereby leave the remaining parte of
the Inhabitants here open to the incursions of our Comon
Enemy the Indians by whom Wee are Environ'd And many of
them As neere to us as those at New Yorke who are often
Comitting Murthers on the Inhabitants here And haue lately
destroyd severall persons And having opportunity also of
Ioyning with the Severall Nations of Indians residing among
us to Effect their designes leaving us in a deplorable Condition
the lives of the Inhabitants Greatly hazarded thereby And the
province in Generall in danger of being totally laid Waiste.
3^d That it will be very disadvantageous to the inhabitants
of this province upon All occasions As of Councills Assemblys
Gen^ll Courts And upon Appeales and differences between
party and party to travell thither being neere 400 Miles distant
from us And the ways impassable in the Winter Season by
reason of the desert road's Violent frosts deep Snows and
Rivers And bay's to pass over Soe that the poorer sort of
people will not be Able to undergoe so Great A charge and
fatigue. And the Rich to Avoid it will remoove themselves &
Estates to England or other parts And so tend to the ruine of
the tobacco trade And Consequently lessen the Revenue to
the Crowne.
4 That the Constitucon of this province to theirs is of so
disagreeable And different A nature both in traffick and other
things that the laws there compos'd cannot be Agreeable to
the trade and Affairs of this Countrey nor the Constitucon of
the inhabitants of this province.

P. R. O.

B. T. Md.
Vol. 17.