504 Assembly Proceeding s, May 15-25, 1705.

Lib. 41.

standing the same was not so regularly brought in your House
not having his Excellency the Governor's Consent thereto.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl Council

Ordered the two Bills be ingrossed
Likewise ordered the following Message brought in by Col^o
Lloyd & Col^o Holland be read and entered Viz.

Die Jovis 24^o May 1705 By the Council in Assembly

In Answer to yours by M^r Frisby & M^r Skinner we say we
have no Assurance that the Chief Men of the five Nations will
come down to Susquehanah to treat with us on failure whereof
it will be absolutely necessary our Commissioners go to them
to Albany that we may be certainly assured of their Friendship
or what else we may expect from them having been already
kept too long in the Dark
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council

Which being read in the House the following Message was
ordered to be prepared Viz.

By the House of Delegates May 24^th 1705

The Message by Col^o Lloyd & Col^o Holland of this Day
being read in the House and in Answer to which the House
humbly conceive that it's more convenient & of less Charge
to the Province first to send a Messenger forthwith up to the
Seneca Forts to invite them down to Conostoga & to know
of a Certainty whether they will there meet or not on their
Failure this House will concur with what is proposed in the
Message Signed p Order W. Taylard Cl. Ho. Del.

Which being read & approved of was sent up to his Excel-
lency by Cap^t Richard Jones.
He returns & says he delivered his Message
Bill for Sale of Edmonson's Land &^ta Ingrossed Indorsed
Read & assented to by the House of Delegates.
Sent up to the Council by M^r William Aisquith.
He returns & says he delivered the Bill
Ingrossed Bill for the Exportation of Benjamin Celey
Read & assented to by the House of Delegates

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5 Ordered M^r Joseph Gray carry the aforegoing Bill up to
their Honours for Assent
He returns & says he delivered the Bill