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2. We do Conceive that New York having Power and
Authority will upon all occasions Command from us such
forces as they shall think fitt for the Safety and Strengthning
themselves as will in great measure weaken this Province
(now but thinly seated) and thereby leave the remaining part
of the Inhabitants here open to the Incursions of the Common
Enemy the Indians by whom we are invironed and many of
them as near to us as those of New York who are often Com-
mitting murders on the Inhabitants here and have lately de-
stroyed several Persons and having opportunity of Joyning
with the Several Nations of Indians now among us to Effect
their designs leaving us in a deplarable Condition the Lives
of the Inhabitants greatly hazarded thereby and the Province
in general in danger of being totally laid waste
3. That it will be very disadvantageous to the Inhabitants
of this Province upon all occasions as Councills Assemblys
General Courts and upon Appeals and Differences betwixt
party and party to travel thither it being near four hundred
miles distant from us and the ways unpassable in the Winter
Season by Reason of the desert Roads violent Frosts, deep
Snows and the difficulty in passing the Rivers and Bays so
that the poorer Sort of People will not be able to undergo
such great Charge and Fatigue and the richer to Avoid it will
remove themselves and their Estates to England or other
Parts and so tend to the ruin of the Tobacco Trade and Con-
sequently lessen the Revenue of the Crown
4. That the Constitution of this Province to theirs is so
disagreeable and of so different a nature both in Traffick and
other Things that the Laws there composed Cannot be agree-
able to the Trade and Affairs of the Country nor the Consti-
tution of the Inhabitants thereof
It is humbly offered to the Consideration of the hon:ble
House of Delegates whether it may be of Service to 1:he
Country that a certain summe of mony be raised and Lodged
in the hands of some able Merchant or Merchants in London
ready to be called out upon any occasion for the better En-
couraging the persons negotiating this Affair and whether or
no it may not be thought of Service to the Country that some
person be appointed by the House and sent home with such
Pacquetts for their more Safe and Speedy Conveyance
Signed p order Thos Jones Cl Com.
By the Conference appointed by his Excy the Governour
and Council and Assembly to Enquire into some Aggrievances
relating to the Land office and the Lord Baltimores Agents &c.
The Conferees having laid before them and read the Mes-
sage of the House on this Subject and the order of his late
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