158 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 28-Nov. 15, 1712.

L. H. J.

Lib. 41
p. 354

knowing your Honour ever since your taking upon you the
Government here to be thereof very careful and tender. But
the deplorable and sad Condition her Majesty's good Subjects
of this Province would lye under should this present Session
of Assembly end without revising the Act for relieving some
Aggrievances makes us now address your Honour for Relief
therein. We are very sensible her Majesty has restricted your
Hon^r from passing any Bills of Moment unless of absolute
necessity for the Welfare Peace and Tranquility of this Prov-
ince in the Absence of a Capt General and most humbly de-
sire your Honour to extend as favourable a Construction
thereto as possibly you can assuring your Honour if any other
Expediency could be found to quiet the Minds and satisfy the
Inhabitants of this Province this House would not insist
thereon at this Time and if your Honour please to grant that
this or some other Bill of like Nature may pass this Session
and to continue only to the End of the first Session of Assem-
bly after the Arrival of a Capt. General we hope the same will
not be taken as an Infringement on her Majesty's Royal
Prerogative protesting to your Hon^r that it's not only the
Sense of this House but of the Province in General that if
this Act should now expire without making another of the
like Nature it will be impossible for a great many of her
Majesty's good Subjects to continue their Abodes here but must
remove to some other Place of less Benefit to the Crown of
Great Britain and others whose Lives and (fortunes have been
made desperate by their unhappy Losses and Decay of Trade
during the War will return to the same way of Living they
used before the making the said Act by sculking in the Woods
and riding armed to resist the Officers of Justice and thereby
greatly disturb the Peace and Tranquility of the Province In
tender Compassion whereof we desire your Honours most
favourable and Timely Answer which will not only prevent
the aforesaid Evil Consequences but a very great Burthen &
Charge to the Province
Signed p Order of the House of Delegates
8^th Nov. 1712. p Rich^d Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Honble President by M^r Garrett, M^r Green-
field, M^r Jowles, M^r Scott, M^r Codd, M^r Jones, M^r Hill, M^r
Woolford, M^r Hammond, M^r John Mackall, M^r Leach, M^r
Hoskins, M^r Storey, M^r Ward, M^r Lloyd, M^r William Whit-
tington, M^r Ennalls, M^r Thomas Purnell, M^r ffrisby, M^r Pearce,
M^r Tyler, M^r Sprigg, M^r Solomon Wright, M^r John Wells and
M^r Daniel Mariartee.
They return and say they delivered the same