246 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 27-Nov. 14, 1713.

U. H. J.

amicable Correspondence with your House this Session and
cannot but think you use us very ill in denying a Conference
which we take to be the only expedient to remove the Diffi-
cultys seeming to have created a misunderstanding between
us & dispatch Business we do not pretend to direct whether
you should address her Majesty in Answer to S^r Thomas
Lawrences Complaint nor would a Conference with us pre-
vent your so doing tho you should be happily convict that

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It is your Interest to give a ready and cheerful Obedience to
her Majesty's Commands we have so earnestly recommended
to you and pressed you to comply with Wherefore if her most
Sacred Majesty should conceive any displeasure (as It is to be
feared she may) at your Neglect or Contempt We hope we
shall not fall under it but that if any hardships should hereafter
be put upon the Country on this score you will be found to
be those who have neglected the true Interest of it & involved
us in such misfortunes. This we must needs assert and cannot
but leave it upon our Journal that it may plainly appear
whither you or we have the truest Sense of & regard to her
Majesty's Honour & the Interest of the Province we, in de-
manding, or you, in refusing so usual reasonable & necessary
a Conference Which we cannot but yet expect from you
Signed p order W Bladen Cl Coun

And Sent to the House by Col Holland M^r Young M^r Hall
& Col Whittington
M^r James Mackall & Cap^t Frisby brought up the Bill for
assessing the publick Levy this present year, read by the
Delegates the first & second Time which was read at the
Board and Endorsed will pass & sent to the House by Col
Tilghman
Moved at the Board whether It may not be reasonable for
the Keeper of the Great Seal to charge and take for the Seal
of Every Body of Laws by him transmitted to the several
County Courts four hundred & Eighty pounds of Tob^o as

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formerly has been usual to be taken by the late Keepers of
the Great Seal and Resolved that It is reasonable so to do.
The Board Adjourned until Eight of the Clock to morrow
morning

Fryday November the 13th 1713
The Council Sate Present as yesterday
The Address to her Majesty on the happy Peace and the
Remonstrance to the Right Honble the Lords of Trade and
Plantations relating to the Tob^o Trade being read at the Board