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commands them immediately to present their Speaker before
him in the Council Chamber. Whereupon the House repaired
to the Council Chamber and presented Robert Ungle Esqr
for their Speaker to his Excy the Gov. where the said Mr
Speaker decently and submissively addressing himself to his
Excellency offered several Reasons disabling him from serving
in that Station, and therefore made humble Suit to his Excel-
lency to be discharged and that his Excy would be pleased to
command the Delegates to make Choice of an abler Person.
Which Excuses his Excellency would no ways admit of,
being well satisfied of the Skill and Knowledge of the said
Robert Ungle in the publick Affairs of the Province and
required him in the King's Name to accept of the Place.
After which Mr Speaker in the name of the whole House of
Delegates humbly desired his Excellency on his Majesty's
Behalf that the Delegates of this Assembly may have the
Freedom of Speech as of Right and by Custom they have

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used and all their ancient and just Privileges and Liberties
allowed to them and that in any Thing he shall deliver in the
Name of the Delegates if he shall commit any Error no Fault
may be imputed to the Delegates but that he may resort to
them again for Declaration of their true Intent and that his
Error may be pardoned.
And lastly as often as Necessity for his Majesty's Service
and the publick Good of this Province shall require it he may
by the Direction of the House of Delegates have free Access
to his Excellency. All which his Excellency was pleased to
grant and confirm. And then his Excellency was pleased to
make a favourable Speech. After which The Speaker with
the Rest of the Delegates returned and the Speaker resumed
the Chair
Thereupon the House make Choice of Thomas Macnemara
for their Clerk and Ordered Mr Benjamin Tasker and Mr
Thomas Holdsworth go and present him to his Excy the Gov.
for his Approbation and to see him qualified by taking the
usual Oaths. They return and say that his Excy approved
of the Clerk chosen and that he is duly qualified.
Resolved That this House will sit to do Business during
this Sessions from Eight O'Clock in the Morning till Eleven
and from One in the Afternoon till five.
Ordered That his Excy's Speech be entered as follows Viz.

Gentlemen of the Assembly,
Upon the earliest Notice I had of his Majesty's happy
Accession to the Crown I have called you together to con-
sult the Good of this Province and to compleat what was

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