128 Assembly Proceedings, July 18-August 5, 1721.

U. H. J.

semblys of said Plantations that they respectively furnish a
Proportionable sum towards the fortifications on the North-
ern frontiers of our said Province of New York Viz.

Rhode Island & Providence Plantation £150
Connecticutt 450
Pensilvania 350
Maryland 650
Virginia 900

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And Whereas we thought fitt to Direct that you also Sig-
nifie to our Province of Nova Caesarea or New Jersey that
the Sums which we have at Present thought fitt to be Con-
tributed by them (if not already done) in Proportion to what
has been Directed to be Supplyed by our Other Plantations
as aforesaid are £250 Sterling for the Division of East New
Jersey and £250 Sterling for the Division of West New Jersey
You are therefore to Inform yourself What has been done
therein And What remains further to be done And to send
an Account thereof to us and to our Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations as aforesaid

Instruction 92. And you are also in our name Instantly to
recommend to our Councill and the Gen^l Assembly of our said
Province of New York that they Exert the Utmost of their
Power in Provideing without delay What further shall be
Requisite for Repairing Erecting and maintaining Such forts
in all parts of that Province as you and they shall Agree upon

Whereupon the following Message is prepared Viz.

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By the Upper house of Assembly
July the 20^th 1721.
Gentlemen. His Honour the Gov^r having layd before us
the papers herewith sent you We Desire your Consideracion
thereon And request you to inspect into the Journalls of your
house in March Assembly 170 1/2 for your further Information
therein for that our Journalls of that Date are not so full in
Relation to that Affaire As We hope yours are And that after
Consideration you will return us the Papers herewith Sent,
with your thoughts thereon And What you find has been
transacted in Relation thereto
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Up. Ho.

The house Adjourns till one of the Clock in the Afternoon