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house as may be necessary for the Carrying on the business
of the Publick that no Delay be suffered for want thereof
Signed p Ord^r Jn^o Beale Cl. Up. ho.

U. H. J.

Which Foregoing two Messages are Sent to the lower

house by Esq^r Hall who returnes & says he Delivered the
same.
M^r Tyler with three Others from the lower house, Deliver
to his Honour the Governour the following Message Viz.

By the lower house of Assembly

Aug^t the 5^th 1721
May It Please Your Honours

We are Concerned to find the reasons Offered in our last
Message to your Hon^rs should not be Satisfactory but that
this should be lookt upon by your Hon^rs as a matter of such
Weight as to take up so much of the Countrys time And what-
ever Complements the Journalls of Each house may manifest
to have been given Col Blakiston of reall Services this house
is fully Satisfied none have been done worthy so Great a
reward, neither hath the New York Affair the least Influence
to perswade us to burthen the Country farther. We desire to
be Excused for not Esteeming it of Suff^t Weight to alter our
well grounded (as we hope) Resolutions Wherefore We pray
your Hon^rs to press us no farther on this Subject
Signed p Ord^r M Jenifer Cl. Lo. ho.

M^r Codd and M^r Earle from the Lower house Deliver his
Hon^r the Governour the following Message Viz.

By the Lower house of Assembly

Aug' the 5^th 1721
May It please your Hon^rs
This house is very much troubled that the reasons Offered

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by us to his Lordship in our Address should be pressed by you
to be Comunicated Whereas We Conceive Ourselves Obliged
to give them to none save his Lordship with Whome We hope
they will so farr Prevaile as to Incline his Lordship not to
Dissent to the Act for regulating Officers frees And as your
house and this differ Chiefly about that Affair it would be
Imprudent as we think to communicate our reasons on that
head And this house believes it more Parliamentary to Offer
them Seperately than Conjunctly with your Hon^rs And as we
humbly hope we have pressed things no farther to his Lord-

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