The Enclosed Papers will Shew you both the Occasion &
Grounds of my Giveing you thisTrouble If there is not Speedy
Care taken to Repair the Fortifications on the Fronteer of
New York and to build some New ones, the french will soon
have it, in their Power to set the Indians on Ruining all the
Colonys where the plantations lye remote from great Towns.
I must therefore Recomend it to you to provide the Six hun-
dred and fifty pounds which the King has named as the Quota
of your Province & transmit it to New York to be Applyed
as the Kings Instructions Directs.
By the Upper House of Assembly July the 20th 1721.
Gentlemen. His Honour the Governr having laid before
us the Papers herewth Sent you, We desire your Consideration
thereon and request you to Inspect into the Journals of your
House in March Assembly 1701/2 for your further Informa-
tion therein; for that our Journals of that Date are not so full
in Relation to that affair, 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. John Beale Cler. Up; Ho.
The Petition of Joseph Lazear praying that he and his
children may be naturalized is Read and Leave Given to bring
in a Bill as prayed.
The Petition of the Nanticoke Pocomoke and Indian River
Indians praying that a Bill may be brought in to prevent the
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