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they give the said Sewell Notice of the Time of their Meeting
and make their Report thereon to the next Assembly.
The House Adjourns till One a Clock in the Afternoon

Post Merediem
The House meets According to Adjournment.
Coll Ward and M^r Bordley Deliver M^r Speaker the follow-
ing Message Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly August the 5^th 1721.
Gentlemen.
Whatever Motives have Induced your House to Lay aside
our Agent we think it highly Reasonable, that you should
have Communicated the same to us, who as frankly Declare
Our Surprise, that you should now Depreciate the Services
of a Gentleman, which by the Journals of both Houses appear

L. H. J.

to have been not Only Agreeable, but very advantageous to
this Province. We must take the Liberty farther to remind
you of the Extraordinaryness of your proceeding in Com-
puting the Sum of the Expence without putting any price upon
the Services done; nor need we enter into a Particular Detail
thereof. The Resolves of your Own House will Clear up that
Point.

We are no less Surprised that you should come to so hasty
a Resolution at a Time that the New York Papers Communi-
cated to you this Sessions makes it so Necessary to have a
Gentleman of his known Integrity and Interest at Court to
Negotiate An Affair of such Consequence; the very Reason
for which he was at first appointed and which in Our Opinion
is not Limited to Sum Required at Present; but may Subject
us to future Demands of the like Nature,
These things Considered, we once more move the Continu-
ance of Coll: Blackiston in his Agency and desire your Con-
currence therein.
Signed p Order. John Beale Cl Up Ho.

James Bowles Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message Viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly

August the 5^th 1721.
Gentlemen.
We Observe in your Message of the fourth Instant by Coll.
Woolford & Coll Harman that you Acquaint us you have by
your Address to his Lordship fully apprised his Lordship of

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