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as you are pleased in some of your Messages, relating to the
Debate before you to Recomend yourselves (not unworthily)
as Servants of Consequence to the Country that you would
please to exert your Selves tow^ds the putting a period to the
present and increasing Charge of this Session.
We have Agreed on a Congratulatory Address to his
Majesty on the Occasion of the late Conspiracy, if your
Hon^rs have thought of Joyning therein with us 'tis Ready
wrote with a Blank for your so doing
On your Signifying your inclination to Joyn, we shall send
you up our draught We pray your Hon^rs speedy Answer that
we may not be delayed in signing the same Ourselves if your
Hon^rs Joyn not.

Signed p Order M: Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.
And the following Answ^r was ppared thereto viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 24^th 1723
Gentlemen.
We have Considered your Message of this Day by M^r Beale
and three others and in a Little Time shall send you our
Thoughts in Relation to the Debate Between us, and also Joyn
with you in doing what is proper tow^ds the putting a Period
to the Charge of this Session.
As to what you further Propose we are very Ready to Joyn
with you in a Congratulatory Address to his Majesty on his
happy Deliverance from the late trayterous Conspiracy, and
to that End we desire you would send us yo^r Draught thereof
by some of the members of yo^r House
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

U.H.J.
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Sent to the Lower House by Col^o Tilghman and M^r Tasker
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Warfield and
M^r Bozman viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^br the 24^th 1723
May it please Yo^r Honours
We wonder that you should Suggest by your Message of
the 23^d Instant that the Journal of Accounts now before you,
requires some Time for your Consideration; since by your
Message of the 19^th Instant (before which your Hon^rs had
it several Days before you) you are pleased to signifie to us
your being willing to Assent to all the Allowances therein
Except Your own and Ours. Your own and ours are so well

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