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Instant, were Ordered to be Entred on our Journal before we received
that Message, But lest your Excellency or any other should think
the not incerting therein two Letters from Edmund Jenings and
Levin Gale Esq^rs to their Clerks or Servants (which we looked upon
to be no Part of the Council proceedings in that Affair) might be
Interpreted an Intention of concealing any thing that passed on that
Occasion, or that might seem to have relation thereto, we have
directed those Letters also to be Entred on our Journal being very
desirous that the Conduct of your Excellency as well as all others
concerned in that matter may be placed in a fair and open Light
without Disguise or Misrepresentation.
The following two Orders of Council, Remonstrances and Letters
were Ordered to be Entred thus (Papers printed in 28 Archives
pages 167 to 174, 182 to 183, 184 to 188 are entered upon the
Journal)

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46

The House Resolved, That the Letter from Edmund Jenings, Esq^r
to M^r William Ghiselin, dated the 17^th of December last and that
from Levin Gale Esq^r to M^r Griffith Beddoe dated the 2 I^st of the
same month Incerted on the Journals of this House being directed to
their Clerks or Servants and not to any of the Members appointed for
taking the necessary Copies to be transmitted to Great Britain with
the Addresses to his Majesty and the Lord Proprietary, cannot prop-
erly be understood to relate to the dispute which arose on that Affair
or to be any Compliance with the requests of those members agreable
to the Orders of this House at the last Meeting, as they contained in
substance no more than the Order of Council of the first of August
1739 after which the same Copies were denied altho Application has
been made pursuant thereto.

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And as those Letters were not Written or even produced to any
of the said Members till late in December last, when the Shipping for
Britain were gone out it seems to this House, that if a Compliance
was then really intended, Yet the Transcripts and Copies at that
time, after so long denied and delayed, could not answer the Inten-
tions of the Delegates or the proposed Service of their Constituents
and country in expediting the Addresses that Year to his Lordship,
and his most Sacred Majesty, and that therefore the said Members
did well in taking no notice of the Letters until they had acquainted
this House therewith
The House Adjourns to two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment
The Address to his Excellency being Ingrossed M^r Speaker, on
Behalf of the House signed the same, M^r Mathews and Col^o Hooper
sent to acquaint his Excellency this House hath prepared an Address

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