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May it please Your Excellency
We Return you Thanks for calling Us together as Usual for the

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dispatch of Business and do Assure You We are met with a hearty
Resolution to Promote the Publick Goal and to avoid all unnecessary
disputes whatsoever
Your Excellencys kind declaration of desiring nothing more
earnestly than the Happiness and Prosperity of the Province Your
Readiness to Join Your Endeavours with Ours for that Purpose
and to Oblige Us in every thing Consistent with the Duty of Your
Station We receive with the utmost Gratitude and hope you will
find us always Ready to make suitable Returns for every Obligation
you shall be Pleased to Confer on us and never so unreasonable as
either to expect or desire anything from Your Excellency incon-
sistent with that Duty.
As We flatter Ourselves Our former Deportment has by this
time sufficiently convinced Our Sovereign and the Lord Proprietary
of Our Steady Loyalty and Attachment to his Majesty's Person and
Government Our Regard to the Safety of the Province and our own
Preservation so the Subject of Arms and Ammunition for Defence
of the Province and a proper Magazine for the Security of them so
earnestly recommended by your Excellency shall have its proper
share in our Deliberations
We are sensible of the Importance of the Trust reposed in Us
and being resolved to Use Our utmost diligence and Care in the
discharge of it, We shall gladly receive Your Excellencys' Senti-
ments by Message or otherwise in any thing proper for our Consid-
eration and which may in any manner Contribute to the Welfare of
the People We represent
A Wise and Prudent Amendment of Our Laws now in being as
well as the Reviving those useful Ones which have of late unhappily
ceased We believe would Greatly promote the Happiness of the
People of this Province and as the being Instrumental to such
Happiness as Your Excellency well Observes must give the Greatest
Pleasure to a rational and Virtuous Mind We shall not doubt your
Concurrence in both the one and the other
Was brought in Ingrossed which was Signed by Order and on
Behalf of the House by the Honourable Speaker
Col^o King and M^r Smith Ordered to acquaint his Excellency this
House hath prepared An Address to him and desires to know when
and where he will please to receive it, They return and acquaint
M^r Speaker the Governor will receive it in the Conference Chamber
M^r Smith with twelve more Ordered to present the Address
On Motion Leave Given to bring in the following Bills viz.
A Bill to revive An Act entituled An Act for the Advancement of
Justice and the Supplementary Act thereto

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