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to us, but should postpone them till you should understand that we
had come to some Determination on those you had then submitted
and recommended to our Consideration; we beg Leave to acquaint
your Excellency, that we have come to a Determination on those
Matters, and earnestly request you will be pleased now to communi-
cate to us whatever you may think proper to be recommended to our
Consideration at this Meeting, that we may do all in our Power to
lessen the Burden to the good People of this Province, which always
and the Inconvenience to ourselves which at this Time must neces-
sarily attend our being here.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
Ordered, That M.^r Casson and M.^r Benjamin Handy do acquaint
his Excellency, That this House hath prepared an Address, to be
presented to him, and desires to know when and where he will
please to receive it: They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker that his
Excellency was pleased to signify he would be ready to receive the
Address immediately in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That M.^r Carroll, with Five more, do present the Ad-
dress to his Excellency.
The House adjourns until Monday Morning at 9 of the Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
September
18

Monday Morning, 20^th September, 1756.

The House met according to Adjournment: All the 'Members
appeared as on Saturday, except M.^r Reynolds, M.^r Govane, M.^r
Lloyd, and Major Travers.
M.^r Paca, M.^r James John Mackall, M.^r Benjamin Mackall, Col.
Fitzhugh, and Capt. Jordan, appeared in the House.
The Governor communicated to M.^r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I am glad to find by the Address which was presented Saturday
Evening, that you have come to a Determination on the Matters that
were recommended to you at the Opening of this Session; and as
no one can be more desirous than myself of lessening the Burthen,
which is always brought on the good People of this Province by your
sitting here, I earnestly recommend it to you, with the utmost Dis-
patch to Frame a Bill, in Consequence of the Determination you are
come to, that it might be offered to the Gentlemen of the Upper
House for their Concurrence, and, as soon as possible, be passed
into a Law.
Gentlemen,
At the Beginning of our last Session, you were pleased to declare
it as your Opinion, That the most natural Strength of every free

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