The Lower House. 23

Your Committee are of Opinion that the Gentlemen Appointed a
Committee to join the several Committees from the several Colonies
in America be Instructed to repair immediately to the City of New
York in the Province of New York and there join with the Com-
mittees from the House of Representatives of the other Colonies in
a General and United dutiful Loyal and humble Representation to
his Majesty and the British Parliament of the Circumstances and
Condition of the British Colonies and Plantations and to pray relief
from the Burthens and Restraints lately laid on their Trade and
Commerce and especially from the Taxes imposed by an Act of the
last Session of Parliament Granting and Applying Certain Stamp
Duties and other Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in
America Whereby they are Deprived in some Instances of that
invaluable privilege of Englishmen and British Subjects Tryals by
Juries that they take care that such Representation shall humbly
and decently but expressly contain an Assertion of the Rights of the
Colonists to be Exempt from all and every Taxations and Imposi-

L. H. J.

Liber No. 12
Sept. 25

tions upon their Persons and propertys to which they do not Consent
in a legislative way either by themselves or their Representatives by
them freely Chosen and Appointed all which is humbly Submitted
to the Honourable House

Signed p Order John Duckett Jun:^r Clk Com
The House Adjourns till 2 of the Clock

Post Meridiem
The House met &c^a

On reading the first and 2.^d time the Report of the Committee
Appointed to Draw Instructions for the Committee Appointed to
Attend at New York the House Concurs therewith and Ordered that
those Instructions be fairly Ingrossed and brought in to be Signed
by the Honourable Speaker

This House taking into Consideration the Many Grievances the
Good People of this Province will Suffer if an Act passed in the
last Session of Parliament of Great Britain for imposing Stamp
Duties upon the Inhabitants of the several Colonies of America be
Carried into Execution

Resolved that a Committee be Appointed to Draw up Resolves
declarative of the Constitutional Rights and Privileges of the Free-
men of this Province and that the same be brought in for the
Approbation of the House

Ordered that M.^r Murdock Col.^o Tilghman M.^r Ringgold M.^r
Chase M.^r Wilson M.^r Wolstenholme M.^r J: Goldsborough M.^r
Hammond M.^r Henry Hollyday M.^r Graham M.^r Key and M.^r
Worthington be a Committee for that purpose
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