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sentatives of this Province, acquainting them with the Purport
thereof, and requesting them to meet at this Place without delay,
and accordingly they met here on Monday last, to the Number of
Sixteen, being a large Majority of the Representatives of this Prov-
ince, the Whole consisting of Twenty-five Persons; but his Ex-
cellency our Governor being applied to, did not think it expedient to
call them together on the Occasion, which is the Reason of their
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not sending a Committee, as proposed by your House, for you may
be assured, Sir, that no Representatives on this Continent, can more
sincerely concur in the Measures proposed, than do the Representa-
tives of this Province now met together, neither can any People, as
Individuals, more warmly Espouse the Common Cause of the Col-
onies, than do the People of this Province.
The Gentlemen now present, request it as a Favour, you'll be
pleased to send me a Copy of such Representation as may be agreed
upon by the several Committees at New-York, and acquaint me
how, and in what Manner, the same is to be lain before the King
and Parliament, whether by any Person particularly authorized for
that Purpose, or by the Colony Agents. The General Assembly of
this Province stands Prorogued to the 22d Day of October next,
which is the Time it generally meets for the Dispatch of the Ordinary
Business of the Province; and I doubt not, the Representatives of
this Province, will then, in their Legislative Capacity, take under
Consideration, the Grievances so justly complain'd of, and transmit
their Sense of the same to Great-Britain, in such Way, as may
seem best calculated to obtain Redress, and so as to convince the
Sister Colonies of their inviolable Attachment to the Common Cause.
I am, Sir,
To Samuel White, Esq;
our most obedient,
Speaker of the House
And most humble Servant
of Representatives of
Alexander Willy.
Massachusetts, &c.
New-Hampshire.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House, a Letter from the Honourable
Speaker of the Honourable House of Representatives of the Prov-
ince of the Massachusetts-Bay, to the Speaker of this Assembly, pro-
posing a Meeting, of Committees, from the several Assemblies of
the British Colonies on the Continent, at New-York, to consider of
a general, united, dutiful, loyal, and humble Representation of our
Circumstances, and for imploring his Majesty and the Parliament
for Relief: Which being Read,
Resolved, That notwithstanding we are Sensible such Representa-
tion ought to be made, and approve of the proposed Method for
obtaining thereof, yet the present Situation of our Governmental
Affairs will not permit us to appoint a Committee, to attend such
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