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The South-Carolina Assembly, not rightly viewing the Proposal
(which Originally came from the Assembly of the Government
of the Massachusetts-Bay,) as it was intended that the several
Committees, when met, shou'd Frame and Sign an Address to his
Majesty, and Memorial and Petition to the Parliament, to be
immediately Dispatch'd by the Congress, instructed their Members
(Messrs. Lynch, Rutledge, and Gadsden,) to return their Proceed-
ings to them, for Approbation. The Connecticut Assembly made
the same Restrictions in their Instructions. The Assembly also of
New-Hampshire wrote, that they had Resolved, That notwithstand-
ing they were Sensible such a Representation ought to be made, and
approved of the proposed Method for obtaining thereof, yet the
present Situation of their Governmental Affairs, wou'd not permit
them to appoint a Committee to attend such Meeting, but shou'd be
ready to join in any Address to his Majesty and the Parliament they
might be honoured with the Knowledge of, probable to answer the
proposed End: And the Speaker of the Assembly of Georgia wrote,
that a Majority of their Members had applied to the Governor to
call their Assembly, and he did not think it Expedient, which was
the Reason they did not send a Committee as proposed, but requested
us to transmit a Copy of our Proceedings to them (which will be
done) and that their Assembly wou'd meet about this Time, and he
did not doubt but they shou'd Act so as to convince the Sister
Colonies of their inviolable Attachment to the Common Cause: We
also understood the North-Carolina, and we know the Virginia As-
sembly, was Prorogued, whereby they cou'd not have the Opportunity
of joining us; so that we doubt not but the Colonies who have not
Signed, will very speedily transmit similar Addresses, &c. if their
Assemblies should not be hindered from Meeting: And to this
Purpose, we hope you'll soon hear from the Assembly of South-
Carolina. By the Gentlemen of that Colony we were favoured with
a Sight of your late Letters, and inform'd of your careful and
spirited Conduct with Regard to the Interests of that Colony, and
that, together with your Declaration, which we find in those Letters,
that you enjoy an independent Seat in the British Parliament, in-
duced us (as we have no established Agent at present, for this
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Province, nor have yet been able to obtain a Law to Tax ourselves for
that Purpose) to trouble you with our Request, that you will Present
the inclosed Address to his Majesty, and Memorial and Petition to
the Houses of Parliament, and exert your utmost Interest and Abili-
ties in behalf of this poor distress'd Country, and of this Province
in particular.
We hope as there is a Change in the Ministry, and as the Gentle-
men in the House of Commons, may at their next Meeting, take a
more enlarged View of the true Interest of Great-Britain, and her
Colonies, they will find it to be in supporting the Rights and en-
couraging the Trade of the latter, and that the Happiness of the
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