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Vated that a message be sent by a Committee to desire His Excellency 

 will be pleased to order that all the Resolutions of His Majesty's Go\^rnors 

 and Council heretofore made and passed, may be laid before the House, and 

 also the collection of the Ejifirlish Statutes. 



The Clerk of the Council came down with a Messagre from His Excellency, 

 that he was ready to receive any inessage from the Assembly. 



A cummiLlee, vizt., Mr. Gerrish, Mr. Newton, and Mr. Suckling were 

 directed to carry a message to His Excellency, that the House is ready to at- 

 tend him with an Address, To which His Excellency aoswered that he was 

 ready to receive it, which being reported they accordingly waited upon His 

 Excellency with their address which was read by Mr. Speaker as follows : — 



TO HIS EXCELLENCY CHAS. LAWRENCE, Esquire, Captain General 

 and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's province of Nova Scotia or 

 Acadia in America, Vice Admiral of the same. Etc., Etc. 



The Humble address of t^e House of Representatives met in General 

 Assembly. 



"MAY IT PLEASE TOUR EXCELLENCY,— 



We His Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, having taken into consideration your Excellency's Speech delivered 

 upon the opening the first General Assembly, beg leave to return Your Excel- 

 lency our thanks for the particular pleasure you express in meeting us con- 

 vened as Representatives of the Freeholders of this Province to act in con- 

 junction with His Majesty's Governor in Council as the Legislative Authority. 



We assure Your Excellency that we are come together unanimously dis- 

 posed to promote the service otf the Crown, and the real welfare and prosperity 

 of the people whom we represent, in every point to the utmost of our authority 

 and capacity, which we conceive may justly be expected from us, not only from 

 the immediate regard due to the Civil rights and interests of our Constituents, 

 but likewise fromi the unspeakable obligation we are under to demonstrate 

 in their behalf our dutiful sense of His Majesty's paternal concern for the 

 prosperity and ©ecurity of His Subjects in general ; and for the many distin- 

 guishing marks of His Royal favor, protection and bounty to this infant 

 Colony in partictilar having so happiily experienced the same in the means 

 directed by His Majesty for our immediate preservation when we were under 

 the most eminent Danger of being swallowed up by a most merciless enemy, 

 also for the ample supplies of money for many years annually granted for Uie 

 support and encouragement of this infant colony, and not only in the con- 

 tinuance of His Majesty's Royal Bounty for that purpose but also for the 

 Happiness and prosperity which we conceive will with the blessing of the 

 Almighty flow from His Mg-jesty's Royal Favor to this Infant Colony in 

 directing the calling a General Assembly within the same from minds deeply 

 Impressed with a sense of the greatest loyalty and gratitude to the best of 

 kings, everything may justly be expected to answer His Majesty's Royal 

 Intentions in directing the calling of a General Assembly In this Province 

 which the present low circumstances of the Colony and our authority and 

 capacity are able to provide. 



We beg leave to assure Your Excellency in particular that it is a great 

 concern to us that your military occupation requires your attendance so soon 

 upon the Commander in Chief to the Westward, as the Lieut. Governor is 

 necessarily absent in a distant part of this Province ; we are fully sensible 

 of the great necessity of a due consideration of such acts or Resolutions of 

 a Legislative nature as the Governors and Councils under His Maje.^^ty's Royal 

 Instructions have found expedient before the forming an Assembly. The 

 work is great and will of course take up much time to digest Into due 



