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method to answer your Excelliemcy's intenitions in recommending the same to 

 our speedy consideration, but in the meanwhile we shaill as well in that as in 

 everything else that may require our consideration (with your Excellency's 

 assistance) disintereistedly endeavor to promote the welfare and peaceahle 

 government of His Majesty's people in this province and the future ease and 

 assistance of your Excellency, and we doubt not on your Excellency's return 

 to the Government "we shall find you perfectly disposed to concur with us in 

 enacting such further laws and establishing such other regulations as shall 

 appear upon more mature deliberations to be consistent with the honor and 

 dignity of the Crown and conducive to the lasting happiness of His Majesty's 

 subjects of tills Province." 



ROBEIRT SANDERSON, Speaker. 



After which His Escellency acquadnted the House that he would return 

 his answer to-morrow morning. 



Then adjourned till to-morrow morning Ten o'clock. 



THE SECOND SESSION. 



■Wednesday, August 1st, 1759. 



A Quorum of lihe House having met agreeable to the prorogation the 

 Clerk of the Council attended with a message from His Excellency that he 

 was in the Chair and directed the attendance of the House who attending 

 accordingly he was pleased to direct them to proceed to the choice oi a speaker 

 wMch they did and chose WHiliam Nesbitt, Esquire, and immediately attended 

 His Excellency with their Speaker who being presented was approved of by 

 His Excellency who was pleased to make the following speech : — 



" Gentlemen of the Council and House of Representatives : 



Tour remarkable zeal and attention to the true interest and prosperity of 

 the Province in the business of the last long session give me the strongest 

 assurances of your coming together again with dispositions that cannot fail 

 to afford the public and me the highest satisfaction. 



In the course of that Session yx)u got through almost everything essen- 

 tially necessary of a legislative nature and of consequence there can be but 

 little remaining to be done at this season, when your private avocations but 

 ill admit of your attendance upon the pubJick service. The most material 

 points that seem to call for your conisideration under the present circum- 

 stances of the Province are a provision for maintaining the Light House 

 erecting on Cape Sambro, and the establishing such rules and regulations as 

 may be necessary in conducting and managing the affairs of the Work House. 



And as overseers are appointed for taking care of the poor, I conceive in 

 order to render them of any use in their office, some provision should be 

 thoug*ht of for enabling them to give relief and assistance to such objects of 

 compassion as must perish without it ; how far the state of our finances may 

 encourage the consideration of a measure so laudable and expedient, it is 

 not easy to form any tolerable conjecture, unless it could be ascertained 

 what demands will probably be made on the Treasury under the promises of 

 the Publick for exciting labor and industry ; but I fear there is too much 

 reason to apprehend from the inconsiderable amount of the sums collected 

 upon the different Duties since Octoiber last that if the bounties upon industry 

 ■be demanded in a degree that it were to be wished they may, the Funds will 

 prove far from more than sufficient for answering the several purposes to 

 Which they have been appropriated. I cannot therefore refrain from recom- 



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