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tions as aforesaid are £250 sterl. for the Division of East
New Jersey and 250 £ Sterling for the Division of West New
Jersey You are therefore to Inform Your self what has been
done therein and what remains further to be done and to send
An Account thereof to us and Our Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations as aforesaid.

Instruction 92. And you are alsoe in Our name Instantly
to Recommend to our Council and the General Assembly of
our said Province of New York that they Exert the Utmost
of their Power in Provideing without Delay what further
shall be Requisite for Repairing Erecting and Maintaining
of such fforts in all Parts of that Province as you and they
shall Agree upon.
A Paragraph of a Letter from his Excellency W^m Burnett
Esq^r to his Hon^r Charles Calvert Esq^r Gov^r of this Province
Dated April 1721.

s^r

L. H. J.

The Enclosed Papers will Shew you both the Occasion &
Grounds of my Giveing you thisTrouble If there is not Speedy
Care taken to Repair the Fortifications on the Fronteer of
New York and to build some New ones, the french will soon
have it, in their Power to set the Indians on Ruining all the
Colonys where the plantations lye remote from great Towns.
I must therefore Recomend it to you to provide the Six hun-
dred and fifty pounds which the King has named as the Quota
of your Province & transmit it to New York to be Applyed
as the Kings Instructions Directs.

By the Upper House of Assembly July the 20^th 1721.

Gentlemen. His Honour the Governr having laid before
us the Papers herew^th Sent you, We desire your Consideration
thereon and request you to Inspect into the Journals of your
House in March Assembly 1701/2 for your further Informa-
tion therein; for that our Journals of that Date are not so full
in Relation to that affair, as we hope yours are and that after
Consideration you will Return us the Papers herewith sent
with your Thoughts thereon And what you find has been
Transacted in Relation thereto.
Signed p Order. John Beale Cler. Up; Ho.

The Petition of Joseph Lazear praying that he and his
children may be naturalized is Read and Leave Given to bring
in a Bill as prayed.
The Petition of the Nanticoke Pocomoke and Indian River
Indians praying that a Bill may be brought in to prevent the

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