The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Volume 15) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I Savannah December 24th 1768 To Benjamin Franklin Esquire Sir By direction of the Commons House of Assembly of the Province of Georgia, I herewith transmit you their Speaker to - ., ., T Provincial Address to our most gracious bovereign, which 1, on their behalf, desire you will please to have presented as soon after the Receipt as possibly may be, the manner of presenting is left to you, whether in person or other- ways? I also enclose the Resolution of the House authorizing me to transmit the same to you The House, entirely confiding in your approved Zeal for the Welfare and the Preservation of the rights and Liberties of America, make not the least Doubt of your concurring with the Agents of the other Colonies, in Endeavours to obtain a Repeal of those Acts of Parliament so grievous to his Majesty's Loyal Subjects of this Continent and destructive of that Harmony which ought to, and they earnestly wish may, subsist between our Mother Country and its Coloneys, a Restoration of which, we doubt not, you and they will earnestly, warmly, and as much as possible, promote? I am very respectfully Yr most Obedr Servant Noble Wimberly Jones, Speaker Then Mr. Speaker informed the House, that pursuant to the Order of the last Assembly, he had wrote to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Massa- chusets Bay, and to the Speaker of the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia enclosing them the Resolutions of the late House to both which Letters he had as yet received no Answer ? Mr Speaker also presented to the House two Letters he had Received from Benjamin Franklin Esquire, the Provincial Agent, together with Sundry other Papers inclosed by the said Agent ? Ordered That the said Letters be entered upon the Journals of this House ? ...