Truly sensible of your well experienced Fidelity, and merit, immediately on the meeting of the General Assembly, the Commons house passed an Ordinance reappointing you as Agent which was rejected by the Upper House for reasons best known to themselves, it was necessary, however, that something should appear to account for their mysterious conduct and the enclosed is a copy of the minutes extracted from their Journals by a Committee of the lower House appointed for that purpose.

Your conduct has been so generally approved that the Representatives of the People could not suffer those measures to pass over unnoticed and they therefore directly entered into such Resolutions as they thought sufficient to do Justice to a Reputation which is of itself so Sacred and well known as to require no foreign support, a copy of which you have also enclosed.

It sometimes happens in Societies as in private Life that small injuries are suffered and winked at until they increase and become too intolerable to be any longer borne; the Commons of Georgia upon a presumption that any Gentleman nominated by them would receive no Opposition from either of the other legislative Branches from time to time have made it their practice to prepare an Ordinance and send it to the Upper House for their concurrence. This has at length been miscontrued into a Right and they now suppose no Agent for the people can be properly appointed unless they join in the nomination.

Perfectly convinced of their exclusive Right the Commons House have entered into a Resolution (a copy of which you will also herewith receive) reappointing you their Agent and we are directed to entreat that you will do just honor to their choice by your acceptance of the Office, And upon such presumption we are instructed to acquaint you that the Province has lately been much alarmed and terrified by the incursions of some discontented Creek Indians who have perpetrated many murders and otherwise committed great Depredations on the persons and property of many Setlers lately residing on our Frontier formed by the Lands lately ceded to His Majesty. Although the party of Indians which committed these Outrages consists of about fifty of the Lower Creeks only and their treacherous and cruel Behavior is disapproved of and condemned by their countrymen in the Upper Creek Nation, yet, when satisfaction comes to be demanded, it is much to be feared that their incapacity to give such as should (and probably will) be insisted upon may be the unavoidable means of bringing on a General War with that powerful Nation whose number of fighting men we have reason to believe from the best authority amounts to full Four Thousand.

As this Province is very far from being able to carry on of itself so expensive and dangerous a War, the two branches of the Legislative Body have seperately furnished His Excellency the Governor with addresses to the King, which he has promised to cause to be presented by the earliest opportunity, the Commons House for reasons which you will undoubtedly see through, thought Administration the properest channel for their Address to pass to His Majesty; they, however, directed us to furnish you with the enclosed copy and desire that you will add another proof of your attachment to this Province by exerting your utmost influence in support of our application to the Crown for Troops to reduce the Savages to a proper sense of their conduct and bring them to Terms of Peace and Justice. We have nothing further to add but that we are with great esteem and respect. Sir Your most Obedient Servants.