Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1755-1756 (Philadelphia, 1756), p. 21.
[November 11, 1755]
May it please the Governor,

We have considered the Governor’s Message of Yesterday, relating to the Application and pressing Instances of the Indians, and are glad to find, that he is at length prevailed on to declare himself “ready and desirous to do any thing, consistent with his Duty to the Crown, for the Protection and Assistance, as well as of our Allies, as of the Inhabitants of this Province in general.” We never have, and we hope never shall, desire him to do any thing inconsistent with that Duty. He has it now in his Power to do what he may think the Exigence requires, for the Service of the Crown, the Protection of our Allies, and of the Inhabitants of the Province. As Captain-General, he has, by the Royal Charter, full Authority to raise Men; and the Bill now in his Hands, granting Sixty Thousand Pounds, will enable him to pay the Expences. We grant the Money chearfully, tho’ the Tax to sink it will be a heavy one; and we hope the Bill will receive his Assent immediately.

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