Whenever the Service of the King, or the Interest of the Country, may appear to require their Attendance in Assembly, we hope the Representatives of the People will always, as they have now done, pay a ready and chearful Obedience to the Governor’s Call, however inconvenient the Season may be with respect to their private Affairs: We are nevertheless thankful to the Governor for his considerate Regard to our Circumstances on the present Occasion, expressed in his Message of the Third Instant.

And we now beg Leave to inform the Governor, that we have had that Message under our serious Consideration ever since it came down to the House; but, after all our Debates thereupon, we find, that near one Half of the Members are, for various Reasons, against granting any Money to the Kings’s Use at this Time; and those who are for granting, differ so widely in their Sentiments concerning the Sum, that there seems at present no Possibility of their agreeing, except in such a Sum, as, in the Judgment of many of them, is quite disproportionate to the Occasion: Therefore, and that the Members may have an Opportunity of consulting their Constituents on this important Affair, we are now inclined to adjourn to the Thirteenth of the next Month.

We thank the Governor for his very obliging Message of the Fourth Instant, and shall take the same, and the Papers therewith communicated to us, under Consideration, and offer our Sentiments to the Governor on the Weighty Matters they contain at our next Meeting. At the same Time we shall provide for the Expences of the Commisioners the Governor has been pleased to nominate for the Treaty at Albany, of whom we approve, and have now voted a Present of Five Hundred Pounds, to be by them delivered to the Indians on that Occasion, in Behalf of this Province.