To His Excelly. Arthur Dobbs Esqr. Capt General & Governor of the Province of North Carolina;

The Humble Address of the Assembly of the said Province.

Sir,

As Bills for restoring the Courts of Judicature, and, through them, Life to government and the rights and Liberties of the People, Appeard to be indisputably of the first Importance to the Province, We thought it our Duty to give them the Precedence of all other Objects Whatsoever.

These Bills, Sir, have been dispatched with Unexampled Unanimity and Concurrence by both Houses, Are Engrossed, and now Only wait for your Excellys. Assent, that they may be passd. into Laws; which we trust will, by their Operation and Excellent Effects, distinguish the Wisdom and Justice of the Present Legislature.

The extreme solicitude of the People for the Enactment of Such Laws, and our Own Experience of the Great Mischiefs and Inconveniences which have happened in a Long Licentious Interval, call upon us to Beseech your Excelly. that you will be pleased to give your Imediate Assent to them; in Order that a Proper Foundation may be laid, as well for rendering So just a Satisfaction to the People, as for warranting our Procedure to the Dispatch of Other Important Matters.

And we deem your Excelly's. Assent the more Necessary to be given at this time, Since we propose to frame a Proper remonstrance to his Majesty; for Explaining the Expediency of our Deviation in some Articles, from what may have been Considered as a Direction to us, in the Construction of these Bills.

Sir, We take leave to strengthen this our Importunity by Assuring your Excelly., That we will exert every Practicable Endeavour to demonstrate the Strictness of our Attention to those General Objects, which were so Powerfully recommended to us at the Opening of this Session: having first, with such Satisfaction to our Consciences, Provided for the Particular Security of the Lives Liberties and Properties of our Constituents, His Majesty's Approv'd faithfull, and most Loyal Subjects upon all Occasions.

Saml Swann Speakr.

By Order

Wm. Herritage Clk

North Carolina
Assemblys Address to Pass the Court Bills

Rx with the Govrs Letter of 28 May 1760.

Read Novr. 26. 1760.

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