Instructions to Committee Appointed to Manage the Conference

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Ordered, That the said Managers for this House do lay before the Managers for the Council the several Depositions taken by order of this House upon the inquiry into the causes of the late disturbances, and that they communicate to them the Address of this House, requesting his Lordship to return the Powder removed from the publick Magazine, by his order, and that he would be pleased to provide a proper quantity of Arms and Ammunition for the necessary security and defence of this Country, together with his Lordship' s Answer thereto. To propose to the Council to join this House in a proper Address to his Excellency, in reply to his Message in answer to their former joint Address, and also on the subject of the several Papers to be communicated to them. To represent to his Excellency bow much the important business of the session hath been impeded by his removal from the Palace, by which the necessary and free access to his Lordship, which we conceive the Constitution entitles us to, hath been cut off in a great measure; that there are several bills of the last importance, to this Country now ready to be presented to his Excellency for his assent, and that though both Houses, in hopes of preserving that harmony which they wish ever to subsist between the different branches of the Legislature, have hitherto submitted to the great inconvenience of travelling twelve miles, and going onboard one of His Majesty' s ships, to deliver their several Addresses, yet they think it would be highly improper, and a step not warranted by any principle of the Constitution, to present their bills in the same manner. That they therefore desire his Lordship will be pleased to meet them in the Capitol, or, if he is determined not to do this, that he would be pleased at least to come on shore, and they will wait upon his Excellency

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Then the names of the Managers were called over; and they went to the conference.

And being returned,

Mr˙ Bland reported, that the Managers had been at the conference with the Council, and had laid before them the several depositions taken by order of this House upon the inquiry into the causes of the late disturbances, and communicated to them the Address of this House requesting his Lordship to return the Powder, removed from the publick Magazine by his order, and that he would be pleased to provide a proper quantity of Arms and Ammunition for the necessary security and defence of this Country, together with his Lordship' s answer thereto; and proposed to the Council to join this House in a proper Address to his Excellency, in reply to his Message in answer totheir former joint Address, and also on the subject of the several Papers communicated to them. And that the Council agreed to join this House in the said Address, and that the managers for this House had drawn, up a joint Address accordingly, which was carried to the Council for their concurrence.