The assembly reduce and rectify the matter of alarm communicated
by the governor, and advise such measures as might reclaim the
Indians, &c.
A new message concerning the depredations of the Indians
Sixty thousand pounds granted, to be struck in bills of credit, which
were to be sunk by a tax of six-pence in the pound, and a poll tax
of ten shillings a head yearly, for four years; which the governor
refuses, and talks of setting off for the back counties
A new message reporting, that the Susquehanna Indians had offered
their service to the province, provided it was accepted without delay
Two messages from the assembly to the governor, the first concerning
peace with the Indians, and the money-bill; the other an answer to
his concerning the Susquehanna Indians
They send up a bill for regulating the Indian trade
The famous Kentish petition to the house of commons, in 1701, out-
done by the mayor of Philadelphia, and one hundred and thirty
three other inconsiderates, in a demand on their assembly to con-
stitute a militia forthwith
Another from the assembly to him, justifying their bill both in matter
and manner
He communicates to the assembly a discussion of Indian affairs, as
prepared by his council; calls upon them to provide for a swarm of