He returns it with amendments; as also their bill for extending the excise.
They adhere to their bills and assign their reasons.
The governor goes to Newcastle and the assembly adjourn.
Sir William Johnson's treaty with the six nations laid before them at their next meeting.
The governor appearing strongly inclined to involve the province in a war with the Delawares and Shawanese, some of the people called Quakers petition for specific measures.
The governor on the other hand alarms the house with an account of a number of people coming in a body to make demands upon them.
Their unanimity on that occasion.
The governor takes advantage of this incident to declare war against the said two Indian nations.
He also demands farther supplies, and intimates, that certain Indians, long subsisted by the province, were retiring in discontent, &c.
The assembly's answer.