In each instance, also, the Speaker was ordered to sign the document, in behalf of the House; and, after having ordered the Speaker to transmit these three several petitions to the King, the Lords, and the Commons, " with all convenient speed, to Edmund " Burke, Esquire, Agent of this Colony at the Court " of Great Britain ; and that a Letter be prepared, to " be approved by this House, to the said Agent, with "directions that he present the same, in behalf of "this Colony, as they are respectively directed, as "soon after the receipt thereof as possible;" and with the additional Order " that Mr. Speaker trans- "mit, at the same time, to the Agent, the State of the " Grievances of this Colony and the Resolutions of "this House thereupon," the House adjourned."

On the thirty-first of March, the Assembly ordered the Speaker to send to the Speakers of the several Houses of A.«sembly on this Continent, as soon after

5 The original Jmtnmta nf tlie Axsemtili/ which included the proceedings oftlie entire Session wliicli is now under consideration, were lost during tlie trouljlesome times of tliat period ; and the only known copy of the original printeil edition of those Jourtiah wanted four pages, in this portion of it. Tliose niissing pages contained the closing portion of the proceedings of the House, on the Petition to the King, as stated in the text, and the opening of its proceedings on the Memorial to the House of Lonls.