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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Letter text, November 10, 1777==<br />
<div align="center">GOVERNOR HENRY TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF<br /></div><br />
<div align="center">DELEGATES, GEORGE WYTHE.<br /></div><br />
<div align="center">(''From Virginia State Archives''.)<br /></div><br />
<div align="right">Nov<sup>r</sup> 10<sup>th</sup> 1777<br /></div><br />
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''Sir''<br />
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I have the Honor to transmit to the general Assembly the several papers which accompany this which were brought to me yesterday by Express from our Delegates at Congress. <br />
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Some of the militia lately called into Service at Portsmouth will be speedily discharged from thence for want of proper Barracks, unless an officers I have order’d to that place for the purpose can provide them. <br />
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I am<br />
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<div align="center">Sir<br /></div><br />
<div align="center">Your most humble servant,<br /></div><br />
<div align="right">P. HENRY<br /></div><br />
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The Honble Geo. Wythe Esq<sup>r</sup><br />
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==Letter text, November 10, 1777==<br />
<div align="center">(''From Journal of the House of Delegates''.)<br /></div><br />
<div align="right">November 10, 1777.<br /></div><br />
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''Resolved'', That this House will, to-morrow, resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to consider of the letters from the Governor, which with several other papers were ordered to lie upon the table. <br />
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''Ordered'', That the treaty between the commissioners, appointed on behalf of this Commonwealth, and the chiefs of the Cherokee Indians made the 20<sup>th</sup> day of July last, and laid before the House by the Governor, be referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom the motion “that a supply be provided for the public exigencies.”</div>Jafetzer