General, Governor, and Commander in Chief,
in and over the Province of North Carolina.
SIR,
We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Sub-
jects, the Members of the Assembly of North
Carolina, have taken into Consideration your
Excellency's Speech at the opening of this Session.
We met in General Assembly with Minds
superior to private Dissention, determined calm-
ly, unitedly, and faithfully, to discharge the
sacred Trust reposed in us by our Consti
tuents. Actuated by Sentiments like these,
it behaves us to declare that the Assembly of
this Colony have the highest Sense of their
Allegiance to the King of Great Britain, to
whom alone, as our constitutional Sovereign, we
acknowledge Allegiance to be due, and to whom
we so cheerfully and repeatedly have sworn it,
that to remind us of the Oath was unne-
cessary. This Allegiance all past Assemblies have,
upon every Occasion, amply expressed; and we,
the present Representatives of the People, shall
be always ready by our Actions with Pleasure
to testify; sensible, however, that the same
Constitution which established that Allegiance,
and enjoined the Oath in Consequence of it,
General Governor and Commander in Chief
Province of North Carolina
Assembly of North
Carolina
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