We do ourselves the honor to inclose your Excellency Copy of a Message from his Excellency the Governor with a Copy of the Letter referred to therein. Could the Legislature have afforded immediate Relief, or was there the least prospect of procuring any Provisions of the meat kind in time to prevent the Evils, we should not have troubled you on the occasion: But altho’ we have impowered our State Agent to draw on our Treasury for Money to make purchases of Beef [ye]t he cannot derive any advantage from it as the Treasury [is] entirely destitute of Money; nor is there the least prospect [that] any will come in until a new State Currency which [we] have directed to be issued can be prepared for emission, and that we cannot reasonably expect to be in less than two Months. We are therefore impelled by the irresistable force of Necessity again to intreat your Excellency’s intervention and beg that Orders may be given for a continued Supply; for should the Troops be under the necessity of abandoning the Posts they now occupy, they will be instantly followed by all the remaining Inhabitants, occasion unspeakable Distress to them be productive of a very prejudicial Influence on the Minds of the People, afford an advantage to the Enemy and be extensively detrimental to the Army and the States in general. The alarming Prospect before us can only appologize for this Intrusion, and we are persuaded it will be a sufficient one with a Gentleman who feels so sensibly for every part of the Country. We are with great Respect & Esteem Your Excellency’s most Obedt Servants. Signed at the Request of the Legislature