Private

I owe you many thanks for your obliging note of the 2nd of
December, respecting the "Ordinances" laid before the Assembly,
on the 27th of May last, of which I omitted to forward copies
at the time to the Secretary of State. The cause which led to
that omission was the recollection that copies of all those
Documents had been forwarded with the Minutes as they were
passed and approved by the Council, and 
it therefore did not
occur to me when transmitting my correspondence with the
Assembly, that other copies of those ordinances would be wanted.

I now perceive the mistake we committed and will send with this
packet the required documents.