preserving the Public Peace of the Colony, and it Reflects Credit on the Inhabitants that their prudent and orderly Behaviour has been obvious to your Excellency; and their thanks are due to you for such favourable Representations as you have been pleased to make of them to His Majesty's Ministers.

Your Excellency's Approbation of our Conduct is a further Satisfaction to us. Respect to the Authority of Government, the Preservation of Peace and good order in this Colony will ever be objects of our strict Attention, and it is with Pleasure we have observed in the Conduct of the Chief Justice and many Magistrates & others of this Province that they have been actuated by the same Sentiments.

The Tenderness, Lenity & Condescension of His Majesty, and the Wisdom & Justice of the British Parliament, in removing the Danger that lately threatened the Colonies, Cannot but Excite in all his American Subjects the strongest Sentiments of Loyalty and will necessarily Contribute to advance the General Interest and Happiness of the British Empire, which we shall ever strenuously Endeavour to promote.

Circular from the Lords of Trade to the Governors of the Plantations in America, requiring from them an account of the several manufactures carried on in their respective Governments.

Sir

[From New York Colonial Documents, Vol. VII, p. 847.]

WHITEHALL Aug 1st 1766

In pursuance of an address of the House of Lords to His Majesty on the 27th of March last, and of His Majesty's Commands thereupon, Signified to us by His Grace the Duke of Richmond, in a letter to us

dated the 11th ultimo, you are forthwith to prepare, and, as soon as possible transmit to us, in order to be laid before the House of Commons in the next Session, a particular and Exact Account of the Several Manufactures which have been set up and Carried on within the Colony under Your Government since the Year 1734. And of the public encouragement which have been given thereto.

You are also from time to time Annually to transmit the like Account of any Manufactures which shall hereafter be set up, and of the Public Encouragement which have been given thereto.

We are &c
DARTMOUTH.

JOHN ROBERTS Wm FITZHERBERT PALMERSTON

ED. ELLIOT.

Proclamation of Governor of New York-relative to the robbery of the East Jersey Treasury.

[From N. Y. Col. MSS., in Secretary of State's Office, Albany, Vol. XCV., p. 48.]

L. S.

By his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it appears on Oath that in the Night of the twenty first day of July last, the House of Stephen Skinner Esq' Treasurer of the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey, was broke open, and upwards of Seven thousand Pounds, feloniously taken and car

ried away from thence, by some Person or Persons unknown, part of the said Money consisting of Dollars: a small part of Gold; and the Residue chiefly of New Bills of Credit of the Colony of New Jersey. And Whereas his Excellency the Governour of that Province, has requested that I would give Directions to the Civil Officers within this Government to use their Endeavors to discover and apprehend the Perpetrators of the said Felony; and for this purpose to examine all Persons who from the possession of an unusual Sum of the Currency of the Colony of New Jersey, or other Circumstances may be suspected of being Concerned therein. I have therefore thought fit by and with the Advice of his Majesties Council of this Province, to Notify the Premises by this Proclamation, Hereby also strictly enjoining and requiring all Magistrates Justices of the Peace, Sherifs and other Officers within the same, diligently to exert themselves in order to discover the Perpetrator or Perpetrators of the Burglary and Felony aforesaid and if found, him or them to apprehend and Commit or Cause to be apprehended or Committed to the next Jail there to remain to be dealt with according to Law.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Fort George in the City of New York the third day of August one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight; in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth.

By his Excellencys Command

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H. MOORE.

GOD SAVE THE KING

It appears by Governor Franklins Proclamation of the twenty sixth of July that the Person who shall discover and bring the above Offenders or either of them to Justice will be entitled to Fifty Pounds from

the Governour of New Jersey, and to a farther Reward of One hundred Pounds to be paid by Mr. Skinner, and that any accomplice making such discovery will also be entitled to his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

Additional Instruction to the Governors in the Amer ican Plantations, regulating their Correspondence.

[From New York Colonial Documents, Vol. VII., p. 848.]

WHITEHALL Aug. 9. 1766. Whereas we have thought fit by Order made in our Privy Council on the 8th Instant, to revoke and repeal an Order made in Council by his late Majesty our royal Grandfather on the 4th of March 1752, containing several Rules and Regulations relating to our Colonies and Plantations in America and elsewhere, particularly with respect to the Correspondence to be carried on between our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations and the Governors of the said Colonies and Plantations respectively. It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure to revoke and annul and We do hereby revoke and annul all and every such Part and Parts of our general Instructions, and of any additional Instructions to you, as do direct and require you to Correspond in matters relative to your Government with Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations only; And it is Our Will and Pleasure that in all cases where you are directed & required to transmit any General or particular Accounts of your proceedings, or of matters relative to your Governments, you do, for the future transmit the same to us, by one of our principal Secretaries of State, and also transmit Duplicates thereof to our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations for their information except in cases of a secret nature.

Letter from Governor Franklin to the Secretary of the Lords of Trade, transmitting votes of the Assembly and Laws passed at the last session.

Sir,

[From P. R. O., B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 59.]

BURLINGTON, New Jersey, Sept: 10th 1766

John Pownall Esq.

I receiv'd yours of the 19th of June, with the several Acts of Parliament relating to America, which passed in the last Session.

Enclosed are the printed Votes of the Assembly, and the Laws past at a Session held at Amboy in June last, which I must desire you to lay before the Lords Commiss for Trade & Plantations, as they contain all the late Transactions of any Importance within this Government. By the Indisposition of the principal Clerk in the Secretary's Office, I am prevented from sending a Copy of the Minutes of Council, & certified Copies of the Acts in the usual Manner, but their Lordships may depend upon receiving them by the next Packet.

I am, Sir, Your most obedient

and humble Servant
WM FRANKLIN