New-Jersey, you are to appoint fit officers and commanders in the several parts of the country bordering upon the Indians, who upon any invasion may raise men and arms to oppose them, until they shall receive your directions therein.

97. And whereas we have been pleased by our commission to direct, that in case of your death or absence from our said province, and in case there be at that time no person upon the place commissionated or appointed by us to be our lieutenant governor, or commander in chief, the then present council of our said province, shall take upon them the administration of the government, and execute our said commission, and the several powers and authorities therein contained in the manner therein directed; it is nevertheless our express will and pleasure, that in such case the said council shall forbear to pass any acts, but what are immediately necessary for the peace and welfare of our said province, without our particular order for that purpose.

98. You are to take care, that all writs be issued in our name throughout our said province.

98. Forasmuch as great inconveniences may arise by the liberty of printing in our said province, you are to provide by all necessary orders, that no person keep any press for printing, nor that any book, pamphlet or other matters whatsoever be printed without your especial leave and license first obtained.

100. And if anything shall happen that may be of advantage and security to our said province, which is not herein, or by our commission to you provided for, we do hereby allow unto you, with the advice and consent of our council of our said province, to take order for the present therein, giving unto us by one of our principal secretary's of state, and to our commissioners for trade and plantations, speedy notice thereof, that so you may receive our ratification if we shall approve of the same.

101. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that you do not by any colour of any power or authority hereby given you, commence or declare war, without our knowledge and particular commands therein, except it be againt Indians, upon emergencies, wherein the consent of our council shall be had, and speedy notice given thereof unto us as aforesaid.

102. And you are upon all occasions to send unto us by one of our principal secretary's of state, and to our commissioners for trade and plantations, a particular account of all your proceedings, and of the condition of affairs within your government.

103. 'And whereas the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament, upon consideration of the great abuses practised in the plantation trade, did by an humble address represent to his late majesty, the great importance it is of, both to this our kingdom and to our plantations in America, that the many good laws which have been made for the government of the said plantations, and particularly the act passed in the seventh and eighth years of his said majesty's reign, An act for preventing frauds, and regulating abuses in the plantation trade, be strictly observed. You are therefore to take notice that whereas notwithstanding the many good laws made from time to time, for preventing frauds in the plantation trade, it is nevertheless manifest, that very great abuses have been and continue still to be practised to the prejudice of the same, which abuses must needs arise, either from the insolvency of the persons who are accepted for the security or from the remissness or connivance of such as have been, or are governors in the several plantations, who ought to take care, that those persons who give bond should be duly

'As printed in Grants and Concessions, from an attested copy in the Office of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations at Whitehall, made in 1747, the sections after No. 53 are without numbers.-ED.

prosecuted, in case of non performance; we take the good of our plantations and the improvement of the trade thereof, by a strict and punctual observance of the several laws in force concerning the same, to be of so great importance to the benefit of this our kingdom, and to the advancing of the duties of our customs here, that if we shall be hereafter informed, that at any time there shall be any failure in the due observance of those laws, within our foresaid province of Nova-Cæsaria, or New-Jersey, by any wilful fault or neglect on your part, we shall look upon it as a breach of trust reposed in you by us, which we shall punish with the loss of your place in that government, and such further marks of our displeasure, as we shall judge reasonable to be inflicted upon you, for your offence against us, in a matter of this consequence, that we now so particularly charge you with.

Lord Cornbury to the Lords of Trade.

[From N. Y. Col. Doc'ts., Vol. IV., p 1021.]

To the Rt Honble the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.

My Lords.

Though I dispatcht the Benjamin on the 14 Instant yet the South-westerly Winds have detained her here still: Therefore I take this opportunity to inform your Lordships that this afternoon I received information from East Jersey, that Coll Andrew Hamilton has very lately held a Meeting or Assembly in East Jersey which he calls the Governour of East and West New Jersey assembled in Councill.' In this Councill, so

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1 Probably a meeting of the Council of Proprietors.-ED.

termed he has thought fit to receive several petitions and to make several orders upon them. He has ordered a tract of land to be assigned to Lewis Morris Esq: in consideration of his Services when in England. And he has ordered that the Quit Rents due by the said Morris to the proprietors for several tracts of land be allowed him. This is as far as my information goes, which I thought myself obliged to inform your Lordships of. I am told in a day or two, I shall have a full account of the whole matter with the names of the persons present. If this ship is not sailed before that time, I shall acquaint you with what further information I receive, I am

My Lords;

Your Lordships most faithfull humble Servant CORNBURY

New York

Dec' the 21, 1702.

Queen Anne to Lord Cornbury and the Council of New Jersey, relating to the Governor's Salary.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, No, 12, p. 130.]

To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Edward Lord Cornbury Our Captain General and Governour in Cheif of Our Province of Nova Casaria or New Jersey in America and to Our Council of Our said Province. Or to the Commander in Cheif and Council of our said Province for the time being.

ANNE R.

RIGHT TRUSTY AND WELLBELOVED We greet you well; Whereas We have appointed you Our Governour in

Chief of Our Province of New-Jersey in America: And there being no Provision made (as We yet understand) for the support of yourself or of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the said Province for the time being, We do hereby signify to You Our Royal Will and Pleasure, that at the first Meeting of the Assembly after the Receipt hereof, you do acquaint them with Our Expectation that in regard of Our receiving Our good Subjects of that Province under Our immediate Protection and Government they do forthwith settle a Constant and fixt Allowance on You Our Governour and our Governour and Lieutenant Governour for the time being, suitable to their respective Characters and Dignity, and that the same be done without Limitation of time.

In consideration whereof We are hereby pleased to direct that neither you Our Governour, nor any Governour, Lieutenant Governour Commander in Cheif, or President of the Councill of Our said Province for the time being, do give your or their Consent to the passing any Law or Act for any Gift or Present to be made to you or them by the Assembly, and that neither you nor they do receive any Gift or Present from the Assembly, or others, on any Account, or in any manner whatsoever, upon pain of Our Highest Displeasure And of being recalled from that our Government:

And we do further direct and require that this Declaration of Our Royal Will and Pleasure be commuicated to the Assembly at their first Meeting after your Receipt hereof and Entred in the Registers of Our Council & Assembly, that all persons whom it may concern may govern themselves accordingly. So We bid you farewell. GIVEN at Our Court at St James's the 20th day of April 1703 in the 2 year of Our Reign. By her MajTM Command NOTTINGHAM.