Singular the Powers and Authorities hereby Granted unto you for and during our Will & pleasure Imediately upon your Arrivall within our said Province of New Hampshire and the Publication of this our Commission. AND Lastly we have determined and made voyde and by these presents doe determine and make void the like Commission or Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England, bearing date at Westm' the thirteenth day of February, now last Past, Granted by our said late Royall Brother King William, the third, unto the said Joseph Dudley. IN WITTNESSE whereof wee have caused these our Letters to be made pattents. WITTNESSE Our selfe at Westminster the first day of Aprill in the first yeare of our Reigne, [1702.]

His Excellency JOSEPH DUDLEY, Esq., Govern' and Command'-in-chief in and over her Maj'tys said Province &c. The Honorable Wm. Partridge, Esq. Lt. Governor.

John Hinkes,

Nath. Fryer, Esqs.

Peter Coffin,

Robert Elliott, I
Rich. Waldron,

Esqs.

Her Majestys Letters Patents constituting his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Maj'tys Province of New Hampshire was read and published.

Her Majestys Commission unto his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. to be Vice Admiral, &c. was produced in Council.

The Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, were by the Council administered unto his said Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq.; also his Excellency repeated and subscribed the Declaration & Association, and took the Oaths appointed by an Act

of Parliament made in the 7th and 8th year of his late Majesty King Wm.'s Reign, to observe all matters and things contained in the several Acts of Parliament in that Act recited, and in that present Act, before the Lieut. Govern' and Council.

Adjourned till 5 a clock, post meridiem.

[P. 54.]

Province of New Hampsh'.

At a Council held at Portsm° by adjournment,
Die Lunæ, 13th July, 1702, post meridiem.

Present.

His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Govern' and Command'-in Chiefe, &c.

Wm. Partridge, Esq. Lt. Governor, &c.

His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Govern' & Command' &c. took the Oaths duly to execute the place of Governor and Commander-in-Chiefe, in and over said Province.

The Honble Wm. Partridge, Esq. Lieut. Govern', John Hinkes, Nath' Fryer, Peter Coffin, Robert Elliott, Nath' Weare, Samuel Penhallow, John Plaisted and Henry Dow, Esqrs. members of her Maj'tys Council, and Mr. Charles Story, Secretary, took the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament instead of the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and repeated and subscribed the Declaration and Association.

His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Govern' and Command' &c. was pleased to declare in Council that all Officers, civil and military, shall be and continue in their several places and stations, as formerly, until further order; and that each and every of them take due care for the pres

ervation of the Peace, and that all her Maj'stys subjects within said Province, take notice to govern themselves accordingly.

Ordered, that the same be forthwith published by the Sheriffe with Beat of Drum, &c.

[P. 55.] Ordered, that her Majestys Letters Patents, constituting his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Govern', and Commander in Chiefe, in and over said Province, and her Maj'tys Commission granted unto his Excellency to be Vice Admiral, &c. be with all convenient speed, recorded by Mr. Charles Story, Secretary, in the usual Book, for recording such Commissions.*

Adjourned till tomorrow morning, 9 of the clock.

Province of New Hampsh'.

At a Council held at Portsm° by adjt on Tuesday the 14th of July, 1702, ante meridiem.

Present.

His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Govern' and Com

mand' &c.

The Hon. Wm. Partridge, Esq. Lieut. Gov'.

His Excellency, by the advice of her Maj'tys Council have thought fit that the Assembly of this Province continue in their Stations, and notwithstanding they were adjod by the Honble Wm. Partridge, Esq. Lt. Govern' till the first Tuesday in August next, It is Ordered that the Sheriffe give notice to each member of the Assembly to ap

The Commission of Gov. Dudley, as Vice-Admiral, is written in Latin, and recorded in Book of Commissions in the Secretary's Office. It is judged inexpedient here to publish it.

pear in General Assembly at Portsmouth on Friday morning, by ten of the clock, and that writts be issued [P. 56.] forth for the new Election of three members of the Assembly in loco-Sam" Penhallow and John Plaisted, of Portsmouth, Esqs. and Henry Dow of Hampton, Esq. who are now members of her Maj'tys Council.

Adja till 10 a clock Friday morning next.

Province of New Hampsh'.

At a Council held at Portsmouth, by adj', on Wednesday the 22 July, 1702, post meridiem.

Present.

His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq. Gov' &c.

The Hon. William Partridge, Esq. Lieut. Govern'.

John Hinkes,

Robert Elliott, Esqs.
Peter Coffin,

Sam. Penhallow,

John Plaisted,

Henry Dow,

Esqs.

directed to the Captain of

Ordered, that a Warrant be the Fort Wm. and Mary that he suffer no Shipps or Vessels to pass by said Fort without producing a particular clearing, besides their former clearings, from the Treasurer or Receiver of all Rates and Duties upon Lumber, and goods imported and exported out of this Province :—which was accordingly signed by his Excellency, and the Secretary of ys Province.

Ordered, that Mr. Theodore Atkinson, of New Castle, and Capt. Henry Dow of Hampton, be Receivers under the Treasurer, of all the Rates, Duties, &c. laid upon Lumber, Goods, &c. by an Act passed the 17th July, 1702.

[P. 57.] Whereas there was formerly a vote by the Assembly, that there should be twenty pounds allowed for the Agent's passage and provision for England, and it appearing that the said sum was not sufficient, but that there was 7£ more laid out for the same;

Ordered, that the Lieut. Govern' who disbursed the said twenty seven pounds be paid out of the public Treasury, and have his warrant to be paid accordingly.

An Acct. of several disbursements for the Reception of his Excellency the Govern" and the Gentlemen with him, and for entertainment of men and horses at Hampton and Portsmouth, made payable to the Honble the Lt. Govern'; the several accts. being showed, amounting seventy seven pounds, eight and six pence, is allowed and ordered to be paid, and warrant go out accordingly. Accts upon file.

Mr. Charles Story, Secretary, produced his acctts where the Province is Dr. to him as Secretary of said Province, amounting to seventy six pounds, ten shillings, and six pence, is allowed and ordered that he have his warrant accordingly, (saving the article of the second ten pounds for ingrossing the Laws, which is referred to consideration of the Assembly in their next Session.)

Ordered, that Richard Jose, Esq. High Sheriffe of said Province, have twelve pieces of Eight allowed for his attendance upon his Excellency and Council twelve days, when his said Excellency came first here, and warrant go out accordingly.

His Excellency, the Gov. having acquainted the Council that the Lieut. Gov. who attended him at Boston, at his arrival, did by his desire and advice [P. 58.] present Capt. Herne, Commander of the Centurion, with twenty pounds, in the name of this Province, as an acknowledgment of his respect to the Govern' in his passage from England:

It is ordered, That the said twenty pounds be repaid. him, and that the next Assembly be acquainted therewith, particularly, as well as in the accounts of disbursments in ordinary to be laid before them.

The Gov declared in Council that the Watches and Wards in all out Towns begin on Monday next, and that the Garrisons in said Several Towns under the hands of the Govern' or Lieut. Gov's order, be sufficiently repaired.