Province of New Jersey, was broke open and upwards of Seven thousand Pounds feloniously taken and carried 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 Governor of that Province, hath 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 Majesty's 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 and 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. H. MOORE

By his Excellency's Command

GEO BANYAR D Secry.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

It appears by Governor Franklin's Proclamation of the twenty sixth of July that the Person who shall dis

cover and bring the above Offenders or either of them to Justice will be entitled to Fifty Pounds from the Government of New Jersey, and to a farther Reward of One hundred Pounds to be paid by M: Skinner, and that any Accomplice making such Discovery, will also be entitled to his Majesty's most gracious Pardon. (The whole endorsed)

3 August 1768. Proclamation for Apprehending Persons Concerned in Robbing the Treasurer of East New Jersey.

An order of the King in Council, repealing an Act passed in New Jersey in June, 1767, appointing Commissioners for supplying the Barracks, etc., and directing that the Governor should be admonished for having passed that Act contrary to an Act of Parliament.

[From P. R. O., B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 73.]

AT THE COURT AT ST. JAMES's the 12th Day of August 1768.

PRESENT.

The King's most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS there was this Day read at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for plantation Affairs dated the 9th of this Instant in the words following Viz!

"Your Majesty having been pleased by Your Order "in Council of the 29th of June last to refer unto this "Committee a Representation from the Lords Com"missioners for Trade and plantations Dated the 10th "of the same Month in the words following Viz!

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"Amongst the Laws passed in your Majestys Colony of Jersey in June 1767, there is one Entitled An Act appointing Commissioners for Supplying "the several Barracks erected in the Colony of New Jersey with Furniture and other Necessaries for "accomodating the Kings Troops, in or marching through the same, for supplying Deficiences and "Defraying other Incidental Charges.

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Whereupon we beg leave humbly to represent "that by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifth year "of your Majestys Reign, for amending the Mutiny "Act, and for rendring it more Effectual in Your "Majestys Dominions in America." Various Regula

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"tions and Directions are laid down relative to the Quartering your Majestys Troops in the Colonies; "The Mode pointed out in which that service is to be "provided for and the Articles Enumerated of which "those Supplies are to Consist. In the provincial Law "now Submitted to Your Majesty, the Nomination of "the Commissioners for furnishing and Supplying the "Barracks in Your Majestys Colony of New Jersey is "made the Act of the general Legislature deviating thereby from the Directions of the Act of parlia"ment which Impowers the Gov! & Councel to "Authorize & Appoint those Commissioners and upon Neglect or refusal of such Governor and Council "Vests that Nomination and Appointment in any two or more of the Justices of the peace residing in or near such place where Your Majestys Troops shall "be Quartered.

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"Another provision wherein this Law appears to "us not Strictly Comformable to the Act of parliament "is with respect to the Articles wherewith it is "Directed that your Majestys Troops shall be Sup

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plied; These are particularly Enumerated in the "Act of parliament and are as follow (viz) Fire, "Candles, Vinegar and Salt, Bedding, Utensils for

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"dressing their Victuals and Small Beer or Cyder (not exceeding five pints) or half a pint of Rum mixed “with a Quart of Water to Each Man The provincial "Law does not recite the above particulars as Enu❝merated in the Act of parliament, but directs only, "that your Majestys Troops shall be provided with Vinegar and small beer the latter of which is lim"ited to a less Quantity for each Man Day then is prescribed by the Act of parliament.

"There is another Clause likewise which provides "that the Monies thereby given shall not be Supplied "to purchasing Necessaries for more than one Regi"ment, in the Colony at any one time, except during "the time of relieving the Regiment Quartered there"in for these Reasons We do now (as we did in the "Case of a Law passed in this Colony in the year "1766, find ourselves under the repeated Necessity of laying above Act before your Majesty for your Royal "Disallowance." The Lords of the Committee in obedience to your Majestys said order of reference this Day took the said Representation and Act into their Consideration, and do agree humbly to Report to your Majesty as their opinion that the said act should be disallowed; and that one of your Majestys principal Secretaries of State should receive your Majestys pleasure to Admonish the Governor of New Jersey, for having passed this Law contrary to an Act of parliament, and this Notwithstanding a Law of the same Nature passed in New Jersey in 1766 has before been rejected by your Majesty in Council.

His Majesty taking the said Report into Consideration was pleased with the Advice of His Privy Council to Approve of what is therein proposed and accordingly to Disallow the said Act; And his Majesty doth hereby Order that the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough one of His Majestys principal Secretaries of State do receive His Majestys pleasure to admonish

the Governor of the province of New Jersey for having passed the said Law contrary to an Act of parliament and this notwithstanding a Law of the same Nature, passed in New Jersey in 1766 has been before rejected by His Majesty in Council.

Letter from Gov. Franklin to the Earl of Hillsborough, recommending Mr. Richard Stockton to be appointed a member of the New Jersey Council in place of Mr. Woodruff, deceased.

[From P. R. O. America & West Indies, Vol. 173 (191).]

BURLINGTON, Augst 13, 1768 To the Right Honble the Earl of Hillsborough. My Lord

I am just informed that Mr Woodruff, one of His Majesty's Council for New Jersey, died on Wednesday the 10th Instant:' I therefore take the Liberty to recom

1 Samuel Woodruff was one of ten sons of Joseph Woodruff, Jr., son of Joseph, whose father, John, was one of the original settlers of Elizabeth-Town. Samuel was born about the first of the last century. He was engaged for many years in trading to the West Indies and elsewhere. His signature was appended to the petition in 1739, for a charter for the borough, and when the charter was granted, in 1740, he was named as one of the assistant aldermen; subsequently became alderman, and was Mayor of the borough from 1751 to 1759, and probably longer. He was also a Justice of the Peace for many years, serving as a member of the Board of Justices and Freeholders of the county. He was a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church of the town, was chosen trustee in 1758, was treasurer, 1758-9, and president in 1762; was ordained an Elder in 1765, was a Member of the Synod of 1764-5, and was appointed one of the Building Committee to rebuild the church in 1766. He also served as a trustee of Princeton College, 1749-68, and sent his two sons, Benjamin and Joseph, to be educated there. As one of the principal men of the town, and of generous hospitality, he was a great friend of Governor Belcher, and "his house was the ministers' home, as George Whitfield and the two Brainerds found it."-Hatfield's Elizabeth-Town, 320-1, 337, 378-9, 383, 385, 400, 515, 517, 519, 582; N. Y. Hist. MSS., II., 624; Hist. Princeton College, by John Maclean, D. D., I., 156, 209, 249; Manual First Pres. Church, Elizabeth, 1858, 810. Mr. Woodruff was nominated by Governor Belcher as a member of the Council, November 19, 1756, and being appointed March 1, 1757, took his seat July 25, 1757. He was reappointed in 1761. He declined to attend a special meeting of the Council called by Governor Franklin to take action in relation to the Stamp Act.-N. J. Archives, VIII., Part 2, 236, 257; IX., 274, 283, 511.-[W. N.]