Robert Monckton Esq' Captain General & Governor in Chief of Your Majesty's Province of New York and Territories depending thereon in America, or the Governor or Commander in Chief of the said Province for the time being.

Josiah Hardy Esq' Captain General and Governor in Chief of Your Majesty's Province of New Jersey, or the Governor or Commander in Chief of the said Province for the time being.

The Proprietaries and Governors of the Province of Pennsylvania for the time being.

The Vice Admirals of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Connecticut for the time being.

The Flag officers or Commanders in Chief of such Squadron or Squadrons of Your Majesty's Ships of War, as shall happen to be within the Admiralty Jurisdiction of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, & Connecticut respectively for the time being.

Cadwallader Colden Esq' Lieutenant Governor of the said Province of New York for the time being.

Thomas Pownall Esq: Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Jersey, or the Lieutenant Governor of the said Province for the time being.

The Governor of the Colony of Connecticut for the time being.

Cadwallader Colden Archibald Kennedy, Daniel Horsmanden, George Clarke, Sir William Johnson, John Chambers, William Smith, John Watts, William Walton, Josiah Martin, Oliver Delancey, and Benjamin Pratt Esquires, Members of Your Majesty's Council in the Province of New York, during their being of Your Majesty's said Council, and the Members of Your Majesty's Council in the said Province for the time being.

Robert Hunter Morris Edward Antill, James Hude, Andrew Johnson, Peter Kimbold, Richard Saltar, David Ogden, Lewis Ashfield, Samuel Woodruff,

William Alexander, claiming to be Earl of Stirling, Charles Read, and John Smith Esquires, Members of Your Majesty's Council in the Province of New Jersey, during their being of Your Majesty's said Council, and the Members of Your Majesty's Council in the said Province for the time being.

The Chief Justice in the Province of New York for the time being.

The Chief Justice in the Province of New Jerssy for the time being.

The Judge or Judges of the Vice Admiralty in their Provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Colony of Connecticut for the time being.

The Captain & Commanders of Your Majesty's Ships of War within the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Colony of Connecticut for the time being.

The Secretary of the Province of New York or his Deputy for the time being.

The Secretary of the Province of New Jersey, or his Deputy for the time being.

The Receiver General of Your Majesty's Revenue in the Province of New York for the time being.

The Surveyor General of Your Majesty's Customs in America for the time being.

The Collectors of Your Majesty's Plantation Duties in the Provinces of New York New Jersey & Pennsylvania and the Colony of Connecticut, pursuant to An Act passed in the 25th of King Charles the 2a for the better securing the Plantation Trade, for the time being.

All which is most humbly submitted
SANDYS

SOAME JENYNS

JOHN YORKE

ANDREW STONE.

Order in Council approving the Draft of Instructions for Josiah Hardy, Governor of New Jersey.

L. S.

[From P. R. O., America and West Indies, Vol. 105.]

AT THE COURT AT ST JAMES'S THE 25TH

JUNE 1761

PRESENT

TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN

COUNCIL.

Upon reading at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs dated the 18th of this Instant in the words following. viz-"In Obedience to an Order in Council of the 16th of this Instant referring to this Committee a Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, together with Draughts of General Instructions and also of those which relate to the Observance of the Acts of Parliament for the Encouragement and Regulation of Trade and Navigation, prepared by the said Lords Commissioners pursuant to Your Majestys Order in Council of the 20th of March last, for Josiah Hardy Esq whom Your Majesty has been pleased to appoint Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of New Jersey-The Lords of the Committee this day took the said Report and Draughts of Instructions into their Consideration, and do find, That in the said Draughts, The said Lords Commissioners have made no Alterations from the Instructions given by His late Majesty to Thomas Boone Esq late Governor of the said Province, except only in the following Particulars-That in the first Article of the present Draught of General Instructions they have in

serted the names of Twelve Persons, who were all appointed by His late Majesty to be of the Council in this Province. That at the End of the 27th Article of the said Draught they have added some Words (as in the like Article of the Instructions which they lately prepared for the Governors of other Provinces on the Continent of North America) directing the Governor to discourage and restrain all Attempts that may be made to set up any such Manufactures or Trades as are or may be prejudicial to the Commercial Interests of this Kingdom. That in this Draught of General Instructions they have omitted, as in the others which they have lately prepared, all such Articles of the former Instructions as appeared to have become Useless and unnecessary, the purposes for which they were formerly given having been sufficiently provided for by the Laws of the Province namely, The 35th Article for the Security of the Life Limb and Property of the Subject, The 36th directing Proofs to be sent with Prisoners to this Kingdom; and the 37th for restraining inhuman Severities towards Servants and Slaves. And that the draught of Instructions relative to the Observance of the Acts of Parliament for the Encouragement and Regulation of Trade and Navigation, is exactly conformable to the Instructions given by His late Majesty for the like purposes, to the Governor of this and other your Majestys Provinces on the Continent of North America The Lords of the Committee upon mature Consideration of the said Draughts of Instruc tions, and of all the aforementioned Alterations and Additions are of Opinion, that the same were not only proper but necessary to be made therein, And do therefore agree humbly to lay the said Draughts before Your Majesty for Your Royal Approbation."

His Majesty this day took the said Report into Consideration and was pleased, with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and also of the said Draughts and Instructions so amended and altered,

and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the Right Honourable William Pitt Esq one of His Majestys Principal Secretarys of State do lay the same before His Majesty for His Royal Signature.

F VERNON.

Address of the House of Representatives to Governor Boone, complimenting his administration, etc.

[From P. R. O. New Jersey, B. T. Vol. 25.]

BURLINGTON, July 7, 1761

May it please Your Excellency,

We, His Majestys Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Representatives of New Jersey, in General Assembly Conven'd without delay, have Taken into Consideration the providing for a Number of men to be Inlisted, pursuant to the Expectation of His Excellency General Amherst, and done therein according to his desire, in Confidence of their being Discharged at the time Limited.

Tho' we could not be sufficiently assured, that the Number we provided for last Spring, Considering the Extream Scarcity of men among us, Could be Raised it is with pleasure we now Receive the information your Excellency has given us, that the Regiment is no [so?] near Compleated; We have not in the Course of this War been Remarkable for Defficiencies; We Entered into the Service with the View of giving our best Assistance, and with hopes of future Security, we have, tho' deeply in Debt, Continued our Endeavours: And as the Salutary prospect of a General peace Seems at Hand, notwithstanding we have had, and must here. after Struggle with heavy Taxes, when the Important point of Security against French Perfidy and Savage Cruelty, is obtained, We doubt not of their being paid