whatsoever, due and belonging to the said Office of Vice Admiral Commissary and Deputy in our said Province of NOVA CEESAREA or NEW JERSEY aforesaid and Territories dependant thereon and Maritime parts of the same, & adjoining to them whatsoever according to the Ordinances & Statutes of our High Court of Admiralty of England And We do hereby Commit and Grant unto you the aforesaid WILLIAM FRANKLIN Esqr. our Power and Authority in and throughout our Province of New Jersey aforementioned and Territories thereof and Maritime parts whatsoever adjacent thereto, And also throughout all and every the Sea Shores, Public Streams, Ports, Fresh Waters, Rivers, Creeks, and Arms as well of the Sea as of the Rivers and Coasts whatsoever of our said Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey and Territories dependant thereon, and Maritime parts whatsoever of the same and thereto adjacent as well within Liberties and Franchises as without, to take Cognizance of and proceed in all Causes Civil and Maritime and in Complaints Contracts Offences or Suspected Offences, Crimes, Pleas, Debts, Exchanges, Accounts, Charter Parties, Agreements, Suits, Trespasses, Injuries, Extortions, and Demands and Businesses, Civil and Maritime whatsoever Commenced or to be Commenced between Merchant or between Owners and Proprietors of Ships and other Vessells, or others whomsoever with such Owners and proprietors of Ships and all other Vessells and Merchants Whatsoever Employed or used within the Maritime Jurisdiction of our Vice Admiralty of our said Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey and Territories depending on the same or between any other Powers whomsoever had made began or Contracted for any matter thing cause or Business whatsoever done or to be done within our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with all & Singular their Incidents, Emergencies, Dependencies, Annexed

& Connexed Causes whatsoever wheresoever or howsoever and such Causes Contracts Complaints and other the Premises abovesaid or any of them which may happen to and be contracted had or done to hear and determine according to the Rights Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs Antiently Observed.

[The remainder of this Commission is similar to that given to Governor Boone which may be found on page 195. It concludes as follows]

Given at London in the High Court of our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof the Third day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty Two, and of our Reign the Second.

Great Seal

of the Admiralty of Gt. Britain

GODF. LEE FARRANT. Registrar

READ.

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Letter from the Earl of Egremont to Governor Hardy -informing him of his removal from the Governorship of New Jersey.

Sir,

[From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 77.]

Gov Hardy.

WHITEHALL Sept 11th 1762

His Majesty having in consequence of the strong Representation of the Board of Trade to the King in Council, judged it expedient to put an End to your Commission of Governor of New Jersey; I am to acquaint you that His Majesty has been pleased to ap

point William Franklin Esq to succeed you in that office; and that M Franklin will repair to New Jersey, as soon as His Commission and Instructions can be expedited.

I am &ca
EGREMONT

Representation from the Lords of Trade to the King inclosing a Draft of Instructions for the Governors of the several Colonies and Plantations in America for an Alteration in the Prayers for the Royal Family.

[From P. R. O. B. T., Plantations General, Vol. 41, page 193.]

WHITEHALL Sept 27th 1762

To the Kings most Excell; Majesty

May it please your Majesty

In obedience to your Majesty's order in Council of the 17th instant, directing Us to prepare Draughts of Instructions proper to be sent to the Governors of your Majesty's Plantations in America for an Alteration in the Prayers for the Royal Family. We herewith humbly lay before your Majesty Draughts of such Instructions as We conceive proper on this occasion for your Majesty's Royal Signature.

Which is most humbly submitted

SANDYS

Instructions to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Arthur Dobbs Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of North Carolina in America.1 Given at Our Court at St James the first Day of October1762 in the second Year of Our Reign.

Whereas We have been pleased by our Order in Council dated the 17th Day of Sept: last to declare our Pleasure that in the Morning & Evening Prayers in the Litany & in all other Parts of the publick Service as well in the Book of common Prayer where the Royal Family is appointed to be particularly pray'd for, the following Form of Words should be used viz Our Gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales and all the Royal Family; our Will and Pleasure therefore is that in all the Prayers, Litanies and Collects where the Royal Family is pray'd for, and which are used within Our Province of North Carolina under your Government the same Form and Order of Words be used as follows viz! Our Gracious Queen Chariotte, their Royal Highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales & all the Royal Family; And for the better Notice hereof in our said Province, it is Our further Will and Pleasure that you cause the same to be forth with published in the several Parish Churches and other places of divine Worship within Our said Province, and that you take Care that due Obedience be paid thereto accordingly.

1 Similar Instructions to all the other Governors.-ED.

Letter from Josiah Hardy, Governor of New Jersey, to Mr. Pownall, informing the Lords of Trade of the appointment of Mr. White to be Judge of the Admiralty, in the room of Mr. Lewis Morris, deceased, etc.

[From P. R. O., B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 28.]

PERTH AMBOY 9th Oct 1762

Sir

Mr Pownall

I received the favor of your letter of the 11th June, inclosing me by order of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations the printed Copy of an Act for making perpetual an Act, for the better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service; and for extending the provision thereof to His Majestys Colonys in America.

I should have acknowledged the receipt of your letter before but I had not timely notice of the sailing of the Packet; I am now just return'd from meeting the General Assembly at Burlington; they have made a provision for a Company of Sixty Six Men Officers included, demanded by Sir Jeffrey Amherst for Winter Duty on the Frontiers, they likewise passed several Bills which I will send Copies of as soon as I can get them transcribed.

By this Man of War I send a Packet containing Copies of the journals of the Council, which ought to have gone before with the Bills by the Launceston but were not finish'd time enough I therefore hope my Lords Commissioners will not impute this to any neglect in me.