which will come more properly from Him than frome me; so that I shall not trouble you with a Duplicate.

There is the greatest Reason to beleive that the Settlements are more infested by the Tribes of Savages who are seated at no great Distance from the Frontiers, than by the more powerful Nations who live at a greater Distance: And the Junction you propose of the Troops reserved for the Defence of the Frontiers of the Provinces, to make an Irruption into the Enemy's Country, will be of greater Service, than the Separating them along an Extensive Frontier, too weak in every Part, either to attack or defend.

I am quite sensible of the Trouble you have taken, and the Zeal you have shewn, throughout this disagreable Business, for the Good of His Majesty's Service, I have only now to return you my thanks for it, and to desire the Companys may be raised & cloathed Time enough to proceed to Albany, when the Navigation becomes practicable.

I am, with great Regard, Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant

THO GAGE

Letter from Governor Franklin to the Lords of Trade, transmitting public papers and informing them of a report that the Six Nations of Indians are likely to render aid that will end the Indian war for this

summer.

[From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K 44.]

BURLINGTON, April 28, 1764

To the Lords of Trade

My Lords.

I had the Honour of writing to your Lordships the 6th of last Month, acquainting you with the Transac

tions of the Legislature here, at the Sessions in February. I now send you the Minutes of Council, the printed Journals of the Assembly, & Copies of the Laws then passed. By the Privy Council Minutes, your Lordships will see the Necessity there was for passing the Supply Act in the accustomed Form. In pursuance of the said Act I have already sent the General four Companies of chosen Men well equipped for the Service. There is one Company besides now stationed on our Frontier, but liable to the Orders of the General.

If we may depend on the Reports we have from New York, the Six Nations are likely to give such Assistance as will be sufficient to put an End to the Indian War this Summer. On the 12th of last Month, I sent your Lordships the Journals and Laws of the December Sessions

I have the Honour to be, with the greatest Respect, My Lords, Your Lordships most

obedient & most humble Servant

WM FRANKLIN

P. S. I now likewise send Copies of the Custom House Accounts for the Port of Amboy from the Time of my Arrival to the 5th of April 1764

Ordinance for Holding the Supreme Court for the Province of New Jersey.'

[From Book AAA of Commissions, Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, fol. 392.]

GEORGE THE THIRD by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. To all our Loving Subjects Inhabiting and Being

1 Compare this with the Ordinances of Lord Cornbury and Gov. Robert Hunter, given in Judge Field's "Provincial Courts of New Jersey," pp. 266-82. Also the Ordinance of 1724, 16., 275-9; and the Ordinance of 1725, Ib., 287-91.—[W. N.]

within our Province of New Jersey, and to all others whom it doth or may Concern, Greeting, WHEREAS it has been Represented unto Our Trusty and well beloved William Franklin Esq. our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of Nova Ceesarea or New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same &c. that the times appointed by Ordinance for holding our Supreme Court have by Experience been found to be attended with divers Inconveniences to the Inhabitants of our said Province, And Whereas Application hath been made to our said Governor and Commander in Chief for Remedy therein and we being Desirous that the said Inconveniences should for the future be Remedied have thought fit to Ordain, and We do hereby Ordain and direct that our Supreme Court for our said Province of New Jersey shall begin sit and be held at our City of Perth Amboy at the Several times following (to wit) on the second Tuesday in April and the third Tuesday in September in Every Year; And also that our said Supreme Court for Our said Province of New Jersey shall begin sit and be held at our City of Burlington on the first Tuesday in November and the second Tuesday in May in Every Year; which said Court shall sit and continue to be held on and from Each of the said days on which it is to begin, daily and Every day untill the Saturday next Immediately following the Tuesday on which it is to begin; when and on which said Saturday Our Justices of our said Court for the time being or any of them may adjourn Our said Supreme Court until the Next Term, unless they our said Justices or any of them upon Account of the Multiplicity of Business then Depending think it necessary and Expedient to Prolong the said Term, in all which Cases we do hereby further Ordain and Direct that our said Supreme Court shall continue to sit and be holden from the

Tuesday (the commencement of the said Term) to the Tuesday in the Week thereafter both days inclusive, in which Court there shall be two Return Days in each of the said Terms or Sittings, to wit on the first Tuesday and Thursday following, or on such other day or days as the Justices of the said Court for the Time being or any of them in their Discretion shall think proper and Expedient to appoint. And we do hereby fully Authorize and Impower the said Supreme Court to have Cognizance of and to hear try and determine all Pleas Civil Criminal & Mixed, and all other Actions and Suits whatsoever as fully and amply to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as all or any of our Courts of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer in that part of Our Kingdom of Great Britain Called England have or of Right ought to have; and any Person & Persons may Commence and Prosecute any Action or Suit in our said Supreme Court, and may by Habeas Corpus, Certiorari or any other Legal Writ, Remove any Action Suit or Plaint out of any of the Respective County Courts, Sessions of the Peace, or any other the Inferior Courts depending or to be depending, and any Judgment thereupon Given or to be given in any of the said Courts Provided always that the Commencing & prosecuting any Action Suit or plaint in the said Supreme Court, and the Removal of any Information or Indictment or any Cause matter or thing to be Removed from any of the County Courts, Sessions of the Peace and any other of the said Inferior Courts into the said Supreme Court be so Commenced Prosecuted and Removed According to and as near as may be Agreeable to the Laws in Force in that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain Called England and the Laws of our Province of New Jersey not Repugnant thereto, And We do hereby further Ordain and Direct that the Office of the Clerk of the said Supreme Court of Judicature shall be kept by the Secre

tary Appointed by his Majesty under the Great Seal of Great Britain, or his Sufficient Deputy at Perth Amboy in the Eastern Division, and Burlington in the Western Division, and that all Writs & Process of the Supreme Court of our Province of New Jersey shall Issue out of Either of the said places Indifferently and that the Courts of Perth Amboy and Burlington shall take Cognizance of such Writs & Process accordingly, Nevertheless so that all Actions and Causes of Action arising in Either the Eastern or Western Division of this Province are to be tried in and a Verdict given by Jurors of that Division Only in which the Cause of Action shall Arise, as near and Agreeable to the laws Customs and Usages of our Kingdom of Great Britain as may be, and in whichsoever Division the venue is laid, there, that is to say in the Secretary's Office in Each Division shall the Declaration Pleas, and all other pleadings in that Cause be filed. And we do further Ordain and direct, that our Justices of our Supreme Court for the time being or any of them, shall annually and Every Year go into Every County in our said Province and there hold a Court for the trial of such Causes arising in the Several & Respective Countys as are brought to Issue in the said Supreme Court, which Causes our said Justices or any of them is hereby empowered to hear and try by Jurors of the said Countys, and on any Verdict in any of the said Countys within our said Province Judgment to give at the Supreme Court of Judicature to be holden at our City of Perth Amboy for the Eastern Division or City of Burlington for the Western Division which Courts for the trial of Causes shall be held in Our Several Countys (except Cape May) for and during a Term not Exceeding five days. And We do hereby further Ordain and direct that the times & places for holding the Yearly Circuit Courts in the several Countys of our said Province for the trial of such Causes aforesaid