mit to you, for his Majesty's information, an account of the establishment of the Admiralty Courts in the several Colonies of North America; but with respect to the salaries of the officers belonging to those courts, We beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that no salaries are allowed them, excepting eight hundred pounds a year to D' Spry, Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of all America We are My Lord

Your Lordships most humble Servants
HAWKE

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J BULLER
PEIRCY BRETT

Account of the Establishm of Admiralty Courts

in North America

In the Lords of the Admtys of the 30th April 1767

ADM'TY OFFICE 30th April 1767 Account of the Establishment of the Admiralty Courts in his Majesty's several Colonies in North America.

Letter from Mr. Secretary Pownall to Mr. Wilmot, on the Subject of changes in the list of Commissioners for settling the boundary between New York and New Jersey.

Sir,

From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 17, p. 195.]

WHITEHALL May 23 1767.

To Henry Wilmot Esq

The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations having appointed Tuesday next the 26th Inst for Taking into Consideration Your Petition to His Majesty; pro

posing alterations to be made in the List of Commissioners for settling the Boundary Line between that Province and the Province of New York, I am directed by your Lordships to desire your attention at their Board on that Day at eleven O'Clock in the forenoon. I am, Sir, Your most obedient and humble Servant J. POWNALL.

Representation from the Lords of Trade approving the alterations proposed for New Jersey in the list of Commissioners for settling the boundary line between that Province and New York.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 17, p. 196.]

WHITEHALL June 39 1767.

To the Rt Hon'ble the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's most Hon'ble Privy Council for Plantation Affiairs.

My Lords

Pursuant to Your Lordships Order of the 2a of April last we have taken into our consideration the humble Petition of Hen: Wilmot Esq! appointed by the Assembly of New Jersey to Sollicit the Affairs of that Colony, praying, for reasons therein contained, that certain persons recommended by this Board to be Commissioners for the purpose of finally settling the Boundary Line between the Provinces of New York and New Jersey may be omitted in the List annexed to Our Representation to His Majesty dated July 20th 1764 and we having upon this occasion been attended by the Petitioner and also by M Charles acting as Agent for the Affairs of New York, we beg leave herewith

to lay before your Lordships a List of the Names of such Commissioners, as, upon Consideration of what is setforth in M Wilmots Petition, appears to Us to be proper, and to which both Parties have agreed. We are, My Lords,

Your Lordships most obedient and

List of Persons to be appointed Commissioners for Deciding the Controvercy concerning the Boundary or Partition Line between the Provinces of New York and New Jersey.

John Temple Esq! Surveyor General of the Customs for the Northern District of America.

Peter Randolph Esq: Surveyor General of the Customs for the Southern District of America.

Charles Stewart Esq: Surveyor General of His Majesty's Customs for the District of Quebec.

Andrew Elliott Esq! Receiver General of His Majesty's Quit Rents in the Province of New York.

Chambers Russel Esq! Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty for the province of Massachusets Bay

William Allen Esq! Chief Justice of the Province of pennsylvania

Samuel Holland Esq! Surveyor General of Lands for the northern District of America.

William De Brahm Esq! Surveyor General of Lands for the Southern District of America.

Andrew Oliver Esq! Secretary of the Province of Massachusets Bay.

Charles Morris Esq! Surveyor of Lands and one of the Council of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Payton Randolph Esq! Attorney General and one of the Council of Virginia.

Benjamin Franklin Esq of the Province of Pennsylvania

Jare'd Ingersoll Esq! of the Colony of Connecticut.

Letter from Governor Franklin to Benjamin Franklin.

[From "Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends, 1751-1790," New York, C. Benjamin Richardson, 1859, pp. 32-5.]

Hon'd Father:

BURL'N, June 10, 1767.

I have before me your two favours, of March 19 and April 11, which came by the Packet.

Your remarks on the report of the Board of Trade have been printed, and never anything met with more general approbation. Even the Prop'y party are warm in its praises. Alexander Houston, I am told, has acknowledged that he did not believe that all the writers on his side of the question put together could produce anything equal to it. Our friend Samuel Smith,' of this town, says that he thinks all the provinces in North America ought to join to make it worth your while to reside in England as long [as] you live. The people of this province are much pleased with your having mentioned New Jersey as one of the Colonies which have guarded against the excess in paper currency. They have no tidings of any thing's being done by their own agent in this or any other American affair, and the Assembly having some resentment for their being surprised into the appointment of him, will probably remove him at this sessions; but whom they will appoint in his stead, I cannot guess.

1 The historian of New Jersey.