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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"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

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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 Supplied; 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.

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"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 M' Woodruff, one of His Majesty's Council for New Jersey, died on Wednesday the 10th Instant:' I therefore take the Liberty to recom

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., L., 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.]

mend Richard Stockton, Esq of Princeton in this Province to succeed M! Woodruff in the Council. He is a Gentleman of Fortune, Character, and Abilities, every way qualified to serve His Majesty in that Capacity; and, if I am not misinform'd, had the Honor to be known to your Lordship when he was lately in England..

I am, with the greatest Respect,

My Lord Your Lordship's most obedient & most humble Serv

WN FRANKLIN

Letter from Secretary Hillsborough to Governor Franklin, relative to the letter from the Assembly of Masachusetts Bay, and the King's disapprobation of Governor Franklin's conduct in assenting to a law contrary to an act of Parliament.

Sir,

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

Gov! Franklin.

WHITEHALL 16th August 1768.

On the 14th of July I received your several Dispatches addressed to me numbered from 1 to 5 and immediately laid them before the King.

His Majesty is concerned to find by the Printed Votes of the House of Representatives, transmitted with your Letter N° 3, and referred to in that numbered 4, that they have thought fit, by their Resolutions & Proceedings, if not openly to deny at least to draw in Question, the Power and Authority of Parliament to enact Laws binding upon the Colonies in all Cases whatever, and The King is the more surprized at such a Conduct in His Assembly of New

Jersey when His Majesty considers the Example set them by the Assemblies of the neighbouring Colonies of New York and Pensylvania, who appear to have entertained a very just Sense of the unwarrantable Measure recommended by the Assembly of Massachusets Bay.

It is my Duty, upon this Occasion, to observe to you, that your entire Ignorance of what was passing in the Assembly, concerning the Letter from the Massachusets Bay, which was the constant Object of their Deliberations almost from Day to Day for a Course of more than Three Weeks, betrays a very blameable Inattention to your Duty; and the declaring, when fully apprized of these Proceedings, that you had no Reason to believe there was a Disposition in the People to enter into any unwarrantable Combinations with the Massachusets Assembly, indicates a Disposition that does not correspond with those Principles which ought to be the Rule of your Conduct.

In your Letter No 1, you acquaint me that you had thought fit to apply to the Assembly to enable you to send me a complete Collection of the Laws, and I pre. sume you had good Reasons, (tho' I cannot guess at them,) for such an Application, which has, however only served to produce an Answer at least petulent, if not indecent, promising a Compliance with that as a Request of mine, which I had the Honor to signify to you, as a Command from His Majesty

The Practice, which has been but too prevalent, of Governors communicating to the Assemblies the confidential Correspondence betweeen them and His Majesty's Servants here, is big with the greatest Mischiefs, and I cannot help being greatly alarmed to find upon the printed Journals of the Assembly of New Jersey, a Message from you in the following words, Viz, "The Governor lays before The House sundry "Letters and Papers which he has just received from