That now in time of War the said Colony is destitute of a sufficient Supply of Arms Ammunition &c for their Defence against the Common Enemy and cannot readily raise the Money for purchasing the same without a further Emission of Paper Currency as well as for the payment of divers other Publick Emergencies for support of the said Government, That it would be greatly for the Service of His Majesty as also of the said Province if leave were granted to the Governor to give his Assent to the passing a Bill for the Emitting the Sum of Forty thousand pounds in Publick Bills of Credit on Condition that the Value of the Bills to be Emitted be agreeable to An Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Anne for ascertaining the Rates of Foreign Coins in her Majestys Plantations in America The Petitioner therefore prays that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant an Order of leave to the said Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being to give his Assent to the passing An Act for Emitting the said Sum of Forty thousand pounds in Paper Bills of Credit-It is Ordered in Council that the said Petition (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) Be and it is hereby referred to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to consider the same and Report their Opinion thereupon to His Majesty at this Board.W. SHARPE.

TO GEORGE THE SECOND KING OF GREAT BRITAIN &C in Council.

The Humble Petition of Richard Partridge Agent for the Colony of New Jersey in America.

Sheweth

That the said Colony of New Jersey contains a considerable Body of People who depend very much on Trade and Commerce and are industriously engaged in

clearing their Lands of the Woods and in making and Settling New Plantations, have consequently an absolute occasion for a Medium of Trade to carry on their Affairs without which they cannot comfortably subsist, and but very little Silver is passing amongst them which in those American Plantations is constantly bought up as Merchandize and Shipt home to Great Britain in Returns for goods and British Manufactures imported there and therefore Their Legislature have formerly issued certain Quantitys of Paper Bills of Credit to Answer the end of Money to be called in and Destroyed at certain limited Periods of time on a very good and sufficient Fund as a Security for it—

That now the said Periods of Time are almost all expired and the rest near expiring as fixed by the said last Act for that purpose passed the 16th August 1733 for Sixteen Years.

That the said Colony is greatly distressed for want of a further Supply of Bills of Credit which the late Governor Morris by the Royal Instructions was prohibited from suffering to be Emitted without the Royal Licence.

That now in time of War the said Colony are destitute of a sufficient Supply of Arms Ammunition &c for their Defence against the Common Enemy and cannot readily raise the Money for purchasing the same without a further Emission of Paper Currency as well as for the payment of diverse other Publick Emergencies for Support of the said Government and more particularly for the raising of Men now required on the present intended Expedition in America.

That in asmuch as the King has been pleased to appoint Jonathan Belcher Esq Governor of the said Province in the room of Lewis Morris Esq' deceased and his Commission and Instructions for the Government (are as the Petitioner is informed) now making out, it would be greatly to the Service of the King as

also to the said Province if an Instruction of leave were added to the said Governor Belchers Instructions That he might for the present Emergencys of the said Province give his Assent to the passing a Bill for the Sum of Forty thousand pounds in Publick Bills of Credit, on Condition that the Value of the Bills to be Emitted be agreable to an Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Anne for ascertaining the Rates of Foreign Coins in Her Majestys Plantations in America and for preventing any after loss or Discount on the Bills issued by such An Act, it is proposed

That the Treasurer of the said Province for the time being shall be obliged to give Gold or Silver in Exchange for the said Bills agreable to the Rates expressed in them, and for the want of Silver or Gold in the Treasury, the Treasurer to pay to the possessors of the said Bills such difference as may have happened in the Price of Silver or Gold from the time of passing of the said Act to such time or times as any of the Possessors of the said Bills shall please to demand the same or otherwise that the said Governor do give his Assent for passing a Bill for Emitting the said Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit to some other Bill of the like Kind or import if he shall judge it necessary for the Publick Service.

That the Royal Licence hath been lately obtained for the Kings Governors of the Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire for Emitting large Sums in Paper Bills of Credit without their making such substantial Provisions for ascertaining the value of their Bills to be emitted as is proposed to be done by this Act.

That the Petitioner would humbly hope for the Royal Favour herein the rather for that the said Colony have actually generously raised and granted a Supply of Provisions lately to the Value of Two thou

sand Pounds for Cape Breton and which has been arrived there towards the Support of the Garrison on that Island without ever making any Demand for repayment of the same.

For these reasons therefore the Petitioner in behalf of the said Colony most humbly prays that the King would be graciously pleased to grant an Order of leave to his said Governor or to the Commander in Chief for the time being for giving his Assent to the passing An Act for Emitting the said Sum of Forty Thousand pounds in Paper Bills of Credit as aforesaid

All which is humbly submitted

Notice of Nathaniel Wheeler and others to the Proprietors of East Jersey stating their willingness to appear in Court, &c., to test their rights.

| From Copy in Alexander Papers, Vol. I, No. 3, and from P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey Volume V.]

New York August 11th

We find in what is Set forth by order of the Council of Proprietors So Called of June 30th Last Past, That theay purpose to Stand in Defence of their Right to the Lands in Controversie as Assigns of S George Carteret Against what theay Please to Call a Vain Idle and Groundless Pretence of Title by an Indian Deed &c Theay Say theay Considered the Proposals signed by us as a Committee &c the Purport of which was our Complyance with that Perticular Offer a proposal said to have been Sent Us by M: Ogden, Namely this, To have a Tryal att Law in this Province in Order to Carry the Matters in Dispute to England by an Appeal

from a Court of Law, This we Cloased with in Consideration all processes Might Ceas Untill the Matter Might be Accomodated, and whereas it is Pretended we Slighted offers and oppertunities of and for having a Legal Determination of our Cause by the head and fountain of Justice and bringing our Claims to that Test & as it is Set forth in the Publication of March 25th And in this Last, Thrown at us, Where Menshon is Made of 15 Actions of Ejectm and Appeal from them or Any of them, Did we Not Repeatedly offer if Theay Would take 1: 2 or 3 Act &c we would Gladly have the Oppertunity of Answering in the Paw, in Case Appeal Might be had if Ocation offer'd, the which was Rejected by our Opponants We are Not Concerned to Dispute, the Title of the Assigns of S George Carteret Unto all the Lands of or in East New Jersey So Called, Nor Any other in the Province Saving Such, as we have Concern in, and for, Not Knowing what Purchases theay or Some of them May have Made of Lands in Other Places. But we Suppose the Dispute Depending is whether the Natives or Indians had a Legal Right or Not. This is one Thing we Eye as a foundation which if overthrown The Super Structer Canot Stand Agreeable to that old Unalterable Position, Nil dat quod non habet, But as we are no Lawyers and Consequently under Greatest Disadvantages In our Own Persons to Meet our Learned Opponents in a Court of Law, according to the Rules and Meathords there prescribed and Prosecuted, And as we hear and Believe, having Sent two of Our Number forth in quest of an Attorney to Ingage and Act for Us in Concert with their Last Publication, if it Might Thought proper, without Success, all the several Attorneys or Practitioners in the Law of Note both in this and the two Neighbouring Provinces are Ingaged by Interest or fee, on our Opponants Side, which has Rendred the process, proposed on Such a Suddain, on