Bills to be deemed a legal tender; that no objection. occurs why an Act of Assembly under proper limitations should not be allowed to be passed for the purposes above mentioned; but as many regulations may be found necessary when a measure of this consequence shall come under consideration which cannot now be pointed out and described, the said Lords Commissioners would humbly propose to Your Majesty that Your Governor of New Jersey should be expressly restrained from assenting to any proposals for the above purposes whereby the same may be carried into effect without reference to Your Majesty's approbation; for which end the said Lords Commissioners would humbly recommend that he should be directed either to transmit them, (as in the present instance,) in the form of a Bill, or if the same shall be passed into an Act, to take care that a Clause shall be inserted therein suspending it's execution 'till Your Majesty's Pleasure thereupon can be obtained. The Lords of the Committee in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of reference, this day took the said Representation & Bill into Consideration, & do agree humbly to report, that it may be adviseable for Your Majesty to disallow the said Bill, & to issue such directions to Your Governor of the Province of New Jersey as is above proposed by the said Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations.

His Majesty taking the said Report into consideration is pleased with the advice of his Privy Council to approve thereof and accordingly to declare His disallowance of the said Bill; and to order as it is hereby ordered, that if the Council & Assembly at the next meeting shall pass another Bill to the same effect and press for the Governor's assent he do not on any account give his assent to any proposals whereby the same may be carried into effect without reference to His Majesty's approbation; But in case the actual

necessity of emitting Bills of Credit upon Loan to the high amount of £100,000, can be made to appear and provided effectual Care be taken that such Bills of Credit shall not be deemed a Legal Tender in payment of Money, His Majesty doth hereby further order that the Governor do either transmit such proposals as he may receive from the Council & Assembly for that purpose in form of a Bill (as in the present instance) or in Case the same be passed into an Act, that he do take care a Clause be inserted therein, suspending the execution thereof until His Majesty's pleasure thereupon can be obtained.

Whereof the Governor or Commander in Chief of the Province of New Jersey for the time being, & all others whom it may concern are to take notice & govern themselves accordingly.

STEPH. COTTRELL.

Letter of acknowledgment from Gov. Franklin to the Earl of Hillsborough.

[From P. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 174 (192).]

BURLINGTON, N Jersey, July 18th 1769.

To The Right Honorable the Earl of Hillsborough, & &c

My Lord,

I am honoured with your Lordship's Letter of the 13th of May, inclosing the King's gracious Speech at the Close of the last Session of Parliament. The Sentiments express'd by His Majesty relative to the Measures which have of late been pursued in North America will I hope answer the good Purposes intended. But I am fully convinced that the Assurances

given by your Lordship, that the present Administration have no Design to propose to Parliament to lay any further Taxes upon America, and that they intend to propose in the next Session to take off the Duties upon Glass, Paper & Colours, cannot fail to produce the most Salutary Effects.

His Majesty may have the firmest Reliance, that Nothing on my Part shall be wanting to remove the Prejudices which may remain on the Minds of His Subjects within this Government, and that it shall be my constant Endeavour, as it has hitherto been, to promote those Sentiments of Duty, Confidence and Affection which are so necessary to the Honour, Welfare, and Happiness of the whole British Empire. I have the Honor to be, with the greatest Respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's

most obedient, & most humble Servant

W FRANKLIN

Statement of the Claim of New York vs. New Jersey, in relation to Boundaries.

[From N. Y. Col. MSS., in Secretary of State's Office, Albany, Vol. XCVI., p. 120.]

A Plain and full state of the Demands & Pretentions of his Majestys Colony of New York against the Proprietary Colony of New Cæsaria or New Jersey (respecting the Boundary Line to be settled and ascer tained between the said two Colonies) for the Honourable his Majestys Commissioners appointed by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date the seventh day of October in the seventh year of the reign of his Majesty George the third for ascertaining, settling and de[termining] [the] Boundary Line between the said two [Colonies] prepared by us the subscribers nominated as Agents by Act of

Assembly of the Colony of New York, and to be exhibited to the Said Commissioners at their first meeting appointed as in and by the said Commissioners is directed to be held at the City of New York on the Eighteenth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Sixty Nine Viz!

1st His late Majesty King Charles the Second being in right of his Crown of England seized of the sovereignty Seignory and Property of the Southeastern Coast of North America from the Southwest Cape of Delaware Bay commonly called Cape Henlopen as far as and Connecticut River and the Lands extending ** the said Coast

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into the Country as far back as first springs Heads or Sources of Delaware River Hudsons River and Connecticut River except such parts thereof as may have been granted by the Crown if any such had been granted did by his Letters Patent under the great Seal of England bearing date the twelfth day of March in the sixteenth year of his reign 166, give grant and ratify and confirm in fee simple unto his Brother James Duke of York afterwards King James the second of England among other Tracts in the said last mentioned Letters Patent Mentioned and described-"All that Island or Islands commonly called Matawacks or Long Island situate "and being to the West of Cape Cod and the Narrow "Higgansets and butting upon the main Land-be"tween the two Rivers there called and known by "the names of Connecticut and Hudsons River with the said River called Hudsons

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dly. The said James Duke of York thus seized of the premises granted by the said Letters patent of King Charles the second by Lease and Release dated

the twenty third and twenty fourth Days of June in the sixteenth year of the reigne of King Charles the second did grant in fee to John Lord Berkley Baron of Stratton and to sir George Carteret of Saltrum as Tenents in Common in Equal Moities "All that Tract "of Land adjacent to New England and lying and "being to the Westward of Long Island and Manhat"tens Island and bounded on the East part by the "main Sea and part by Hudsons River and hath upon "the West Delaware Bay or River and extending "Southward to the main Ocean as far as Cape May "at the mouth of Delaware Bay and to the Northward as far as the Northermost Branch of the said Bay or "River which is in forty one degrees and forty Min"utes of Latitude and crosseth over thence in a "straight line to Hudsons River in forty one Degrees "of Latitude."

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3. The Dutch who it is well known were at the time of the grant of the said Letters Patent and Lease and Release, in Possession of that Part of the Territories thereby granted to which the line in controversy can have any relation surrendered the same on the twenty seventh of August 1664 to Coll. Nichols. appointed the Dukes Governor of his Territories in America which Territories were Confirmed to the Crown of England by the third Article of the Treaty of Breda in 1667 and afterward in 1673 in the war between England and the United provinces were repossessed by the Dutch and were finally surrendered & Confirmed to the Crown of England by the Treaty concluded with the United Provinces at Westminster the Ninth of February 167. Therefore the said James Duke of York to remove all Doubts (concerning the Operation of the aforesaid Letters Patent from King Charles the Second to him) that might arise from the aforesaid possession of the Dutch and their aforesaid Surrender to the Crown of England by the