My Lords -- I have received the heads of inquiry your LoV sent to mee and indeed I have been as industrious as possibly I could to make myself capable of giving

am short of answering your Lo'p

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you satisfaction.

And wherein I

expectation I question not but youl pardon it when you consider

that to give a distinct answer to several of your queries must require a longer time than I have yet

had since their arrival here.

However to such of them as I am at present capable to make an answer

I herein give yo r Lo'p s I hope the satisfaction required which are as follow

hi answer to the first of your Lo'ps Querys. jwSce.

The Courts of Justice are most established by Act of Assembly and they are The Court of Chancery consisting of the Governor and Council in the Supreme court of tins [

province to which appeals may be brought from any other court 2. The Assembly finding the inconvenience of bringing of y peace, Sheriffs, Constables other sons concerned from the remote parts of this government to New York did instead of the Court of p e

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Assizes wliich was yearly held for the whole Government of this province erect a Court of Oyer and

Terminer to be held once every year within each County for the determining of such matters as should arise within them respectively, the members of which Court were appointed to bee one of the