Sir -- I have too much respect for your orders not to execute them punctually; so that pursuant to what you did me the honour lately to give me, I spoke to the principals of this new Colony about the nomination of some persons for the vacant office of Justice of the peace, but as the condition you require -- that is a knowledge of the English Tongue -- has precluded them from making the Election of two or three according to your order, they cannot pitch upon any except M^" Straing, saving your approbation which if you will have the goodness to accord them you will obhge them infinitely

M"" Pinton has also delivered me, this day, an .order to be communicated to the s'i Inhabitants relative to the election and nomination of Assessors, Collectors and Commissaries, for levying imposing and receiving Taxes for his Majesty's service. The time is very short, since it is the twenty seventh instant they must

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be at Wchester, but they look for some forbearance and delay from your goodness in case, notwithstanding their diligence they may not be able punctually to answer. It is not through any unwillingness to exert themselves to meet it, but you know their strength as well as I. Notwithstanding despite their poverty and misery they will never lack in submission to the orders on behalf of his Majesty both for the public good and interest. This they protested to me, & I pray you to be persuaded thereof. I am with Respect, & pray God for your prosperity