And whereas the said Jacob Leisler, also Jacob Milboume, Abraham Governeur, and several others, were arraigned in the Supreme Court of Judicature at New-York aforesaid, and con\'icted and attainted of high treason and felony, for not delivering the possession of the said fort to the said Richard Ingoldesby, and the said Jacob Leisler and Jacob Milborne were executed for the same.- May it therefore please your most excellent majesty at the humble petition and request of Jacob Leisler, the son and heir of the said Jacob Leisler, deceased, Jacob Milborne, the son and heir of the said Jacob Milborne, deceased, and of the said Abraham Governeur, that it be declared and enacted,

Jind be it enacted^ by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said several convictions, judgments and attainders of the said Jacob Leisler, deceased, Jacob Milborne, deceased, and the said Abraham Governeur, and every of them, be and are repealed, reversed, made and declared null and void to all iptents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, as if no such

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convictions, judgments', or attainders, had ever been had or given;

and that no corruption of blood, or other penalties, or forfeitures

of goods, chattels, lands, tenements, hereditaments, be by the said

convictions and attainders, or either of them, incurred, any law

usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

"One agent of Massachusetts framed the Bill, while the other sat as Chairman of the Committee, whicl* reported it." Chalmers.