That in order to put an End to these vnhappy Differences and that your Pefs may Enjoy those Spiritual Comforts they haue hitherto received from the Doctrine of the said M^ Rou your Peti^s apply to your Excellency for relief in the premises and --

Therefore they most humbly pray your Excellency In your

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great Wisdom to take such measures for the protecting and reestablishing the said M^ Rou to the free and peaceable Exercise of his ministerial fimction in the said Church and to the benefit thereof as may seem most Expedients to your Excellency, and that your Excellency Endeavours therein may be successfull and your administratien long and prosperious, is the Earnest prayers of your Excellency Petifs

Daniel Crommelin James You Jean ba Clian

Ehas pelletreau John Hastier Andrew Foucault

James Eallereau Ellas Pelletreau J^" Jacque Bobin N Cazalet Samii Bourdet David LeTeher Francois Basset Peter Morgat.

AN ACT

Of Opposition, to that which was past on Sunday last the 20^* of September 1724 in the french reformed church of the City of J^ew York) and signed afterwards by some members of the said Church.

We underwritten Members of the french Church In the City of New York, do hereby freely and sincerely declare that we disallow and reject that rash Act which was past on Sunday last the 20 th of this month in church in the presence of some Heads of Families there met together and afterwards sign'd by some others, by virtue whereof they have pretended to dismiss & exclude M"" Lewis Rou our Minister out of his office, that is to say, as it was verbally intimated to him the next day, to acknowledge him no longer as a Minister of our church, to discharge him of all functions to suppress his Salary, and to pay him nothing thereof for the future &c.