That the said Petition being referred to a Committee of the Council, they on the 14'h day of Marcli following were pleased to report that they had gone through the said petition ; and were of Opinion that his Honour might grant the prayer thereof, that the said report being agreed to &approvedof by his Honour in Council ; It was ordered that a draft of such Charter of Incorporation should be prepared and laid before the Board for its approbation.

And your Petitioners do further shew unto your Honour that notwitlistanding the said Order no Charter hath been presented for the Incorporation of your Petitioners by which the business and Interests of their Church have been much Injured and do daily Suffer.

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly pray that your Honour Avill be pleased to Issue your Warrant directing his Majesty's Attorney General to prepare the Draft of such letters of Incorporation & lay the same before your Honour in Council pursuant to tlie before mentioned Report and Order for that purpose that your Petitioners may be no longer Deprived of the benefits thereby Intended them

And your Petitioners as in

Duty bound shall ever pray &c

Sept. 29. 17C3. John Albert Weygand.

George Peterson.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YOHK. 4^

CASE OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE CITY OF N. Y.

Many Protestants of this Perswasion emigrated from Europe into this Colony at its iirst Settlement by the Dutch. When the Country Avas Surrendered to the Crown of England in 1GG4, the Ai'ticles of Capitulation seciu-ed to the Inhabitants their lieligious PriviledgeSj as well as their Possessions j and soon after the Surrender, Colonel Nicholls, Lieutenant Governor under the then Duke of York, by an Act under his Hand and Seal, licenced the Lutherans to send to Europe for a Pastor of their own Perswasion.