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Resolvrd Nemine Contradicente that this House will provide Ways and Means for paying the. said Sum of Fifty Pounds in case the Author or Authors of the said Letters should be discovered and Convicted as aforesaid."

Ordered that Col^ Seaman and Mv Pliilip Livingston wait on his Excellency the Governour witli the foregoing Address and Resolutions of this House

By order of tlie General Assembly Abrji Lott Clk

PETITION OF THE PRESBYTERIANS OF N. Y. TO THE KING.

To THE Kings most Excellent Majesty in Council. The Petition of John Rodgers and Joseph Treat, the present Ministers of tlie Presbyterian Church of the City of New York according to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Catechisms and Directory ; agreeable to the Established Church of Scotland, William Smith, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, John Smith, Garret Noel, Thomas Jackson, and Nathaniel M^Kinley, the present Elders of the said Church, Jolm Stephens and Peter Ryker, the present Deacons of the said Church, and Thomas Smith, Whitehead Hicks, Wilham Smith jun' John Lasher, Joseph Hallet, John Dunlap, Peter R Livingston and John Morin Scott the present Trustees of the said Chui-ch for assisting the Ministers, Elders and Deacons in the temporal affairs of the same Church, Most humbly Sheweth,

That sundry Protestants of their perswasion who came over into tliis Province from Great Britain and Ireland, together with others Lihabitants of the said City of New York, many years ago entred into the Design of settling a Church and Congregation in the said City of New Y'ork, for the publick Worship of God according to the usage of the reformed Protestant Presbyterian Churches ; and that, for that Purpose, John Nicoll, Patrick McKnight, Gilbert Livingtoii, Tiiomas Smitli and divers otlier well disposed Persons, with the Assistance of the Charitable Coutri- VoL.