Therefore I hope they will leave with the full determination to return at tlie first notice, witliout imagining that any government or power in any other Province can protect them in case they go there.

That should any of them remove into any other Province (except that of New Jersey which is likewise under my government) I have adopted measures for their rendition, and will punish them for so doing as Deserters from her Majesty's service.

That each Master or Head of a Family desirous to go work as aforesaid, shall acquaint you ol the place he is moving to, and receive from you a Ticket of leave to go there, copy of which you will enter in a book, so that should he abandon that place he may be sent back and punished.

Should any dare depart without such Ticket of leave, you wull apply to tlie next Justice of tlie Peace for a Hue and Cry in order to pursue and bring him back, and place him in confinement until further orders from me.

Let the Coopers and as many people as it will be necessary to employ under tliera, be retained to work for those I shall be able to support.

I hope to have advice, between this k spring, of the payment of my Eills of Exchange, which will again enable me to support the whole of them. They must, therefore, not calculate on being dispersed for any greater lengtli of time.

You see the nect-ssity to wliich I am reduced. It causes me much uneasiness, because I am convinced that the w'ork can not fail were the people on tlie spot to prosecute it. But we must submit to what we cannot remedy. I, however, have tlie testimony of a gO')d conscience in having done all that depended on me for their support, and prosecuted the work for wliich they v;cie '.lestined.