Desireous to promote and Encom-age so pious an undertaking Have Therefore thought fitt to grant unto the same Robert Livingston Leave and Lycence to Collect & Receive the free and Voluntary Charity and Contribution of any of the Inhabitants within tlie said Province towards the Carrying on aud Finishing of the same ; And for his so doing this shall be to liim a sufficient Warrant Given under my hand & seal tliis Twenty first day of June Anno Domini 1721 Annoq Regni R^ Georgij Magu: Brittan. Franc, et Hib: fid: Defensoris Septimo.

W Burnet. By his Excellency's Command Is Robin

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THIRD IMMIGRATION OF PALATINES.

In Council, Oct ye 27. 1722.

Present His Excellency William Burnet Esq'' &c &c &c Tills Board being informed that a ship was arrived here with Palatines from Holland which had touched in England, and which had lost many of its passengers in the Voyage & upon Examination of Doctr Braine, Doctor Nichols and Doctor Cobus who had been Ordered to go on Board and Visit the said Vessell and the Surgeon thereof.

It does not appear to tliis Board there was any Contagious Distemper on Board the said Vessell but upon Consideration of the Number of Persons who have been sick in the Voyage, and the quantity of Cloaths which may have Contracted Noisome Smells through the Length of the Voyage

It is ordered by his Excell>' with the Advice of the Council that the Commander of the said Ship do not Suffer any Person to Come on Shoar on this Island with any Cloaths Chests or other furniture till the same have been thoroughly air'd upon Nutton Island during the pace of six hours at least as the said Commander shaU Answer the Contrary at his Peril.