And Whereas it appears that some person or persons pretending to be olficers of tlie Government of the Massachusets-Bay, came into the Manor of Livingston in this Province on or about the nineteenth day of this Instant, and with the aid and assistance of Josiah Loomis William Webb, John Hallenbeck son of Michael HaUenbeck, Joseph Arcourt, Jonathan Yoimglove, and David Picksley, and divers other Persons whose names are yet unknown, in a Riotous manner and witli force entered the House of Robert Vanduersen in the said Manor of Livingston, and by force took, bound, and carried away the said Robert Vanduersen and his Son Johannis, out of the said Manor of Livingston, in order to confine them in some Goal of the said Government of Massacliusets-Bay, pretending that they acted under, a Warrant or Autliority from that Government, for a Trespass committed by the said Robert Vanduersen and his Son Johannis, on Lands lying within tlie said Manor : Altliough it is notorious that tlie said Manor lies witliin this Province, and was granted under the Great Seal of the same and by virtue thereof has been long above sixty years in the quiet and peaceable Possession of Robert Livingston Junior Esquire, and his Ancestors, or Persons claiming under them.

I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice of Ins

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Majesty's Council of this Province, to issue this Proclamation, hereby iu his Majestys Name strictly cliarging and Commauding the Sherifs of tlie Countys of Albanjvf and Dutches or eit'ier of them, and the Constables and all other officers in the said Counties jointly or severally, forthwith to apprehend and take all and every the persons herein before particularly named, and concerned in the Riot aforesaid, and all and every such other person and persons as may appear to have been any ways aiding abetting or assisting therein, and them and every of them to Commit to the Goals of the said Counties of Albany and Dutches or either of them, there to be kept in safe Custody, until thence delivered by due comrse of Law : And for preventing the like Riotous proceedings for the future, as much as may be.