No authority in the County of Hampshire had any Right To take Cognizance of any oiience (if that was one) done in the manor of Livingston within this province and it was highly Criminal in any of their Officers to Execute any warrants there, and the demand of the Delivery up of those officers to be sent here for their Try alls we do not apprehend was extraordinary or unprecedented but Rational and Just for suppose officers of this Province, by a Warrant from him, went to Boston, and Broke

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Open a house there, and brought away the people, and Committed them to Goal liere, for an offence done in Boston, would it be very Extraordinary or unprecedented, to demand those officers from tliis G(wernment for their tryalls in Boston, for that high Crime Committed there by them ? But the Cases are alike for the Manor of Livingston we Conceive to be as clearly part of this province as Boston is part of Massachusetts-Bay, and while the said Report of the 2S^^ of ffebruary Last, and what they call the Magisterial Question therein, stands unanswered, we Believe it will appear so to every Impartial man who reads it.

The Massacliusets Government have been pleased to appoint a time and place for the meeting of their Commissioners with those of tliis province : If they would have been pleased to have Recollected that the Government of tliis province is his Majesty's Immediate Government, which theirs is not, it would have been something more Decent to haue referred the nameing of those things to this Government.