Provided that they are not charged with the actual murder of William Race, and that the Said Gentlemen represent the State of tliis affair to his Excellency as Soon as may be.

And further advised that his Excellency be desired again to propose to the Lieutenant Governour of New York the appointment of three disinterested Persons of the Neighbouring Colonies, to join with three Persons alike disinterested within Said Colonies to be appointed by this Government in order to Settle the Line of Jurisdiction between the two Governments, Such Settlement to be laid before his Majesty for his Royal approbation, A true Copy Examined

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ORDER RELATIVE TO PERSONS CONFINED IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Province of the > At a Council held at the Council Chamber Massachusetts Bay ) in Boston upon the 19'i» day of May 1755.

Present His Excellency William Shirley Esq^ Jpsiah Willard Jacob Wendell John Wheelwright Andrew Oliver Joseph Pynchon Thomas Hutchinson John Erving Esqf^ Advised tliat his Excellency write to Col" Williams, Col^ Dwight and Col^ W^orthrington directing that if upon Examination of the Persons lately taken from M^ Livingstons Ironworks so called there shall not appear sufficient grounds for their standing committed as being actually concerned in the Murder of William Race that in such case all such Persons be so far discharged as to be sent with a Proper Guard towards Hudsons River and that they be set at Liberty immediately upon the

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release of Persons of this Province who now stand committed at Albany. And further advised that his Excellency give orders to the Attorney General to enter a noli Prosequi in all actions lor any riotous proceedings of any Persons near the line calling themselves inhabitants of New York relying upon the engagement of the Province of New York that the same Orders shall be given on their Part.