We farther insisted that they ought at Present, to make the Mittimus by which the Prisoners were committed, and not the Real merits of the Cause, the sole Rule of Judging, Whether they were guilty or not,*and if so, we had reason to hope, that they would Bail them, because the Mittimus (a Copy of wliich we inclose) did not certainly charge the Prisoners with any Crime Whatsoever -- M' Wortliington seemed to join in opinion that the iNiittimus was Insufficient.

The next morning we waited upon Coll^ Wortliington, who informed us, that they had examined the Justice, by whose Warrant the Prisoners had been committed, and that tliey had determined, not to let them to Bail, without furtlier Directions. Before we left Springfield, we enquired of Coll^ Choat, What the Committee had done at Sheffield, but he dechned giving any other Information than that their Business there was not compleated. When w^e arrived at Sheffield, we were informed that the Committee were to return there in the week now next Ensuing, to lay out another TownsMp; and that two Townships,

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each of the extent of Five miles West, from the Tachoniek Mountains, & Seven miles Nortli and South, had been laid out, which we Suppose, by the account given to us, must be chiefly in the Maimer of Renslaerwyck, and may perhaps include, a few Families Settled on the North side of tlie Mannor of Livingston. That the Committee presented as a Gift to such Tenants of Robert Livingston Jun>- or John Renslaer Esq's as would accept them, and hold tlie Lands against tlieir Land Lords, Releases for One hundred Acres of Land each, and that tlie Residue of the Lands, were Sold or Released at Two Shillings lawful money per acre. Having tlius concluded the Narrative, of the most Material, Transactions upon the Borders, We beg leave to Subscribe that we are,