I send you Inclosed Eighteen printed Copies of the Lieutenant Governor's Proclamation for apprehending several Persons by Name, and others who shall appear to have been acting or assisting in the Riot on tlie 7'^ day of May last in your Manor ; I thought it best in this Case, as was done in the Proclamation formerly issued on a like occasion, to send the whole number of Copies to you, that when you have concerted the proper Measures for apprehending the offenders, you may send or give to the Sherifs of Albany and Dutches, each as many Copies as • you think will be necessary for them to have, and thus prevent

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the Offenders gaining Notice of the Government's Intention before they are taken. I am

P. S. The Proclamation will not be Sir inserted in the News-Papers till your most obed*

Monday the 27 Inst, at soonest humble Servant

Robert Livingston Jun'" Esq' G B-

Ijetter frem Prisoners in Albany Gaol to the Li Governor.

Albany Octr 7th 175S.

May it please your Honor

We humbly beg leave to Acquaint youi' Honor tliat we were Confined here about Eighteen Montlis ago on Account of a Eiot said to be Committed on the Mannor of Livingston On account of which we were Indicted, soon after our Committment, Since which no proceedings have been had against us. About four months ago we presented a Petition to the Honrb'e Judges of the Supreme Court Setting fortJi the Lenth of our Confiument without any proceedings had ag^^ us on the Indictment found, k Our Earnest desire of having long wished for a Legal Trial, or to be Admitted to Bail or Otliervvays Relieved as tlieir Honors sliould think fitt ; We also presented that our poor unhappy Familys were totally ruined We fartlier represented tliat M*" Livingston was desirous we should be Released if a Certain Inhabitant of this Province Confined in New England was Released.