-- PROVINCE OF NEW YorK.

1738.

STATE OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK - 1738. { Council Min; XVII. ]

In Council ; New York 5th Janry 1737.

His Honor (Lt Gov Clark) laid before the Board several 'Queries being Twenty ii number relating to this Province, which were sent to him by the Lords of Trade which having been read were ordered to be entered in the Minnits and are as follow vizt. '

Queries relating to His Majesty's Province of New York.

No1. What is the situation of the Province under your Government, the natttre of the Country soil & Climate, the Latitudes -& Longitudes of the most considerable places in it, or the neighbouring ffrench or Spanish settlements? Have those Latitudes & Longitudes been settled by good observations, or only by common Computations, and from whence are the Longitudes "Computed 2

2. What are the Reputed boundaries, and are any parts thereof Disputed, what parts & by whom 2? ~8. What is the Constitution of the Government ?

4. What is the Trade of the Province, the number of shiping, their tunnage, and the number of sea-fearing men with y® 'yespective Increase or Diminution within ten years past ?

5. What Quantity & sorts of British a. do the 'Inhabitants annually take from hence ?

6. What. Trade 'has the Province under ye Governmt with 'any foreign Plantations or any part of Europe, besides Great

Britain, how is that Trade carried on, what commoditys do the "people under your: 'Government send to, or receive from foreign "plantations ?