To prevent therefore the Incautious from becoming Purchasers of the Lands so granted ; to assert the Rights, and fully to maintain the Jurisdiction of the Government of this His Majesty's Province of Wew-York; I have thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby commanding and requiring all Judges, Justices, and other Civil Officers within the same, to continue to exercise Jurisdiction in their respective Functions, as far as to the Banks of Connecticut River, the undoubted Eastern Limits of that Part of the Province of New-York, notwithstanding any Contrariety of Jurisdiction claimed by the Government of Wew-Hampshire, or any Grants of Land Westward of that River, made by the said Government. AND I DO hereby enjoin the High Sheriff of the County of Albany, to return to me or the Commander in Chief, the Names of all and every Person and Persons, who under the Grants of the Government of Vew-Hampshire, do or shall hold the Possession of any Lands Westward of Connecticut River, that they may be proceeded against according to Law

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Twenty-eighth Day of December, 1763, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. By his Honour's Command, CapwALLApER CoLpEn.

Gw. Banyar, Dep. Secry. Gop save THE Kine.

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LT. GOV. COLDEN TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.