And I do hereby require and command all Civil Officers within this province, of what Quality soever, as well those that are not, as those that are Inhabitants on the said Lands to continue & be diligent in exercising Jurisdiction in their respective Offices, as far Westward as Grants of Land have been made by this Government, and to deal with any person, or persons, that may presume to interupt the Inhabitants or settlers on said Lands as to Law and Justice doth appertain. The pretended right of Jurisdiction mention'd in the aforesaid Proclamation notwithstanding

Given at the Council Chamber in Portsmouth the 13th day of March 1764 in the fourth year of His Majesty's Reign

B. Wentwortu.

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LT. GOV. COLDEN T0 THE BOARD OF TRADE.

{Lond. Doc. xxxvii. ] New York, 12 April, 1764. My Lords,

Having lately seen a Proclamation of the Governt of New Hampshire in a printed paper, I now inclose it to your Lordpps as it shews the necessity of your Lordpps coming to some speedy resolution on this point. * mg

From the recitals in my Letter of the 20th of January last, on this subject, it will appear with what candour this Proclamation is framed ; and your Lordpps may in some measure judge whether the truth of the artifices with which that Governt is charged, be not thereby confirmed ; vizt. The numerous Grants of Townships by New Hampshire on the West side of Connecticut River, in so short a time as since the last Peace, cannot be with any view, in the persons who have recd those grants, to settle and improve those lands, but with a sinistrous view in a few persons to put large sums of money in their pockets, by jobbing and selling of Rights thro' all the neighbouring colonies, as appeared to the Council of this Province, by several persons going abt this Province, New Jersey and Connecticut, hawking and selling