Read and referred to the same Comme. to whom the former Petition on the same Subject is referred.

PETITION ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

To The Honourable Cadwallader Colden Esq? Lieutenant Goyernour and Commander in Chieff, in and over His Majestys, Province of New York & And to the Hone His Majesty's Council] now Convened.

May it please your Henours, , We the Subscribers for our Selves and the Rest of the Inhabitants of the North Easterly part of this Province, Humbly Pray

your Honours, to take the case of said Inhabitants under your wise and Serious Consideration, and if it be possible, to order and appoint that thare be a County made agreable to the Peti-

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582 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

tion Preferred to your Honours, not long since, that offenders may be Brought to Justice, and Creditors may Recover their Just Dues, and not send us from hence, for every one to do what is Right in their own Eyes. It is Now near Six months since to our knowledge, we became inhabitants of this Province, and have been ever since without Law, Notwithstanding we have made application to be protected, but as yet are not answered, Should we be annexed to the County of Albany, as proposed by some, we shall still lye under such a Disadvantage that Justice Cannot be had, and to appoint Justices in some few of the Towns, without proper Officers to Execute Warrants &*, we Humbly Conceive will never answer ye end, and which way any officer (if they should be appointed) can Execute their Office, so far as to carry a Delinquent to Albany, for our part we are at a loss, as there can be no passing from Connecticutt River to Albany, without going Thro' the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and as soon as an Officer gits across the line of the Province, his Office leaves him, and the Delinquent makes his Escape, and which way any Constables can be chosen to Execute any Small Precept &¢ till the Towns are Incorporated, we must Confess we cannot tell.