The Couneil having under their Consideration the Petitions of sundry Persons for certain Tracts of Land on the West side of Connecticut River, which have heretofore been granted in Townships by the Government of New Iampshire under the Great Seal of that Province ; and conceiving it' improper to proceed on 'such Petitions until one or more of the principal Proprietors in each Township, duly authorized by the Rest shall appear and produce such Powers from the other' Proprietors, and 'answer''to such 'Questions relative to the Lands so granted, as shall be demanded of them by this Board. It is ordered by

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his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council, that all Proceedings on the Petitions aforesaid, be suspended, until the appearance before his Excellency. in Council, of such principal Proprietor or Proprietors of each respective Township duely authorized to sue out a Grant for the same in behalf of all the Persons interested therein, and sufficienty prepared to give the fullest Information to the Board respecting the shares of the several Claimants. --Counc. Mun. xxix.

LORD SHELBURNE TO GOV. MOORE.

[Lond Doe. xl.]

Whitehall April 11 1767. Sir -

Two Petitions having been most humbly presented to the King in council, One by the uncorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel, and the other by Samuel Robinson of Bennington, in behalf of himself, and more than one theusand other grantees of Lands on the West side of Connecticut River, under certain Grants issued by Benning Wentworth Esq't® Governour of New Hampshire & praying for redress in several great Grievances therein set forth, lest there should be any further proceedings in this matter, till such time as the council shall have Examined into the grounds of it, I am to signify to you His Majesty's Commands that you make no new Grants of these Lands and that ? you do not molest any person in the quiet possession of His Grant, who, can produce good and valid Deeds for such Grant under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire until you receive further orders respecting them.