Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby strictly commanding and requiring the Sheriff of the City and County of Albany, to apprehend and take all, and every the before-named Rioters and Offenders, and them to commit to safe and secure Custody to answer for their several Offences, and to be dealt with according to Law :

And for that Purpose if it shall be necessary, to raise and take

to his Assistance the Posse Comitatus, or whole Power of the County: And all Magistrates Officers, and Ministers of Justice, - are hereby enjoined and required to give their Aid and Assistance, nor only in apprehending the said several Offenders, and committing them to safe Custody ; but in preventing and suppressing all future Riots and Disorders, of the like dangerous

Tendency.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort George, in the City of New-York, the twelfth Day of December, 1769, and in the tenth 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. . CaDWALLADER CoLpEn, By his Honor's Command,

Gw. Banyan, D. Secry. Gop save THE Kina.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 617

AFFIDAVITS OF MESSRS. BRACKENRIDGE AND. ROBINSON.

On the Nineteenth Day of October A. D. 1769. Leut James Breakenridge went with his hired men To his Field and Some others to'gathering corn and Some more People asembled a few of whitch had guns: & John Munro Esq Come their & in a friendly manner told him the S4 Breakinridge the Gentlemen from Albany were acoming to Run a Line their and Told him not to Stop them By Force if he Did he would Expose him Selth to the Law and Read the Law To him upon whitch said Breakinridge Desired the people to go home or with Draw out of his Field as he Saith : for the Gentlemen from Albany were then within about Eighty Rods a Running their Line into S¢ field Instantly Sam!!