Wherefore your Memorialist (being also informed that the said Lands have not been granted under the public seal of the Province of New York) prays that it may be declared they are forfeited, and such public Reservation of the Premises made as may to your Honors seem meet--whereby Your Memorialist apprehends, that. the Statute for preserving White pine Timber to His Majesty will be in some degree carried into Execution; which otherwise in this Instance may be frustrated, and the most open convicted, and pernicious Violation thereof, which in this Case was perpetrated in avowed Defiance of the Laws, will elude that Penalty of the Statute which was wisely formed, and which by the Experiance of nearly half a Century has in other Provinces been found effectual to that End--But if such insiduous Artifice, which in fact adds to their Criminality, may unhappily cover, and Secure them from the Infliction due to such Trespassers, Offenders will exult in the Breach of the most ben+ ficial Laws, and in peso nee National Injury with Impunity.

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All which is submitted, and your Memorialist prays such Relief on the premises as to your Honours shall appear just and

expedient. And your Memorialist shall ever pray &*¢

J. WENTWORTH. New Hampshire 10 February 1770.

AFFIDAVITS.

Beysamin Wuitine Esq! of Newbury in the County of Albany and Collony of New York of full age Testifies and says that on the twenty eighth day of August 1769 he Received several Writs which had been Granted by the Honble Richard Maurice Esq? Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty for the Province of New York, against several persons for Committing Trespasses in the King's Woods (by destroying White pine Timber within the County of Cumberland and Collony aforesaid) the Deponents also Received a deputation with full power to Execute the before mentioned Writs from Thomas Ludlow Esq!