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Court Immediately adjourned to the next day, Soon after which tie said Stone and 'his Party seized the said John Grout in presence of some of the Judges of the said Court and forceably carried him away, and that the High Sherif of the said County at the same time made Proclamation for the said Rioters to disperse but to no effect. And further this Deponent saith not. Samui WELLs. Sworn before me this ninth Day of August 1770 ; Danut HorsmManpen.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON THE PRECEDING. May it please your Honor

In obedience to your Honor's Order in Council of the 14th of August last, we have considered the Letter of his Excellency John Wentworth Esq™ Governor of New Hampshire, of 10th Feby referred to us, with his Memorial and the Depositions therewith transmitted ; and humbly beg leave to report thereon.

That these Papers respect certain Complaints against Samuel Wells Esq', one of the Judges of the inferiour Court of Common Pleas and one of the Justices in the Comunission for the Peace, in the New County of Cumberland; which is Part of that Territory formerly claimed by New Hampshire, but by his Majestys Order in privy Council of the 20th of July 1764, declared to belong to the Province ot New York.

Mr' Wells is charged with Endeavours to frustrate the arrest of certain Persons prosecuted in the vice Admiralty Court of | this Province, for cutting Pine Timber in a Tract called the Township of Windsor, granted under New Hampshire ; and with taking a Conveyance of their Effects, pending the suits, to prevent a Recovery of the Penalty which the offenders had incurred.