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schaack, directed the Commissioners to resume and complete the , Partition aforesaid ; who on the twenty sixth Day of September now last past, in the Execution of the said Trust, were again opposed and prevented from effecting the said Partition, by a riotous and tumultuous Body of Men, openly avowing, in Opposition to the Title and Jurisdiction of this Province, that those Lands were held by them under Vew-Hampshire; and Information being given me, that such repeated Acts of Violence have chiefly arisen from an Expectation that his Majesty's Royal Decision in Privy Council of the twentieth day of July, 1764, whereby the western Banks of Connecticut River, are adjudged to be the Boundary between the two Provinces,--would be rescinded, and the Lands on the West Side of that River, be annexed to JVew-Hampshire. To prevent the Disorders that might be occasioned by so groundless a Delusion, I have thought proper to signify that I have the highest Reason to think it is his Majesty's fixed Resolution to adhere to his said Royal Decision, and to leave this Government in the full Enjoyment of its ancient Rights, as bounded upon the said Connecticut River. And it further appearing by Proof on Oath, that Simeon Hathaway, Moses Scott, Jonathan Phisk, and Stlas Robinson, all of the County of Albany, Yeomen, were among the principal Authors of, and Actors in the last mentioned Riot and Breach of the Peace: In order therefore to bring the said Offenders to condign Punishment, and that others warned by their Example, may be deterred from the Commission of such evil Practices for the future, I have thought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty's 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, not only in apprehending the said several Offenders, and committing them to safe Custody, but in preventing and