The Board taking into Consideration the dangerous Tendency of the Disturbances at present prevailing in that part of the Country, and that Governor Wentworth had not thought proper by public act of his Government to disavow the assurances, the Rioters pretend to have received from him, humbly advised his Excellency, and it is accordingly ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of the Council, that a proclamation be prepared notifying the declaration of Governor Wentworth on this subject contained in his Letter above mentioned--Stating the claim of this Province to the Lands Westward of Connecticut River--Strictly injoining the Inhabitants of those Lands to yield

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Obedience to the Laws within this Government: And derecting the Magistrates and other Civil Officers to be vigilant' in their Duty and attentive to the Preservation of the public Peace ; and to transmit the Names of all offenders herein, that such measures may be taken for their punishment, as the Nature of their Crimes shall require--And that the Draft of such proclamation when prepared be laid before his Excellency for the approbation of this Board.

ORDER IN COUNCIL FOR THE ARREST OF ETHAN ALLEN AND OTHER RIOTERS.

[ Counc. Min. XXVI. ]

: In Councit. November 27th 1771.

His Excellency communicated to the Board a Letter from Alexander McNaghten Esquire, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Albany, advising that he.had in pursuance.of his Excellency's Directions by the Advice of the Board of the 21st August last, inquired into the Riotous Conduct of the persons who had forcibly dispossessed Donald McIntire and others seated on Lands Eastward of Hudson's River under Grants of this province, and had issued a Warrant for apprehending Robert Cockran and three other persons, known by the Sirnames of Allen, Baker and Sevil, charged with pulling down and burning the House of Charles Hutcheson, and with. burning the House of John Reid: But that he apprehended the Number of the New Hampshire Rioters and their situation in the Mountains was such, that no Sherif or Constable would apprehend them and that it would be highly necessary for the public peace and the Relief of the sufferers to offer a Reward for apprehending the offenders--Whereupon it is ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council, that a proclamation issue for apprehending the said Cochran, Allen, Baker and Sevil, and the other Five persons charged with the Felony and the Riots lately committed by them, and offering of Twenty