759 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

pounds to be paid to the Persons who shall apprehend and secure each and either of the said offenders, that they may be proceeded against as the Law directs.

[ Here follows the Proclamation above directed, dated 9th Dec'r 1771, which is omitted as its substance is embodied in the preceding Order.--Ep.]

PROCLAMATION

REITERATING THE RIGHT OF NEW YORK TO THE TERRITORY IN DISPUTE.

By his Excellency William Tryon Esquire Captain General and Governor , in Chief in and over the Province of y New York and Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the Same.

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas it is the ancient and incontestible Right of this Colony to extend to Connecticut River as its Eastern Boundary; and sundry loose and disorderly Persons pretending a Claim under New Hampshire to Lands far Westward of the said River, and even within seventeen miles of Hudsons River daily commit Acts of Violence; openly bid Defiance to the Authority of this Government by opposing the Execution of every legal Process; and have lately burnt several Dwelling Houses, and by Force dispossessed divers Person seated under Titles derived from this Colony; which riotous spirit is stimulated and upheld by artful and wicked Men, who endeavor to delude the Ignorant and unwary into a Belief that a twenty mile Line from Hudsons River, is the Boundary between this Province and New Hampshire, and that its Jurisdiction will be fix'd and ascertained accordingly by his Majesty's Authority, agreable to the assurances they pretend to have received from the Governor of New Hampshire; altho' by a Letter to me of the 19th day of October last his Excellency the Governor of that Province utterly disclaims any such or the like Assurances,