hereby in his Majesty's Name enjoin require and command all Persons residing on any of the Lands within this Colony heretofore claimed by the Province of New Hampshire, to yield the Strictest Obedience to the Laws, and to demean themselves as good and faithful subjects within this Government, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril: And I do also hereby require all Judges, Justices, Sherifs and other Civil Officers to be vigilant in their Duty, and attentive to the preservation of the public Peace; and to transmit to me the Names of all Persons who shall for the future be found exciting any Riot, under whatever pretence, or perpetrating any.act tending to a Breach of the Peace, or the Disturbance of Government, with a particular Information of the circumstances attending the same, that such measures may be taken for the Punishment of the Offenders as the Nature of their Crimes shall require. . Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Fort George in the City of New York the eleventh Day of December 1771 in the twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the 'third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland

King Defender of the Faith and so forth. 4 ~W* Tryon. By His Excellency's Command.

Gw, Banyax D Secry Gop SAvE THE Kine.

og GOV. WENTWORTH TO GOV. TRYON.

New Hampshire 8" Jany 1772. Sir ' ; : By the inclos'd Copy, from ye Journal of his Majesty's Council for this Province upon communicating to them your Excellency's Letters to me dated Fort George N: York Oct. 241771 and | 234 Dect 1771 together with your Proclamation inclos'd in the letter, and my answer to the first Letter ; It will appear that I cannot issue any public Act relative to those violences recited in your Excellency's Letters & Proclamation as done in the Province of New York unless in possitive contrariety to their express advice, officially required, and given me upon this occa-