And the Committee are humbly of opinion that your Excellency do adopt Measures so extremely lenient on their submission to the following Conditions.

That the Inhabitants of Bennington and the adjacent Towns concerned in the late Disorders, conform themselves to the Laws of this Government--That the Setlers on both sides shall continue undisturbed--and that such as have been dispossess'd or foreed by Threats or other means to desert their Farms, do in future enjoy their possessions unmolested.

And on Failure of the Observation of these Conditions on the part of the Inhabitants of the said Towns, that your Excellency do take all such legal and effectual Measures as shall be thought necessary to bring the authors of the late Violent Disorders in that part of this province, to speedy justice.

REPORT OF A PUBLIC MEETING AT BENNINGTON.

At a public meeting held at the Meeting House in Bennington on Wendesday 15t* July A. D. 1772. Present of the Committee appointed to answer His Excellency William Tryon Esq! Governor of the province of New York to his Letter dated New York 19, May last, &%directed to the Inhabitants of Bennington & the adjacent Country on the East side of Hudson's River.

Captain John Fassett

; & for Bennington. Nathan Clark

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 793

Reuben Harmon for Rupert. Daniel Comstock for Sunderland.

We as Messengers laid before the above Committee an Extract of the Minutes of His Majesty's Council of the aforesaid Province of N. York the 24 Instant together with his Excellency Gov' Tryon's Letter of the same date directed to the Inhabitants of Bennington, &c and after reading the same to the above Committee & a numerous Concourse of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Country, & other Spectators, a full and unanimous vote was given in favor of the papers aforesaid, and the Thanks of the People returned to us for our Diligence in procuring those Papers.