The Council considering the Frequency and dangerous Tendency of such Disorders, which have hitherto proved beyond the Power of the civil Magistrates to suppress--That nothing | less than a Military Force in aid of the civil authority can restrain and put a stop to these daring outrages, and that such assistance is become absolutely and unavoidably necessary to enforce obe--- dience to the Laws, and restore Tranquility in that part of the Jountry; are therefore unanimously of opinion, and do humbly advise his Excellency, to request the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces to order a sufficient number of Troops to occupy the Posts of Tionderoga and Crown Point, and the officers commanding* them to give such aid to the civil Magistrate, as he shall from Time to Time require for the preservation of the publick Peace, and the due Execution of the Laws.

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GEN' HALDIMAND TO GOV® TRYON.

{ Lond. Doc. XLII. } New York Septt 1st 1778, Sir,

I have just received the honor of your letter of this day's date, with the minutes of Council therewith sent, on which I beg to make the following observations.

That in the present circumstances of affairs in America, it appears to me of a dangerous tendency to employ regular Troops, where there are Militia Laws, and where the Civil Magistrate can at any time call upon its trained Inhabitants to aid and assist

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them in the performance of their Office, and the execution of the Laws in force against Rioters, and for the protection of the lives and properties of His Majesty's subjects.