Sir I.am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 7th September, with a minute of the Council held at New York the 1st Instant, and a Copy of a Petiticn and Complaint of Benjamin Hough Esq', in behalf of. himself, and other Officers of Justice, and Inhabitants of the County of Charlotte, therein inclosed. It wou'd have been very agreeable to me to have complied with the application, you are pleased to make me in consequence of the above, for a military aid of 200, or 150 men,*to be employed in the Support of Civil Government in said County; but _» Governor: Tryon having made a like Requisition. to General 'Haldimand, which he thought proper to decline complying with,

till he had referr'd -it to His Majesty's Ministers, and having in answer been given to.understand, that the King approved of his Conduct in not sending a military Force into that Country; you will doubtless join me in opinion that I can not at present, afford the aid you require.

Governor Tryon was called home that he might. give Lights in the Points in dispute concerning the New Hampshire Lands, and the several. Parties concerned were to be heard before the Board of Trade, and a Report made to his Majesty thereupon, when it's probable a final Decision will be made upon this sub-

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ject and it is then to be expected, that effectual measures will be adopted, and necessary Directions given to restore order, and enforce a due obedience to the Laws in that County. I am, with very great Regard, Sir, Your most Obedient, humble Servant, Tuo' GaGE. (Endorsed) Sept: 29, 1774. Read in Council.