That your Petitioner Samuel Wells hath expended in defraying the expenses of the several expresses from the County of Cumberland to the City of New York, bringing accounts of the state of the County, in order that Government might be thereby enabled to take the most proper steps to reinstate and maintain the due administration of Justice, and for the suppression of Riots in the said County; The sum of Forty three Pounds Fourteen Shillings and six pence, an account whereof (A) is herewith presented.

Your Petitioners are happy in that they are enabled to inform ' your Honor, that these expresses seem to have been of very essential service, in disheartning several of the late Rioters ; and your Petitioners are humbly of opinion (from the. last accounts), That had it not been for the late unhappy differences in Massachusets-Bay, the Rioters would have been so far disheartned, as that the well disposed inhabitants, would have been able to have restored peace in that County.

That your Petitioner William Patterson hath expended in defraying the charges of the Posse for the purpose of supporting and majntaining the course of Justice in the said county of Cumberland, The sum of Seventy Seven Pounds Twelve Shillings and Eleven Pence farthing, as appears by the account (B) herewith presented, attested by the Petitioner under oath.

That your Petitioner Samuel Gale hath expended for the Travelling charges of the persons taken by the Rioters, and of their guard from Westminister to Northampton, and from thence to the City of New York ; and for the expenses of such as are returned, while here, and to enable them to return; The sum of Thirty two Pounds Fifteen Shillings and one half penny, over