Assembly of Legislature of New York State.

1000 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

MESSAGE OF GOV. CLINTON TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE NEW YORK. Gentlemen,

I have the Pleasure of transmitting you with this Message an Act of Congress of the 24th of September last for adjusting the Controversies and settling the Disturbances subsisting in the North Eastern District of this State--if the Measures recommended by Congress meet with your Approbation you will readily perceive the Propriety of immediately enacting the Laws

necessary for carrying them into Execution. Gro. Ciinton. Kingston 24 October 1779.

or

CHARLES PHELPS TO GOV. CLINTON. Sir,

I Humbly pray your Excellency's attention to this my most Humble Desire praying your most Kind & Important Influence upon the minds of the Honorable Legislature that my aceompt for my Expence to Congress in behalf of this Patriotic State in a matter of so much Importance to the Justice, the Sacred Rights of Jurisdiction, the Emolument and Lasting tranquility of this whole State; against the Lawless & Treasonable pretended Domination of such a Contumacious most violent Insulting headstrong and ferocious:People of Vermont; Rissen up in the: woods among the mountains, Snatching at the Helm of Government, wrenching the Sacred and awful Scepter thereof out of the Hands of those who were Lawfully Commissioned to wield it ; to the Infinite Prejudice of the people of the whole State and in Contempt of the authority of Congress and to the whole magistracy of this and in its Consequence to that of the whole united States ; which Every Statesman & Learned Polititian throughout these States must necessarily own without Hessitancy upon. the first Clear and Impartial yiew thereof. Wherefore the matter of my negotiations both at your Honorable Legislature and at the Honorable Continental Congress of such Grate Importance