Washington his intention of convening the state legislature for the purpose of vindicating the authority of government, and reqnests the return of sundry field pieces loaned to the U. S. army, 975; transmits to the legislature of New York the act of congress for settling the disturbances in the N. W. district of that state, 1000; communicates his advice to the committee of Cumberland co., 1010; advises-reprisals on the opponents of the state in the N. H. grants, should they attack the friends of N. Y., and reports the ill conduct of Ethan Allen to congress, 1013.

Clinton, township of, appropriated to the 'Vermont sufferers, 1017.

Cochrane, Rob't, and others forcibly eject grantees under N. Y. from their lands, 720; ordered to be arrested, 749; mentioned, 860.

CotpEN, Cadwallader, ordered to answer certain queries on the stale of the proyince of 'New York, 166; observations on the soil, climate, water communications, &e., of the Prov. of New York, by 169; observations on the attorney-general's report on tbe eastern boundary of New York, presented by, 546; issues a proclamation claiming the Connecticut river to be the East bounds of the Proy. of N. York, 558; lays before the board of trade the state of the dispute between N. York and N. Hampshire as to boundary, 560, 567; transmits Gov. Wentworth's proclamation to the board of trade, and pronounces the grants under New Hampshire west of Connecticut river to be founded in jobbing and fraud, 572; sheriff Sehuyler acquaints, that he had arrested several "persons belonging to New Hampshire who had forcibly ejected sundry tenants on