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Klajedy, His Heirs and Succeflbrs, by Warrant un
der His or their Signet, or Sign Manual, and with
the Advice of the Privy Council, to constitute and
appoint a Council for the Adairs of the Province of
Quebec, to consist of such Persons reiident there, not
exceeding Twenty-three, nor less than Seventeen,
as His Majesty, His Heirs and Succeflbrs, Ihall be
pleased to appoint; and, upon the Death,Removal,
or Absence of any cf the Members of the said Coun
cil, in like Manner to constitute and appoint filch
and Io many other Person or Persons as IhpU be
ncceHary to supply theVacancy or Vacancies : which
Council, so appointed, and nominated, or the major
Fart thereof, ihall have Power and Authority to
make Ordinances for the Peace, Welfare, and good
Government of the said Province, with the coAent
cf His Majesty’s Governor, or in his Absence of the
Lieutenant-Governor 3 or Commander in Chief for
the Time being.
Provided always, That nothing in this Aft con
tained, (hall extend to auihonle er impown- the
said Legiilative Council to lay any Taxes crDu.ies
within the said Province, such Rates and Taxes on
ly excepted as the Inhabitants of any Town or
Diftrift, for the Furpofe of making Roads, erefting
and repairing public Buildings, or for any other
purpose reJpedihg the local. Convenience and Oe
cqnomy of such Town or Dillrift.
Provided also, and be it Enabled, by the Authority
-Vbrefaid,That every Ordinance so to be made Ihall,
within Six Months, be transmitted by theGoverner,
cr, in his Absence, by the Lieutenant Governor or
Commander in Chief for the Time being, and laid
before His Majesty, for His Royal Approbation ;
and if His Majesty Ihall think fit to disallow thereof,
ihe fame Ihall cease and be void from the Time that
■His Majesty’s Order in Council thereupon Ihall be
promulgated at Quebec.
Provided also, d'hat no Ordinance touching Re
ligion, or by which any Punishment may be inflicted
greater than Fine orlmprifonment forThreeMonthfe,
fnall be of any Force or Efl-eft, until the fame Ihall
have received His Majesty’s Approbation.
Providedalfo, That no Ordinance fnall be passed
at any Meeting of the Council where less thana
Majority of the whole Council is present, or at any
Time except between the First Day of January arid
the First Day of May, unless upon some urgent Oc
casion, in which Case every Member thereof, resi
dent at Quebec,or within Fifty Miles thereof, (hall be
personally summoned by the Governor, or, in his
Absence, by the Lieutenant Governor or Comman
der in Chief for the Time being, to attend the fame.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore
faid, That nothing herein contained Ihall extend,
or beconftrued to extend, to prevent or hinder His
Majeiy, His Heirs and Succeflbrs, by His or their
Letters Petent, under the Great Seal of Great-Bri
tain, from erefting, constituting, and appointing,
such Courts of Criminal, Civil, and Ecclesiastical
Jurifdiftion, within and for the said Province of
Quebec, and appointing, from Time to Time the
Judges and Officers there, as His Majesty, His Heirs
and Succeflbrs, Ihall think neceflary and proper, for
the Circumstances of the said Province.
Provided also, and be it further enabled, That no
thing in this Aft con tained ihall extend, or be con
strue i to extend, to repeat or make void, within the
said Province Quebec, any Aft or Afts of the Par
liament of Great-Britain heretofore made, for pro
hibiting restraining, or regulating, the Trade or
Conimerce of His Mejefty’s Colonies and Plantati
ons in America ; but that all and every the faidAfts,
and also all Afts of Parliament heretofore made
concerning or refpefting thefaidColonies and Plan
tations, Ihall be, and are hereby declared to be, in
Force, within the said Province of Quebec, and every
Part thereof.
BOSTON, August 29.
We hear from Taunton, that on the arrival of
Daniel Leonard, Esq; at that Town, the Place of his
Residence (who has taken the Oath, neceflary to
qualify himfelf for a Counfellor on the new Plan)
the People were greatly exasperated aganft him,and
as it became publicly known that he was in that
Town, by his going toMeetingon Sunday Forenoon,
a Paper was .polled up by the Aleeting-Houfe'Door,
requesting the Inhabitants to assemble on the Green
Mr. Leonard, it is said, not thinking his Situation
iafe, decamped. The next Day the People ' affe
fcled, but he not being found, the Deputy Sheriff ap
peared, and by his Conduct so enraged the People
that he thought it prudent to take Shelter in Mr.
Leonard’s House. And we further learn that several
Shot were firedin the Room where he was going co
bed.
We hear from Salem, that last Week the Hon.
Andrew Oliver, Esq; waited upon his Excellency
•the Governor with a Resignation ofhis Seat at the
Council Board.
A Correspondent lays theProvince will never rest
while one Man, who has accepted any Office under
the Sanftion of the new Acts of Parliment is posses
sed of any one Poll of Power or Profit in the Country,
snd until every one A them by great Penitence ob
A PROPOSAL from different Patts A the Com
try—lt is proposed thatan Estimate flioqM be fofim
by indifferent People of the Value of ail the Re
Estates in Boston, that fa if the Edates in it Ihou
be funkin their Value by theTort Bill’s coatlauin
to beinforced, or Ihould othei wife be ruined by th"
Rage cf our common Enemies, the Country might
be able to form a Judgment of the Retribution that
Ihould be made to the Sufferers—This does Honor
to the public Virtue of cur Country.
B O S T O N, Sept. 1.
Last Tuesday being the day the Superior Com t
was to be holden here, the Chief Justice, Peter Oli
ver,Efq; and the other Juflices of said Court, toge
ther with a number of gentlemen of the bar,attend
ed by the High and Deputy Sheriffs walked in pro
ceflion from the state-house to the Court-house, in
Queen-street. When the Court were seated and the
ulual proclamations made, a lift of the names of the
gentlemen returned to serve as Grand-Jurors, was
presented to them, and the Court appointed Mr.
Ebenezer Hancock, Foreman, but be refufing to be
(worn, and the question being put to them all, fe
vcrally, whether they would take the oath, they one
and all refufed ; and being alked whether they had
any reasons to offer for their thus refufing ; they an
swered they had, and that they were committed to
writing ; the Court requested to fee them, but the
Jurors refufed giving thy Court the original paper
unless they were firft permitted to read it in Court,
or after reading the Court would promise to return
it to them again.
The Petit Jurors were then called for, and a lift
of their names being handed to the Court they an
pionted Mr. Bartholomew Kneeland, Foreman, of
the firft Jury, and Mr. Nathan Frazer of the second.
Mr. Kneeland had the oath proposed to him, which
lie declined taking and being alked for what reasons,
referred to a paper which he said was drawn up with
their unanimous consent, and begged leave to read
to the Court. The Court refufed to hear the paper
read, and the oath was proposed to each Juror in or
der, and declined as by the Foreman. Their reasons
being demanded, they generally referred to the paper
till it came to the turn of Mr. Thomas Chafe, who
begged leave to read the paper then in his hand ;
but was told by the Chief Justice that he might give
his own reasons without reading the paper; to
which he agreed, and said that one ofhis reasons
was that Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of that
Court, flood impeached by the late hon. House of
Representatives of this province, in their own name,
and in the name of this province, of divers high
crimes and misdemeanors.—Being alked by the
Chief Justice if he gave that as a reason for his re
fufing to be sworn, he answered ‘ yes, that is one
reafon.’ The Court then called upon another of the
Petit Jurors to be sworn, but he refufed, & referred
to the paper for his reasons, as aforefaid. The
Chief Justice then desired the Court might peruse
the paper, which Ihould be retur. ed to the Jurors
again ; which was agreed to, read and returned. '
R he Codrt then proposed the fame condition to the
Grand Jury, which was complied with, and the
contents delivered.
The reasons of the Petit jurors were as follows.
“ Boston, August 30, 1774,
u Suffolk, IT.
To the Honourable the Justice es the Superior
Court of Judicature, Court of Aflize, &c.
May it please your Honours,
“ Wethe fubferibers, returned by this county to serve as
jurors this term, beg leave to acquaint your Honours, that
as the hon. Peter Oliver Efo-, stands impeached by the
late hon. House of Commons of this province, in their own
name,and in the name of the people of this province, ofbi^h
crimes and mifdemeaners ; which impeachment, with the
reasons therefor, as they are public, would be needkfsfor
us to repeat.
“ We would also beg leave to acquaint your Honours,
that as by a late aft of the Britijh Parliament, the con
tinuance of the Judges of the Superior Court, is fence the
firft of July left, made to depend upon said aft, which it is
apprehended places their dependance entirely upon the crown,
andwhich is eftecmed a great infringement of the charter
rights of this province.
‘ ‘ 7 aking the above ptemifes into our most serious confi
derattoh, we beg leave to acquaint your Honours, that we
cannot in our confidences, from a sense of that duty we owe
to our country, to ourselves, and to posterity, aft against the
united voice of this people :—Therefore beg your Honours
willexcufe us wh'en voe fay, we declinefervinn as Petit
Jurors fir this Court.
V rr r “
j oftaaWaiers,Samuel Ridgeway, Nathan Frazier,
Robert Wire, Barthcdomev; Kneeland, Thomas Chafe.,
John Cunningham, J^epb 2 'ewer, Jacob Sharp, Timo
thy Tileftone, Samuel Sprague Ebcnezar Swift, Elipahlet
Sawyer, Thomas White, Thomas Na/h, Nat hl I Holbrook,
jun, Elijah Jening, Elijha Cubing Ignatius Orcutt, Eli-
tain Fmgivenefs, or leave America and tmtll a*
your Addreflers to Hctchinfon have by humbli.
themselves regained tire good Will of the Count
and the City of Bolton in particular-—or else are
moved off from the Conti Ant.
Oambri balfTard.: :j
ppwder the vomr^ r ..... wlah is to be bi:oSj
ten f anddepefitedm the Magazine here. A Grand Ma
nauvre this !—lt is jaid, they havealfoftizedthepev:- t
der belonging to the to von of Charleftown.
It is faidthat rhe efface of Lieutenant 'Governor f tils
Province was designed, by adminif ration, fir the. hen.
Peter diver, Ejq~, and that the cccafion ofhis not recciv
sngthe commijjion was owing to ami fake in the infer, ion
op the chriftian name, Thomas inftcad cf Peter.
H A R T F O R D, September 6.
Onl uefday last being theDay the CountyCouH
was to let at Springfield, a great Concourse of Peo
ple, judg’d to be about three Thousand, affembied
at the Court-House in that Place, and appointed
a Committee to wait on the Court and request their
Appearance amongst the People, which they imme
diately complied with ; when they very willingly
signed the following Engagement, viz.
the Subfcribcrs, do fevefally premise, and
folsmnly engage to ail People now assembled
at Springfield, in the County of Hampfllire on the
30th Day of Auguft,l774, that we' never will take,
hold, execute, or excfcile, any Commiflion, Office
or Employment whatsoever, under, or by Virtue
of, or in any Manner derived from any Authority
pretended or attempted to be given by a late Aft
of Parliament, entitled, “ An Aft for the better
regulating the Government of the Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.”
Ilrael Williams, Oliver Partridge, Timothy
Dwight, Thomas Williams, John Worthington,
Joieph Hawley, William Williams, Simeoil Strong,
Moles Bliss, Jonathan Ashley, E’ilha Porter, Wil
liam Billings, John Phelps, Solomon Stoddard,
Julius Ely, Caleb Strong, Samuel Fowler, Jona
than Bliss.
The alarming news from Boston, which flew like
electrical fire, and will probably Ihock every part of
the continent before the mtftake can be rectified,ap
pears utterly void of foundation, except that an af
fray happened last Friday in the town cf Boston.
The particuluar circumftailccs .of the
affray are not yet known, but thus much may
be relied on that no bad consequences nave
as yet ensued, that we hear of.—---Whether
this alarming report was set on foot By defigrt or
meeraccident,it has occafion£d,it feemsa pretty ge
neral muller in Connecticut and perhaps in tnany
parts of the country ; indeed thoufandstwere some
time qn their march to the relief of their brethren,
before the fallhood of the flory could possible be
detected^ The spirit of the people on this occasion
is almost incredible ; and I believe I may venture
to assert fufficientto open the eyes of the rankest tory
on the continent, hot under a judicial lentence of
blindness, and fix in his bre'aft an everlasting con
viCtiori, that if our. liberties are extorted from
us,they will be by the hardest and nctwithout feme
bloody noses.
\ eflerday meeting of the inhabitants of this
towri was held at the court-house when Col. Samuel
Talcott, Mr. Elifoa Pitkin, and Capt. Samuel Wyllys,
were chosen to attend the meeting of the committees
of the several towns at this place the 15 th inflant.
sis Ihe treatment that several of the new-made coun
cillor: fir the Province of the Majjachufetts-Bay, together
with a number of new advertisements, must be omittedfor
want of room.
Chice Oil and Blubber, fit for
Tanners and Leathers Drcffers Use, to be fold
By JOSEPH BARRET.
Hartford, Sept. 6th, 1774.
-R a~"g SJ
(2 ASH given for clean Cotton and Lin
nen RAGS of any kind at the Print
ing-OHice in Hartford.—lt is desired that
not less than lolb. be bro’t at a Time.
After the above was delivered to the People in
Writing, they all dispersed.
On Tuesday last, as two ybung Men (One a Son
of Capt. Holt, the Other Son of Mr. Cole,
of Norfolk) were digging in a Well at that Place,
the Ground cav’d in upon them, and inllantly put
an End to their Lives.