plantations as above directed which he is duely to perform upon pain of Incurring the forfeiture of his place True Copy Rich Waldron Secretary And you are also to require from the Clerk of the Assembly or other proper officer Transcripts of all Journals and other Proceedings of the Said Assembly fairly abstracted in the Margin's To The end the Same may in like Manner be transmitted as aforesaid True Copy Rich Waldron Secretary [2-196] GR Loc Sig 36 Instruction To His Excelley Gov Belcher And whereas We are willing in the best manner to provide for the Support of ye Goverm1 of our Said Province by Setting apart a sufficient allowance to Such as Shall be Our Governor Lt Gov Comand In Chief or President of our Councill, residing for ye time being within the Same, Our Will and pleasure therefore is that when It shall happen that you Shall be absent from Our Said Provinces of the Massa Bay and New-Hamp of which We have appointed you Governor, Our full moiety of the Salary and of all perquisites and Emoluments whatsoever, which would otherwise become due unto you Shall during the time of your absence from our said Province be paid and Satisfyed unto Such Governor Lt Gov Command' in Chief or President of Our Council who Shall be resident upon the place for ye time being which We do hereby order and allot unto them towards his maintenance and for the better Support of the dignity of that Our Goverment Provided nevertheless, and It is our intent and meaning that whenever you Shall think it necessary for our Service to go into Our Colony of Rhode-Island to view and regulate ye Militia whereof We have appointed you our Cap" Gen1 & Comand' In Chief or whenever we Shall think fit to require you by our Especial order to repair to any other of our Govermts on ye Continent of America for our particular Service that then and in Such Case you Shall receive yo' full Salary perquisites & Emolum's as if you were then Actually residing wthin our Province of ye Massa Bay & N-Hamp or Either of them, any thing in these our Instructions to ye Contrary in any wise notwithstanding True Copy R Waldron Secry [2-198] [Forty-second Instruction.] 42. And to prevent arbitrary removals of Judges & Justices of the peace you shall not express Any limitation of time in the Commissions which you are to grant with the advice & Consent of our Said Council to fit persons for those imployments Nor shall you execute yourself or by Deputy any of ye said offices nor suffer any son to execute more offices than one by Deputy You are to Transmit unto Us and To Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, with all Convenient Speed a particular Account of all Establishmts of Jurisdictions Courts offices and officers Powers authoritys fees and Privileges granted or Settled within Our said. Province together with a List of all the Officers employ'd therein, and an Account of all publick Charges relating to the said Courts, to the end you may receive Our further directions therein, and you are likewise to Transmit Exact and Authentic Copys of all proceedings in Such Causes where Appeals Shall be lodg'd before us in Our Council True Copy Rich Waldron Secry [2-200] GR Loc 51 Instruction And our Will and Pleasure is that appeals be permitted to Sig be made in Cases of Errors from the Courts in our said Province of New-Hampshire, unto you and the Council there, and in your absence from our Said Province to Our Commander in Chief for the time being, and our Said Council in civil causes, wherein such of our said Council as shall be at that time Judges of the Court from whence Such appeal shall be made to you our Governour and Council or to the Commander in Chief for the time being & Council as aforesaid, Shall not be admitted to Vote upon the Said Appeal; But they may nevertheless be Present at the hearing thereof, to give the reasons of the Judgment given by them in the Cause wherein Such. Appeal Shall be made. - Provided nevertheless that in all Such appeals the Sum or Value appeal'd for exceed fifty pounds Sterling, and that security be first duely given by the Appellant to answer such Charges as shall be awarded in Case ye first Sentence be affirm'd True Copy from the original Body of Instructions To His Excellency Gov Belcher Examin'd May 17 1732 R Waldron Secty And if either part shall not rest satisfyed with the Judgment of you or the Commander in Chief for the time being and Council as aforesaid; Our Will and Pleasure is that they may then Appeal unto us in Our Privy Council; Provided the sum or value so appealed for unto Us do exceed Two hundred pounds sterling; and that such Appeal be made within fourteen days after sentence; and that good security be given by the Appellant that he will effectually prosecute the same and answer the condemnation As also pay such costs and damages as shall be awarded by us in case the sentence of You or the Commander in Chief for the time being and Council be affirmed and it is our further will and Pleasure that in all cases where by Your Instructions you are to admit of appeals to Us in our Privy Council Execution be suspended until the final Determination of such appeals unless good and sufficient security be given by the Appellee to make ample restitution of all that the appellant shall have lost by means of such Judgment or Decree in Case upon the Determination of such Appeal such Judgment or Decree shall be reversed and restitution awarded to the Appellant [2-203] Locus George R [Fifty-sixth Instruction.] 56. And whereas the Surveyors General of our Customs in the Plantations are impowered in Case of the Vacany of any of our Officers of the Customs, by Death Removal, Or otherwise to appoint other Persons to Execute Such offices, Untill They Receive Further Directions from our Commissioners of our Treasury Or Our High Treasurer, or Commissioners of our Customs for the Time Being, but in Regard the Districts of the Sd Surveyors General are very Extensive, and that they are Requir'd att proper Times To visit the officers in the Several Governmts under their Inspection, and that it may Happen, that Some of our Officers of the Customs in the Province of New Hampshire, may Dye att the Time the Surveyor General is Absent in Some Distant Part of his District, So that he Cannot Receive Advice of Such Officers Death, within a Reasonable Time, and thereby make Provision for Carrying on the Service by Appointing Some other person in the Room of Such officer who may Happen to Die, Therefore that there may be no Delay Given on Such Occasion, To the Merchants in their Dispatches or Masters of Ships, It is Our Further will and Pleasure, in Case of Such Absence of ye Survey General, or if he should happen to Die, and in Such Cases only That upon the Death of any of our Collectors of Customs within that Province, You Shall make Choice of a Person of Known Loyalty, Experience, Dilligence, and Fidelity, to be Employd in Such Collectors Room For the Purposes Aforsd Untill The Surveyor General of our Customs Shall be Advised thereof, and Appoint Another to Succeed in Their Places, Or that Further Directions shall be given therein, By Our Commissioners of Our Treasury Or by Our High Treasurer, or by the Commissioners Of Our Customs For the Time Being which shall be first Signify'd, Taking Care that you Do not under Pretence of this Instruction, Interfere with the Powers and Authorities given by the Commissioners of our Customs to The Said Surveyor General, when he is able to Put The Same in Execution A True Copy taken from the body of the Kings instructions to Jona Belcher Esq' Governour of New Hampshire July 12: 1731 [2-204] 73 Instruction J Belcher You shall take an Inventory of all Such Arms ammunition and. Stores as are remaining in any of our Magazines or Garrisons in our Said Province of New Hampshire, and transmit the Same to Us, and To Our Comissioners for trade and Plantations, with all Convenient Speed and the like Inventory afterwards half yearly, and also a Duplicate thereof to Our Master General or Principal officers of our Ordinance which Accounts are to Express the Particulars of Ordinance Carriages balls powder and all other Sorts of Arms and ammunition in our Public Stores at your Said arrival and so, from time to time, of what Shall be sent to you or bought with the public mony, and to Specify the time of disposal and the occasion thereof True Copy Examin'd Richd Waldron Secretary [3-1] [Proclamation concerning the King's Woods, 1730.] [Copied from the Original.] By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq' Captain General & Governour in Chief in and over His Maj'ties Province of New Hampshire in New England A Proclamation to prevent the Destruction or Spoil of His Majesties Woods. Forasmuch as the Preservation of His Majesties Woods within this and the neighbouring Provinces is highly necessary for furnishing the Royal Navy, and divers Acts of Parliament have been accordingly from time to time made & pass'd for that end; notwithstanding which and the care of this Governm' to prevent & punish the Destruction and spoil of His Majesties Woods, many evil minded Persons have broke thro' the restraints of the Law in that behalf; and have for their own private gain made great wast of such trees as might be fit for His Majesties service But Inasmuch as it may be presumed that some Persons have Trespassed on His Majesties Woods thro Ignorance, and not being duly apprized of the Laws in that case made & provided; and more especially of two Acts of Parliament, the one made in the eighth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first; and the other in the second year of His present Majesty's reign; In the first of which entitled an act giving further encouragem1 for the Importation of Naval Stores, and for other purposes therein mentioned It is Enacted "That from and after the Twenty first day of September one thousand seven hundred & twenty two, no Person or Persons within the Colonys or plantations of Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Bay & Province of Mayne, Rhode Island, & Providence Plantations, the Narraganset Countrey, or Kings province, and Connecticut in New England & New York & New Jersey in America, or within any of them do or shall presume to cut, fell or destroy any white pine trees, not growing within any Township or the bounds, lines, or limits thereof in any of the sd Colonies or plantations without His Majesties Royal Lycense |