objection above stated, and therefore prays to receive Your Majesty's Instructions thereupon before the next meeting of the Council and Assembly at which time he expects they will pass such another Bill and press for his Assent, we do for these reasons humbly recommend to Your Majesty to signify to your said Governor, in case the actual necessity of emitting Bills of Credit upon loan to the high amount now proposed can be made to appear, and provided care be taken effectually to observe the restrictions of the Act of Parliament prohibiting such Bills to be deemed a legal Tender that no objection occurs why an Act of Assembly under proper limitations should not be allowed. to be passed for the purposes above mentioned but as many regulations may be found necessary, when a measure of this consequence shall come under consideration which cannot now be pointed out and prescribed, we would humbly propose to your Majesty that Your Governor of New Jersey should be expressly restrained from assenting to any proposals for the above purposes whereby the same may be carried into effect without reference to Your Majesty's Approbation for which end we humbly recommend, that he should be directed either to transmit them (as in the present instance) in the form of a Bill, or if the same shall be passed into an Act, to take Care that a Clause shall be inserted therein, suspending its execution till Your Majesty's pleasure thereupon can be obtained.

Which is most humbly submitted.

An additional instruction to all the Governors in America, directing them not to permit public or private lotteries in their respective governments.

[From P. R. O. B. T. Plantations General, Vol. 42, p. 347.]

May 11, 1769

Additional Instruction to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved William Campbell Esquire, commonly called Lord William Campbell, Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and for Our Province of Nova Scotia in America. Given at Our Court at St James' the day of -- in the of Our Reign.

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Whereas a practice hath of late years prevailed in several of Our Colonies and Plantations in America, of passing Laws for raising Money by instituting publick Lotteries; and Whereas it hath been represented to Us, that such practice doth tend to disengage those, who become Adventurers therein, from that Spirit of Industry and Attention to their proper Callings and Occupations, on which the publick Welfare so greatly depends; And Whereas it further appears, that this practice of authorizing Lotteries by Acts of Legislature hath been also extended to the enabling private Persons to set up such Lotteries, by means whereof great frauds and Abuses have been committed; It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure, that you do not give your Assent to any Act or Acts for raising Money by the Institution of any publick or private Lotteries whatsoever, until you shall have first transmitted

unto Us by one of Our Principal Secretaries of State a Draught or Draughts of such Act or Acts, and shall have received Our directions thereupon.

A like additional Instruction was prepared for S Francis Barnard Bar Gov! of Massachusets Bay John Wentworth Esq! Gov! of New Hampshire S Henry Moore Bar Gov! of New York William Franklin Esq! Gov! of New Jersey etc etc.

Circular Letter from Lord Hillsborough to the Governors in America, informing them that His Majesty's Government have had no design to lay taxes on America for purposes of revenue.

Circular

[From New York Colonial Documents, Vol. VIII, p. 164.]

WHITEHALL, May 13th, 1769.

Inclosed I send you the gracious Speech made by the King to his Parliament, at the close of the Session on Tuesday last.

What His Majesty is pleased to say in relation to the Measures which have been pursued in North America,' will not escape your notice, as the satisfaction His Majesty expresses in the Approbation His Parliament has given to them, and the assurances of

"The

1 Said the King in his speech to Parliament on Tuesday, May 9, 1769: measures which I had taken regarding the late unhappy disturbances in North America, have already been laid before you. They have received your approbation; and you have assured me of your firm support in the prosecution of them. Nothing, in my opinion, could be more likely to enable the well disposed among my subjects, in that part of the world, effectually to discourage and defeat the designs of the factions and seditions, than the hearty concurrence of every branch of the legislature in the resolution of maintaining the execution of the laws in every part of my Dominions. And there is nothing I more ardently wish for, than to see it produce that good effect."-Dodsley's Annual Register, for 1769, 229–30—[W. N.]

their firm support in the prosecution of them, together with His Royal opinion of the great Advantages that will probably accrue from the concurrence of every branch of the Legislature in the Resolution of maintaining a due Execution of the Laws cannot fail to produce the most salutary effects.

From hence it will be understood that the whole Legislature concur in the opinion adopted by His Majesty's Servants, that no Measure ought to be taken which can any way derogate from the Legislative Au· thority of Great Britain over the Colonies; but I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding Insinuations to the Contrary from men with factious and Seditious views, that His Majesty's present Administration have [at] no time entertained a Design to propose to Parliament to lay any further Taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a Revenue, and that it is at present their Intention to propose in the next Session of Parliament to take off the Duties upon Glass, Paper & Colours, upon consideration of such Duties having been laid Contrary to the true principles of Commerce.

These have always been and still are the Sentiments of His Majesty's present Servants and [the Principles] by which their Conduct in respect to America has been governed, and His Majesty relies upon your prudence and fidelity for such an explanation of His Measures as may tend to remove the prejudices which have been excited by the misrepresentations of those who are enemies to the peace and prosperity of Great Britain and her Colonies, and to reestablish that mutual confidence and affection, upon which the Glory and Safety of the British Empire depend.

I am &c

HILLSBOROUGH.

Governor Franklin to Benjamin Frauklin-Captain Trent's Affairs-the Governor's farming operations Secretary Morgan and Deputy Reed Matters in New York and Massachussetts.

[From "Letters to Benjamin Franklin,” p. 41.]

Hon'd Father:

BURLINGTON, May 11, 1769.

A few days after I was favoured with your Letter of the 20th of March by Capt. Creighton, the packet which left England the 7th of March is since arrived, but I had no letter by her from any one. I suppose (tho' you do not mention it) that you have wrote to me before relative to the letters I sent you by the January mail; perhaps by Sparks, who is not yet arrived. I wait impatiently for the arrival of the April packet, and do not think it proper to convene the Assembly till I have answers to some Letters I have wrote to the Ministry.

2

Mr. Galloway' has sent me (agreeably to your desire) copies of the clauses added to the last Mutiny Act. I am very glad that they have passed, as I am convinced our Assembly would not have receded from the former mode of providing Necessaries for the Troops in quarters; and, consequently, altercation and confusion must have ensued.

Joseph Galloway, the eminent lawyer, of Philadelphia, Speaker of the Penn sylvania Assembly, 1765-74, member of the Continental Congress, 1774, up to which time he had been zealous in the popular cause. But in 1776 he joined the British, and in 1778 went to England, where he died in 1803. A full sketch of his life is given in Sabine's Loyalists, I., 453; a sketch is also given in Works of Benjamin Franklin, VII., 276.

* The annual military appropriation bill passed by Parliament is called the "Mutiny Act."-May's Constitutional Hist. of England, II., 490.