Send you the particulars which were not Allow'd to the province, As to what is done in the Account you Sent me of the pay &c due to the officers of your Regement, I have An Account what is done in that, Viz' the Two Captain Wentworths are Struck out, And Cap's Gillman & Sherbourne are put in their Roome, And Nothing Allow'd to the Muster Master, or Any other Charge whatever, only the officers pay with the usual deductions, I hope very Soon to get the Money, And then Shall Send you the Whole Account, that you may See what is due to your Self & Every Other Officer, I want much to hear what you are doing in your province Since what was wrote by Dowers, I wish you may do right & Am

Sir Your Most hum1 Sert

John Thomlinson

[Atkinson to Thomlinson.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 157.]

Portsmo May 26th 1750

Sr His Excelency the Survey' General of the woods has communicated to me his Letter to you of the 26th of March last takeing notice of an Agreement he has made with Mr Amhurst who is to be Succeeded as one of his Deputies by his Son ffoster and that the Purchase from Mr Amhurst is £300 Sterling - If I understand it I am to pay the one half and our Sallarys to be Equally Divided as he mentions to you with which I am Content but as I have only Seen his Letter & have had no talk with him on this head cannot give the necessary Directions till I See him he not being in Town & the Post just going out So yt I hope you will follow ye Directions in his Letter or Such further Instructions as he may give till I can know his mind more fully we have By a Ship from Bristol an Accot of a Parliamentary Provision for the Dfreaying the Canada Expence &c I hope you have got thro' that affair I much want to have it finished as far as I am Concerned - there is one thing that I formerly mentioned to you that I hope you have not omitted—that is to Procure Some orders about the Powder & Small arms that were returnd & not Expended it Lays here in a very odd manner and cannot be Disposed of without orders from home God know when our Assembly will come to any usfull Action for tho' I believe they See their mistake Still they are obstinately Pursueing the first blunder tho' I hope not with So much ranchor-yet it will be necessary that the Dispute be Determined at home in Such a manner as will Leave no room for further

Dispute here the Waiges allowd to the Surgeons Mate in my regiment Doctor Miller I have Purchased & paid him here So you must Creedt my Accot therefor - Pray Let me Have a List of what Each officer will have net in your hands after the Deductions of alsorts are made & how the Deductions Arises that I may Settle with those to whom I have advanced the money here I am Sr

[Endorsed] Copy to Capt Thomlinson Via Boston 1750.

[The following is a copy of a document in Atkinson's hand attached to the foregoing. — ED.]

Dated 26 March 1750 Comn'cated 25 May 1750 Coll Atkinson has now 1/3 of the Sallary as one of Deputies as it Stood in Coll Dunbars time & that is to be Divided between him & my Son Foster as is also the Sallary of fosters as Mr Amhursts Successor between them which Please to observe & Carry one half of Each to the Creed' of their respective Accots as you receive it from Mr Jones who will have orders to Pay it to you as he receives it they will both write you on this head agreeable to this & that no Disapointment may arise to Mr Amhurst for want of your being in Cash for these Gentlemen you may Pay the Sum herein agreed upon - Viz £300 Sterling or any part out of my Sallary which I am hopeing will be Clear by this Time I referr you to the above Gentlemen & am

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His Majestys 32d Instruction.

"And whereas His Majesty hath thought fit by His Commission, to direct, that in Case of your death or absence from the said Province, And in Case there be at that time no person upon the place Commissionated or appointed by His Majesty to be his Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief, the Councillor whose name is first placed in His Majestys Instructions to you, & who shall be at the time of your death or absence resideing within the said Province of New Hampshire shall take upon him the administration of the Government, & Execute the said Commission and instructions, and the Several powers & Authoritys therein Contained, in the Manner thereby directed,

"It is nevertheless His Majestys express Will and Pleasure, that in Such case the Sa President shall forbear to pass Any Acts, but what are Imediately Necessary for the peace & Wellfare of the said Province without His Majestys particular order for that purpose, And that

he shall not take upon him to dissolve the assembly then in being, nor to Remove or Suspend any of the Members of the Said Council, nor any Judges, Justices of the peace, or other officers Civil or Military, without the Advice & Consent of, at least Seven of the Council : And the said President is to transmit to His Majesty, and to His Commissioners for Trade & Plantations, by The first opportunity, the Reasons for Such alterations, Signed by himself, & by the said Council." Examd Theodore Atkinson Sery

His Majestys 46th Instruction.

"And you are with the Advice & Consent of His Majestys Council, to take Especial Care, to Regulate all Salarys & fees, belonging to places, or paid upon Emergencys, that they be within the bounds of Moderation, & that no exaction be made upon any Occasion whatsoever, As allso that Tables of all fees be publicly hung up, in all places where Such fees are to be paid, And you are to transmit, Copies of all Such tables of fees to His Majesty, and to His Commissioners for trade & Plantations as aforesaid."

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Copy Exd

Theodore Atkinson Sey

[Instructions relative to Grants, 1750.]

His Majesties 38th and 39th Instruction.

And Whereas it has been found by long experience, That the settling Planters in Townships hath redounded very much to their advantage, not only with respect to The assistance they have been able to afford each other In their Civil Concerns: But likewise with regard To the Security they have thereby acquired against the Insults and Incursions of neighbouring Indians, or other Enemies, His Majesty has therefore thought fit, for His Service, that Townships should be Settled on the Frontiers of your Province, and that each Township may Consist of about Twenty thousand acres of Land, but not to Exceed Six Miles square, and in each such Township, A proper Place shall be laid out for the Scite of the Town itself, where any Planter, besides fifty Acres of Land for each Person in his family, shall have sett out a Lot or Footland For a Town House, and that no Town be set out or any Such Lands or Lots granted untill there be fifty, or more Families ready to begin the Settlement, and that so Soon, as any such Township has got one hundred or more Families Settled therein, it

shall have and enjoy all the Immunities and Privelidges, as do, of Right, belong to any other Parish Or Township in the said Province.

39th And whereas by your Commission you are, with The advice of His Majesties Council there, Impowered To agree with the Inhabitants of the said Province For such Lands &c &c Tenements and Hereditaments, as now are, or hereafter shall be in His Majesties Power To dispose of, and them to grant to any Person or Persons for such Terms, and under such moderate Quit Rents, Services and acknowledgments, to be thereupon reserved unto His Majesty, as you, by the advice aforesaid, Shall think fit, It is nevertheless His Majesties express Will and Pleasure, that you do not make any grants of Lands to any Person whatsoever under a Less Quit Rent Than one shilling, Proclamation money, for every hundred Acres of Land so granted; except for the first Ten Years, during which Term, the Grantee shall be exempted from the payment of Quit Rent, And that in all Grants of Land, a Clause be inserted to reserve all white, or other Sort of Pine trees fit for masts, of the Growth of Twenty Four Inches Diameter, and upwards, at twelve Inches from The earth, to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Masting His Royall Navy ; and that no such Trees Shall Be cut, felled or destroyed, without his Majesties License For so doing first had and obtained, on penalty of the forfeiture of such Grant, and of the Land so Granted, reverting to the Crown, and of all other Pains and Penalties, as Are, or shall be enjoyn'd or inflicted by any Act or Acts of Parliament, passed in the Kingdom of Great Britain; and that, another Clause be inserted therein, to oblige The Grantee to settle, plant, and Cultivate, at least, five Acres of Land, in every fifty Acres so granted, in five Years after the Date of his Grant, and to Continue such Settlement and improve the same by Additional Cultivation on Penalty of the forfeiture of his Grant, and of the Lands reverting to the Crown, To be granted to such as will effectually plant and Cultivate the sameCopy of his Majtys 38th & 39th Instructions to his Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq Govern

Examined

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Theodore Atkinson Sery

[Governor Wentworth to the Duke of Bedford.]

May it please Your Grace,

Portsmouth January 10th 1750

as soon as Your Graces Commands of the 14th of april last came to my hands, encloseing an Act of Parliament to which His Majesty

had been pleased to give His Royal assent, to encourage the importation of pig & bar Iron from His Majestys Colonys in America to prohibit the Erecting of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plateing forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any Furnace for makeing Steel in any of His Majestys Plantations, I caused the said Act to be published in the most public manner, & Issued my orders to the respective towns within my Government, to Lodge in the Secretarys office within a time therein limited, An Account of all Such Mills or Engines, as by a Copy of the Said order, & my Certificate Annexed will appear, besides this General order I have made a more particular enquiry, & I am fully Satisfied there is not within the limits at New Hampshire any Such Mill or Engine, and but one Forge that makes bar Iron.

I think it my duty to inform Your Grace That the assembly, neither will proceed to the Choice of a New Speaker, nor receive the New Members, called in Consequence of His Majestys additionall instruction given at Whitehall June 30th 1748.

The Conduct of the assembly herein, I have fully represented to the Rt Honble the Lords Commissrs for Trade & Plantations, who have wrote me that no time was lost in transmitting the Account thereof to your Grace to be laid before His Majesty for His further directions therein, which I am hopeing soon to recieve, in the mean time by the Advice of His Majestys Council, I keep the General assembly under short Adjournments & Prorogations.

I am my Lord

your Graces most faithfull Servt

His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

B W

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[Duke of Bedford, transmitting Act of Parliament to Prevent the Manufacture of Iron and Steel in the Colonies.]

Whitehall 14th April 1750

Sir. The King having given his Royal Assent the last Sessions of Parliament to an Act, Entituled an Act to encourage the Importation of Pig & Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron or any plateing Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies; "which Act is to take place the 24th of June next, and His Majesty's Governors