Officers of justice, to desist from exercising the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania or the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, beyond those places where it had been theretofore usually exercised, until His Majesty’s further pleasure should be known in the premises, any thing in my former Proclamation to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas I am now informed by a letter from the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth, dated the seventh day of January last, “that His Majesty, on further consideration, hath been graciously pleased to approve of the arrangement made by my said Proclamation of the fifteenth of September last, and permit me to recall that of the second of November last:, I have, therefore, thought proper, by the advice of the Council, to issue this Proclamation, to make known the premises to all whom it may concern hereby, in pursuance of His Majesty’s pleasure and permission, revoking my said Proclamation of the second of November last, and requiring all Officers and others within the Province of Pennsylvania and Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, to yield obedience to, and in all things observe, the orders and injunctions in my said Proclamation of the fifteenth of September last contained, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the Province of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, the eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

JOHN PENN.

By his Honour’s command:

JOSEPH SHIPPEN, Jun., Secretary.

GOD save the King.

The Governour at the same time communicated to the Board a Letter he had just received from Governour Eden, which follows in these words, viz:

Annapolis, March 25, 1775.

SIR: I have taken the earliest opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of your Honour’s favour of the 16th instant, and to acquaint you, that as I have not received any notification of His Majesty’s having on further consideration been pleased to approve the arrangement made by your Proclamation of the 15th September, and to permit you to recall that of the 2d November last, I cannot think myself justifiable in joining with your Honour to issue such a Proclamation; and am now, with the advice of my Council, to request that you will suspend the issuing of the same until such time as I can have an opportunity of hearing from England, in hopes of preventing any disturbances that may probably happen between the inhabitants of the two Provinces, in consequence of the issuing a partial Proclamation. I am, with great respect, your Honour’s most obedient and most humble servant,

ROBERT EDEN.

His Honour John Penn, Esquire.

To which Letter the Governour, by the advice of the Council, wrote the following answer at the table, viz:

Philadelphia, April 8, 1775.

SIR: I have the favour of your Excellency’s letter of the 25th March. Considering what passed between us the last summer on the subject, I rather wished than expected your concurrence in a Proclamation, and my last letter was only meant to give you notice of my intention, because I would choose to act in the most open manner.

If any dependance is to be had on my information, there is no probability of a disturbance between the people of the two Provinces. They are in general satisfied that the jurisdiction of this Government must take place, and therefore wish to have it hastened; nor can I imagine they will give an opposition to a measure which I have His Majesty’s permission to take; and I am persuaded such an opposition will not be countenanced by the Government of Maryland. I therefore flatter myself that your Excellency will not think me unreasonable in persisting to issue a Proclamation agreeable to the King’s permission and the advice of my Council. I am, with great regard, your Excellency’s most obedient and humble servant,

JOHN PENN.

To his Excellency Robert Eden, Esquire, Governour of Maryland.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW-YORK, DATED APRIL 8, 1775.

Just as the poll was closing, a number of Constitutionalists, about one hundred and ten, made their appearance; but they did not vote, as the opposite party gave up the contest.

Dutchess County consists of eleven Districts, and only four of them have voted for Deputies, and Richmond, Tryon, Cumberland, Charlotte, and Gloucester, will be unrepresented in our Provincial Convention.

PROTEST OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF SEVEN PRECINCTS IN DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

Mr. GAINE: A Dutchess County Freeholder desires you will publish the following Protest, as the inhabitants of the seven Precincts first mentioned therein have been informed that Robert R. Livingston, Jun., Egbert Benson, and Morris Graham, Esquires, have been deputed to represent the County of Dutchess; but by what kind of law-casuistry a representation of the County is made by three Deputies, we are at a loss to guess, unless a small and disappointed minority can be supposed to represent a large and respectable majority. If any of the minority entertain the least doubt that the Protest does not express the sense of the Precincts therein mentioned, formal and ample testimonies of its authenticity shall be sent you:

The Inhabitants of the seven Precincts of Beckman’s, Pawling’s, Southeast, Fredericksburgh, Philipse, Charlotte, and Poughkeepsie, in the County of Dutchess, composing at least three-fourths of the inhabitants of the said County, take this publick method of protesting against the appointment of any person or persons that may be deputed from the Precincts of America, Northeast, Rhynbeck, and Rhumbout, to represent the said County as Deputies in a Provincial Congress, intended, as they are informed, to be assembled at New-York, on the 20th instant, as five of the Precincts first mentioned are almost unanimously opposed to all unconstitutional representations not warranted by the laws of the land, a very great majority of the Precinct of Charlotte, and a majority of one hundred and ten to seventy-seven, in the Precinct of Poughkeepsie. The seven Precincts above mentioned, confide solely in the mode of application for redress of grievances adopted by their loyal and patriotick Assembly, whose proceedings on this head they most heartily approve of, convinced that they ought not, they will not adopt any other mode of application, but stand ready, at all times, to evince their loyalty to their gracious Sovereign, their firm attachment to the Constitution, and their steady opposition to every seditious and treasonable act derogatory to either.

New-York, May 1, 1775.

Mr. GAINE: In your last Paper appeared an uncommon advertisement, with a Protest annexed, as was said from the Freeholders of seven Precincts, which were said to contain three-fourths of the inhabitants of Dutchess County. I choose to make no reflections on the author, since I would not wish to heighten the resentment or contempt of the County in which he lives; but, in justice to the County of which I am a freeholder, I hereby challenge him to show that that Protest was ever publickly read, or approved by any one of the Precincts he mentions, before it was published. I likewise deny, and call upon him to prove that the seven Precincts, in whose name, (but without whose authority) the above Protest was published, contains above