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Letters were received from Mr. Bollan acquainting the Court that the said Grant will be paid one-half in money, and the other half in Exchequer tallies, payable with Interest in March, 1762.

It is probable these Bills are paid by this time, or so many of them as the Province's Share of said Grant would enable him to pay: and in case of deficiency of said Share, he was directed to pay the overplus Bills out of the Province's proportion of the Parliamentary Grant for the Services of the year 1760. This last mentioned Grant, it is apprehended, Mr. Bollan has not yet received the Province's part of: and in that case there may remain some of said Bills unpaid.

As the General Court have empowered you to receive the Province Share of the last mentioned Grant, as you'll find by an authenticated act of the Court herewith sent, it is the desire of the Court, and you are hereby directed (on receiving the Province's Share of said Grant, or a sufficiency thereof for the purpose) to pay the said Bills that may remain unpaid; together with the Interest that may be due upon them agreeable to their tenor. [And in case you should not receive the Province Share of said Grant by the time said Bills are returnable, you are desired to take up Money upon Interest upon the credit of said Grant and pay off said Bills and by no means suffer them to be returned.] 1

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With respect to the Province's Proportion of the last mentioned Grant, if it be not already settled, Mr. Bollan can furnish you with the Accounts that have been transmitted him of the Expense the Province incurred for his Majesty's service in 1760: and by those Accounts the proportion will be settled. In the settlement of it, considera

1 The sentence in brackets was inserted in the letter as an amendment.

tion ought to be had to this Circumstance: namely, that a Number of the Province Troops was detained in Garrison at Louisburg and Nova Scotia during the winter of 1759 and spring of 1760, occasioned by the reduction of Quebec; which prevented our Troops being relieved by the Regulars. As the other Colonies did nothing to balance this Service [we apprehend a distinct and separate allowance ought to be made; but if you cannot obtain that you will use your utmost endeavors that]1 the whole Expense of it be deducted out of the Grant before any Apportionment be made of it among the Colonies. The particulars relative to this matter Mr. Bollan can inform you.

The act above mentioned empowers you to demand and receive of Mr. Bollan whatever monies may be in his hands belonging to the Province, and to give him a discharge for what you shall receive of him. You will therefore make application to him pursuant to such power; and receive for the Province use what he may pay you. You will also receive of him all the Papers that respect the dispute between this Government and New York in regard to the Boundary lines between us. Also with Connecticut in regard to the Towns that have revolted to them, and with New Hampshire in regard to a reimbursement for our maintaining Fort Dummer and No. Four, etc., within that Province and defending their Frontiers, as also all Papers relative to the claim of the Earl of Sterling to the eastern parts of this Province, and all other Papers that relate to the affairs of the Province. And obtain of him a state of those matters as they stand at present; and any information he can give you with respect to those or any

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1 Words in brackets were inserted by Andrew Oliver-probably an amendment by the Council.

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other affairs of the Province. [We would recommend to you that in all matters of Law you may be concerned in relative to the Province, you consult and advise with Richard Jackson, junr. Esq.

By order of the Great and General Court I have wrote the foregoing as Secretary of the Province, and am, etc.]1

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(Private.)

ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAUDUIT

BOSTON 24 April 1762.

SIR, You will observe by the public papers I have sent you herewith as Secretary of the Province that the Great and General Court have appointed you their Agent instead of Mr. Bollan. I had heard nothing of their intention to remove Mr. Bollan 'till the day it hapned, and the next day you was chosen. What you wrote me 3d June, 1760, concerning your ill state of health and growing infirmities which then forbid your undertaking the Agency, made me at a loss how to act: and as your name was again mentioned, I thought myself obliged to communicate what you had wrote me to two or three Gentlemen of the Court, whom I knew to be in your interest that they might consider and judge for themselves in the matter; these Gentlemen were not discouraged, but gave you their Votes and Interest when the Election came on.

The Court have however made provision that Richard Jackson, junr., of the Inner Temple, Esqr., shall act in their money matters in case you are prevented, and have also instructed you to consult him in all matters of Law relative to the Province. As Mr. Jackson is a Gentleman with whom the Governor is particularly acquainted, it would be a great satisfaction to his Excellency to see you connect

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yourself with him: You will find his Assistance in matters of Law a great ease to you; and as a good harmony on all sides is most desireable in itself, so I am sure it is most agreeable to your own inclination.

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may write you more at large by the next conveyance. In the meantime I am, Sir, Your most obedient and most humble Servant,

AND'W OLIVER.

P. S. The Court made the like Provision in 1760 for Mr. Trecothick's acting in case of Mr. Bollan's incapacity, as they have now done for Mr. Jackson's acting in case of yours.

JONATHAN MAYHEW TO JASPER MAUDUIT

BOSTON N. ENGLAND April 26, 1762

HONOURED SIR, -This is, in few words, to congratulate you on your being a day or two since chosen Agent for this Province at the Court of London, in the Room of William Bollan, Esq.; who, for a number of years, has sustained that Character. He is generally reckoned a Gentleman of good Abilities; but has not given such general satisfaction to the People here, as we flatter ourselves you will do, should you see cause to accept the honourable Employment offered to you: And, in my private Capacity, from the knowledge I have of your Character, I cannot but express my hearty desires and hopes, that you will not refuse it. The most steady friends of Liberty amongst us, and all the Friends to the dissenting Interest (who are, I suppose, fifty to one throughout this Province) would be extremely sorry if you should decline this Service; thinking you will be much more likely to serve the Province in its most essential Interests, than a Gentleman of the Chh. of Eng

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land tho' this is by no means the only objection that has been made against Mr. Bollan. The Chh. Party here, and perhaps some Persons of distinguished Eminence, may possibly, for their own private Ends, throw discouragements and stumbling-blocks in your way, in order to prevent your undertaking this Service. But I hope, Sir, you will not be deterred thereby, when you have the Body of the People so strong in your Favor, as I know them to be. In what I have here said, I do not speak my own private sentiments only, but those of some very worthy Gentlemen here, with whom I have lately conversed on the subject; and who, having heard that I had formerly the Honor of receiving a letter or two from you, have requested me to write to you on this occasion: Which, indeed, I should have done, without any sollicitation to that End. This, Sir, is written in great haste, because I would not miss the Opportunity which now offers, of a Conveyance. I intend to take the Liberty, (knowing that your goodness will indulge me therein) to write you more distinctly as to some particular matters, before long. In the mean Time, I pray God to give you Health, and to direct you in the Affair I have been speaking of. Should you see cause to accept this Service, it may probably be no prejudice to your own Interest in the End: But however that may be, I think I shall have reason to congratulate my Country, on having the management of some of her most important Concerns entrusted to so able and upright a person. I am, Hon'd Sir, with sincere and very great Respect, Your most Obedient Humble Servant,

J. MAYHEW.

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