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you, to Consult Mr. Jackson upon this Subject and such other Council, learned in the law as you may think Needfull.

We shall as soon as possible furnish you with some further particulars, relative to this very interesting and important question.

We shall with this transmit you Copies of the Instructions heretofore given Mr. Bollan, and from time to time make such additions as our affairs may require.

} . In Council, June 14th, 1762. Read and accepted, and ordered that the Secretary transmit a Copy hereof to Mr. Agent Mauduit by the first opportunity.

Sent down for Concurrence.

JNO. COTTON, Dep: Sec'y.

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SIR, — I am directed by the General Court to inform you
that in case any Attempt should be made to abridge or in
any measure controul the General Court in regard to their
Power of Legislation as granted by the Province Charter,
You are then to make use of the Letter of Instructions here-
with sent you upon that Subject, in such manner as your
discretion shall dictate; but if no such Attempt should be
made, You will in that case keep them to Yourself.

In their behalf, I am, Sir, Your most humble Servant,
AND'W OLIVer.

SAMUEL MARTIN' TO JASPER MAUDUIT
TREASURY CHAMBERS, 21 June, 1762.

SIR, -The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treas-
ury having taken into Consideration the Memorials of the
Agents of the several Colonies in America, praying a Dis-
tribution of the 200,000£ granted by Parliament in 1761,
as a Compensation to the said Colonies for the Troops
raised, Cloathed, and paid by them respectively in the
Year 1760, My Lords direct me to signify to you their
recommendation that the Agents of the said Colonies do
meet together and settle their several Demands which their
Lordships will be ready to approve; otherwise the said
Agents must wait an Answer from General Amherst, upon
whose adjustment the Distribution of the said Money will
depend. I am, Sir, Your most Humble Servant,

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SAM'L MARTIN. [Endorsed,] To Jasper Mauduit Esqr. Agent for Massachusetts Bay in Lime Street.

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SIR,

LETTER OF THE COLONY AGENTS 3

LONDON, 25th June 1762

In obedience to the Commands of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treas

1 First Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury.

2 This letter was based upon a minute of the Treasury dated June 18, 1762, which is printed in Penn. Col. Rec., 1x. 49.

* Printed in Penn. Col. Rec., IX. 49. Bollan speaks of this letter as having been prepared at the Cardigan-head. It appeared that Mauduit signed the letter with reluctance, and desired to present to the Treasury at the same time a letter claiming compensation for Massachusetts on account of the garrisons. Mauduit, finding himself in difficulty, as the agent of every other colony would naturally oppose his claim to an extra allowance to Massachusetts out of the grant of £200,000, consulted Bollan, and even proposed to abandon the claim. Bollan fully relates the meetings in his letter of July 8, 1762, to the Speaker. Mass. Arch., xxII. 255

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ury, signified by your circular Letter of the 21st instant, to the Agents of the Colonies of North America, touching the Distribution of the 200,000£ granted by Parliament in 1761. as a Compensation to the said Colonies for the Troops raised, clothed and paid by them respectively in the year 1760, We whose names are underwritten have mett and considered what has been recommended to us by your said Letter, and as it appears to us, that the Service performed by our respective Colonies in the year 1760 was exactly similar to that of the preceding year, we are humbly desirous that their Lordships may order the Apportionment of the money granted for the year 1760 in the like manner as was done for the year 1759, and in case, from the Return of General Amherst, any Inequality should appear in this Apportionment, we are willing and contented that out of the money granted for the year 1761, such Inequality be adjusted and settled at the good Pleasure of their Lordships, to which we readily submitt ourselves and are with great Regard, Sir, Your most obedient Servants,

for New York

for New Hampshire for Connecticut

for Pensilvania .

for New Jersey.

for Rhode Island

for Massachusetts Bay

ROBT. CHARLES
JNO. THOMLINSON
RICH'D JACKSON

GEO: AUFRERE, JOHN BARCLAY
ANDREW DRUMMOND & Co. 1
Jos: SHERWOOD 2

JASPER MAUDuit.

1 Henry Drummond was the active member of the firm.

2 Sherwood was an attorney at law, in Austin Fryers, near the Royal Exchange. He

was appointed agent for Rhode Island in August, 1759. R. I. Col. Rec., VI. 223.

TREASURY MINUTE

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WHITE HALL, TREASURY CHAMBERS, 25 June, 1762

Present: THE Earl of BUTE

SIR FRANCIS DASHWOOD

LORD NORTH

MR. [JAMES] OSWALD

SIR JOHN TURner

Read a Letter from the several Agents for the Colonies in North America, declaring:

"That they are desirous that their lordships may order the apportionment of the Money granted for the Year 1760 in the like manner as was done for the Year 1759, and in case from the return of General Amherst any inequality should appear in this apportionment they are willing and contented that out of the money granted for the year 1761 such inequality be adjusted and settled at the good pleasure of their Lordships, to which they readily submitted themselves."

Read also a Letter of Mr. Jasper Mauduit, Agent for Massachusetts Bay, saying:

"That he has just signed a Letter with the other Agents of the North American Colonies in order to forward the distribution of the money granted by Parliament for the service of the Year 1760, but he must take leave to acquaint the Lords that he has it in command from the Government of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay to lay in a Claim on their behalf to a sum of Money expended in raising and paying troops for Garrisons at Louisbourgh and Nova Scotia in the Winter preceeding that year, furnished at the

1 Mass. Arch., vi. 280.

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requisition of General Amherst, which he does not take to be included in the proportion of the above Sum granted by Parliament, and for which he begs he may be at liberty to make such application as he shall think necessary hereafter."

Upon reading the said Letter my Lords, observing that a farther Claim is proposed to be reserved in behalf of the Province of Massachusetts Bay with respect to the Apportionment of the sum granted for the Year 1760, do not think it proper to order any apportionment of the said Sum until the proper Certificate shall have been received from General Amherst.

NOTE BY WILLIAM BOLLAN 1

Mr. Mauduit at our first Meeting after declaring himself a Stranger to the Nature of the Province Service, having desird my Assistance in it, and he having since come to me for my Advice in the Manner aforementiond, it is necessary for me to say, that from the Secretary's Letter where in Mention is made of the Information to be given him, or the Nature of the Case, I cannot conceive that the General Court desird or intended, that after my Dismission I should from time to time give him my Advice respecting the

1 This is the last paragraph in the letter from William Bollan to the Speaker, July 8, 1762. Mass. Arch., XXII. 260a. The extract gives some point to an entry in the Diary of John Adams: "Mem. The other [anecdote], of a piece, sent to Fleet to be printed, upon the unfitness of Mr. Mauduit to represent this Province at the British court, both in point of age and knowledge. He is, as that writer says, seventy years old; an honest man, but avaricious; a woollen draper, a mere cit; so ignorant of court and public business, that he knew not where the public offices were, and that he told Mr. Bollan that he was agent for New England. He says that all the other agents laugh at this Province for employing him, and that all persons on that side of the water are surprised at us. That the 'Considerations on the present German War' were written by a person unknown, who hired or persuaded Mr. Mauduit to father it." Works, II. 141.

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