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662 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
schaack, directed the Commissioners to resume and completethe
Partition aforesaid; who on the twenty sixth Day of September
now last past, in the.Execution of the said Trust, were again
opposed and prevented from effecting the said Partition, by a
riotous and tumultuous Body of Men, openly avowing, in Opposition to the Title and Jurisdiction of this Province, that those
Lands were held by them under JVew-Hampshire; and Information being given me, that such repeated Acts of Violence have
chiefly arisen from an Expectation that his Majesty's Royal
Decision in Privy Council of the twentieth day of July, 1764,
whereby the western Banks of. Connecticut River, are adjudged
to be the Boundary between the two Provinces,-would be
rescinded, and the Lands on the West Side of that River, be
annexed to J\rew-Hampslire. To prevent the Disorders that
might be occasioned by so groundless a Delusion, I have thought
proper to signify that I have the highest Reason to think it is
his Majesty's fixed Resolution to adhere to his said Royal Decision, and to leave this Government in the full Enjoyment of its
ancient Rights, as bounded upon the said Connecticut River.
And it further appearing by Proof on Oath, that Simeon Hathaway,.Moses Scott, Jonathan Phisk, and Silas Robinson, all of the
County of Albany, Yeomen, were among the principal Authors
of; and Actors in the last mentioned Riot and Breach of the
Peace: In order therefore to bring the said Offenders to condign
Punishment, and that others warned by their Example, may be
deterred from the Commission of such evil Practices for the
future, I have thought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby strictly commanding and requiring the Sheriff of the City and County of AJlbany,
to apprehend and take all and every tle before named Rioters
and Offenders, and them to commit to safe and secure Custody,
to answer for their several Offences, and to be dealt with according to Law: And for that Purpose rf it shall be necessary, to raise
and take to his Assistance, the Posse Comitatus, or whole Power
of the County: And all Magistrates, Officers, and Ministers of
Justice, are hereby enjoined and required to give their Aid and
Assistance, not only in apprehending the said several Offenders,
and committing them to safe Custody, but in preventing and