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Copies of Letters and Papers from the Earl of Dartmouth to the Different Governors of Provinces; Brought Over from Falmouth in the Swallow Packet, and Seized in the Post Office of Charlestown, Part 2 (A DUPLICATE CIRCULAR PRIVATE, SIMILAR TO THE ONE PRECEDING, TO THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.) Sir James Wright, Baronet, Georgia Whitehall, 3d March, 1775. Sir:I have received your letters of the 19th and 20th of December; the latter numbered thirty-five, and have laid them before the King. But having nothing in command from his Majesty thereupon, I have only to lament, that his Majesty's subjects in Georgia, who have hitherto in general shown so great respect for the mother country, and loyalty to the King, should have at length manifested a disposition to adopt the sentiments, and follow the ill-example of their neighbors. But, I trust, that the measures I have taken for your support, and the zeal and alacrity of the King's officers, and of those gentlemen who you say, stand forth in the maintenance of the public peace, will have the effect to prevent the sons of liberty, as they are called, from committing themselves in any act of violence. I find by a letter from Mr. Cooper to Mr. Pownall, that the Lords of the Treasury, have had under their consideration the proposition which you transmitted some years ago, in the shape of a bill for better collecting his Majesty's quit rents; they seem, however, to be of opinion, that the provisions of an act of the province of North Carolina, for the same purpose which they have had before them, are better calculated to answer the object in view, than the Bill you recommended; and principally, because it enacts that no patent, deed, or conveyance of land shall be held valid, unless enrolled in the manner the act directswhereas, in your Bill, the enrolment is enforced merely by penalty. I therefore think fit, to send you a copy of the North Carolina act; that by, comparing the two together, you may be enabled to frame and pass such a law, as shall correspond with the sentiments of that Board. I am, sir, your most obt. hum. servt. DARTMOUTH (From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 1, pp. 92-93) Doc ID: Gibbes, v. 1, p. 092 Date: 3/03/1775 |
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