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His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Papers :
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Within three or four Days I have received several Letters
from the Magistrates in different Parts of this province in-
forming me that those of his Majesty's Officers who have
been ordered hither to recruit have lately received your
positive Instructions to enlist without Exception or Distinc-
tion, all Apprentices and Servants they can perswade to
enter into the Service, that the Inhabitants having a great
part of their property vested in Servants, unanimously oppose
the Execution of such Instructions, that on such opposition
Violences have been committed, and that unless their Cause
of Complaint be speedily removed an Insurrection of the
people is likely to ensue, the Magistrates as well as myself
have and shall endeavour to prevent mischief, but as the
Officers are determined to persist, I cannot promise that the
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