402 Assembly Proceedings, April 13-May 6, 1761.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 13

requires from the Several Provinces, is the Levying Cloathing and
Pay of the Men; And on these Heads also, that no Encouragement
may be wanting to the fullest Exertion of Your Force, His Majesty
is further most graciously pleased to permit me to acquaint You
that Strong Recommendations will be made to Parliament in their
Session next Year, to grant a proper Compensation for Such Ex-
pences as above, according as the Active Vigour and strenuous
Efforts of the respective Provinces shall justly appear to merit
It is his Majestys pleasure, that you do, with particular diligence
immediately collect and put into the best Condition all the Arms
issued last Campaign, which can be any ways rendered serviceable,
or that can be found within your Government, in order that the
same may be again employd for his Majestys Service
I am further to inform you that semilar Orders are sent to this
Conveyance to Pensilvania, Virginia North Carolina & South
Carolina, The Northern Governments are also directed to raise men
in the same manner, to be employd as his Majestys Commander in
Chief Shall judge most conducive for the Kings Service in North

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America. It is unnecessary to add any thing to animate Your Zeal
in the execution of his Majestys Order in this important Con-
juncture, which is finally to fix the future safety & welfare of
America, And the King doubts not from your known fidelity and
Attachments that you will employ Yourself with the utmost Appli-
cation and dispatch in this promising and decisive Crisis
I am with Great Truth & Regard
S^r Your most Obedient humble Servant
William Pitt

New York 15^th March 1761
S^r
On the first of January last I signifyed to you that by the Dis-
patches I had received the preceeding Day from his Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretary of State it was the Kings firm Resolution Steadily
to Support His Allies, and to prosecute the War with the utmost
Vigor, and that in consequence of his Resolution I made no doubt
but you Should soon receive His Majestys Requisition for such
a Number of Men from your Province as Should be thought requisite
to Answer the proposed End of procuring a good and Lasting Peace
This Requisition was in fact, dispatched from the Secretary of
States office on the 17^th of December last and I conclude Sent on
Board the Leicester Packett, which Sailed from Falmouth on the
29^th of Said Month but being unfortunately taken in her passage, the
Triplicates of those Dispatches are but this moment Arrived in his
Majestys Sloop Tamer & M^r President Colden to whom they have
been delivered is to forward them without delay