ter from M Peters Agent for the Proprietors of Pensilvania to all Magistrates to Permitt you to Proceed & to Protect you

14thly In your Passing thro this Province We Conceive your Commission herewith will be sufficient Protection in so far as its made by the Authority of & Pursuant to the Act of Assembly afa & whoever shall Presume to Obstruct you will be therein guilty of a Misdemeanor & Breach of the Act of Assembly & Subject himself thereby to be Prosecuted not only Criminally by Inditement or Information & to be fin'd at the Discretion of the Court, but also Civilly for the Damages done by the Obstruction which we Conceive none will be so foolish as to Subject himself to—

15thly When you Judge yourself to be abreast of the Station Point on Delaware & a little further, which if Chapmans Traverse & the Computation there be right should be at the End of 1418 Miles added to the Distance between the Mainland & the Point of Begining at Little Egg Harbour because Chapmans Traverse is only from the Main Land, Then are you to Go to the Station Point on Delaware, which you'l easily find by the Description in the Articles of Agreement thereof by the Comms of both Divisions (whereof you have one of the Original Coppies herewith) & from thence you are to Run a Perpendicular to the Random Exactly measureing the Distance of that Perpendicular & also Exactly Measuring the Distance on the Random to the nearest Tree or Place whose Distance you had before found, in Order to find the Distance from the begining Point to the Perpendicular

16thy You may then Come back to the Place where your Random Cutt Delaware & in your Comeing you may Compute the Course of the true Line & the Distance of thereof from Each mile Tree of your Random Line upon Perpendiculars rais'd from your Random to the true Line, and for that Purpose you should Carry

a Table of Logarithms with you in order to be Exact in those Computations and to find the Course by the Logarithms the Rule is this-As the Distance from the begining to the Perpendicular: is to Radius :: so is the Perpendicular to the Tangent of the Angle of the Difference between the Course of the Random and the true Course, which Difference if the Random fall on the West Side of the Station Point is to be Substracted from the Course of the Random, but if on the East Side is to be added to it, & the true course is thereby found, Another method without Logarithms may be this, as the Distance added to half thereof: is to 86 :: so is the Perpendicular,: to the Difference of the Courses

The Integers if any be in the Answer are Deg the Rest of the Answer is Decimals of a Degree, which are to be Reduc'd to Minutes by this Proportion as, 100: is to the Decimals :: so is 60: to the Minutes.

This Rule by 86. is not absolutely true but in small Angles as in this Case comes Extremely near the Truth, & may be Used to See if no Error be in your Logarithmick Tables.

Then to find your Perpendicular from your Random where it Cros'd Delaware you may Use this Proportion, as the whole Distance: is to the Perpendicular from the Station Point:: so is the Distance from the begining to Delaware: to the Perpendicular at Delaware, Which distance being Sett of brings you to the true Line there.

To find the Perpendiculars at the Ends of the Mile Trees-find by Computation by Last Rule the Perpendiculars at the End of two of the Mile Trees & Substract the Least from the Greatest & the Remainder is the Difference, or the Perpendicular at one Mile from the begining, which being added continually gives the several Perpendiculars, but to be Exact you you should have that Difference to the thousandth Part of one Link.

17thly When thus you have found your true Course and Perpendiculars, you'l See whether it be Easyest to

Run & mark down the true Line from Delaware, Or to Sett off your Perpendiculars at the End of Each mile if your Random fall very wide of the Station Point the first will be the Easyest if you fall within half a Mile of the Station Point, then the Last way by Setting of the Perpendiculars will be Easiest, & still Easyer the further you come down, If you Chuse to run down the true Line then Lett the Line Trees be markt with Your Notches on two Sides where the Line cutts them, and the Trees near the Line with 3 Blazes on 2 Sides parallell to the Line & one Blaze Looking to the Line, and at the End of Each Mile Plant a Stake & Raise a Heap of Stones about it, & upon the nearest tree mark the Number of Miles as on the Random, Observing the Course & Distance from the Heap of Stones to the tree, & what Tree it is &c as in the 8th & 10th Instructions, & marking the Tree also with four Notches on four Sides.

18thly If thus you run down the Line you should at the End of Every five or six Miles measure the distance to the Random to See if it Agrees with the Computed Perpendicular at that Place, which for want of more accurate Instrum's you'l always find to vary some Links, which an Extreme small Inclination-will from time to Time Correct, but should you neglect thus to Compare & amend those Errors might grow considerable.

19thly If you Chuse to Sett off the Perpendiculars from the End of Each Mile of your random, Then at End of the Perpendicular Plant a Stake & make a heap of Stones around it & mark a Tree with the number you Came from on the Random &c, as in the 17th Instruction, and at the heap of Stones Sett the true Course of the Line, & mark at Least one Tree forwards & another backwards in the Line with 4 Notches on 2 Sides & the Side Trees in the Way to those two with Blazes as in 17th Instruction.

20thly When you have Carryed the Line down to the Barrens below Crosswicks we think you need not Carry it farther because the true Line comes there very near to the Random, and we think the Random, with the Length of the Perpendiculars at Each mile Tree will be sufficient for the remaining Part.

21. When you have thus finish'd that Work you are fairly to Lay down on a Map the Random & true Lines with all the Things you Observ'd in their true Places, and make Return to Us of the Map and a Copy of your Field Work in Order for forming such Certificate of the Work agreeable thereto, as may be proper to be Recorded, you are also to Return your Commission in Order that it may be Recorded with that Certificate, and also the Original Agreement & of the Station Point herewith given You.

JOHN HAMILTON.
ANDREW JOHNSTON.

Letter from Governor Lewis Morris, of New Jersey, to Governor George Clinton, of New York.

[From Papers of F. J. Paris in New Jersey Historical Society Library, Vol. A, p. 123. }

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Perth Amboy October 22d 1743.

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I herewith Send you Coppys of the representation of the Proprietors of this province concerning the runing the Division Line betwixt this Province and New York, and of a petition of Some of the Inhabitants dwelling nigh where the Said Line is Supposed will run, complaining of abuses by some of the Inhabitants of New York; It is necessary that the Lines Should be run as Soon as may be, and untill that can be done, Some measures Should be taken to dis

courage the proceedings complained of, which, unless done, will probably be attended with consequences, dangerous to the publick peace in those parts: and this I very much hope that your Excellency, by your orders to the Inhabitants of that part of the province of New York under your Government will endeavour to prevent; which is all I shall at present Say upon that head.

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Petition of Abraham Vanaken and Juriam Westphale to the Governor and Council of New Jerseyrelating to disturbances on the Northern boundary of the Province.

[From Papers of F. J. Paris in New Jersey Historical Society Library, Vol. A, p. 129.]

TO HIS EXCELLENCY LEWIS MORRIS ESQ Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admiral in the Same &c AND TO HIS MAJESTIES COUNCIL FOR THE SAID PROVINCE.

The Petition of Abraham Vanaken and Juriam Westphale, in behalf of themselves and many other of the Inhabitants of the province of New Jersey living in and near to Minisinks Island in Delaware River HUMBLY SHEWETH

THAT by the original grants of this province of New Jersey, the Same was to be Bounded on the North by a Streight Line between it and the province of New York Extending from the Latitude of 41" on Hudson's