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CONFIRMATION
OF THE PEACE
DISTRICT
OF JOHNSTOWN
RECORDED 30TH OF JUNE 1800
LIBER
B
FOLIO 112
SIGNED
M.
J. PETERS, ASST. REGTR.
DOCUMENT
TRANSCRIPTION PROPER
P.
Hunter, Lt. Governor (upper right corner of document)
George
the Third by the Grace of God
King
Defender of the Faith, &,&,&
To
the Hon. John Elmsley, the Hon. James Baby, the Hon. Alexander Grant, the Hon.
Peter Russell, the Hon. Phineas Shaw, the Hon. John W. Gill, the Hon. David
William Smith, the Hon. William Dummer Powell, the Hon. Henry Allcock, Edward
Jessup Senior, William Fraser, Peter Drummond, Ephraim Jones, John Jones, Thomas
Sherwood, Samuel Wright, James Breckenridge, Alexander Campbell of Augusta,
Thomas Fraser, Hugh Monroe, Gideon Adams, Solomon Jones, Edward Jessup Junior,
Thomas Smith, Daniel Jones, Truman Hiccock, Joel Stone, Archibald McNeil,
Steven Burritt and William Soles Junior esquires.
Know ye that we have
assigned you jointly and severally and every one of you, our justices,
to keep our peace in the District of Johnstown and to keep and cause to
be kept all ordinances and statutes for the good of the peace and for
preservation of the same and for the quite rule and government of our people
made in all and singular their articles in their said District as will within
Liberties as without and according to all the Force form and effect of
the same and to chastise and punish all Persons that offend against the form of
those ordinances or statutes or any one of them in the aforesaid District
as it ought to be done according to the form of those Ordinances and
Statutes and to cause to come before you or any of you all those to who to any one
or more of our People concerning their Bodies or the firing of their houses have
used Threats to find sufficient security for the Peace or their good behavior
toward us and our People and if they shall refuse to find such Security then
them in our Prisons until they shall find such Security to cause to be
safely kept.
We
have also assigned you and every two or more of you of whom we will and any one
of you the aforesaid John Elmsley, James Baby, Alexander Grant, Peter Russell,
Phineas Shaw, John McGill, William Smith, William Dummer Powell, Henry Allcock,
Edward Jessup, William Fraser, Peter Drummond, Ephraim Jones,
Thomas Sherwood, Samuel Wright, James Breckenridge, Alexander Campbell,
Thomas Fraser, Hugh Monroe, Gideon Adams, Solomon Jones, Edward Jessup, Thomas
Smith, Daniel Jones, Truman Hiccock, Joel Stone, Archibald McNeil, Stephen
Burritt and William Soles shall be one Our Justices to enquire the truth more
fully by the Oaths of Good and Lawful men of the aforesaid District by whom the
truth of all the matter shall be better known and all manner of Felonies,
poisonings, enchantments, Sorceries, Arts Magic, trespasses, forstallings,
regratings,
engraftings and extortions whatsoever and of all and singular other crimes and
offences which the Justices of the Peace may or ought to enquire by whomsoever
and after what manner so ever in the said District done or perpetrated or what
shall happen to be there done or attempted; and also of all those who in the
aforesaid District in companies
against our Peace in disturbance of our People with armed force have gone, or
rode, or hereafter shall presume to go or ride, And all those who have there
lain in wait or hereafter shall presume to lie in wait, to maim or kill or cut
our People, And also of all valuables
Provided
always if a case of Difficulty upon the determination of any the Premises before you or any two or
more of you shall happen to arise then let judgment in no wise be given thereon
before you or any two or more of you unless in the presence of one of our
Justices of Our Court of or Bench, or of one of Our Justices appointed to hold
the assizes in the aforesaid District, And therefore we command you and every of
you that to
keeping the Peace, ordinances, Statutes and all and singular other the premises you
diligently apply yourselves and that at certain days and places which you or any
such two or more of you as is aforesaid shall appoint for these premises into
the premises you make enquiries and all and singular the premises hear and
determine and perform and fulfill them in the aforesaid form doing therein what to
justice appertains according to the Law and Custom of Upper Canada save to Us
the Amercements and other things to us therefrom belonging.
And
We command by the Tenor of these Presents Our Sheriff of our District of
Johnstown that at certain days and places which you or any such two or more of
you as is aforesaid shall make known to him, he cause to come before you or such
two or more of you as aforesaid so many and such Good and Lawful men of his Bailwick as well within
Liberties as without by whom the Truth of the matter in the Premises shall be
better known and enquired into.
In
Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent Witness our
trusty and welbeloved Peter Hunter, Esquire, Our Lieutenant Governor of our said
Province and Lieutenant General
Commanding our Forces in our Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada at York
this Thirtieth day of June in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Fortieth of Our Reign.
P. H. ( initials only
)
(bottom
right hand corner as follows)
Examined
Wm.
James Levy
(
difficult signature )
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