Brunswick

23d. Feby. 1763.

My Lords,

My Letters and Dispatches of my last having miscarried in the Packet, I herewith send you a Duplicate of my Letter, and now inclose the Speech, Addresses and Messages of last Assembly with the Journal of the upper house, and a printed Journal of the lower House, having not got the written Journal from the Clerk, which I hope to send you ⅌. next Ship with the Bills passed, which I can't send by this Ship bound to London upon the Cessations taking place this day, having this morning recd. Lord Egremont's Orders to proclaim it, and shall then send you my Remarks upon the Bills passed or rejected this last Session. I have also sent a Copy of the Northern and Southern Treasurers Accounts to be laid before the Lords of the Treasury to let them see how slightly they are passed by the Assembly, without a Regular Charge of the Taxables, or Arrears due by the Sheriffs, and think proper to remind your Lordships that the Bill of Supply which appointed them Treasurers, without mentioning any time to limit them, expires next June with the Fund, and therefore want to know His Majesty's Resolution whether he will appoint any, or again leave them to be appointed by the General Assembly, and if so whether it be proper to allow any Member of the Assembly to be Treasurer.

I must also inform your Lordships that the Assembly addressed me to recommend New Bern to His Majesty as a place fit for the Seat of Government, and to repeal the Towerhill Act, I told them I cou'd not recommend it as a healthy Situation, having been thrice at Death's Door from it's low stagnated Situation and bad Water, and as to its being most central, that depends upon the Manner of His Majesty's fixing the Boundary Line, upon St. Augustine & Florida's being added to His Majesty's Acquisitions on this Continent, as our Council has represented a proper Boundary to be now fixed, wch. will be laid before you upon Govr. Boone's Complaint against me for endeavouring to quiet Huey and Crymble's Associates in their Patents from His Majesty in this Province, which they pretend to claim to be in their Province.

I am with due Respect,

My Lords

Your Lordships

most obedient and

most hble Servt.

Arthur Dobbs

P.S. Mr. Spaight being lately dead, I beg leave to recommend Mr. Maurice Moore and Capt. Benjamin Heron as proper Persons to succeed him in the Council.

North Carolina.
Letter from Govr. Dobbs's dated 23d Febry 1763 acquainting the Board that the Supply Bill is near expiring & desiring to be informed whether His Myty intends leaving the Appointment of the Treasurers to the General Assembly, and recommending two Persons to be of the Council.

Reced
Read May 3. 1763.

E. 60.