By His Excellency

Edward Lord Cornbury His Majesty's Capt. General and Governour in Chief of the Province of New-York, and Territories depending thereon in America, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

A PROCLAMATION

WHereas the General Assembly of this Her Majesties Province of New-York, by Her Majesties Writs, issued for the Call thereof, is appointed to assemble and meet together in the City of New-York on Wednesday the fourteenth day of October next ensuing. And whereas the said City of New York being as this time visited with great Sickness and Mortality, is by no means thought a proper and convenient Place for that Assembly to come together and meet in at the same time aforesaid, whereby Her Majesties Service, and the Affairs of this Government in general, may greatly suffer for want thereof. I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice and Consent of her Majesties Council for the said Province, to Publish and Declare, and I do in her Majesties Name hereby Publish and Declare, That the General Assembly of this Province, which by the Writ aforesaid are appointed to meet and assemble together at the said City of New York on Wednesday the 14th Day of October next ensuing the date hereof, Are hereby Required to assemble themselves and meet together at the Town of Jamaica in Queens County on the Island of Nassaw, within this Province, on the said fourteenth Day of October, then and there to sit and assist in General Assembly for the Dispatch of Business, and not at New-York aforesaid. And all and every Person & Persons that are or shall be chosen Members of the said General Assembly, and all others whomsoever concerned herein, are Required to take Notice hereof, and Conform themselves hereto accordingly.

Given at Kings-Bridge the 17th Day of September, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady ANNE, by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Dom...........1702.

Cornbury.

God Save the Queen.

Printed and Sold by William Bradford, Printer to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty, in New-York.

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