6 Documents Relative To The Colonial History Of The State Of New-York 316 (1855)

In the mean time I have transmitted to Your Lordship the following Acts to which I have given my assent and are as follows: viz— 1. An Act to prevent the exportation of provisions, Gunpowder, Arms, all kinds of ammunition, war/ice stores and white-pine inch boards. It was necessary to pass this Act upon account of the expedition that the Crown and the Province might not be put to any extraordinary charge on that occasion.