PREFACE.

With the close of the year 1783, upon which in this volume we have entered, will terminate the original limits assigned to the duties of the Editor by the act of 15th of February, 1851;-but inasmuch as the Colonial Records have been completed in 16 volumes, extending the date to 1790,-the legislature, at their last session, introduced into the “appropriation law”—the following section, authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to continue the publication from 1783 to 1790-thus rendering the period embraced in both works the same.

Section 67. "That the Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to continue the printing, publication and distribution of the Pennsylvania Archives, from the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, to the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, in conformity with the requirements of an act entitled "an act for providing for the publication of the Colonial Records and other original papers in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth;" approved the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and the supplement thereto, except so far as issuing proposals for the publication of the same; Provided, That the cost for printing and publishing the same shall not exceed the price per volume contracted for the publication of the said Archives under the above recited act; and when so published, shall be distributed in the same manner, and to the same persons, as provided by the several acts relating to the distribution of said works."

Approved May 9, 1854.

PREFACE.

With the close of the year 1783, upon which in this volume we have entered, will terminate the original limits assigned to the duties of the Editor by the act of 15th of February, 1851;—but inasmuch as the Colonial Records have been completed in 16 volumes, extending the date to 1790,-the legislature, at their last session, introduced into the "appropriation law"-the following section, authorizing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to continue the publication from 1783 to 1790-thus rendering the period embraced in both works the same.

Section 67. "That the Secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and required to continue the printing, publication and distribution of the Pennsylvania Archives, from the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, to the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, in conformity with the requirements of an act entitled “an act for providing for the publication of the Colonial Records and other original papers in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth;" approved the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and the supplement thereto, except so far as issuing proposals for the publication of the same; Provided, That the cost for printing and publishing the same shall not exceed the price per volume contracted for the publication of the said Archives under the above recited act; and when so published, shall be distributed in the same manner, and to the same persons, as provided by the several acts relating to the distribution of said works."

Approved May 9, 1854.