The Remonstrance of several of the representatives for several counties of the province of New-York being members of the present Assembly. Offered to the consideration of the House.

The Remonstrance of several of the representatives for several counties of the province of New-York being members of the present Assembly. Offered to the consideration of the House.

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The Remonstrance of several of the Representatives for several Counties of the Province of New-York being Members of the present Assembly. Offered to the Consideration of the House.

To his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Captain General and Governour in Chief, and Vice-Admiral of his Majesties Province of New-York, &c. and the Honourable Council of the same. The Humble Petition of several of the Representatives for several Counties of this Province, being Members of the present Assembly.

To the Honourable House of Representatives for the Province of New-York.

To his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Captain General, Governour in chief, and Vice-Admiral of his Majesties Province of New-York, &c. and the Honourable Council of the same. The Humble Protestation and Declaration of several of the Members of the present Assembly of New-York.

At a Council held at New-York the 14th of June, 1698. Present His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, &c. Frederick Phillips, Esqr.Nicholas Bayard, Esqr.William Smith, Esqr.Gabriel Minveille, Esqr.Thomas Willet, Esqr.

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The Remonstrance of several of the Representatives for several Counties of the Province of New-York being Members of the present Assembly. Offered to the Consideration of the House.

THat the Remonstrants are fairly and legally chosen and returned as Representatives of their Country, without any dispute about their Elections

That by the false and unjust Returns of some Sheriffs, several who at present sit as Members of the House) have been petitioned against, that their Elections and Returns may be fairly tryed and determined.

That contrary to all Law, Justice, and the constant Practice of all English Assemblies, the said disputed Members have sate in the House, and by their Number (joyned with some few others) have made the greater Vote in the House, & thereh have constituted Orders how their own disputed Elections should be tryed. By which Orders they have prevented all Complainants from being heard, have unjustly excluded several legal Sworn Members, without hearing their Defence, and have arbitrarily obtruded themselves upon the House.

That the Insolence of the present Speaker, Mr. Phillip French hath been so great, that (being chosen Speaker by Votes of the disputed Members) during the Dispute about his own Election, (the Complainants being absent & unheard) he continued in the House, argued and debated his own Cause, with Threats, Menaces and Reproachful Language to the Representatives, and arbitrarily himself put the Question about the justness of the Sheriffs Return of himself.

By which Proceedings these Remonstrants do apprehend, that the legal Rights and Priviledges of Assemblies are overturned and destroyed. Nor can they with Honour, Conscience, or a just Discharge of the Trust reposed in them by their Country, sit, joyn or act with these disputed Members, until they fairly submit the hearing of the said Disputes before his Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont and Council, and have their Judgment on the matter, to which these Remonstrants will humbly submit.

June 8. 1698.

Reyer Schermerhorne,

Jan Jansen Bleeker,

Cornelis Snebernigh,

Jan Woglom,

Cornelis van Brunt,

Thomas Morgan.

To his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Captain General and Governour in Chief, and Vice-Admiral of his Majesties Province of New-York, &c. and the Honourable Council of the same.
The Humble Petition of several of the Representatives for several Counties of this Province, being Members of the present Assembly.

Humbly Sheweth,

THat your Petitioners did this day offer the annexed Remonstrance to the Consideration of the House of Representatives, but by the Violence of the Speaker, and the Votes of him and those others unjustly returned by the Sheriffs, all Relief and Satisfaction was denyed to be given to your Petitioners, and the said Remonstrance was rejected; on which your Petitioners did with-draw themselves, resolving not to sit and act, and betray the Liberties of the People with such Persons whose Guilt makes [Page] them afraid of a fair Scrutiny before your Excellency & Council; and your Petitioners being six in Number, and three other Members of the House giving their Votes, That the said Remonstrance should not be rejected, there are (with the said unjustly returned Members) but Ten Persons against Nine, which ten Persons, as we are well informed (to justifie themselves) design to imprison your Petitioners, and to act without them, against the Rules of Law and Reason, and contrary to the Rights of the People, whom your Petitioners do represent.

Your Petitioners do therefore humbly pray your Excellency, who has been an eminent Sufferer for your Zeal for the Laws and Liberties of England, that your Petitioners may be protected from imprisonment by the Speaker and other Members, who have no just Right to sit or be Members of the House, but who have made themselves a major-Vote by the greatest Violence and Injustice; and that you would please, since the said sitting Members will not submit their Cause (as is desired in the said Remonstrance) to the Determination of your Excellency and Council, to Dissolve the said Assembly, and not permit Laws to be passed by them, to oblige the several Counties who have no Representatives amongst them, and who cannot in Honour, Conscience and Justice joyn with such who Legally represent nothing but the Corruption of the Sheriffs, made in the late male Administration of Government, by which they were returned Members, & their own Malice and Artifice since admitted into the House; and your Petitioners humbly submit themselves and their Cause to the Determination of your Excellency & Council, before whom they are ready to appear to justifie the Respect, Honour and Obedience they will always pay to your Excellency and Government, and to demonstrate the Reasonableness of these their Proceedings. And your Petitioners shall ever Pray, &c

New-York, June 9. 1698.

Jan Woglom,

Cornelis van Brunt,

Thomas Morgan

Reyer Schermerhoorn,

Jan Jansen Bleeker,

Cornelis Snebernigh.

To the Honourable House of Representatives for the Province of New-York.

WE the Representatives of three Counties, nigh half of the eight Counties of this Government, being indisputably elected and Returned, and sworn to serve in this present Assembly, being fully perswaded of our own knowledge, Tat the Sheriff of New York hath, expresly contrary to his Oath and Duty, made a Return under his Hand and Seal, of four Members for the City and County of N. York, and County of Orange, of which the Speaker, Mr. Phillip French is one; the falseness of which Return appears under the hand of the said Sheriff in his Petition to the House, and the Oathes of several other Persons, on which we have formerly made a Remonstrance to this House, which was rejected. Whereupon we Petitioned his Excellency and Council, whose Advice to the House, to reconcile our Differences, and give Satisfaction, was likewise absolutely rejected. We do therefore in behalf of the Counties we represent, Protest against all Proceedings that shall be made by this House, as null and void, untill the Members returned for the City & County of New-York, & County of Orange, submit their Elections and Return to a fair, judicial and reasonable Tryal of the House, that they with-draw during the same, all which hitherto they have violently refused to do. Given under our Hands the 14th of June, in the tenth year of his Majesties Reign, 1698.

Reyer Schermerhoorn,

Cornelis Snebernigh,

Jan Woglom,

Cornelis van Brunt,

Thomas Morgan,

Jan Jansen Bleeker.

To his Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, Captain General, Governour in chief, and Vice-Admiral of his Majesties Province of New-York, &c. and the Honourable Council of the same.
The Humble Protestation and Declaration of several of the Members of the present Assembly of New-York.

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WHereas we have made an humble Petition to your Lordship and Council, setting forth a Remonstrance we had made to the House of Representatives, which they had rejected, & therefore praying we might be heard, or otherwise that the present Assembly might be Dissolved, the major Vote of which being made by the Unjust Returns of corrupt Sheriffs. On which Petition your Lordship did admit us, with the House together, into your Presence, and did, with great Piety and Justice, exhort us to go together and reconcile our Differences, and give and receive Satisfaction, that his Majesties Service, and the good of the Country might be promoted. Accordingly we went to the House, and desired Mr. Speaker that we might have some Satisfaction given us, in relation to our Remonstrance and Petition, which he with great Violence denyed, and would not permit our Petition to your Lordship to be read, but instead thereof he himself, and others with him, who are not chosen by the People, [...]ave us reproachful threatning Language, telling, We deserved to be Hang'd if we were in England, that our Counsellors were Villians and Rogues. On which we did again with-draw our selves, being resolved never to betrary our Country (whom we indisputably represent by joyning and acting with such Persons who represent none but themselves, and have so apparently destroyed all the Rights and Liberties of the People. And as we have made our Protests to the House against their Proceedings, So we crave leave to assure your Lordship and Council of our Inviolable Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty King William, (for whose sake two Members of this present Assembly have been excluded the House, as attainted of Treason for most early appearing in the late happy Revolution, for which they have obtained his Majesties Gracious Pardon) That with a chearful and ready Obedience to your Lordships Government, under which we are assured our English Constitutions shall not be undermined by Wicked Men.

And we lastly crave leave to make this our Protest to your Lordship and Council, (in behalf of the Counties we represent against all manner of Acts and things that shall be concluded on or done by those pretended Members now sitting, that our Country may not be obliged to obey Laws made by those who are not chosen by the Country, but have, since their sitting, violently over-run all common Decency and Order, as well as the Rights and Liberties of the People. All which is humbly submitted to your Excellency and Council, by

Their Countries, and your Lordships and Council's Most Obedient and most Faithful humble Servants,

Reyer Schermerhoorn,

Cornelis Snebernigh,

Jan Woglom,

Cornelis van Brunt,

Thomas Morgon,

Jan Jansen Bleeker,

New-York, June 14. 1698.

At a Council held at New-York the 14th of June, 1698. Present His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, &c. • Frederick Phillips, Esqr. , • Nicholas Bayard, Esqr. , • William Smith, Esqr. , • Gabriel Minveille, Esqr. , and • Thomas Willet, Esqr. 

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HIs Excellency did acquaint the Council, that the Heats and Annimosities in the Assembly were so great that they did altogether obstruct the Kings Service, that the matter is unpresidented, and no means can be found effectual to reconcile the Differences; and his Majesty having entrusted him with the Prerogative of Adjourning, Proroguing and Dissolving of Assemblies, he must now make use of that Authority, and did declare his Resolution to Dissolve the Assembly. And order'd to be read a Protestation of the six Remonstrators, in behalf of the Counties they represent, against all Laws that may be made.

The Clerk of the Council was sent to call the Assembly. The Speaker and House being present, his Excellency said,

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Gentlemen of the Assembly,

You have now sate a whole Moneth, without any Interruption by me, and have done nothing either for the Service of his Majesty or the good of your Country, except the Address to his Majesty, for which I thank you. I am sorry your Carriage since hath been so contrary thereto, that it is absolutely necessary for the Kings Service, and the Safety and Peace of the Government that you should be Dissolved. Your Proceedings have been so Unwarrantable, wholly tending to Strife and Division, and indeed Disloyal to his Majesty and his Laws, and Destructive to the Rights and Liberties of the People, that I do think fit to Dissolve this present Assembly, and it is Dissolved accordingly.

Copia Vera, By Order,

David Jamison, Cl. Concilij.

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Printed and Sold by William Bradford, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty in the City of New-York, 1698.

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The Remonstrance of several of the representatives for several counties of the province of New-York being members of the present Assembly. Offered to the consideration of the House.

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— The Remonstrance of several of the representatives for several counties of the province of New-York being members of the present Assembly. Offered to the consideration of the House., Schermerhorne, Reyer, 1652-1719., New York (State). General Assembly., New York (State). Council..

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Printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty in the city of New-York,,. [New York] :: 1698.. (Disputing the election of several members of the House of Representatives.) (Caption title.) (Signed: Reyer Schermerhorne [and five others].) (Followed by letters from the petitioners to the governor and House of Representatives and the Council's order dissolving the disputed Assembly.) (Imprint from colophon.)

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