A PROCLAMATION.
WHereas by the Contrivance of some evil Disposed and Disaffected Persons, divers Journals or Printed News Papers, (entitled, The New-York Weekly Journal, containing the freshest Advices, Foreign and Domestick) have been caused to be Printed and Published by John Peter Zenger, in many of which Journals or Printed News-Papers (but more particularly these Numbred 7, 47, 48, 49) are contained divers Scandalous, Virulent, False and Seditious Reflections, not only upon the whole Legislature, in general, and upon the most considerable Persons in the most distinguish'd Stations in this Province, but also upon His Majesty's lawful and rightful Government, and just Prerogative. Which said Reflections seem contrived by the wicked Authors of them, not only to create Jealousies, Discontents and Animosities in the Minds of his Majesty's Leige People of this Province, to the Subversion of the Peace & Tranquility thereof, but to alienate their Affections from the best of Kings, and raise Factions, Tumults and Sedition among them. Wherefore I have thought fit, by and with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby Promising a Reward of Fifty Pounds to such Person or Persons who shall discover the Author or Authors of the said Scandalous, Virulent and Seditious Reflections contained in the said Journals or Printed News-Papers, to be paid to the Person or Persons discovering the same, [...] as such Author or Authors shall be Convicted of having been the Author or Authors thereof.
GIVEN under My Hand and Seal at Fort-George in New-York this Sixth Day of November, in the Eighth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING Defender of the Faith, &c. and in the Year of Our LORD 1734
GOD Save the KING.