_WHEREAS certain Persons, who remain hitherto undiscovered,
have of late committed great Disorders in the Night-Time,
within several Towns in this Province, and particularly have
broke the Windows of some Meeting Houses, and of the
Dwelling-Houses of several Persons, by flinging thereinto
great Stones and Bricks, thereby indangering the Lives of the
Inhabitants, as well as injuring their Houses, against the
Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, and in Contempt of his
Laws:_
I HAVE therefore thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's
Council, to issue this Proclamation, requiring all Justices of
the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, and all other Officers whom
it may concern, and also recommending it to all other His
Majesty's good Subjects within this Province, to use their
utmost Endeavours for discovering and bringing to Justice all
Persons concerned in such disorderly and riotous Practices.
AND I do hereby promise, that whosoever shall discover and
detect all or any of the Persons concerned therein, so that
they or any of them may be lawfully convicted of any such
Offences, shall receive out of the Public Treasury of this
Province the Sum of _TEN POUNDS_ Lawful Money, as a Reward to
be paid upon the Conviction of such Offender or Offenders.
_GIVEN at the Council-Chamber in_ Boston, _the Seventh Day of_
July, 1761, _in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of_ Great-Britain,
France, _and_ Ireland, KING, _Defender of the Faith, &c._
Fr. Bernard.
By His Excellency's Command,
A. OLIVER, Secr.
GOD Save the KING.
* * * * *
In the "Boston Gazette," this same year, August 10, Samuel Smith objected
to people reporting that he "was run away."
_WHEREAS it has been falsely reported by some ill minded
litigious Persons that I, the Subscriber, was run away, THIS
is to inform the Public, and especially those that it doth
concern, That I have been no further than_ Philadelphia, _a
Trading, with a Design to return Home in about two Months, but
return'd Home one Week sooner; and be it KNOWN notwithstanding
all the false Reports about me, I am to be spoke with at my
Dwelling-House at the North End, or upon 'Change, every Day in
the Week._
Samuel Smith.
N.B. _Said_ Smith _has a House at the North End of the Town to
Lett; also two Rooms in another House in said Part of the
Town; he has likewise another House in said Part of the Town,
which he would be willing to exchange for one further
Southward_.
* * * * *
Quaint advertisement of a paper-maker in the "Boston Gazette," Nov. 23,
1767.