The Virginia Gazette

BOSTON, October 13.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, legally qualified and warned in Public Town-Meeting assembled at Faneuil-Hall on Wednesday the 8th Day of October, A. D. 1766, the following Vote was passed.

"Whereas the Inhabitants of this Town have ever
The violent Outrages of Persons unknown in the late Distresses in the utmost Detestation and Abhorrence from a Sense of Duty, as well as just Indignation at the Ravages committed on the Properties of his Majesty's Subjects and Citizens on the 26th August 1755, took the earliest Opportunity to exert their strenuous Endeavours, in Aid of the Civil Authority, to restore Peace, Order and Tranquility; which were accordingly in one Day restored, and have been ever since preserved. And whereas his Majesty has been pleased only to recommend it to the General Assembly of this Province to make up the Losses of the Sufferers in the late unhappy Times, although his Excellency the Governor has thought fit to interpret the same as a Requisition so peremptory and authoritative as to preclude not only all Controversy and Debates but even Deliberation with Regard to a Compliance.--From no Regard to said Interpretation, but in dutiful Respect to the mild Recommendation of our most gracious Sovereign, in Humanity and Generosity towards those Gentlemen who have suffered in a Manner that no Man ought, especially in a State of Civil Society: VOTED. That on the Application of such Sufferers to the General Assembly in a Parliamentary Way, the Representatives of this Town be directed, and they are accordingly directed in their best Discretion to use their Influence, that such Losses be made up, as far as may be, in a Manner the most loyal and respectful with Regard to his Majesty, the most constitutional and safe with Regard to our invaluable Rights and Privileges, and the most humane and benevolent with Regard to the Sufferers."