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and shall suffer death, as in cases of persons 

 convicted and attainted of felony by verdict and 

 judgment, without benefit of clergy ; and diat 

 it shall and may be lawful to, and for the su- 

 preme court of judicature of this colony, or the 

 courts of oyer and terminer, or general gaol de- 

 livery, for the respective counties aforesaid^ 

 to award execution against such offender or of- 

 fenders, so indicted for a capital offence, perpe- 

 trated after the passing of this act, in such man- 

 ner as if he or they had been convicted or at- 

 tainted in the supreme courts of judicature, or 

 before such courts of oyer and terminer, or gen- 

 eral gaol delivery respectively.'^ All crimes 

 committed on the grants, were by this act sub- 

 ject to be tried in the county, and by the courts 

 at Albany. At the same time, a proclamation 

 was issued by the governor of New York, offer- 

 ing a reward of fift}- pounds a head, for appre- 

 hending and securing Ethan Allen, Seih War- 

 ner, and six others, of the most obnoxious of 

 the settlers. 



With this act, all prospect of peace, or sub- 

 mission to the government of New York, ended. 

 At a general meeting of the committees for the 

 townships, on the west side of the green moun- 

 tains, it was resolved :* '* That for the future- 

 ever}- necessary preparation be made, and that 

 our inhabitants hold themselves in readiness, at 

 a minutes warning, to aid and defend such- 

 friends of ours, who, for their merit to the great 

 and general cause, are falsely denominated riot- 

 ers ; but that we will not act any thing, mor* 



*' Ajsil 14, 1774. Page ji. 



