It now from the following Circumstances becomes our Duty to inform your Excellency that the Prisoner now under Condemnation of Death and reprieved by your Excellency and your Council till the meeting of the next General Assembly; as well as many others now now confined in our Goal charged with Criminal Offences many of them have been found Guilty by the Grand Jury for this District of Misprison of Treason, who from the ill repair the said Goal is now in and the impossibility of making it at any rate safe, without a Guard may with the utmost ease make their Escape at what ever time they please, and bid defiance to the Laws they have Violated by the Dertimanation and Verdict of their Country, Our County and Town have heretofore Guarded the Goal and Magazine which the Commanding Officer in Concert with them thought necessary never doubting but the Charge would be made a General one; as eaqually interesting to the whole State; But as some Reports have lately prevailed that the Charges already due and arisen for keeping a Guard for the purposes before mentioned will not be allowed without a Sanction from your Excellency and Council, the Guard refused to do any further duty, and the Magazine which is of the utmost consequence, as well as the Goal are now for want of a Guard exposed to the bad designs of any Villain. We conceive by the Constitution you have full power of and the Ordering the Militia vested in you, we think it proper to desire of your Excellency that you would with the Advice of your Council give Orders to the Commanding Officer of the Militia to Order such a Guard ^to be kept^ as he may think Sufficient for the Preservation of the Magazine and safe keeping the Goal, And we do assure your Excellency that the Stores at Present in the Magazine in this Town are of too much consequence to be Neglected