I am directed by Mr. Secry Pitt to transmit to you the inclosed Copy of an Order of Council of the 15th. Instant for your Information and in order that you may govern yourself accordingly. I am &c.

Robt. Wood.

A like Letter was wrote to the following Governors. Barbados, Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Bahama Islands, Massachusets Bay, Georgia, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia, Newfoundland, New York, Depy. Govr. of Maryland.

At the Court at St. James's the 15th. Day of May 1761.

Present

The King's most Excellent Majesty.

Lord President, Viscount Falmouth, Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Barrington, Duke of Rutland, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Lord Steward, Mr. Vice Chamberlain, Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir John Rushout, Earl of Cholmondeley, Charles Townshend Esqr., Earl of Bath, Robert Nugent Esqr., Earl Cornwallis, Sir Francis Dashwood, Earl of Thomond.

Whereas there was this Day laid before His Majesty at this Board, an Order made by His late Majesty ^in Council,^ bearing Date the 11th. Day of March 1752, containing several Rules & Regulations relating to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, particularly with respect to the Nomination of Governors, Lieutenant Governors, & other Officers & Magistrates, by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; and likewise to the Correspondence to be carried on between the said Lords Commissioners and the Govrs. of the said Colonies and Plantations respectively: His Majesty taking the aforementioned Order into ^His^ Consideration is hereby pleased, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to revoke and repeal the same in every Part, except that which relates to the Correspondence to be carried on between the Lords Commrs. for Trade & Plantations, & the Governors of His Majesty's Colonies, which is still to be carried on in the same Manner prescribed by the additional Instruction, which was directed by the above Order in Council of His late Majesty of 11th. March 1752, to be prepared & sent to the Govrs. of all His Majesty's Colonies & Plantations respectively. And His Majesty doth hereby signify His farther Pleasure, that the Lords Commrs. for Trade & Plantations do cause a Copy of this Order to be entered upon the Books of the Plantation Office; And that one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State do cause Copies thereof to be sent to the Governors of His Majesty's Colonies & Plantations in America, to the End that all Persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly.

W: Blair.