Arthur Dobbs Esqr. Governor of Your Majesty's Province of North Carolina, having in a Letter dated the 9th of November last, requested Us to represent to Your Majesty the weak and defenceless State of the said Province for want of Amunition and Stores, of which it is quite destitute, and the Necessity of having an independent Company of one hundred Men established there, not only to protect the Back Settlements, but to support the Surveyors and Custom-House Officers in their respective Duties, and to prevent illicit Trade, We think it Our Duty humbly to lay before Your Majesty the annexed Extracts <Bundle C.44.> of the said Letter for Your Majesty's Directions thereupon.