TRIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

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tations proposing tlie Repeal thereof, having been referred to the Consideration of a Committee of theLords of His Majesty’s most Hon ble Privy Council for Plantation Affairs , The said Lords of theCommittee did this day Report to His Majesty as their opinion, that the said Act ought to berepealed :—His Majesty taking the same into his Royal Consideration, was pleased, with the adviceof his Privy Council , to Declare his Disallowance of the said Act, and pursuant to His Majesty’sRoyal Pleasure thereupon Exprest, the said act is hereby repealed, Declared void, and of noneeffect: Whereof the Governor or Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Province of New York forthe time being, and all others whom it may concern, are to take Notice and Govern themselvesaccordingly. La : Vernon.

Note. —A Law, commonly called the Septennial act, was passed in 1748, by which the continuance of the ProvincialAssembly was limited to seven years. This Act remained in force down to the Revolution.—Er