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40 in case there are no means of going by Sea; & likewise, to observe and obey all such orders as shall be given by You or Persons appointed by you from time to time for quartering Troops, impressing Carriages, & providing all necessaries for such Forces as shall arrive or be raised in America, and yundefined the sundefined several Services shall be performed at the charge of yundefined respective Governments, wherein the same shall happen. It is our Will & Pleasure yundefined you should, pursuant thereto, apply to our sundefined Governors, or any of them, upon all such Exigencies."

6. The Governors had been directed "to endeavor to prevail upon yundefined Assemblies of their respective Provinces to raise forthwith as large a sum as can be afforded as their contribution to a common Fund, to be employed provisionally for yundefined general Service in North America." Braddock was urged to assist in this and have great care as to its expenditure.

7. Concerns Braddock's relations with the colonial governors; especially directing that a Council of War which shall include them be formed to determine, by majority