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 pecial meage to the Houe of Repreentatives, in which he aid:

"There is one part of the Etate, viz., the Negro Slaves, which I am at a los how to come at the knowledge of, without your aitance." Journal, p. 119.

On the ame day, November 19, 1754, the Legislature made an order that the Aeors of the everal towns and ditricts within the Province, forthwith end into the ecretary’s office the exact number of the negro laves, both males and females, ixteen years old and upwards, within their repective towns and districts. Ib.

This enumeration, as corrected by Mr. Felt, gives an aggregate of 4,489. The census of Negroes in 1764–5, according to the ame authority, makes their number 5,779, in 1776, 5,249; in 1784, 4,377, in 1786, 4,371; and in 1790 (by the United States census) 6,001.

The royal intructions to Andros, in 1688, as