| Description | The King seeming very desirous that General Gage should be directed to augment his force at Boston, desires him to confer with His Majesty respecting the regiments to be sent to assist Gage, sends question he thinks should be decided by the Attorney and Solicitor General so that the military may know how to act towards the insurgents
Enclosure, question to be sent to the Attorney and Solicitor General for their decision, as to whether, in the present situation of Massachusetts, the troops may act, without direction from a civil magistrate, against persons unlawfully in arms in that province, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire |