Upon reading this day at the Board a Report from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantatians together with Draughts
of Warrants prepared by them directing and requiring Gabriel Johnston Esqre His Majesty's Governor of North Carolina to sweare and admit James Hassell, James Innes John Rutherford, Francis Corbin, John Swan, John Dawson, James Craven, Lewis De Rosset Junior and John Ricusset Esqre to be of His Majesty's Council in the said Province. Their Excellencys the Lords Justices this day took the said Report and Draughts of Warrants into consideration and were pleased with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council to approve thereof and to order as it is hereby ordered that Claudius Amyand and Richard Potenger Esqre Secretary to the Lords Justices do lay the said Warrants (which are hereunto annexed) before their Excellencys for their signing.—