[Dec. 5.] It passed to be engrossed, yeas 53, nays 35; but not without the house’s resolving, “That it is under a full persuasion that the sufferers have no just claim or demand on the province.” A needless resolve, tending to excite disgust in many, without answering any important purpose. The act granted compensation to the sufferers; and a free and general pardon, indemnity, and oblivion to the offenders in the late times. It was disallowed at home, on account of the assembly’s having incorporated an act of pardon with an act of compensation, without having obtained his majesty’s previous consent to such an act of pardon. The sufferers, however, received the compensation, and the offenders were not prosecuted. [Nov. 7.] In _Virginia_ a bill passed the house of burgesses, for erecting a statue to his majesty, as an acknowledgment for repealing the stamp act, and also an obelisk to commemorate those worthy patriots who distinguished themselves in bringing about that happy event. And at _New-York_ [Dec.] an act was passed for making restitution to the several persons therein named, for losses sustained in the late commotions. But when the assembly was applied to for carrying into execution the act of parliament of the preceding year, for quartering his majesty’s troops, they said in their address to the governor, Sir _Henry Moore_, “According to the construction put on it here, it is required that all the forces which shall at any time enter this colony, shall be quartered during the whole year in a very unusual and expensive manner; by marching several regiments into this colony, this expence would become ruinous and insupportable; and therefore we cannot, consistent with our duty to our constituents, put it in the power of any person (whatsoever confidence we may have of his prudence and integrity) to lay such a burden on them,” and so justified their declining to provide for the troops. Before closing the account of 1766, be it observed, that the people of _Connecticut_ failed not to show their resentment against their late governor’s having qualified, agreeable to what the stamp act enjoined. There was a meeting of gentlemen at _Hartford_, for concerting a plan for the choice of a new governor and counsellors, in the room of those, who with him had taken the oath required. Matters were so managed at this meeting, that when the election came on, Mr. _Petkin_ was chosen governor, and colonel _Trumbull_ deputy governor. But the episcopalians, almost to a man, voted for Mr. _Fitch_; and by thus making a party with administration against the claims and rights of their colony, rendered themselves obnoxious.