ty, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives to the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching the Association entered into by the members of the said Congress in the name, and on the behalf of themselves and their respective constituents; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the majority of any such Committee that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated the said Association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the rights of British America, may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and that thenceforth the parties to the said Association will respectively break off all dealings with him or her."

Which said resolve of the Congress being this day taken into consideration by the Committee of Correspondence of the city of New-York, they do hereby recommend to the freeholders and freemen of the said city, to assemble together at the usual places of election in their several Wards, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on Friday, the 18th inst., then and there to elect and appoint eight fit persons in each respective Ward, to be a Committee of Inspection for the purpose expressed in the said resolve of the Congress.

By order of the Committee,

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

The following persons were appointed to prepare a Circular Letter to the different Counties recommending them to appoint Committees of Inspection, agreeable to the eleventh resolve of the Congress, viz: John Jay, Peter T. Curtenius, Isaac Low, and James Duane

The Committee adjourned to Monday evening, the 14th instant.

New York, November 14, 1774.

The Committee met, by adjournment, at 6 o'clock, in the evening: Present:

Copy of a Letter to Mr. Daniel Dunscomb, Chairman of the Committee of Mechanics:

Committee Chamber, November 14, 1774.

SIR: Some difficulties have arisen relative to the advertisement published by this Committee for choosing a Committee of Inspection: and this Committee being desirous of adopting a mode that shall be agreeable to their fellow-citizens in general, have postponed the further consideration of this subject until tomorrow evening, at six o'clock, to the end that they may have a conference with your Committee on a; matter which is conceived of so much importance to the peace and welfare of this city. You are therefore requested to call a meeting of your Committee, some time to-morrow, and beg the favour of the whole body to meet us here in the evening, precisely at six o'clock, and yon will oblige, sir, your most humble servant.

By order of the Committee

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

To Mr. Daniel Dunscomb, Chairman of the Committee of Mechanics.

Committee Chamber, November 14, 1774.

Whereas it is intended very soon to transmit the donations that have been collected in the Colony, for the support of the poor of Boston to that city. The Committee of Correspondence request the favour of the benefactors and collectors of that laudable charity as soon as possible to pay the several contributions into the hands of Messrs. Gerard W. Beekman, Gerardus Duyekinck, and Peter T. Curtenius, of the city of New York, merchants, or either of them who are appointed by this Committee and have undertaken to transact that business

By order of the Committee,

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

The Committee adjourned until to-morrow evening, at 6 o'clock, November 15, 1774.

New-York, November 15, 1774.

The Committee met, by adjournment, this evening: Present,

Ordered, That when a Committee for carrying the Association of the Congress into execution shall be elected, this Committee do consider themselves as dissolved; and that this resolution be immediately made public.

New-York Committee Chamber, 15th November, 1774.

Whereas it is apprehended that inconveniences may arise from the mode lately recommended this Committee for electing a new Committee to superintend the execution of the Association entered into by the Congress; and this Committee of Correspondence having taken the same into further consideration, and consulted many of their fellow-citizens, and also conferred with the Committee of Mechanics thereupon, and having agreed to dissolve their body as soon as such new Committee shall be appointed:

Public notice is, therefore, hereby given, that it is now thought fit, that, instead of the mode prescribed by the former advertisement, sixty persons, to continue in office until the first day of July next, shall be chosen by the freeholders and freemen of the said city, to be a Committee for the purposes mentioned in the said Association; and that the said election shall be held at the City Hall, on Tuesday next, at ten o'clock, in the forenoon, under the inspection of the Vestrymen of this city, who shall be requested by the inhabitants for that purpose.

By order of the Committee,

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

A the before mentioned conference with the Committee of Mechanics, it was mutually agreed:

1st That the Committee nominated and held up to the public are not to exceed seventy; nor to be less than sixty persons

2d. To be chosen by the freeholders and freemen, at the City Hall, on Tuesday next, under the inspection of the Vestrymen of the city.

3d. To continue in office until the first day of July next.

4th. Each Committee to interchange one hundred names, out of which the Committee is to be nominated.

5th. To be styled, "The Committee for carrying into execution the Association entered into by the Continental Congress."

The Committee adjourned until to-morrow evening 16th November, 1774, at six o'clock.

Tuesday, November 22, 1774.

The Election of a Committee of sixty persons, for the purposes mentioned in the Association, entered into by the Congress, having this day come on, pursuant to advertisements in the public newspapers, a respectable number the freeholders and freemen of this city, assembled at the City Hall, where the election was conducted under the inspection of several of the Vestrymen, and the following persons were chosen without a dissenting voice, viz: