Resolved, That Salt and Coal imported from Great Britain or Ireland, may be sold at publick vendue by the cargoe, or smaller quantity, at the election of the owner or consignee, under the direction of the Committee, and that a freight of nine pence per bushel shall be allowed on all kinds of Salt imported as aforesaid; and a freight of twelve pence per bushel on all Coal imported as aforesaid.

Resolved, That it is expected all importers of Goods, after the first of December, do apply to the Committee of the District where the vessel so importing has arrived, and make their election of sending back, storing, or selling all such Goods, for which purpose the said Committee will attend at the Coffee House every day, from ten till one o'clock.

The Committee also recommend to all importers of Goods a perusal of, and attention to, the eleventh Article of the General Congress, viz: "That a Committee be chosen in every County, City, and Town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this Association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such Committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this 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 publickly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American Liberty; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.

By order of the Committee,

JACOB RUSH, pro tern. Secretary.

THE DEPUTY GOVERNOUR OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH.

Philadelphia, December 6, 1774.

MY LORD: Since my last letter, dated the 4th of November, no publick occurrence has happened within my Government, except that, in pursuance of the recommendation of the Congress, the inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia, and some other Counties of this Province, have appointed Committees to observe the conduct of all persons within their respective Districts, touching the Association entered into by the Congress, and to see that the same be not violated.

Whenever any thing material occurs I shall take care to communicate the same to your Lordship by the first opportunity.

I have the honour to be, with great respect, &c.,

JOHN PENN.

JAMAICA (NEW-YORK) TOWN MEETING.

At a Town Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Jamaica, in Queen's County, held in the Court House, on Tuesday, the 6th of December, 1774:

Resolved, 1. That by principle and interest we have been always heartily attached to the Royal House of Hanover, as the guardians of the civil and religious liberties of the whole British Empire; and that we esteem it our duty to render true and faithful allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, as our only rightful Sovereign; and to support and maintain the just dependence of the Colonies upon the Crown of Great Britain, under the enjoyment of our constitutional rights and privileges.

Resolved, 2. That it is our undoubted right to be taxed only by our own consent, given by ourselves or our Representatives; and that all Acts made by the British Parliament, imposing taxes on the Colonies, are unjust, unconstitutional, and a manifest infringement of our dearest and most invaluable privileges.

Resolved, 3. That we have esteemed it our greatest civil happiness and glory, to have been born subjects to the Crown, and members of society under the most excellent Constitution of Great Britain; that we regard ourselves as one people with our mother country, connected together by the strongest ties of affection, duty, interest, and religion; and that we lament as the greatest misfortune which as members of civil society could befall us, the unhappy disputes and divisions that have of late years subsisted between us; and that we heartily wish mutual love, harmony, confidence, and tranquillity may be restored, and established upon a solid and permanent foundation; and that we will join our most vigorous and unremitting endeavours to accomplish so great and so important a purpose.

Resolved, 4. That we highly approve of, and will, as much as possible, endeavour to comply with the seasonable and excellent advice given by the worthy Delegates of New-York to the Committee of Mechanicks there, "to cultivate and cherish a spirit of unanimity and benevolence, and promote internal tranquillity." And that we will most heartily join with our brethren of the other Colonies, and our fellow-townsmen and inhabitants of this Province, in every prudent measure for the publick good.

Resolved, 5. That we heartily sympathize with our brethren of Boston and the Massachusetts Bay, under their present unexampled sufferings, and that we regard the Acts of Parliament under which they now groan, as cruel, unjust, unconstitutional, and oppressive in the highest degree, levelled not only at them in particular, but at the liberties of the other Colonies, and the British Empire in general; and that therefore, we think our aforesaid brethren, as sufferers in the common cause, are entitled to the encouragement, compassion, and charitable assistance of all the friends of liberty and foes of oppression, both in England and America.

Resolved, 6. That we do most gratefully acknowledge the difficult and important services rendered to their country by the late General Congress, held at Philadelphia, and that we do highly approve of the measures by them concerted for the publick good of their constituents, and that we will use all prudent and constitutional endeavours to carry those measures into execution.

Resolved, 7. That we do appoint for our Committee of Correspondence and Observation, the following gentlemen, viz: Reverend Abraham Kettletas, Doctor John Lines, Captain Joseph French, Captain Richard Betts, Captain Ephraim Bayley, Mr. Elias Bayley, Mr. Waters Smith, Mr. Joseph Robinson, and Mr. William Ludlam.

Resolved, 8. That this Committee do, in our names, present an Address of sincere and hearty thanks to the worthy Delegates of this Province for their cheerful acceptance and faithful discharge of the arduous and important trust committed to them by their countrymen.

Resolved, 9. That this meeting have as heartily approved of, and have always been as ready to promote, every prudent and constitutional measure for the redress of grievances, and for the preservation of those invaluable liberties which have been infringed by the British Ministry and Parliament, as any of their brethren, and that it is not their fault that they were not sooner convened for this important purpose, and that they do highly resent and heartily disapprove of the conduct of the Supervisor, and any other particular, by whose backwardness, ignorance, negligence, or remissness, this meeting has been so long delayed.

NEWARK (NEW-JERSEY) COMMITTEE.

Pursuant to the eleventh Article of the Association entered into by the late Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, at a meeting of the Freeholders of the Township of Newark, in the County of Essex, at the Court House, on Wednesday, the 7th of December, 1774,

JOSEPH BRIGGS, Jun., Esq., in the Chair:

After a proper introduction to the business of the day, the following persons were unanimously chosen as a Committee of Observation for the Town aforesaid, viz: Joseph Allen, Esq., Garrabrant Garrabrant, Esquire, Caleb Camp, Bethuel Pierson, John Range, Solomon Davis, Doctor Matthias Pierson, Samuel Pennington, Joseph Hedden, Jun., Daniel Cundict, John Earle, John Spear, Moses Farrand, David Cundict, Esq., John Peck, Joseph Lyon, Thomas Cadmus, Jun., Abraham Lyon, James Wheeler, Ichabod Harrison, Jonathan Sayer, Robert Johnston, Robert Neil, Junior.

At a meeting of a majority of the above Committee, held in Neioark, January 5th, 1775, Caleb Camp, Chairman, Robert Johnston, Clerk:

Voted, That the Thanks of this Committee be presented to the Honourable Delegates for this Province, mem-