called by written tickets, within one week after two hundred subscribers are obtained, in order to choose by ballot, for the first year, twelve Managers, a Secretary and Treasurer, to fix the time of the annual meeting for our future elections, and to do all other matters and things as may then be deemed necessary for the better regulating the affairs of the Company.

6. That one third of the Managers, and no more, be changed annually, on the day of the election, by their drawing lots for their going out; and on the death, or departure out of the City and its Districts, of any Manager, for the space of three calender months, the other Managers may choose another in his stead, who shall be considered as acting in the room of the deceased or departed Manager.

7. That the Managers carry on the Manufactory agreeable to the rules of the Company, and shall have the whole direction thereof, and shall attend two by two, in turn, everyday, at the Manufactory Store, at such hours as they shall agree upon, to oversee the business, draw orders on the Treasurer, and give the necessary directions.

8. That the Treasurer shall give security for the faithful discharge of his trust, and for accounting for, and delivering up to his successor in said office, all such moneys, books, writings, and effects, as shall then be in his hands, belonging to the Company, at such times as the Managers, or a majority of them, shall direct and require, which security the Managers are hereby required to see duly given, executed, and recorded in the office for recording of Deeds for the County of Philadelphia, before any such Treasurer, so elected, shall enter upon his said office. And the Treasurer is hereby enjoined to answer no order but such as shall be signed by the two attending Managers for the day, as aforesaid, which said orders shall be good vouchers to indemnify him.

9. That a state of the Manufactory, and of the Company's accounts, shall be fairly made out at the end of every six months, and kept in the Manufactory Store, for the inspection of the Members.

10. That the Managers shall have power to call a general meeting, as often as they shall find it necessary to take the advice of the Company in any affair, or to lay any proposal or matter of importance before them.

11. That after the first general meeting of the subscribers, three weeks notice of the time and place of meeting, in one of the Newspapers, shall be sufficient to call a general meeting of the Company; and no rule nor regulation shall be binding on the Company, but such as shall have received the approbation of a majority of the Members present at a general meeting.

New-York, February 23, 1775.

On last Thursday night, the 16th instant, the Ship Beulah, Captain William M' Bussell, arrived at the Watering Place, about three leagues from this City, in nine weeks from London. The Pilots, we are informed, were ordered not to bring her up, lest her being in the Harbour should give uneasiness to the City. The same night, a Sloop with some members of the Sub-Committee of Observation, and other citizens on board, went down and anchored near the said Ship, to observe her conduct, and they will continue there till she departs. The Ship wants a new bowsprit; when she is furnished with this, and other necessaries for her voyage, she will be despatched without delay. She has neither entered nor broke bulk, and we are informed will be ready to sail about Sunday next.

SUFFOLK COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Committees of Observation for the several Towns and Districts of Huntington, Smithtown, Islip, and Southhaven, and some of the principal inhabitants of the Town of Brookhaven, in the County of Suffolk, and Province of New-York, held at Smithtown, on the 23d day of February, 1775,

Colonel PLATT CONKLIN, being Chairman:

1. Resolved, nem. con., That the Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence for this County, at their meeting on the 15th of November last, be published in the New- York Journal, or General Advertiser.

Which Proceedings are as followeth:

"At a Meeting of the Committee of Correspondence for the County of Suffolk, in the Province of New-York, at the County Hall, on the 15th day of November, 1774:

1. Voted, That we do recommend it to the several Towns in this County to set forward a subscription for the employment and relief of the distressed poor in the Town of Boston, to be collected in such manner as the Committees in each Town shall judge proper; to be in readiness to be forwarded early next Spring.

2. Voted, That Mr. John Foster have the care of procuring a Vessel to call at the several Harbours in this County to receive and carry the above donations to Boston for the purpose aforesaid.

3. Voted, That we do fully approve of the Proceedings of the late Continental Congress, and recommend it to the Committees of the different Towns to see that the Association by them entered into on behalf of themselves and their constituents, be strictly observed.

Signed by order of the Committees,

EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU, Clerk."

2. Resolved, nem con., That we think ourselves under obligations of gratitude to the worthy gentlemen in particular who represented this County in the late Continental Congress, and to that whole assembly in general, for their noble, patriotick, and faithful discharge of their important trust.

3. Resolved, nem. con., That a Letter be sent to William Nicoll, and Nathaniel Woodhull, Esquires, Representatives of this County, informing them that if a motion should be made in the House for appointing Delegates to represent this Province at the Continental Congress to be held at Philadelphia, in May next, it is our opinion and desire that they should join in their appointment.

4. Resolved, nem. con., That in case the Assembly do not appoint Delegates for the purpose above mentioned, the Committee of Correspondence for the City of New-York be desired, and they are accordingly hereby desired in that case to call a Provincial Convention for that purpose.

5. Resolved, nem. con., That we do highly disapprove of the conduct of Major Benjamin Floyd, and others, inhabitants of Brookhaven, in this County, as it is represented in Mr. Rivington's and Mr. Gaine's Papers; and it is our firm opinion that most of the subscribers to the writing in said Papers mentioned, were induced to sign it by unfair practices and misrepresentations; for we are credibly informed that a great number of them are very much dissatisfied that they have signed an instrument which they since understand is in opposition to the measures of the Congress, and unfriendly to the liberties of their country.

6. Resolved, nem. con., That we think that all those publications which have a tendency to divide us, and thereby weaken our opposition to measures taken to enslave us, ought to be treated with the utmost contempt by every friend to his country; in particular the Pamphlet entitled "A Friendly Address," &c., and those under the signature of "A. W. Farmer," and many others to the same purpose, which are replete with the most impudent falsehoods, and the grossest misrepresentations; and that the Authors, Printers, and abetters of the above and such like publications, ought to be esteemed and treated as traitors to their country, and enemies to the liberties of America.

Signed by order of the meeting,

PLATT CONKLIN, Chairman.

N. B. Most of the Towns and Districts in this County have, at publick Town Meetings fully adopted the measures recommended by the Congress, and determined upon a strict observance of the Association.

BEADING (CONNECTICUT) ASSOCIATION.

Mr. RIVINGTON: In the present critical situation of publick affairs, we the subscribers, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Town of Reading, and the adjoining parts, in the County of Fairfield, and Colony of Connecticut, think it necessary (through the channel of your Paper) to assure the publick that we are open enemies to any change in the present happy Constitution; and highly disapprove of all measures in any degree calculated to promote confusion and disorder; for which purpose, and in order to avoid the