His Honour's Answer.

GENTLEMEN: I thank you for this Address. It will give me pleasure to convey to the Throne these warm expressions of your loyalty and attachment to our gracious Sovereign, and your solicitude for the glory of the British Empire.

While we with confidence rely on his Majesty's wisdom and paternal affection, and the justice and magnanimity of the Nation, for restoring harmony among the various parts of the Empire, our utmost efforts are necessary to prevent the destructive consequences of anarchy and confusion.

CADWALLADER COLDEN.

Die Veneris, 10 ho., A. M., the 20th January, 1775.

The House resumed the consideration of his Honour's Speech, and agreed to the following Address in answer thereto:

To the Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, ESQUIRE, his Majesty's Lieutenant-Governour and Commander-in-Chief, in and, over the Colony of NEW-YORK, and the Territories depending thereon in AMERICA.

The humble Address of the General Assembly of the said Colony.

May it please your Honour:

We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York, beg leave to return your Honour our most hearty thanks for your Speech.

The assurances your Honour has given us of cheerfully promoting whatever may be conducive to the dignity of his Majesty's Government, and the happiness of the people in this Colony, merit our most grateful acknowledgments.

The provision for the support of his Majesty's Government, and the necessary allowances for his service, shall be the objects of our attention, together with the ordinary business of the session.

Affected with the deepest concern by the distressed state of the Colonies, and impressed with a due sense of the fatal consequences attending the unhappy dispute between Great Britain and his Majesty's American Dominions, we feel the most afflicting anxiety at the alarming crisis. Fully convinced that the happiness of our constituents depends greatly on the wisdom of our present measures, we shall exercise the important trust they have reposed in us, with firmness and fidelity, and with calmness and deliberation pursue the most probable means to obtain a redress of our grievances; and it affords us the highest satisfaction to hear from your Honour, that our most gracious Sovereign will be attentive to the complaints of his American subjects, and ready with paternal tenderness, to grant us relief.—Anxious for the interest and happiness of our country, and earnestly solicitous for the re-establishment of harmony with Great Britain, we shall discountenance every measure which may tend to increase our distress, and, by our conduct, shew ourselves truly desirous of a cordial and permanent reconciliation with our parent Kingdom.

The absence of our most worthy Governour-in-Chief, whose upright conduct so deservedly acquired him the affections of the Colony, will, we have the strongest reason to expect, be less sensibly felt from the wise administration of his experienced successor. The confidence your Honour has been pleased to repose in our attachment to our happy Constitution, and our regard for the interest and prosperity of the British Empire, demand the exertion of our most strenuous efforts to co-operate with you in endeavouring to restore the tranquillity so ardently desired by all true friends to the mother country and the Colonies.

By order of the General Assembly.

JOHN CRUGER, Speaker.

Assembly Chamber, City of New-York, 20th of January, 1775.

Resolved, That the said Address be presented to his Honour the Lieutenant-Governour, by the whole House.

Ordered, That Mr. Kissam and Captain Seaman wait on his Honour the Lieutenant-Governour, to know when and where he will be pleased to be attended by the House, with their humble Address.

Colonel Seaman reported that Mr. Kissam and himself had waited on his Honour the Ljeutenant-Govenour, and delivered their Message, and that his Honour had been pleased to say he would receive the Address of this House at half past two o'clock, at his house, in the City of New-York.

Mr. Speaker left the Chair, and with the House, attended his Honour the Lieutenant-Governour, with their humble Address, according to his appointment; and being returned, resumed the Chair, and reported that the House had attended his Honour with their humble Address, and that his Honour had been pleased to return the following Answer thereto; and the same being read, is in the words following, viz:

GENTLEMEN: I return you my most cordial thanks for this loyal and affectionate Address.

The affliction you express at the unhappy contest between Great Britain and his Majesty's American, Dominions; your virtuous resolution to discharge your important trust with firmness and deliberation; your solicitude for a re-establishment of that harmony with our parent state, which can alone diffuse happiness and security to the various branches of the Empire; and your assurance that you will discountenance every measure which may increase our distress; while they hold you up as guardians on whose wisdom and integrity your constituents may rely with well grounded confidence, cannot fail of giving me the most sincere satisfaction, and of recommending you to general approbation.

You may be assured, gentlemen, that to deserve the good opinion and esteem with which you are pleased to honour me, shall be my constant study, and the object of my ambition.

CADWALLADER COLDEN.

Now-York, January 20, 1775.

Resolved, That there be a call of the House on Tuesday, the 7th day of February next.

Ordered, That the Clerk of this House write to the absent Members, to require their punctual attendance on that day.

Resolved, That his Honour's Speech be taken into further consideration on Thursday next.

Die Jovis, 10 ho., A. M., the 26th January, 1775.

A Message from his Honour the Lieutenant-Governour, by Mr. Bayard, Deputy Secretary; and the same being read, is in the words following, viz:

GENTLEMEN: In the month of August last Governour Penn made an overture to me for settling the boundary line between this Province and Pennsylvania. He very justly observed, that as the settlements under both Governments were daily approaching the line, it was of great importance to have the boundary marked without delay. The gentlemen of the Council were of opinion that it would be sufficient at this time to find the beginning of the forty-third degree of latitude upon the Delaware and Susquehannah Rivers; to mark those points and so much of the boundary line as lies between them. They advised me to appoint Samuel Holland, Esquire, to perform the work on the part of this Province, in conjunction with the persons whom Governour Penn should appoint on the part of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Holland and Mr. Rittenhouse went upon this work in November last, and fixed the latitude on Delaware River. They met with unexpected fatigue and danger, from the severity of the weather, which made it impossible far them to proceed any farther. I send you Mr. Holland's account; he has advanced a considerable part of the amount, and I recommend to you, gentlemen, now to make provision for the payment of this service, which I have reason to think has been accurately performed.

CADWALLADER COLDEN.

New-York, January 26, 1775.

Ordered, That the said Message, and the Account therein mentioned, be referred to the consideration of the Committee to whom his Honour's Speech is committed.

A motion was made by Colonel Ten Broeck, in the Words following, viz:

Mr. Speaker: I move that this House take into consideration the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, held in the City of Philadelphia, in the months of September and October last.

Whereupon Colonel Philips moved that the previous