consult together on the present critical and alarming situation and state of the Colonies; and that you, with them, exert your utmost endeavours to form and adopt a plan which shall afford the best prospect of obtaining a redress of American grievances, ascertaining the American rights, and establishing that union and harmony which is most essential to the welfare and happiness of both countries; and in doing this, you are strictly charged to avoid every thing indecent or disrespectful to the mother state. You are also directed to make report of your proceedings to the next Assembly. Signed by order of the House,

JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Speaker.

Philadelphia, July 23, 1774.

Letter to the Speakers of the several Assemblies of the Colonies.

Philadelphia, July 23, 1774.

SIR: By order of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, I have the honour to enclose a copy of certain Resolves entered into by them, respecting the present alarming state of the Colonies, and appointing a Commit tee to meet the Committees of the other Colonies in Congress. I am, with great respect, sir, your most obedient servant,

JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Speaker.

To the Honourable Speaker of the Assembly of the Colony of * * * * * *

Answer to the Governour's Message.

May it please your Honor: The House have taken into their serious consideration your Message of the 18th instant, respecting the panicky into which the frontier inhabitants have been thrown by the late murders committed on some of the Western Indians and their apprehensions thence arising of an Indian war; and sensibly affected with the unhappy situation of those inhabitants, after mature deliberation on the measures taken by the Magistrates, and approved by your Honor, we have resolved to pay and victual the troops raised for their relief, until the 10th day of next month; and if it shall then appear to the Governor and Commissioners, that the continuance of them is necessary, we have agreed to provide for such a number, not exceeding two hundred, as your Honor and the Commissioners shall think expedient, until the 20th day of September next.

And as you are pleased to intimate, "that could we devise any other probable method than what was recommended in your Message, by which the unhappy differences with the Indians can be accommodated, it would give you infinite satisfaction," we beg leave to recommend to your consideration the propriety of taking the necessary measures to renew the peace and friendship between this Province and the Indians, and to mediate the unhappy differences between them and the Colony of Virginia, as it appears to us scarcely possible that they can subsist, without continuing the frontiers of this Province in their present fears and distress.

The House, with, horrour, look upon the frequent murders that have, been of late committed on some of the Western Indians, in and to the westward of this Province, and think it their duty to aid Government in discouraging the perpetration of such atrocious offences, not only against the authority of Government, but in open violation of treaties subsisting between this Province and those Indians; and, therefore, have voted the sum of one hundred pounds as a reward for apprehending John Hinkson and James Cooper, who have lately, as is said, cruelly put to death Joseph Weepy, a friendly Indian, within the bounds of this Province.

The Resolutions the House have entered into on this occasion, we have herewith communicated.

Signed by order of the House,

JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Speaker.

July 23, 1774.

Ordered, That Mr. Ewing and Mr. Hunter wait on the Governour with the foregoing Answer to his Message, and acquaint him that the House incline to adjourn to Monday the 19th day of September next, if his Honour has no objection thereto; and request to know at what time to-day he will be pleased to meet the House, to enact into laws the. Bills that have received his assent.

The Members return, and report they had delivered their Message according to order; and that his Honour was pleased to say, he had no objection to the time of adjournment proposed by the House, and would be in the Council Chamber immediately, to enact into laws the two Bills that have been agreed on.

Ordered, That Mr. Hillegas and Mr. Miles do get the great seal affixed to the Bills after they are passed into laws, and deposite the same in the Rolls Office.

A Message by Mr. Secretary:

"SIR: The Governour is in the Council Chamber, and requires the attendance of the House."

Then, Mr. Speaker, with the whole House, waited on his Honour, and being returned from the Council Chamber, the Speaker resumed the Chair, and reported that they had waited on the Governour, and presented two Bills, entituled "An Act to continue an Act entituled 'An Act to amend the Act entituled An Act to prevent the exportation of bread and flour not merchantable;"' and "An Act for lending the sum of eight hundred pounds to the several and respective Counties of Bedford, Northumberland, "and Westmoreland, for building a Court House and Prison in each of the said counties;" to which Bills his Honour had been pleased to give his assent, by enacting the same into laws.

The House then adjourned to Monday, the 19th day of September next, at four o'clock, P. M.

MONMOUTH COUNTY (NEW-JERSEY) RESOLUTIONS.

On Tuesday, July 19, 1774, a majority of the Committees from the several Townships in the County of Monmouth, of the Colony of New-Jersey, met according to appointment, at the Court House at Freehold, in said county; and appearing to have been regularly chosen and constituted by their respective Townships, they unanimously agreed upon the propriety and expediency of electing a Committee to represent the whole county at the approaching Provincial Convention, to be held at the City of New-Brunswick, for the necessary purpose of constituting a Delegation from this Province, to the general Congress of the Colonies, and for all such other important purposes as shall hereafter be found necessary.

They, at the same time, also recorded the following Resolutions, Determinations, and Opinions, which they wish to be transmitted to posterity, as an ample testimony of their loyalty to his British Majesty, of their firm attachment to the principles of the glorious Revolution, and their fixed and unalterable purpose, by every lawful means in their power, to maintain and defend themselves in the possession and enjoyment of those inestimable civil and religious privileges which their forefathers, at the expense of so much blood and treasure, have established and handed down to them.

1. In the names and behalf of their constituents, the good and loyal inhabitants of the County of Monmouth, in the Colony of New-Jersey, they do cheerfully and publickly proclaim their unshaken allegiance to the person and Government of his most gracious Majesty King George the Third, now on the British Throne, and do acknowledge themselves bound at all times, and to the utmost exertion of their power, to maintain his dignity and lawful sovereignty in and over all his Colonies in America; and that it is their most fervent desire and constant prayer that, in a Protestant succession, the descendants of the illustrious House of Hanover, may continue to sway the British sceptre to the latest posterity.

2. They do highly esteem and prize the happiness of being governed, and having their liberty and property secured to them, by so excellent a system of laws as that of Great Britain, the best doubtless in the universe; and they will, at all times, cheerfully obey and render every degree of assistance in their power to the full and just execution of them. But at the same time will, with the greatest alacrity and resolution, oppose: any unwarrantable innovation in them, or any additions to, or alterations in the grand system which may appear unconstitutional, and, consequently, inconsistent with the liberties and privileges of the descendants of free-born American Britons,

3. As there has been for ages past a most happy union