of Fincastle, Botetourt, Culpepper, Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Bedford, and for that part of the County of Augusta which lies to the eastward of the Alleghany Mountains; and that Richard Lee, Francis Peyton, Josias Clapham, Henry Lee, and Thomas Blackburn, Gentlemen, or any three or more of them, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners for the other Counties, and for that part of the County of Augusta which lies to the westward of the Alleghany Mountains, and for the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, to examine, state, and settle the Accounts of the Pay of the Militia, and of all Provisions, Arms, Ammunition, and other necessaries furnished the said Militia of the Counties for which they are appointed Commissioners, and report the same to the General Assembly.

And then the House adjourned till Thursday, the twelfth day of October next, at ten of the clock in the morning.

Thursday, October 12, 15 Geo. III, 1775.

The House met according to the adjournment, but no more than thirty-seven Members appearing, which was not a sufficient number to proceed to business,

The House adjourned till the first Thursday in March next.

Thursday, March 7, 16 Geo. III, 1776.

The House met according to the adjournment, but no more than thirty-two Members appearing, which was not a sufficient number to proceed to business,

The House adjourned to the first Monday in May next.

Monday, May 6, 16 Geo. III, 1776.

Several Members met, but did neither proceed to business nor adjourn, as a House of Burgesses.

NEW-YORK PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

City of New-York, May 22, 1775:

A number of gentlemen, Deputies from several Counties in this Colony, assembled at the Exchange, in the City of New-York, for the purpose of forming a Provincial Congress; but as they conceived there were not a sufficient number of Members, they agreed to meet here at the Exchange to-morrow, at ten o’clock, A M.

At a meeting of a Provincial Congress for the Colony of New-York, at the Exchange, in the City of New-York, on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of May, 1775:

The Deputies of a majority of the Counties appearing, they proceeded to the choice of the following Officers, who were unanimously elected, viz:

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., President; VolKert P. Douw, Esquire, Vice-President; John McKesson, Esq., and Mr. Robert Benson, Secretaries; Thomas Petit, Doorkeeper.

The Deputies for the City and County of New-York produced the Poll List taken on the . . . day of . . . . last, in the several Wards of the said City, certified under the hands of the Vestrymen of the respective Wards, and others before whom they were taken, by which it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said City and County, viz:

City and County of NEW-YORK.—Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Isaac Low, Alexander McDougall, Leonard Lispenard, Jos. Hallet, David Clarkson, Abraham Walton, Thomas Smith, Abraham Brasher, Benjamin Kissam, Isaac Roosevelt, John Morin Scott, John De Lancey, John Van Cortlandt, James Beekman, Jacobus Van Zandt, Sam’l Verplanck, John Marston, Richard Yates, George Folliott,* and Walter Franklin.

The Deputies for the City and County of Albany produced a Certificate pf the Committees of the City, and nineteen out of twenty Districts of the County, by which it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said City and County:

City and County of ALBANY.—Robert Yates, Walter Livingston, Abraham Yates, Robert Van Rensselaer, Volkert P. Douw, Henry Glenn, Jacob Cuyler, Abraham Ten Broeck, Peter Silvester, Francis Nicoll, Dirck Swart.*

The Deputies of the County of Dutchess produced the Certificate of the Judges and sundry of the Justices, and two other persons, freeholders and inhabitants of the said County, whereby it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said County for six months, viz:

DUTCHESS COUNTY .—Dirck Brinckerhoff, Gilbert Livingston, Anthony Hoffman,* Jona. London,* Zephaniah Platt, Gysbert Schenck,* Richard Montgomerie,* Melancton Smith, Ephraim Paine,* Nathaniel Sackett.

The Deputies for the County of Ulster produced the Certificate of Charles De Witt, Esquire, Chairman of the several Committees of all the several Towns and Precincts in the said County, whereby it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said County, viz:

ULSTER COUNTY.—Col. Johannes Hardenbergh, Col. James Clinton, Egbert Dumond, Esq., Christopher Tappen, Charles Clinton,* John Nicholson, and Jacob Hornbeck.

The Deputies for the Precinct of Haverstraw, in the County of Orange, produced a Certificate of Johannes Isa Blauvelt, Moderator of a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the said Precinct, whereby it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said Precinct, viz:

HAVERSTRAW IN ORANGE.—John Coe and David Pye.

The Deputies from Goshen Precinct, in the said County, produced the Certificate of Balthazer De Haert, Clerk of a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the said Precinct, whereby it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said Precinct, Viz:

GOSHEN.—Michael Jackson,* Benj. Tusteen,* Peter Clowes, and William Allison.

The Deputies for the County of Suffolk produced the following Certificates, to wit: The Certificate of Wm. Smith, Esq., Chairman of the Committees of all the Towns in the said County, except Brookhaven and Islip; the Certificates of four Companies of the Militia of the said Town of Brookhaven; and the Certificate of the inhabitants of the said Town or District of Islip; †whereby it appears that the following persons Were elected Deputies for the said County for one year, to wit:

SUFFOLK COUNTY.—Col. Nathaniel Woodhull, Ezra L’Hommedieu, John Sloss Hobart,* Thomas Wickham, Thos. Tredwell,* James Haven,* John Foster, and Selah Strong.

The Deputies for the County of Westchester produced the Certificate of the Committee of the said County, where by it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said County, viz:

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.—Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, Philip Van Cortlandt, Jas. Holmes, David Dayton, John Thomas, Junior, Robert Graham,* and William Paulding.*

The Deputies for the Township of Brooklyn, in King’s County, produced the Certificate of Leffert Leffertse, Esq., chosen Clerk of a meeting of the Magistrates and Freeholders of the said Township, whereby it appears that the following persons were elected Deputies for the said Township, viz:

BROOKLYN IN KING’S COUNTY.—Henry Williams, Esq. Jeremiah Remsen, Esq.

The Deputies for the County of Richmond produced a Certificate of Paul Micheau, Clerk of the County of Richmond, whereby it appears that the following persons were (at a meeting of the Freeholders of the said County for that purpose) elected Deputies for the said County, viz:

RICHMOND COUNTY.—Paul Micheau, John Journey, Rich’d Comer, Rich’d Lawrence,* and Aaron Cortelyou.

[Those gentlemen’s names that are marked respectively with an Asterisk, have not appeared, and are absent.]

Ordered, That the sense of this Congress, upon every question, be taken and determined by a majority of the

† The Certificate of the Town of Islip was returned to Col. Woodhull, because it is annexed and subjoined to their Association