Mr. Mayor attending at the door, was called in, and informed the Congress that Mr. Francis Stephens, the King’s Storekeeper in this City, had applied to his Excellency Governour Tryon, declaring his apprehensions that the Stores at Turtle-Bay are not in a state of safety, and his inclination to remove them. That the Governour had expressed to the Mayor his wish and inclination, that Mr. Stephens might, at his own expense, be permitted to remove those Stores without tumult or opposition, and put them on board a vessel; and that Mr. Mayor now applies to this Congress for their countenancing that measure.

And thereupon, Ordered, That an offer be made to the Mayor, that this Congress will (if it be agreeable to Government) request Major General Schuyler to keep a sufficient command at Turtle-Bay to guard the King’s Stores which are now there; and that in case the said offer be accepted of, and such guard can be obtained, the said Stores be delivered into their care by inventory; and that in such case this Congress will be accountable for the re-delivery of the said Stores when the present unhappy commotions in North America shall be at an end.

Ordered, That one of the Secretaries wait on his Worship the Mayor, and serve him with a copy of the foregoing Order.

In pursuance of the Order of the Day, the Congress resumed the consideration of Mr. Morris’ s motion for restraining the killing of Sheep, and the Order for reconsidering the Resolution to restrain the killing of Lamb.

And after some time spent therein, Mr. McDougall moved, in the following words: “I move that the killing of Lamb be restrained to the first of August next, instead of the first of November, as determined by a Resolution of the Congress on the 23d day of June instant.”

And the said motion being read, Mr. Morris moved that the said motion be amended thus: “that the question be put, whether it is the sense of this House that the killing of Sheep and Lambs be restrained to a certain time.”

And the question being put on the said amendment, it was carried against the amendment, in manner following:

Ordered, therefore, That the said amendment be rejected.

The question being then put on Mr. McDougall’s motion, it was carried in the affirmative, in manner following, to wit:

Resolved, therefore, That no person in this Colony kill any Lambs until the first day of August next. And

Ordered, That five hundred copies of this Resolution be published in handbills, and that it be also published in the Newspapers.

A draught of a Letter to the Continental Congress, to cover a copy of the Letter of the 6th of June, from the Committee of Intelligence at Charlestown, in South-Carolina, and a copy of General Gage’s Letter to Governour Martin, of the 12th of April last, was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 29, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We lately received a Letter from the Committee of Intelligence at Charlestown, in South-Carolina, covering a copy of a letter from General Gage to Governour Martin. From the importance of the contents of those Letters, we have thought it our indispensable duty to transmit copies of them to your respectable body.

We are, gentlemen, most respectfully, your faithful friends and humble servants. By order.

To the Honourable the Continental Congress.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed and signed by the President, and, together with copies of the Letters therein mentioned, be sent by the first conveyance.

A draught of a Letter to Elisha Phelps was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 29, 1775.

SIR: Your letter of the twenty-second instant was this day received in Congress, and the contents observed. The embarrassments you and the Troops stationed at Lake Champlain might have met with, in respect to the Provisions and Stores at Albany, we are persuaded did not arise from any other design than that of fulfilling the orders the Commissaries appointed by this Provincial Congress received previous to your appointment as Commissary, in consequence of a later order of the Continental Congress. Your difficulties, if they are not already, will now, we trust, be removed; and that you may have no farther trouble on that head, we have wrote a letter and order to the Commissaries heretofore appointed by this Board, to deliver up all the Provisions and Stores in their custody for that service to you, and have enclosed to them a copy of the order of the Continental Congress, by which they will perceive they are superseded in that business.

We also received a letter, dated 15th instant, from your Deputy, Adonijah Strong, directed to the Committee of Albany, couched in terms not so very suitable. However, for answer to the most necessary parts, we remark, that two of the articles mentioned in it as wanting, to wit, Rice and Rum, were sent up some time ago. A sufficiency of Peas we suppose can be procured at Albany; you will please, therefore, to buy there as much as is requisite on the publick credit of this Colony. Butter and fresh meat we know to be scarce commodities at Albany; the former we shall endeavour to send you a proper supply of from this City, and the latter article we imagine you do not for the present stand so much in need of, as it appears, by Governour Trumbull’s letter of the 19th instant to us, that a drove of fat cattle was forwarded up to you. We shall also send you from hence ten hogsheads of Molasses, to brew beer with.

We are, Sir, your very humble servants. By order. To Mr. Elisha Phelps, Commissary of Provisions.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, signed by the President, and transmitted.

A draught of a Letter to John N. Bleecker, and four other persons, formerly appointed agents at Albany, was read and approved, and is in the words following:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 29, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We have received a letter from Mr. Elisha Phelps of the 22d instant, informing us that, in the absence of Mr. Bleecker, he was refused the Provisions and Stores left in his custody, and designed for the Troops at Lake Champlain, &c. You will perceive by the enclosed copy of an order of the Continental Congress, that the appointment of Commissary in that department is left to the disposal of that Government, or the General of the Forces of Connecticut. And it appears to us, by a letter from Governour Trumbull, dated the 19th instant, that Mr. Phelps is appointed Commissary, and that he doubts not he will conduct with prudence and good satisfaction; that he had directed him to correspond with Colonel Hinman, to employ persons already engaged, especially George Palmer, Esq. You will please, therefore, to deliver up to him or his order all the supplies of Provisions and Stores in your hands and custody for the said Forces, and take his receipt for every thing you deliver him; and send us an account of all such Stores as you have issued to the Troops, or shall deliver to the said Commissary, and your account of expenses to this time.

To the Commissaries at Albany, appointed by the Provincial Congress.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and transmitted.

The Congress adjourned to five o’clock, P. M.