We have written his Honour, your Governour, to the above effect, and are your very humble servants.

By order of the Committee.

Ordered, That fair copies be made of them, and transmitted to his Honour and Mr. Babcock, respectively, by the first opportunity.

A Letter from Walter Franklin & Co., requesting a permission from this Committee to load a Sloop with Flour, Ship Bread, Rum, Cider, &c., and send her to Georgia, one of the United Colonies, agreeable to a Resolve of the honourable Continental Congress, was laid before this Committee, and read.

Ordered, That Messrs. Franklin & Co. have permission accordingly, they giving satisfactory security to Messrs. Evert Bancker and Robert Ray, two members of this Committee, in double the value of the said Sloop and cargo, that the said Sloop will proceed (unavoidable accidents excepted) directly to some port in the Province of Georgia, and land the same there, and no where else; and that the Captain of said Sloop, on his return, within convenient time, lay before this or future Committee a certificate, from the Committee of Inspection of Georgia, of his having discharged his said cargo agreeable to the above order; which certificate shall be sufficient to cancel the securities above required.

The examination of Messrs. Thomas Pearsall and Peter T. Curtenius, taken before the Provincial Congress of NewYork on the 3d instant, respecting the conduct of Robinson & Price, of this City, merchants, as to the sale of some Blankets, &c., was sent down to this Committee, together with a request from the Congress thereupon, that this Committee would call the said Robinson & Price before them, and make proper inquiries therein.

Ordered, That the said Robinson & Price, and William and Robert Montgomerie, be requested to attend this Committee immediately.

Mr. Robinson attending, and being asked what price he lately sold Pins at, replied, that he had sold them at twenty Shillings per pack, but does not remember certainly to have sold any higher; and furthermore said, that the Pins sold as aforesaid cost him eleven, twelve, to sixteen Shillings per pack.

Wednesday, November 22, 1775.

Committee met. Present: John Broome, Chairman.

Mr. Robinson, being called in, produced a Bill of five pieces Blankets, purchased by him of William Moore, of Philadelphia, at eighteen Pounds per piece, Philadelphia money, dated 19th September; that he paid twenty-one Shillings freight for them to this City; that they had left on hand a few Blankets more than Thomas Pearsall bought of them, which cost about eight Pounds per piece; that they bought two pieces of Smith Ramage, at about five Pounds ten Shillings per piece; of Messrs. McFarren & Dunlap, about eight pieces, early last fall; that the Blankets Mr. Pearsall purchased were of those they purchased last fall, as above.

Mr. Simon Cregier declared his wife purchased one pack of Pins of Thomas Gardner, for which she paid thirty Shillings, on Tuesday, the 22d of November, and that said Gardner asked him the same price the day before.

Silvanus Dilingham declares, that his wife purchased Checks of Henry Tenbroeck, at four Shillings per yard, such as used to be sold for one Shilling and ten Pence; that he heard Barnt Christophers, (at Shipyards,) Mr. Harris, (on board a brig at Walton’s wharf,) and Thomas Leonard, Sailmaker, declare, that Thomas Gardner went on board the Packet Mercury, at Sandy Hook, and purchased a quantity of Checks and other Goods, and brought them to this City.

Mr. Price says that Pins have been sold out of their store at a higher price than twenty-four Shillings per pack; that he had sold two and a half himself at twenty-four Shillings per pack; that all the Blankets they bought of Smith Ramage, &c., last fall, were sold to a Mr. Stevens, for Boston; that the Blankets sold Mr. Pearsall were of a parcel bought of a person in this Town, at one hundred and forty per cent. advance; that their Pins cost them from eight to twelve Shillings per pack; that a large quantity of the Pins were purchased of a principal merchant in this City, at ten Shillings per pack; that he knows importers have sold them at twenty Shillings, but will not discover who sold them; that Thomas Gardner and Henry Tenbroeck gave nineteen Shillings and six Pence to upwards of twenty Shillings.

Thomas Gardner, being called, says, he bought Pins of Robert Montgomerie at twenty-four Shillings per pack, and from George and William Ludlow from eighteen to twenty-two Shillings per pack; for eighty to ninety packs, twelve Shillings; and four packs, eighteen Shillings; four and a half packs, twenty-two Shillings, about four weeks ago; and that he sold them at twenty-six, twenty-eight, and thirty Shillings per pack.

Resolved, nem. con., That Robinson & Price have violated the Association of the Continental Congress, in selling sundry articles of merchandise at an exorbitant price.

Ordered, That the above Resolve be published immediately.

Ordered, That Joseph Bull, Benjamin Helme, and Abraham De Peyster, be a Committee to prepare the publication of the said matters relative to Robinson & Price, and report the same to the Committee on Friday evening next.

Ordered, That Robert Leonard, Barnt Christophers, and Mr. Harris, be desired to attend this Committee at their next meeting.

Thursday, November 23, 1775.

At a meeting of the General Committee for the City and County of New-York. Present: John Broome, Chairman.

Mr. Jacob Walton acquaints the Committee that Thomas Brownejohn has reported that Tea has been imported into the City since the . . . . by Congress.

A Letter from Mr. Henry Remsen, acquainting that Mr. Amiel has desired the Saltpetre bought of him, on account of Congress, may be paid for, or returned.

Ordered, That the said Letter be referred to Congress.

Ordered, That William W. Ludlow and Thomas Gardner be desired to attend this Committee to-morrow evening.

A motion was made by Lancaster Burling, and seconded by Joseph Totten, in the words following, viz:

Mr. Chairman: I move that Isaac Sears, Samuel Broome, and John Woodward, be cited to appear before this Board, to answer for their conduct in entering the City this day, with a number of Horse, in a hostile manner, which I consider as a breach of the Association. *

Resolved, That Peter Harris has been guilty of a breach of the Resolves entered into by the Provincial Congress, September 1, 1775.

Resolved, That John Midlar has been guilty of a breach of the Resolves entered into by the Provincial Congress, September 1, 1775.

Resolved, That Richard Van De Burgh has been guilty

* The contents of Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer occasioned the Printer’s house to be surrounded on the 23d of November, by seventy-five of the Connecticut light-horse, with firelocks and fixed bayonets, who entered the house between twelve and one o’clock at noon, destroyed all the types, and put an entire stop to his business. The citizens beheld the whole scene without affording him the least assistance.