Memorial from the Committee of York County, that hereafter one of the Delegates to the Continental Congress may be taken from that County,

Petition from the Committee of York County, for the relief of the persons they have engaged in making Muskets and Cartridge Boxes,

Committee to prepare a Bill for issuing Twenty-Two Thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit,

Committee reports from the Governour that he has no business to lay before the House,

One hundred Pounds ordered to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor, for the support of the Neutrals,

Bill for the support of Government, and paying the Publick Debt, reported

Same me Bill read again, and ordered to be transcribed for a third reading,

Committee to collect from the Journals, since the year 1763, the Petitions and Remonstrances to the Crown and both Houses of Parliament, for a redress of American grievances,

Bill for support of Government passed and sent to the Governour,

Petition from the Board of Commissioners of the County of Chester, for a further sum to enable them to complete the Arms, &c., for which they have contracted,

Report of the Committee on collecting the Petitions and Remonstrances for redress of grievances,

Memorial from the Officers of the three first Battalions of Associators in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, requesting to be repaid for Moneys advanced by them, in raising and equipping the Regiments,

Memorial from the Officers of the Military Association for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, setting forth the fatal mischiefs that may arise from the lenity shown to persons professing to be conscientiously scrupulous against bearing arms,

Governour communicated Letters from William Maclay, Thomand Ball, and others, dated at Sunbury, Northumberland County, the 22d and 26th instant, informing him of the movements of the Connecticut intruders,

Memorials from the Officers of the Military Association referred to the consideration of the succeeding Assembly,

The Letters from Sunbury, relating to the Connecticut intruders, directed to be laid before the Continental Congress, and requesting them to prevent any further proceedings, until the matter shall be determined by the King in Council, to whom both sides have submitted the dispute,

Deputies to the Continental Congress paid at the rate of twenty Shillings per diem, each, for their attendance on that service,

The House adjourned without day.

Committee of Safety met,

Letter from the Committee of Albany, dated August 29th. They can give but little relief to Colonel Cortlandt. The barracks are filled with Indians, and the barns with crops; and they are drained of their ammunition,

Letter from Colonel Philip Cortlandt, dated August 28, informing the Committee of Safety of the destitute condition of his Troops, and requesting supplies for them,

Committee for the City of New-York requested to search throughout the City for Arms, and to purchase them for the use of the Troops,

Colonel McDougall requested to send a Guard to the Jail, and lo seize any Prisoners that may be directed by Mr. Francis Child,

Letter from Egbert Benson, Chairman of the Dutchess County Committee, informing that Messrs. Lester, Doughty and Berghs are said to have enlisted men for the enemy,

Colonel Lasher directed to detach a sufficient party to apprehend Mordecai Lester, of Datchess County, wherever he may be found,

Letter to the Committee of Westchester County, on the complaint of the Inhabitants of the Manor of Fordham and West-Farms,

Dr. McClean permitted to supply the Ship Asia with Drugs and Medicines,

Examination of several persons taken on board of Dop’s Sloop; Doughty one of them,

Letter from Augustus Van Cortlandt, informing them of the means he has taken to preserve the City Records,

Thomas Grenell appointed a Commissioner to superintend the erecting the Fortifications in the Highlands,

Resolutions of the Tryon County Committee, for settling disputes, trespasses, &c., dated Aug. 26,

Letter to the Committee of Tryon County. Cannot approve of their Resolve respecting the trial of civil causes, and recommend its repeal,

New-York Committee requested to exhibit an account of the Moneys they have borrowed for the use of the Colony,

Sundry persons, suspected of connections with the enemy, examined and discharged,

Letter from Samuel Bayard, Deputy Secretary of the Colony. Informs them he will take care of the Publick Records,

The persons taken on board a Packet, on the 3d inst., examined and sent back to jail till further orders,

Quakers requested to deliver in a list of all the Males belonging to their Society from the age of sixteen to sixty

Form of Commission for the Officers of the Militia, Independent Companies, and Minute-Men,

Captain Isaac L. Winn, suspected of furnishing the Army and Navy with Supplies, examined and discharged,

Captain Winn, complaining of a paragraph in Mr. Holt’s Paper, is furnished with a certificate of his acquittal,

Mr. Holt’s paragraph, the certificate of the Committee, and the remarks of Mr. Holt,

Anonymous Letter, attributed to Theophilus Bache, of this City, merchant, and addressed to Major Moncrief, Boston, presented and read,

Mr. Bache ordered to attend, to be examined respecting the Letter,

John Griffiths appointed to go to the neighbourhood of Goshen, and examine the Lead Mines there.

Letter from the Committee for Suffolk County, dated August 31,

Passport and letter of safe conduct ordered for Joseph Johnson, a Mohegan Preacher,

George Bethune, now of Jamaica, in Queen’s County, late of Boston, suspected of carrying on a correspondence with the Army and Navy, is ordered to be arrested,

The Mayor requested to demand the immediate release of William Becker, a citizen, now confined in irons on board the Asia,

Letter from General Washington, requesting Ammunition, read and filed,

Abraham Lawrence, of Queen’s County, taken into custody some days ago, brought before the Committee, examined, reprimanded, and discharged,

Letter to General Washington, They have not Powder enough for the necessary defence of the Colony,

Certificate to Robert C. Livingston, who is about to sail for England,

Papers found on Mr. Bethune examined, and he is discharged on his parole of honour to deliver himself up. when required,

Parole of Captain William Kelly, of the Second Battalion of His Majesty’s Royal American Regiment,

Letter to the Delegates in Congress from Massachusetts-Bay, respecting George Bethune,

Committee agree with James Byers for making Brass Field-Pieces, at the rate of four Shillings per pound,

Committee to superintend the casting and proving the Field-Pieces,

Samuel Wells, of Cumberland County, brought before the Committee and examined,