Sundays excepted, at ten o'clock; that the Congress shall adjourn at one o'clock, and meet again at three o'clock.

Ordered, That Mr. Hobart, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Bleecker, be a Committee to examine and liquidate the Accounts of the Treasurer of this Congress, and prepare a state of them to he laid before the Continental Congress, and that they report thereon with all convenient speed.

Ordered, That Mr. L'Hommedieu, Mr. Brasher, Mr. M Gansevoort, and Mr. Schenck, be a Committee to examine I the Letters and Papers received since the dissolution of the last Provincial Congress, and to report the steps necessary to be taken thereon.

Resolved and Ordered, That Messrs. Jacobus Van Zandt, James Beekman, Abraham Brasher, John Ray, and Comfort Sands, or any majority of them, be a Committee to audit all Accounts which are or shall be payable, or produced for payment, in this Colony, for any charges or disbursements accrued, or that may accrue on account of the United Colonies, or by means, or on account of, any order of this Congress, and that they, or a majority of them, do certify on every Account by them audited, how much shall be paid on, or for such Account; and

Resolved and Ordered, further, That the Treasurer appointed by this Congress be authorized to pay and discharge on all such Accounts so audited, such sum or sums as shall be certified by the said Committee, or a major part of them, to be due and payable on or for such Accounts.

Resolved and Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., be Treasurer for this Congress, of all money received, or to be received, or that shall be issued in this Colony, for the general defence of America, or the Continental service, or the particular defence or service of this Colony.

The Congress then adjourned till three o'clock, this afternoon.

Wednesday, December 6, P. M.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment.

Present: Colonel Woodhull, President.

For the City and County of New-York.—Mr. Cortlandt, Mr. Ray, Captain Rutgers, Mr. Van Zandt, Mr. Beekman, Mr. Sands, Colonel Brasher, Colonel McDougall.

Suffolk.—Mr. L'Hommedieu, Mr. Hobart.

Albany.—Mr.Gansevoort, Colonel Nicoll, Captain Cuyler, Mr. Bleecker, Colonel Rensselaer.

Westchester.—Colonel Graham, Colonel Joseph Drake, Colonel Gilbert Drake.

King's.—Mr. Leffertse.

Dutchess.—Mr. Humphreys, Mr. Gilbert Livingston, Mr. Schenck.

Ulster.—Mr. Palmer, Mr. Cantine, Mr. Wynkoop.

For Goshen Precinct, Orange County.—Mr. Clowes.

Mr. Palmer delivered in the Returns of the Officers of three Companies of Minute-Men in Ulster County, which were read, approved of, and ordered to be filed.

Ordered, That the Commissions issue to the Officers of the said three Companies as elected and returned.

Agreed, unanimously, That Captain John Grenell be recommended to the Continental Congress to be released from his present duty, and recommended for Captain of a Company of Matrosses, and that a Letter be wrote to the Continental Congress for that purpose.

Ordered, That Mr. Palmer and Mr. Schenck be a Committee to view the Arms at Allen's, the Gunsmith's, wanted to be purchased for Lord Sterling, and that they agree for them, or such of them as they think proper, and at such price as they think reasonable.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Congress, that additional Barracks be immediately built at the Fortifications on the banks of the Hudson's river, in the Highlands, which, with those already built, will be capable of quartering one thousand men; and also a Magazine sufficient to contain provisions for the like number of men for one month.

Ordered, That the Commissioners appointed to superintend the building of the said Fortifications do provide the materials necessary for building the said Barracks and Magazine, and they do cause the same to be built and completely finished as soon as possible.

The Congress then proceeded to hear all the Papers and Letters between the Commissioners at the Fortifications and Bernard Romans, Engineer; and thereupon

Ordered, That Messrs. Nicoll, Palmer, and Joseph Drake, be a Committee to repair to the Fortifications in the Highlands, and endeavour to accommodate the difference subsisting between the Commissioners for erecting the said Fortifications and the Engineer; and in case they shall not be able to accommodate the said difference, to give such directions as they may think necessary for expediting the work of the said Fortifications, in such manner as they shall judge best for the publick service; and make report as well of the true causes of such difference, with all necessary facts relating to the same, as of such directions as they shall have given for expediting the said work.

Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., as Treasurer of this Congress, do advance and pay to Mr. John Berrien, as Commissary for the Commissioners for erecting the Fortifications on the banks of Hudson's River, in the Highlands, and one of the said Commissioners, the sum of one thousand Pounds on account, to enable him to discharge the like sum lately borrowed in the recess of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, by Mr. Berrien and two other gentlemen, to discharge debts necessarily contracted for necessaries for the said Fortifications.

Whereas, great inconveniences may arise if any Sutlers or Retailers of Liquor should be permitted to suttle or retail Liquors among the Artificers and Labourers at the Fortifications in the Highlands,

Resolved and Ordered, That the Commissioners at the Fortifications in the Highlands do not permit or suffer any Sutler or Retailer of Liquor of any kind, or under any denomination whatever, to remain at or near the said Fortifications, amongst the Mechanicks, Labourers, or other persons at or about the said Fortifications, except such as are specially appointed by the commanding Officer of the Continental Troops, for the time being, among his own Troops only, under his direction, and subject to military law.

The Congress adjourned till ten o'clock, to-morrow morning.

Thursday A. M., December 7, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment.

Present: Colonel Nathaniel Woodhull, President.

For New-York.—Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Brasher, Captain Rutgers, Mr. Ray, Mr. Beekman Mr. Sands, Colonel McDougall, Mr. Cortlandt, Mr. Van Zandt, Mr. Scott.

Albany.—Colonel Rensselaer, Captain Cuyler, Colonel Nicoll, Mr. Bleecker, Mr. Gansevoort.

Dutchess.—Mr. Humphreys, Mr. Gilbert Livingston, Mr. Scbenck.

Ulster.—Mr. Cantine, Mr. Wynkoop, Mr. Palmer.

Suffolk.—Mr. Hobart, Mr. L'Hommedieu, Mr. Strong.

King's.—Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Leffertse.

Westchester.—Colonel Joseph Drake, Colonel Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake.

For Goshen Precinct, Orange County.—Mr. Clowes.

A Letter from Egbert Benson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Dutchess County, informing the Congress of a new Committee's being chosen for the said County; that they had again honoured him with the Chair; that, as he resides in the extreme part of the County, many inconveniences might arise, if all matters respecting the said County should be directed to him and therefore, at a meeting of the said Committee, they had appointed Col. Freer, Capt. Platt, and Messrs. John Child, Paul Schenck, and Peter Tappan, (all residing at Poughkeepsie,) a Committee of Correspondence, and requesting that all Letters, &c., from this Congress respecting their County, be directed in future to those gentlemen, was read and filed.

Another Letter from Egbert Benson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Dutchess County, dated November 28, 1775, was read and filed, and is in the words following:

"Red Hook, Dutchess County, November 28, 1775.

" SIR: I am now to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from some individual members of our late Congress, enclosing copies of certain resolutions of the Continental Congress, of the 8th inst., respecting a number of men to be furnished by this County for the use of the fortress in the Highlands.