After some time spent therein, and many amendments made thereto, the same was again read, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, Dec. 12, 1775.

SIR: It gives us concern that we are under the necessity of addressing you, on a subject that has given great discontent to the inhabitants of the City and County of New-York. We are informed by a petition from the General Committee, that a body of troops from your Colony, lately made a publick entry into this city at noonday, and seized and carried off the types belonging to one of the publick printers, without any authority from the Continental or this Congress, or their Committee. While we consider this conduct as an insult offered to this Colony, we are disposed to attribute it to an imprudent, though well intended, zeal for the publick cause, and cannot entertain the most distant thought that your Colony will approve of the measure. It is unnecessary to use arguments to show the impropriety of a proceeding that has a manifest tendency to interrupt that harmony and union which at present happily subsists throughout, and is so essential to the interest of the whole, Continent. It is our earnest desire, that you would take the most effectual steps to prevent any of the people of your Colony from entering into this for the like purposes, unless invited by our Provincial Congress, a Committee of Safety, or the General Committee of one of our Counties, as we cannot but consider such intrusions as an invasion of our essential rights as a distinct Colony; and common justice obliges us to request that you would give orders that all the types be returned to the Chairman of the General Committee of the City and County of New-York. We believe you will not consider this requisition as an attempt to justify the man from whom the types were taken. We are fully sensible of his demerits; but we earnestly wish that the glory of the present contest for liberty may not be sullied by an attempt to restrain the freedom of the Press.

The same body of troops, we are informed, seized the Mayor of the Burough of Westchester, the Rector of that Parish, and one of the Justices of the County, and carried them to your Colony. Mr. Seabury, we are informed, is still detained. If such should be the case, we must entreat your friendly interposition for his immediate discharge; the more especially as, considering his ecclesiastick character, (which, perhaps, is venerated by many friends to liberty,) the severity that has been used towards him may be subject to misconstructions prejudicial to the common cause.

And the more effectually to restrain such incursions, which, if repeated, may be productive of mischief of the most serious consequence, and as we would be exceedingly sorry to give room for jealousies among individuals in your Colony that we are desirous to damp the spirit of liberty, or countenance any of its enemies among us, we propose to apply to the Continental Congress, not by way of complaint, but for such a general regulation on this subject as may as well prevent such jealousies as any future incursions by the inhabitants of either Colony into the other for the apprehending or punishing any enemy or supposed enemy to the cause of liberty, without application to the Congress, the Committee of Safety, or the Committee of the County, within the jurisdiction of which such person shall reside, or command of the Continental Congress.

We are sir, with the utmost respect and esteem, your most obedient servants.

To the Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour of the Colony of Connecticut.

And debates arising on the said Letter, as now amended, and the question being asked, whether the said Letter is approved of, and shall be ordered to be engrossed and sent, it was carried in the affirmative, in manner following:

Ordered therefore, That the said Letter be engrossed and signed by the President, so as to be ready to be transmitted when directed.

Mr. Hobart informed the Congress, that the Chairman of the Committee of Huntington reported, that the Captain of the Second Company of the First Regiment, was promoted to a Majority, and that the following gentlemen were thereupon elected Officers of that Company, to wit: Jonathan Titus, Captain; Joshua Rogers, First Lieutenant; and Thomas Brush, Second Lieutenant: And that the Chairman of the said Committee of Huntington, reported, that the Captain of the Third Company of the said Third Regiment had resigned, and that the following gentlemen were elected, to wit: Joel Scudder, Captain; Nathaniel Buffett, First Lieutenant; Epenetus Smith, Second Lieutenant; John Hart, Ensign.

Ordered, That Commissions be issued to those gentlemen, in the order above named.

Colonel Hay, from Haverstraw Precinct, in Orange County, produced a Certificate of the Joint Committee of Orangetown and Haverstraw, signed by Thomas Out-water, their Chairman, and dated the 7th instant; which being read, is to the following effect:

"Orange County.

At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Precinct of Haverstraw, the 7th day of November, ultimo; and also at a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown the same day, and by several adjournments after in Orangetown, the following persons were chosen to represent the South part of the said County in particular, and the said County in general, in Provincial Congress of this Colony: In the Precinct of Haverstraw, Colonel A. Hawkes Hay and Theunis Cuyper, Esqrs., and in Orange town, John Herring, Esq., and that any one of the said Deputies shall represent the south side of the mountains in the said County in particular; and that any two of the six Deputies chosen in the said County, to represent the said County in general. That in pursuance thereof, the Joint Committee of the towns of Orange and Haverstraw, do certify that Return to be a sufficient voucher for the said Deputies as they may severally attend at this Provincial Congress."

The same was read and approved of, and ordered to be filed; and ordered that Colonel Hay take his seat.

Resolved, unanimously, That the Thanks of this Congress be, and they are hereby given, to those of the inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut? who so cheerfully gave their aid at the request of the Committee of Westchester County, in the late suppression of the Insurgents in that County, against the cause of liberty.

Mr. Scott then moved, and was seconded by Mr. Hobart, that the Congress enter into, and add a Resolution, in the words following, to wit:

And whereas, considering the situation of some of the Counties in this Colony, aid for the like purposes may often be most conveniently had from a neighbouring Colony, or a distant County within this Colony; that the power heretofore given to Committees, for calling in the assistance of a neighbouring County, be extended so far as to enable the County Committees respectively to apply for assistance from a neighbouring Colony, or any County within this Colony.

Debates arose on the said motion, and the question being put, whether the Congress will add such Resolution to the next preceding, it was carried in the affirmative, in the manner following, to wit:

Ordered, therefore, That a Resolution be entered, in the words following, to wit: And whereas, considering the situation of some of the Counties in this Colony, aid for the like purposes may often most conveniently be had from a neighbouring Colony, or a distant County within this Colony:

Resolved, That the power heretofore given to Commit-