Letter to the Delegates in the Continental Congress relative to the pay of the Minute-men,

Joseph Robinson, of Jamaica, Queen’s County, declines giving information against the persons arrested; almost every man in the County can be a witness,

Letter from James Duane, in answer to their Letter of the 22d instant, on the subject of Officers for the four Battalions,

Statement of Lieutenant-Colonel Ritzema, of the number and state of Troops in Canada,

John Murray permitted to go on board the Dutchess of Gordon and the Ship Asia,

Report of the Committee on emitting fifty-five thousand Pounds; submitted and read,

Christopher Duyckinck attended:The Congress declare him guilty of a contempt, and are of opinion that he acted wrong in taking Mr. Sands’s watch, and recommend to him to return it,

Commissions for sundry Officers ordered,

Reference from the City Committee in regard to Salt, received, and reserved for further consideration,

Mr. White permitted to supply fresh Provisions to his Majesty’s Ship Phenix; and one barrel of corned Beef for his Excellency Governour Tryon,

James Moore appointed Captain-Lieutenant of a Company of Artillery,

Letter to the President of Congress, enclosing their nominations of suitable persons for Field-Officers of the four Battalions ordered to be raised for the defence of the Colony,

Letter to Mr. Duane, one of the Delegates, explanatory of the conduct of the Committee of Safety in regard to Colonel Van Schaick’s Regiment,

Letter received from General Schuyler requesting Arms, Clothing, Blankets, &c,

Petition from Azor Betts, who begs leave to return to a sense of his duty to his country, and requests forgiveness and protection,

Commissions for sundry Officers ordered,

Information communicated by Niles Christian, Mate of the Transport-ship Harriet, from which vessel he has recently escaped,

Permission given to all persons, not adjudged to be inimical to the country, to pass through any County in the Colony with Cattle, &c.,

Consideration of the Report on an emission of Paper money postponed,

Report by Captain Smith of his examination of the defences in the Highlands,

Emission of Paper money considered,

Captain Smith requested to remain on duty in this Colony,

Information that New-Jersey has repealed their late embargo on Provisions from that Colony, to this City, received and read,

Directions to Joseph Hallett respecting the Powder sent by the Continental Congress for General Washington,

Application from Colonel Curtenius, for directions about the Stores taken out of the Lower Barracks,

Letter to General Lee declining to deliver up the Stores,

On application from the Committee for Cumberland County, Commissions for Officers in the Lower Regiment ordered to be issued,

Benjamin Curtis appointed Surgeon in one of the Regiments now raising,

Letter from the Commissioners in the Highlands, requesting a further allowance of Provisions for the men on fatigue duty,

Directions to the Commissioners for procuring and quartering Troops, to be employed on the Fortifications,

Gilbert Livingston appointed an additional Commissioner,

Elias Nixen, the Port-Master, admitted, who informed the House that two of Governour Tryon’s servants, who had come ashore, had been seized and put in the Guard-house, and that General Lee refused to let them go,

Memorial from Robert Robinson and Michael Price, praying to be restored to their former standing,

Colonel Curtenius ordered to comply with two orders from General Lee,

Report of Committee on billeting Troops in King’s County; read and agreed to,

Committee to wait on General Lee without delay, and ascertain the reason of his interdicting the communication between the City and the Ships-of-War and Governour Tryon’s Ship,

Committee to take examinations on oath relative to Soldiers firing on the inhabitants in boats; and, also, as to the declarations of Colonel Waterbury and Isaac Sears, inimical to this Colony,

Committee who waited on General Lee, made a parole Report, and were requested to deliver their Report in writing,

For want of a sufficient number of Members, no business was done this day,

4, Mr. Paine and Captain Willett recommended to the particular notice of the Congress, by General Schuyler,

Letter from General Schuyler, respecting Van Schaick’s Regiment,

List of the four Regiments raised in New-York, in 1775, now in Canada, as they rank at this time,

Officers of the New-York Battalions who have accepted Commissions in Col. Van Schaick’s Regiment,

Reply to General Schuyler’s Letter,

Report of Committee of their conversation with General Lee,

Committee on the application from Mr. Bayard that the Guard at his house may not be changed,

Committee on the information received from General Lee, that the Ministerial Troops are about to leave Boston,

Emission of Paper currency further considered,

Letter from General Lee, recommending that a Test be immediately offered, instead of the bonds heretofore taken,

Report of the Committee on the intelligence from General Lee; submitted and adopted,

Letter to the several Colonels of Minute-men and Militia in the Colony,

Letter to the owners of the two Powder-Mills in the Colony,

Letter to the Committees of East and Southampton,

Application of Colonel Gilbert Budd for permission to go on board the Asia, refused; as Major-General Lee has cut off all communication with that Ship, and through his conduct and orders the passports of this Congress are of no avail,

Recruiting Officers for the Continental service permitted to inlist men from any of the Regiments of Minute-men in the Colony,

Plan for a further emission of Bills to the amount of fifty-five thousand Pounds, again considered and agreed to,

Report of the Committee on the Guard for the Publick Records at Mr. Bayard’s,

Return of the state of Second Regiment in Suffolk County,

Instructions for the Barrackmaster, reported by the Committee of War, and adopted,

Letter from Samuel Gale, now closely confined in Jail, in Fairfield, Connecticut,

Affidavits as to some inimical expressions of Colonel Waterbury, and the violent acts of some Soldiers, and impudent conduct of some Officers of the Troops, in firing at some boats,

Petition of John Pell, praying leave to export some Salt to New-Jersey; rejected unanimously,

Letter to General Lee, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. Gale and the firing upon the boats,

Application from General Lee for brush for Fascines, and wood for Pickets, on Long-Island,