Officers for the Battalion to be raised by Colonel Lewis Dubois,

Petition of William Holton,

Six Companies of Riflemen to be raised in Maryland and Virginia,

Resolutions for raising a German Battalion in Pennsylvania and Maryland,

Credentials and Instructions of the Delegates from New-Jersey: They are to vote for Independence,

Declaration of Independence reported,

Resolution of Maryland Convention, passed 28th June, instructing their Delegates to vote for Independence,

Resolution of Independence adopted,

Declaration of Independence considered in Committee of the Whole,

Further considered in Committee of the Whole,

Declaration of Independence agreed to,

Ordered to be authenticated and printed,

Committee appointed to prepare the Declaration to superintend and correct the press,

Copies to be sent to the several Assemblies, Conventions, and Committees or Councils of Safety, and to the Commanders of Continental Troops; and that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the Army,

Committee to prepare a device for a Seal for the United States of America,