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 I do, therefore, hereby authorize and empower, and commission you, the said Metcalf Bowler and Henry Ward, forthwith to repair to New-York, and there, in behalf of this colony, to meet and join with the other commissioners in consulting together on the present circumstances of the colonies, and the difficulties to which they are and must be reduced by the operation of the act of parliament for levying duties and taxes upon the colonies; and to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal and humble representation to his majesty and the parliament. and to implore relief And you are also hereby ernpowered to conclude and agree with 'the other commissioners, upon such measures as you shall think necessary and proper for obtaining redress of the grievances of the colonies, agreeably to the instructions given you by the general assembly of this colony.

Given under my hand and the seal of the said colony this 16th day of September, 1765, and in the fifth year of his majesty's reign. SAMUEL Wann.

By his honor's command.

HENRY Wann, Secretary.

From the colony of Connecticut-Eliphelet Dyer, l)avid Rowland, Wm. Samuel Johnson. Esqs., who produced the following appointment, viz: `

Whereas, it has been proposed that a congress be attended by commissioners from the several governments on this continent, to confer upon a general, united, humble, loyal and dutiful representation to his majesty and the parliament, of the present circumstances of the colonies and