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 paragraphs of this report. It was resolved in the affirmative.

Friday, 2d August, 1765.-Motion being made, Resolved, that this house will provide a sum sufficient to defray the charges and expenses of a committee of three gentlemen on account of their going to, convening at, and returning from the meeting of the several committees proposed to assemble at New-York, on the first Tuesday in October next, to consult there with those other committees on the present circumstances of the colonies, and the difficulties which they are and must be reduced to, by the operation of the acts of parliament for levying duties and taxes on the colonies, and to consider of a general, united, dutiful, loyal and humble representation of their condition to his majesty and the parliament, and to implore relief Ordered, That the public treasurer do advance out of any moneys in his hands, to the said committee, a sum not exceeding six hundred pounds sterling, for the purpose aforesaid.

Resolved, That this house will reimburse the treasurer the said sum.-Ordered

That the following gentlemen be appointed a committee for the purpose aforesaid, viz: Mr. Thomas Lynch, Mr. Christopher Gadsden, and Mr. John Rutledge. Thursday, 8th August, 1765.-Ordered, That the said speaker inform Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, and John Rutledge, Esquires, that they are appointed a committee to meet the committees of the several other colonies on the continent, on, the first Tuesday in October next, at New-York; and that he do acquaint them it is the desire of the house, that they repair to New-York on the said first Tuesday in October next, for the purpose