Accordingly, on the seventeenth of June, the ilouse of Representatives, assembled at Salem, more or less under the guidance of its Clerk, adopted a Resolution declaring that "a Meeting of " Committees from the several Colonies on this Con- " tinent is highly expedient and necessary, to con- "sult upon the ])resent State of the Colonies and " the Miseries to which they are and must he reduced "by the operation of certain Acts of Parliament re- "specting America; and to deliberate and determine "upon wise and proper Measures to be by them " recommended to all the Colonies, for the recovery " and establishment of t^eir just Rights and Liber- " ties, civil and religious, and the restoration "of Union and Harmony between Great Britain " and the Colonies, most ardently desired by all "good Men.'' At the same time, iive persons, of whom Samuel Adams was one, " were ap- " pointed a Committee, on the part of this Province, "for the Purposes aforesaid, any three of whom to be " a Quorum, to meet such Committees or Delegates " from the other Colonies as have been or may be ap- " pointed either by their respective Houses of Bur- "gesses or Representatives, or by Conventions, or by " the Committees of Correspondence appointed by "the respective Houses of Assembly, to meet in the " City of Philadelphia, or any other Place that shall "be judged most suitable by the Committee, on the "first Day of September next ; and that the Speaker " of the House be directed, in a Letter to the Speakers " of the Houses of Burgesses or Representatives in "the several Colonies, to inform them of the snb- " stance of these Resolves."