" This Meeting being greatly alarmed at the late " Proceedings of the British Parliament, in order to " raise a Revenue in America; and considering their late "most cruel, unjust, and unwarrantable Act for block- " ing up the Port of Boston, having a direct tendency to " deprive a free People of their most valuable Rights "and Privileges, an introduction to subjugate the In- " habitants of the English Colonies and to render " them Vassals to the British House of Commons :

"Resolve, First, That they think it their greatest " Happiness to live under the illustrious House of "Hanover; and that they will steadfastly and uni- "formly bear true and faithful Allegiance to His

' Minutes of the Commiitee, " Sew Yokk, August 29, 1774."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" Majesty, King George the Third, under the enjoy- " ment of their constitutional Eights and Privileges, "as fellow-subjects, with those of England.

" Secoxd, That we conceive it a fundamental part " of the British Constitution, that no Man shall be " taxed but by his own Consent, or that of his Eepre- " sentative, in Parliament ; and as we are by no means " represented, we consider all Acts of Parliament " imposing Taxes on the Colonies, an undue ex- " ertion of Power, and subversive of one of the most " valuable Privileges of the English Constitution.

" Third, That it is the Opinion of this Meeting " that the Act of Parliament for shutting up the Port " of Boston, and divesting some of the Inhabitants of