The eleventh Resolution of the Congress, referred to in tlie text, provided "that a Committee he chosen in every County, (^ity, and " Town, by those who are (nullified to vote for Representatives in the " Legislature, wliose business it sliaU be attentively to observe the con- ** duct of all persons, touching this Anmcintion^^ [of Non-ImporUUion, Soii-t 'omiumjitiaii, and Koit'Krjiortati'nt,] ; " and when it shall be made ** to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such Committee, that *'any person within the limits of their appointment has violated *'thi8 Association^^ [a-ltrther he mat/ hare consented to ity or " that '* such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to lie published " in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the Rights of British "America may be publicly known and universally contemned, as the " enemies of American Liberty; and, thenceforth, we respectively will *' break off all dealings, with him or her."

The reader will judge how ill-adapted such a "smelling Committee" as was thus ordered, in every Town, must have been, to promote harmony among the Colonists, or to give support to those who were seeking a redress of the grievances of the Colonies and a restoration of harmony between the Colonies and the Mother Country.

-3liiintes of the Committee of Correspondence, "New York, November " 14, 1774 ; " Letter from the Committee of Correupmidence to the Committee of Mechanics, " Committek Chamber, November 14, 1774."