5 The original Jmtnmta nf tlie Axsemtili/ which included the proceedings oftlie entire Session wliicli is now under consideration, were lost during tlie trouljlesome times of tliat period ; and the only known copy of the original printeil edition of those Jourtiah wanted four pages, in this portion of it. Tliose niissing pages contained the closing portion of the proceedings of the House, on the Petition to the King, as stated in the text, and the opening of its proceedings on the Memorial to the House of Lonls.

"The conijileted Petition to the King, signed by the Speaker of the Assenihly, may be seen in tlie Jonrnal of the Assenihtij, " Die Sabbati, 10 "ho., A.M., the 2r)th March 1775."

Joiininl ofthf Hmi.ie, "Die Veneris, 10 ho., AM., the 24th M.arch " 177.")."

The defect in the Joiinial, as it is now known to us, to which reference has been made, leaves us without any information concerning the proceedings of the House on the first twenty paragraphs of the Memorial to the Hou-te of Lords.

^Journal of the Honxe, " Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A. M., tlie 25th March " 1775."

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yjonrnol if the Hniisr, "Die Sabbati, i ho., P.M., the 25th March, " 1775." 11 Ihiil.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

the rise of this House as conveniently may be, copies of the State of the Grievances, of the Resolutions of the House, of the Petition to the King, of the Memorial to the Lords, and of the Representation and Remonstrance to the Commons, requesting those several Speakers to lay the same before their respective Houses of Assembly, at their first meeting after the receipt thereof.'