<> The Committee of Inspection had recommended the dissolution of that Committee, because it was invested with [wwers respecting only the " ,Uxocm/i")j " of the Continental C<!ngre88 ; and it had also recommended the election of a new C'ommitli-e of one hundred penwjns, thirtythree of whom should be a quorum, all of whom should retire and the Committee be " dissolved within a fortnight next after the end of the I "next Session of the Continental Congress."

I The "Committee of One hundred," which was thus called, snbse- I quently became the lo<'al Conimitteo of the Revolutionary element, in

the City of New York, and well known to every student of the history

of that period.

"Minutes of the Committee of Inspection, " Wednesclay, April 20, I " 1775."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Inasmuch as the City and, to a considerable extent, the Colony were practically in a state of anarchy, the Colonial Government being confessedly unable to do anything, even for the maintenance of a shadow of its official dignity and authority,' the calmness and ability with which the Committee controlled the excitable masses, within the City -- those who had been schooled, for many years, in acts of lawless violence and destruction, and whose organization and leadership had not been disturbed, -- were peculiarly noteworthy and entitled to the highest praise ; and, under the circumstances which then existed, which clearly indicated that the Colonial General Assembly would not re-assemble on the third of May, to which day it had adjourned, there was an exisiing necessity that some other body, possessing a general influence, should be assembled, in its stead, for the control of the excited revolutionary elements, if not to lead them ; and the call for a Provincial Congress, thus published, was, therefore, under the existing circumstances, both prudent and praiseworthy.