The Committee of the Provincial Congress who had been ajipoiiited to consider the very important subject of the Currency, for the support of the Rebellion, made a very clear and able Report, on the thirtieth of May, in which some of the commercial troubles produced or likely to be produced by the Rebellion were very graphically presented; and an issue

* There were Ooniniitteos in a small number of the Towns, at a hiter period ; but there is no evidence, as far as we have knowletlge, that they originated in the recommendation of the i^rovincial Ct>ngress, nor as early iw in 177.'>.

The .IsK')< i/(<i<>ii, duly signed by those who would sign it and duly noting those who declined to do si>, was to be returned to the Secretary of the Provincial Congress, on or before the fifteenth of July, 177.1. The tiles of that Congress, which are preserved in the otlico of the Secretary of State, at Albany, show, however, that the only Counties or Towns which made any Returns of .Vssociatore, in response to this Ue.^olution, were Orange, l ister, Suffolk, Duchess, one District in Charlotte, three Districts in Cumberland, and a few .scattering names, not more than fifty, in yneens ; but there is no such Keturn Irom Wcsti liester couiity ; there is no such Keturn among the archives of the County, in tlu' office of the County-clerk ; and we have faileil to And anything resembling such a lieturn, in the ollices of the Town-ch rks, in the several Towns.