On the thirty -lirst of May, in its liirther consideration of the Resolutions of the Continental Congress, which have been already laid before the reader, the Provincial Congress resolved, " that it be recommended " to the Inhabitants of this Colony, in general, im- " mediately to furnish themselves with necessary arms "and ammunitions; to use all diligence to perfect "themselves in the military art; and, if necessary, to " form themselves into Companies, for that purpose, "until the further order of the Congress;" and it ordered the Resolution to be printed in the newsi papers and in handbills. At the same time, it met the call of the Continental Congress, for men to oc-' cupy the proposed posts at Kingsbridge and in the Highlands, f()r the protection of the City of New York, and for tluit of Lake George, referred to in the third and fourth Resolutions of that Congress, by resolving that it " would use all possible diligence in

* Jmimut of n.- Prnrinrial Omgrem, " 5 ho., P.M., May nO, >77.'.."'

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" embodying men according to tiie said Resolutions ; " and by appointing a Committee " to report an ar- " rangement of the troops to be embodied for the " (iofence of this Colony ; and to report such Rules " and Re(j\ilat\onx as would be proper to be established "by this Congress, for the government of su(;h " troops." '

The doings of the Provincial Congress were, of course, entirely in the interest of the Rebellion.