" ' Eesolved, That the Committee of the County " ' of Westchester be requested to take effectual " ' means to prevent the sale and transportation of '"any barrelled Beef or Pork out of Westchester- "' county, to any person or persons residing out of " ' this Colony, until the further order of the Provin- " ' cial Congress or of the Comuiiitee of Safety of this "'Colony.'

" A draft of a letter to the Committee of West- " chester-county was read and approved of, and is in " the words following, to wit : " ' Gentlemen :

" ' We have been informed by a Gentleman " ' from your County, that some of the inhabitants of

^ Journal of the CommiUee of Safety, "Die Sabbati, 4 ho., P.M., Febru- •'ary in, 1770."

THE AMERICAN llEVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

"' your County are disposing of their barrelled Beef " ' and Pork, to persons out of the Colony. We ap- " ' prehend that such Provisions will be wanted for "'the use of the Continental Army in this Colony, " 'and that the service may possibly suffer if all the "'barrelled Provisions are taken out of the Colony. " ' We therefore request you to take the most effectual "' measures to carry the enclosed Resolution into exe- " ' cutiou.

" ' We are, respectfully, Gentlemen, " 'Your very humble servts.,

" ' By order of the Committee of Safety. " ' To the Onnmittee of the Coirnfy of We^lc/wster.' "