The proi)osed test of the quality of the Pork to be purchased was, however, not satisfactory to those who were manii)ulatiiig the Congress, in the interest of the job; and, on the ninth of March, when that body resumed the e(msideratioii of the proposition, it was led to suppose tiiat the Resolution which had been adopted, approving the same, was " im])erfeet, "inadequate to the end, and that the method thereby " projjosed will create unnecessary expense." It also .•i])pointed a Committee of three Deputies, two of whom were .John Thomas, Junior, and Colonel Joseph Drake, both of them Deputies from Westchestercounty, "to reconsider the method of establishing a " Magazine of Provisions, and to report thereon."*

'Jimriininf Ihf Pr«riii,-M Cniijrivs, "Pie Lnna-, :i ho., P.JI., Man h '■4, 1770."

^ Jimruiil nf Ihi- /Wi'iifidJ Cmii/rfs*, " Die Salihuti, 10 hn., A JI , March "9, 177U."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The whole subject h;id evidently been considered, informally, before it was laid before the Congress -- in the expressive phrase of practical men, it had been " cut and dried " -- and the Committee " speedily re- " turned and reported" a substitute for the original Resolution, which was more " perfect," more " ade- " quate totheend," and less expensive, although it was, also, less favorable to the Congress -- it did no more than to omit the provision for the employment of a Packer from New York, by whom, also, the quality of the Pork could have been accurately ascertained, leaving every other portion of the original Resolution, in the form in which it had been adopted, five days previously. The evidently i)re-arranged Report and Resolution were promptly approved, without a dissenting voice ; ' and the scheme was, so far, a complete success.