Sands, Kiclimond-couuty was ordered Ui bo named as one which was especijilly proscribed ; and on motion of John Morin Scott, an oath of some kind was ordered to " be *' extended to all sucli as refused to sign tiie Amtciafum,^^ to wliich only Gonverneur Morris, to bis honor be it said, ol)jected. On Wednesday niorning, an attempt to authorize the seizure and detention of residents of Queens-county, as liostages, to secure the submission of those who were left within that County, was rejected, only Westchester and Tryoncounties havine supported the proposition. " Sundry other amendments "having been made therein," an attempt to commit the mutilated paper to its jiarent Committee, to re model it, was rejected. It is evident, from the final entry on the subject, that other important changes had been made during a session of the Congress, on Thursday evening ; but the Jonriifil of that Session makes no mention of any action on that subject; and on Friday morning, the amended Report, from which many peculiarly obnoxious features had been removed, was adopted.

-The connection of the Mobs, in the City of New-York, already referred to, with the purposes of the authors of this enactment, is distinctly seen, in these words.

" Your Committee do propose that, for these pur- " poses, the following persons be apprehended by the " assistance of the Continental troops, now stationed " in and near this City, to wit,

[The names were not entered on the Journak.'}

" That a Committee be appointed to confer with the " Commander-in-chief, now here, upon the subject of " apprehending the persons above-named, and to su- "perintend the taking of them. That upon and after "the apprehension of the said persons, such of them as " shall give good and sufficient security, on oath, and " otherwise, as the said Committee shall think proper, "that they will not be concerned in any measures " taken or to be taken against the United American " Colonies, or any or either of them, and that they " will discover all measures taken or to be taken " against the said Colonies, or any or either of them, "as far as the same shall come to their knowledge, re- " spectively be permitted to go at large; and that as " to such per-sons as shall refuse such security, it shall " be in the discretion of the said Committee to admit "on their parol of honour, to be given to the said " Committee or to the Continental Congress, as many " of the said persons as may, in the judgment of the " said Committee, safely be trusted on their said " parol, to reside in some part of one of the neigh- " bouring Colonies, such as shall be chosen by the " said respective persons, and approved by the said "Committee; and that all such persons as, in the "opinion of the said Committee, cannot safely be "trusted on their said parol, or if to be trusted shall " refuse to give such parol, shall be reported to this " Congress, to be severally dealt with, as this Congress " shall think proper.