" Uksolvko, That the said Committee appoint " such persons as they may think proper, to repair to " the said Counties ' to inquire for and procure the " witnesses against the jiersona herein directed to be '■ arrested or summoned to appear, and give evidence " against the said ])ersons, before the said Committ-ee ; " and that the said persons be paid for their troul)leat " the rate of fifteen shillings for each day they shall " respectively be employed on that service ; and that " the witnesses they may direct to attend, as afore- " said, be jviiid their reasonable ex|)cnses for travelling " charges and subsistence, to be certifie<l and allowed " by the said Committee ; which Certificate shall be " a Warrant to the Treasurer of this Congress, to pay " tiie persons in whose favour such Certificate shall " be given, the sum or sums therein allowed, as afore- " said." '■

On the fourteenth ' and fifteenth of June, ^ those who were members of the Committee, took the oath reipiircd of them; on the last-named day, John Mclvesson, who wa.s one, the principal one, of the Secretaries of the Provincial Congress, was made the Secretary of the Committee, also ; and, with a full retinue of Assistant-secretaries, Messengers, Doorkeepers, and other Ollicers," on the same day, Phiiij) Livingston, Joseph Hallett, John Jay, Thomas Tredwell, Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, and Leonard Gansevoort -- Livingston, Jay, and Gansevoort having been meanwhile added to the Committee --