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 --

> It appears rrom cho wunis in the text, that Richmond, Kings, Queens, Now York, aixl Wt'stolifster-ciunitiea were all which were to be favuml with the alti-ntinii nf that revolu.ionary Tnqnisition; an(i,asfar as the iiriM!e«lini;3 of that iiitanioiis Inxly have licen iierinittf<l to he ex- |K>ee<l to ihostTiitiiiy ot honest ami earnest impiirers, no eridcnre ap- |>ean that resideiitjj of other Counties were suhjected to ita despotic practices.

•Juitnuil nf ttte Prtn-itu-i4il Co«|/»t.«, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., Jtine "5, 1776."

There are intern il evidonce.-i, in the twi) pa)icrs, that the Resolutions nhii h the I'lov noial Congress had adnpled, un the twenty -fourth ol Slay (/"I;/'' :M-, ttiih') and those whidi are now under consideration, were written liy .he same haii<l ; an»l there is evidence which cannot be ini(^nndei>tiHHl, that that hand was \n*t .hdiu Jay's, nit some have sup puseil, hut tJouverneur MoiTis's. It is true that Ductor Siuirks made no mention of the auhject, in his Life nf Onnvunimr Mt>rri< -- it was not his puriMMeto ex|K>se th.i wejikne»*es an<l the wrong-iloin^ of his aristtn-ratic anil pretentious suhject. hut to magnify the man and Win iloings, and to eulogi/e them -- and all those who have preceded us in narrating the events nf tliat iiericsl, have, also, preferred to knnw nothing of this in famous enactment and of its const.ipiences ; but it was re:dly en.icted, in New York, ft>r tlie promotion of the purposes ofintt'Uded confiscations of individual and family properties ; and, nn<)nestionaMy, riouverneur Morris was the author of it, and one of the m:ister-spirits in the execution of its proviijioiia.