7 Minutes of Uie Ootnmittee to Detect Oompiracie*, " Die Sabbati, 12 ho , Juno l.'>, 1776."

8 The Minutes nf the atiiiiiiitlee, during the brief period which elapseil lictween the date of its organization ami that of the dis.solulion of the Provincial Congress -- which, also, hy all parliamentary and statutory law, dissolved the Committee which was only its agent -- arc scattered, in various places, and generally in manuscript, ami unprinted. Of the Minutes of the Meetings referred to in the text -- and, in this place, we do not propose to refer to any of subseiiuent dates -- carefully made copies, from the scattered (triginals, have b<'cn examined, in every instance.

^ .lones's Ili-ilnri/ nf Si-ic York tfurimj the IlefnlHtit'twrii Wnr, ii., 29fi, On that day. Judge Jones, who hail been summoned before the Committee and had come to the City of New York, to answer the Summons, found only Gouverneur Morris ; and by the latter, he was |>urolcd and permitted to return to his homo, in (jueons-eounty.

1" .\n anonymous Information, forwarded by John Thomas, Junior, Chairman, " In Committke of S.^fftv, Wiiitf. Pi.ain.s, June 'JS, 177(),' among the papers of the Committee, ot the same day.

Minntex nf t}ie Committee to Detect Compiruciea^ "Thursday, A.M., " June 27, 1776."

'2 Those who are interested in the metho<ls of this Committee, the subseipiently much eulogized Chief-justice of the State of New York and Chief-justice of the United States being the presiding oflicer, may «'e the forms of its iitu»mn»A and its P<trnte^ in Jones's Ilistttry of Sew York duriwjlhe Itemiluliimary H'lir, ii., 2!t.'>, 296 ; the forms of its li'iimiiiM, in its Miiniles of June 1!), 22, and 24, 1776; and those of its various DoniU, in its Mimitet of June 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1776.