1 Jouraal of the Provincial Coagreat, " Die Lunae, 9 ho., A.M., June 10, "1776. ' >lbid.

» It waa stated iu the Ciedentiald of the Deputies fiom Orange-county that (lie Resolutions of thesecoud I'ruvincial Congress, providing for the election of the third Provincial Congress and defining ils authority, were adopteil on the twelfth of March preceding; but there is no mention of the adoption of any Resolutions whatever, on that subject, on that or any otherday, ou the published Journal of the secoud Prorincial Congress.

Again : we have not found on that Journal, any definition of the authority of the third of those Congresses -- that authority which, in the text, the Secrctarv- is said to have read, on the afternoon of the tenth of June -- but the Credentials of the Deputies from Kings-county, compared with those of the Deputies from Orange-county, indicate that the authority sought to be delegated to that third Provincial Congress by its constituent Counties, under the Resolutions providing for their election, included "full powers, iu behalf of the said County, to appoint Delegates "to represent the Colony in the Continental Congress, and to make such " orders and take such measures as they shall judge necessary, not repug- '•nant to or inconsistent with any Rules or Orders of the Continental "Congres), for the preservation of the Rights, Liberties and Privileges of "the inhabitants of this Colony."

The.se, or their equivalents, were, undoubtedly, what the Secretary read to the Provincial Congress, as stated in the text.