the Militia and the tr .ops in the field f it passed on the qualifications of the Surgical Staff and it gave employment to Chaplains for the Army." Bargains were made with favored Officers, when they entered the service, conditioned that they should serve nowhere else than in the City of New York;'- and the settlement of disputes among Officers, concerning Rank, occupied much of its time and attention." It exempted the Cavalry from the operations of a general Draft for men; and those who were employed in furnaces for smelting iron, in forges for making bar-iron, in steel-manufactories, in the anchor forge in Orangecounty, in .saltworks, in paper-mills, and in powdermills,'^ as well as those in aflaxseed-mill, in Duchesscounty,'® and in the workshops of a gunsmith,'^ were, also, exempted from every kind of military duty.

The Militia, of course, was the sole dependence of the Convention, in every emergency ;'^ and, whether welldisposed or •'disaffected'"' -- it seemed to be equally

''Journal of the Convention, "Friday morning, July 16, 1776;" the tame, "Die Sabbati 9 ho., A.M , July 27, 1770 ; " the same, " Die .Sabbati, "9 ho., A. M., Augt. 17, 1776 ;" etc.

vjrntrnalnf the Convention, "Tuesday, P.M., White Pl.\ins, July 9, " 1776 ; " the same, " Die Sabbati, 3 ho., P.M., July 27, 1776 ; " the same. "Tuesday afternoon, Augt. "20, 1776 ; " etc.

11 Journal of the Convention, •' .Monday morning, Augt. 26, 1776."

^- Journal of the Convention, " Die Mercurii, 4 ho., P.M., July 31, 1770."