The subject was introduced into the Convention, very properly, on the day after that body had approved and accepted the Declaration of Independence ; but the consideration of it was postponed, from time to time, until the first of August, when a Committee was appointed for the purpose of taking into consideration and reporting apian for instituting and framing a Form of Government, together with a Bill of Rights, ascertaining and declaring the essential Rights and Privileges of "the good people of this State," as a foundation for such Form of Government, with instructions to report to the Convention, on the twenty-sixth

6 As late in the year as the early days of October, the attempt of the County-clerk of Duchess-county to continue the old practice of holding a County Court for that County was formally forbidden by the Convention, John Jay, James Duane, and Robert R. Livingston having been present in the Convention, 'Journ i; of the Convention, " Die Sabbati, 9 ho., "A.M., Octor. 5, 1776.")

' There need be no better evidence of that fact, although there is an abundance, elsewhere, than in the successive orders for th« issue of Bills of Credit, by the Convention, It continued to issue such Bills, in the name of the Colony, long after it had professed to accept the Declaration of Independence, by which it had ceased to be a Colony, {Journal of the Contention, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., Augt. 7, 177G ") and, subsequently, when a new issue of such Bills of Credit was ordered to be printed, (Journal of the Convention, " Die Martis, 5 ho., P.M , August 13, "1776 ") it was ordered to be printed with the insignia of the Corporation of the City of New York, {Ibid ;) and the engravers of the several plates were instructed to leave a blank space where the name of the maker of the obligation should be, on those plates, in order that such name as should be subsequently found to be most useful -- the Colony, the State, the City, or something else-- might be inserted, with type, after the sheets should have been printed on the plate press-- conclusive evidence that the permanence of the new-formed State was regarded by even the master spirits of the Convention, as very questionable.