Accordingly, on the seventeenth of June, the House of Representatives, assembled at Salem, more or less under the guidance of its Clerk, adopted a Resolution declaring that "a Meeting of " Committees from the several Colonies on this Con- " tinent is highly expedient and necessary, to con- " suit upon the present State of the Colonies and " the Miseries to which they are and must be reduced " by the operation of certain Acts of Parliament re- " specting America ; and to deliberate and determine "upon wise and proper Measures to be by them " recommended to all the Colonies, for the recovery " and establishment of their just Rights and Liber- "ties, civil and religious, and the restoration "of Union and Harmony between Great Britain " and the Colonies, most ardently desired by all "good Men." At the same time, five persons, of whom Samuel Adams was one, "were appointed a Committee, on the part of this Province, " for the Purposes aforesaid, any three of whom to be " a Quorum, to meet such Committees or Delegates " from the other Colonies as have been or may be ap- " pointed either by their respective Houses of Bur- " gesses or Representatives, or by Conventions, or by " the Committees of Correspondence appointed by "the respective Houses of Assembly, to meet in the " City of Philadelphia, or any other Place that shall " be judged most suitable by the Committee, on the "first Day of September next ; and that the Speaker "of the House be directed, in a Letter to the Speakers "of the Houses of Burgesses or Representatives in " the several Colonies, to inform them of the sub- " stance of these Resolves." 2