Jenkinson, in opposition to receiving the paper addressed to that House, " urged that the House had never re- " ceived Petitions of this nature : that, here, the name of a Petition was "studiously avoided, lest anything like an obedience to Parliament ** should he acknowledged. The opposition of the Colonies was not so " much against the tax which gave rise to the present dispute as to the " whole legislative authority of Parliament, and to any restrictions of

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had immediately preceded it, that Resolution, also, received the affirmative vote of every member of the House who was then present. 1

Continuing the commendable work in which it had thus commenced the proceedings of the day, and apparently without any dissent from any one, the House then ordered that James De Lancey, and Benjamin Kissam, of the City of New York, Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county, George Clinton, of Ulster-county, Dirk Brinkerhoof, of Duchess-county, Samuel Gale, of Orange-county, Isaac Wilkins, of the Borough of Westchester, Crean Brush, of Cumberland-county [now a part of Vermont], Christopher Billop, of Richmond-county, John Rapelje, of Kings-county, and William Nicoll, of Queenscounty, or the major part of them -- all, except Philip Schuyler and George Clinton being of the majority of the House -- be " a Committee to prepare a State' 2 of the " Grievances of this Colony, and report same to this " House, with all convenient speed, after the Call " thereof, to be had on the seventh of February ■" next." 3 Having thus indicated what the House proposed to do, in the common cause in which the body of the Colonists was so earnestly engaged, the House was then adjourned.