Another Amendment, concerning the Judiciary of the Colony, and entirely cancelling the paragraph, on that subject, which the Committee had reported, was submitted by George Clinton, of Ulster-county, and agreed to, by an unanimous vote of the House ; and another Amendment, submitted by Colonel Frederic Philipse, by striking the words " seem to,'' from one of the paragraphs, and, by doing so, making the Acts relating to Boston and the Colony of Massachusetts- Bay really '' establish adangerous precedent, by inflict- "ing Punishment without Ihe formality of a Trial," instead of only seeming to do so, as the original paragraph described them, really strengthened the Petition, in its assertion of the Grievances to which the Colonies had been subjected.* As the. records of the closing portion of the proceedings of the Committee of the Whole House and those of all that the House,

1 Vide pages 49, 50, ante.

2 Vide pages 51-53, ante.

3 Journal of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 16th March, "1775."

* Journal of the House, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., the 24th March, •1775."

itself, did, on this subject, '' are missing," in our copy of the Journal, the details of those proceedings cannot be given ; 6 but history bears testimony to the general fact that, in its amended form, the Petition to the King was duly agreed to, by the Assembly. 6

On the same day, [March 24<A], the Memorial to the House of Lords and the Bepresentation and Remonstrance to the House of Commons, after several Amendments, none of them possessing any importance whatever and only three of them having called for a division of the House, had been negatived in the Committee of the Whole House, were successively reported to the House ; and, in the respective forms in which they were thus reported, the House adopted them, in each instance, without a division of the House. 7