& The original Jvumah vfthe Assembly which included the proceedings of the entire Session which is now under consideration, were lost during the troublesome times of that period ; and the only known copy of the original printed edition of those Journals wanted four pages, in this portion of it. Those missing pages contained the closing portion of the proceedings of the House, on the Petition to the King, as stated in the text, and the opening of its proceedings on the Memorial to the Home of Lords.

« The completed Petition to the King, signed by the Speaker of the Assembly, may be seen in the Journal of Die Assembly, " Die Sabbati, 10 "ho., A.M., the 25th March 1775."

'" Journal of the House, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., AM., the 24th March "1775."

The defect in the Journal, as it is now known to us, to which reference has been made, leaves us without any information concerning the proceedings of the House on the first twenty paragraphs of the Memorial to the House of Lords.

"Journal of the House, "Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A. M., the 25th March "1775."

"Ibid.

w Journal of the House, "Die Sabbati, 4 ho., P.M., the 25th March "1775." '

11 Ibid.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

the rise of this House as conveniently may be, copies of the State of the Grievances, of the Resolutions of the House, of the Petition to the King, of the Memorial to the Lords, and of the Representation and Remonstrance to the Commons, requesting those several Speakers to lay the same before their respective Houses of Assembly, at their first meeting after the receipt thereof. 1