posed the following question : " Whether a certain "Number of persons shall be appointed and authorized to meet such Deputies as the Counties may "elect, and join with them for the sole object of ap- " pointing out of their body on the 20th of April next, " Delegates to the next Congress ?" Those who were opposed to the question, the conservative faction and its governmental allies, promptly demanded a Poll of the Voters, giving as reasons for their demand, that the business of the day was to take only the sense of the Freeholders and Freemen ; that none but those of these two classes of persons had a right to vote on the question ; and that it was impossible to discriminate them from those who had not such a right. The large body of the members of the Committee who was present, " who had taken upon themselves the part of " Returning-officers," of course, refused the demand-- as the number of qualified voters, then present, who were known to have been opposed to the question, was evidently so very largely in the majority, aPoll of the Voters, had one been permitted, would have determined the question in the negative, and have defeated the purpose of those who were seeking another advancement to place and authority, in the proposed Congress of the Colonies -- and the question was, of course, declared to have been carried, in favor of the proposition. The second question which was proposed : " Whether " this Meeting will authorize the Committee to nomi- " nate Eleven Deputies for their Approbation ? " being of secondary importance to those who had opposed the first, a Poll of the Voters was not demanded thereon; and, of course, like the preceding question, it was adopted "by a very great Majority of the Peo- " pie," promiscuous in its qualifications for such an action, voting viva voca.