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. "The Business of the day '" being finished," as the record stated, the assemblage dispersed ; and, as far as that notable Meeting was concerned, the purposes of those who had evidently obtained the control of the Committee of Inspection, had been fully secured. 1

There appears to have been thirty-eight of the Members of the Committee of Inspection present at the noon-day Meeting, on the Exchange, which has been described ; and, on the evening of the same day, \_March 6, 1775,] in their capacity as Eeturningofficers, they reported to the Committee itself, which had assembled in due form, the proceedings of that popular assemblage, including the affirmative answers to the two questions which had been presented to it ; and so entirely satisfactory to the Committee

1 Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1679, New-York, Thursday, March 9, 1775 ; Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 99, New-York, Thursday, March 9, 1775 ; Proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the City and County of New York, 6th March ,1775, into which the record of the proceedings of the Meeting at the Exchange, in the Morning, was officially copied ; Jones's History of New York during tlte Revolutionary War, i., 37, 38, and do Lancey's Notes on tlrnt History, i., 480-484 ; Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 100 ; Dawson s Park and its Vicinity, 38, 39; Gordon's History of tlw American Herniation, i., 472; Hildreth's History of the United States, First Series, iii., 71, 72 ; etc.