6 The Committee of Inspection had recommended the dissolution of that Committee, because it was invested with powers respecting only the " Association " of the Continental Congress; and it had also recommended the election of a new Committee of one hundred persons, thirtythree of whom should be a quorum, all of whom should retire and the Committee be "dissolved within a fortnight next after the end of the "next Session of the Continental Congress."

The "Committee of One hundred," which was thus called, subsequently became the local Committee of the Revolutionary element, in the City of New York, and well known to every student of the history of that period.

7 Minutes of the Committee of Inspection, "Wednesday, April 26, "1775."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Inasmuch as the City and, to a considerable extent, the Colony were practically in a state of anarchy, the Colonial Government being confessedly unable to do anything, even for the maintenance of a shadow of its official dignity and authority, 1 the calmness and ability with which the Committee controlled the excitable masses, within the City-- those who had been schooled, for many years, in acts of lawless violence and destruction, and whose organization and leadership had not been disturbed,-- were peculiarly noteworthy and entitled to the highest praise ; and, under the circumstances which then existed, which clearly indicated that the Colonial General Assembly would not re-assemble on the third of May, to which day it had adjourned, there was an existing necessity that some other body, possessing a general influence, should be assembled, in its stead, for the control of the excited revolutionary elements, if not to lead them ; and the call for a Provincial Congress, thus published, was, therefore, under the existing circumstances, both prudent and praiseworthy.