The Committee of the Provincial Congress who had been appointed to consider the very important subject of the Currency, for the support of the Rebellion, made a very clear and able Report, on the thirtieth of May, in which some of the commercial troubles produced or likely to be produced by the Rebellion werevery graphically presented; and an issue

* There were Committees in a small number of the Towns, at a later period ; but there is no evidence, as far as wo have knowledge, that they originated in the recommendation of the Provincial Congress, nor as early as in 1775.

5 The Association, duly signed by thoso who would sign it and duly uoting those who declined to do so, was to be returned to the Secretary of tho Provincial Congress, on or before the fifteenth of July, 1775. The files of that Congress, which are preserved in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, show, however, that the only Counties or Towns which made any Returns of Associators, in response to this Resolution, were Orange, Ulster, Suffolk, Duchess, one District in Charlotte, three Districts in Cumberland, and a few scattering names, not more than fifty, in Queens ; but there is no such Return ironi Westchester-couuty ; there is no such Return among the archives of the County, in the office of the County-clerk ; and we have failed to find anything resembling such a Roturn, in the offices of the Town-clerks, in the several Towns.