On the thirty-first of May, in its further consideration of the Resolutions of the Continental Congress, which have been already laid before the reader, the Provincial Congress resolved, "that it berecommended " to the Inhabitants of this Colony, in general, im* "mediately to furnish themselves with necessary arms " and ammunitions ; to use all diligence to perfect " themselves in the military art ; and, if necessary, to " form themselves into Companies, for that purpose, " until the further order of the Congress ; " and it ordered the Resolution to be printed in the newspapers and in handbills. At the same time, it met the call of the Continental Congress, for men to occupy the proposed posts at Kingsbridge and in the Highlands, for the protection of the City of New York, and for that of Lake George, referred to in the third and fourth Resolutions of that Congress, by resolving that it " would use all possible diligence in

* Journal of tlie Provincial Congress, " 5 ho., P.M., May 30, 1775."

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" embodying men according to the said Resolutions ; " and by appointing a Committee "to report an arrangement of the troops to be embodied for the ''defence of this Colony ; and to report such Rules " and Regulations as would be proper to be established "by this Congress, for the government of such " troops." 1

The doings of the Provincial Congress were, of course, entirely in the interest of the Rebellion. *##*■♦*■**