The proposed test of the quality of the Pork to be purchased was, however, not satisfactory to those who were manipulating the Congress, in the interest of the job; and, on the ninth of March, when that body resumed the consideration of the proposition, it was led to suppose that the Resolution which had been adopted, approving the same, was " imperfect, " inadequate to the end, and that the method thereby " proposed will create unnecessary expense." It also appointed a Committee of three Deputies, two . of whom were John Thomas, Junior, and Colonel Joseph Drake, both of them Deputies from Westchestercounty, " to reconsider the method of establishing a " Magazine of Provisions, and to report thereon." 8

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1 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Lunse, 3 ho., P.M., March '■4, 1776." I 8 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Sabbali, 10 ho., A.M., March I "9,1776."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The whole subject had evidently been considered, informally, before ic was laid before the Congress -- in the expressive phrase of practical men,' it had been " cut and dried " -- and the Committee " speedily re- " turned and reported " a substitute for the original Resolution, which was more " perfect," more " ade- " quate to the en d," and less expensive, although it was also, less favorable to the Congress -- it did no more than to omit the provision for the employment of a Packer from New York, by whom, also, the quality of the Pork could have been accurately ascertained, leaving every other portion of the original Resolution, in the form in which it had been adopted, five days previously. The evidently pre-arranged Report and Resolution were promptly approved, without a dissenting voice ; ' and the scheme was, so far, a complete success.