" And if, on the appearance and examination of ' the said persons, it shall appear to the satisfaction ' of the said Committee that they or any of them are ' friends to the American cause, that such of them ' whom they shall so adjudge to be friends, be forth- ; with discharged, and a Certificate thereof, under the hands of the said Committee, given them, and : their names forthwith reported to this Congress, to the end that the same may be entered on their ' Journals, and published, and justice thereby done ! to their characters and reputations. And it is further

" Eesolved, That all such of the said persons as ' the said Committee shall not adjudge and determine to be friends to the American cause, the said Committee be and they hereby are required to treat and dispose of in the following manner, to wit :

tbe jurisdiction of which extended over Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. His father had occupied the place, before him j he had occupied it since August 2, 1702 ; and ho was, also, Clerk of the Courts of Nisi Prius and General Jail Delivery. Ho was a brother of Lewis Morris, the Delegate in the Continental Congress, and of Staats Long Morris, an officer in the Boyal Army, and husband of the Dowager Duchess of Gordon ; and Gouverneur Morris was his half-brother. He was, also, the grandfather of Lewis G. Morris, of Fordham Heights.

Although ho was classed, in these Resolutions, among those who occupied "an equivocal neutrality "-- he preferred to retain his hold on the Boyal Treasury as long as possible ; and the studied denunciation of him, in these Eesolutions, was admirably adapted to securo tho steady payment of his Salary and Fees, and to securo the family estates, In case tho Rebellion Bhould be suppressed-- just eight weeks after the presentation of this Eoport, ho was appointed, by the samo Provincial Congress who had received and adopted this formidable series of Besolutions, to the Bench of the new-formed revolutionary Court of Admiralty ; and, three years subsequently, when John Jay ceased to be Chief-justice of the new State, this Richard Morris was appointed to succeed him, in that honorable and influential position.