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. He held the latter office until September, 1790.

The controlling power among the revolutionary elements, in the Colony as well as in the new-formed State, was not slow to reward the Morris family with offices and emoluments ; and the latter was equally watchful of its own interests, in accepting whatever was offorod.

" That such of them as may be men of influence in " the neighbourhood of the place of their present resi- " deuce, be removed to such place, in this or a neigh- " bouring Colony, as will deprive them of an oppor- " tunity of exerting that influence to the prejudice of " the American cause, and respectively bound by " their parole or word of honour or other security, at " the discretion of the said Committee, neither di- " rectly or indirectly to oppose or contravene the " measures of the Continental Congress or the Con- " gress of this Colony, and to abide in the place and " within the limits so to be assigned them, till the " further order of the present or future Provincial '' Congress or Continental Congress ; and in case they " shall refuse to give such parole or other security, to " commit them to safe custody.