Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

"Resolved, That the said Committee appoint " such persons as they may think proper, to repair to " the said Counties ' to inquire for and procure the " witnesses against the persons herein directed to be " arrested or summoned to appear, and give evidence " against the said persons, before the said Committee ; " and that the said persons be paid for their trouble at " the rate of fifteen shillings for each day they shall " respectively be employed on that service ; and that " the witnesses they may direct to attend, as afore- " said, be paid their reasonable expenses for travelling " charges and subsistence, to be certified and allowed "by the said Committee; which Certificate shall be " a Warrant to the Treasurer of this Congress, to pay "the persons in whose favour such Certificate shall " be given, the sum or sums therein allowed, as afore- " said." 2

On the fourteenth 3 and fifteenth of June, 4 those who were members of the Committee, took the oath required of them ; on the last-named day, John McKesson, who was one, the principal one, of the Secretaries of the Provincial Congress, was made the Secretary of the Committee, also ; ° and, with a full retinue of Assistant-secretaries, Messengers, Doorkeepers, and other Officers, 6 on the same day, Philip Livingston, Joseph Hallett, John Jay, Thomas Tredwell, Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, and Leonard Gansevoort-- Livingston, Jay, and Gansevoort having been meanwhile added to the Committee --