1 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Lunge, 9 ho., A.M., June 10, "1770."

* Ibid.

8 It was stated in the Credentials of the Deputies from Orange-county that the Resolutions of tin* second Provincial Congress, providing for the election of the third Provincial Congress and denning its authority, were adopted on the twelfth of March preceding ; but there is no mention of the adoption of any Resolutions whatever, on that subject, on that or any otherday, on the published Journal of the second Provincial Congress.

Again : we hare not found on that Journal, any definition of the authority of the third of those Congresses-- that authority which, in the text, the Secretary is said to have read, on the afternoon of tho tenth of June -- but the Credentials of the Deputies from Kings-county, compared with those of tbe Deputies from Orange-county, indicate that the authority sought to be delegated to that third Provincial Congress by its constituent Counties, under the Resolutions providing for their election, included '"full powers, in behalf of the said County, to appoint Delegates "to represent the Colony in the Continental Congress, and to make such " orders and take such measures as they shall j udge necessary, not repug- '■ nant to or inconsistent with any Rules or Orders of the Continental '* Congress, for the preservation of the Rights, Liberties and Privileges of "the inhabitants of this Colony."

These, or their equivalents, were, undoubtedly, what the Secretary read to the Provincial Congress, as stated in the text.