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.

4 "The powers of the Delegates at Continental Congress," which until it became convenient to refer to them in order to promote a selfish end.

effort to make haste slowly, in spending " some time, " in the consideration of the letter " of the Delegation, 5 without, however, taking any action whatever, on it or on the subject to which it referred.

Nothing whatever was done by the Provincial Congress, concerning the letter of the Delegates nor concerning Independence, on the following morning, [June 11, 1776 ;] 6 but, during the afternoon of that day, with that peculiar disregard for those with whom he was associated which invariably distinguished John Jay from all others, that Deputy presented "several Resolutions on the subject of Independence," which were seconded by Colonel Henry Remsen, of the City of New York, "again read by " paragraphs, amended, and agreed to, and are in the "words following, to wit:'