" Resolved, That a copy of the said Declaration "' and the aforegoing Resolution be sent to the Chair- " man of the Committee of the County of Westcb.es- '' ter, with order to publish the same, with beat of " drum, at this place, on Thursday next," [July 11, 1775] ; " and to give directions that it be published, " with all convenient speed, in the several Districts " within the said County ; and that copies thereof be "forthwith transmitted to the other County Com- " mittees within the State of New York, with orders to "cause the same to be published in the several "Districts of their respetive Counties.

" Resolved, That five hundred copies of the '' Declaration of Independence, with the two last men- " tioned Resolutions of this Congress for approving " and proclaiming the same, be published in handbills and sent to all the County Committees in this "State.

1 Joseph Reed, Adjutant-general (by the General's order) to the Provincial Congress, " Head-quarters, New- York, July 5th, 1776."

2 Journal of the Provincial Gangrene, " Tuesday, 9th July, 1776."

8 In view of the fact that the body of which that Committee was a part and by whom it had been appointed and to whom it was to report, was, specifically, "a Provincial Congress for the Province of New " York ; " and because, at that time, there had been no change in the status of the Deputations composing the Congress, who represented nothing else than certain specified Counties, each Deputation representing only a Bingle County ; and because, at that time, the Colony of New York, could not be possibly regarded as a " State," the caption of that Keport displayed nothing of historical or legal precision, nothing of accuracy of statement, and nothing of good taste.