In the Petition now under Consideration, it is asserted as an Inducement to the Royal Grant ; " That his Majesty's Subjects of the Province of New York, Dutch and English of the Presbyterian Persvvasion, are a great majority of the whole Number of its Inhabitants" : This Suggestion, though it should be allowed in respect to Numbers, cannot be admitted, as to the Connection it supposes between the People of those twa Denomination* : The Dutch were originally part of tlie Church of Holland, and conform themselves to the Doctrine Worship and DiscipUne approved by the National Synod at Dordrecht ; Whereas the Prayer of the Petiti^iners, is to be incorporated by the "Name and Stile of the Ministers, Elders, Deacons and Truste<^ of the Presbyterian Church of the City of New York^ according to the Westminister Confession of Faith, Catechisms^ and Directory, agreeable to the present established Church of Scotland." -- In regard to the other Allegations in the Petition^ the Committee discover no essential or material Difierence in the Circumstances of the Petitioners, and the other Protestant Congregations, not of the Communion of the Church of England, whereon to ground any Preference But it is asserted by the Petitioners, That " the old English Statutes of Uniformity, do not extend to America ;" Whether these Statutes, or that of the 5'h Anne Cap : 5, which is made an essential part of tlie Act of Union ; do or do not extend to the Plantations ; is a Question of which the Committee do not conceive themselves competent Judges ; and which appears necessary to be determined on the highest authority, previous to any final Resolution on the Petition ^