After this is done, go in a body to your members, and insist on their joining with the minority, to oppose the bill ; if they dare refuse your just requisition, appoint a committee to draw up a state of the whole matter, and send it to the speakers of the several houses of assembly on the continent, and to the friends of our cause in England, and publish it in tlie news-papers, that the whole world may know your sentiments on this matter, in the only way your circumstance will admit. And I am confident it will spirit the the friends of our cause and chagrin our enemies. Let the notification to call the people be so expressed, that whoever absents himself, will be considered as agreeing to what may be done by such as shall meet j -- and that you may succeed, is the unfeigned desire of A SON OF LIEERTY

New York, Dec. 17, 1769.

By the Honourable Cadwallader Golden Esquire his Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief o± the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a certain seditious and libelous Paper was lately printed published and dispersed within the City of New York dated New York December 16'^ 1769 directed in these Words --

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" To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New- York" and containing many insolent daring and infamous Reflections on the Honour Dignity and Authority of the three Branches of the Legislature of the said Province ; Which having been taken into Consideration by the General Assembly, The House did on the nineteenth day of December Instant, come to the following Resolutions thereupon.