Coneress, agreeably to the order of the day, resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, to take into consideration the letters from Abraham Ten Broeck, Esq; President of the Convention of the State of Wew York, dated 20 January and 1st March, 1777; the resolutions passed in Committee of Safety for the State of New York, at Fishiill, the 20th of January, 1777, transmitted with the above letters; a petition signed Jonas Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen and Reuben Jones, in the name and behalf of the people stiling themselves inhabitants of the ew Hampshire Grants, dated New Hampshire Grants, Westminster, 15th January, 1777; a letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esq; President of the Council, of Safety of Mew York, dated 28th May, 1777; and a printed paper, signed "A word to the wise is sufficient," containing an extract from the minutes of Congress, and a letter to the inhabitants of Vermont, signed Thomas Young, dated Philadelphia, 11th April 1777, laid before Congress the 23d instant by the Delegates of JVew York, and after some time, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. Harrison reported, That the Committee have had under consideration the letters and papers to them referred, and have come to sundry Resolutions thereupon, which he is ready to report whenever the Congress shall please to receive them.

Ordered, That the report be now received.

The report from the Committee of the whole was then read, and agreéd to, as follows: |

NEW HAMPSHIKE GRANTS. 945

Resolved, That Congress is composed of Delegates chosen by and representing the communities respectively inhabiting the territories of Mew-Hampshire, _Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, as they respectively stood at the time of its first institution ;--that it was instituted for the purpose of securing and defending the communities aforesaid, against the usurpations, oppressions and hostile invasions of Great Britain;--and that therefore it cannot be intended that Congress by any of its proceedings would do, recommend, or countenance any thing injurious to the rights and Jurisdictions of the several communities which it represents.