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.

Resolved, That the independent Government attempted to be established by the people stiling themselves inhabitants of the New-Hampshire Grants, can derive no countenance or justification from the act of Congress declaring the united Colonies to be independent of the crown of Great Britain, nor from any other act or resolution of Congress.

Resolved, that the petition of Jonas Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen and Reuben Jones, in the name and behalf of the people stiling themselves as aforesaid, praying "that their " declaration, that they would consider themselves as a free and " independent State, may be received; that the district in the "said petition described may be ranked: among the free and " independent States; and that Delegates therefrom may be "admitted to seats in Congress," be dismissed.

Resolved, That Congress, by raising and officering the regiment commanded by Colonel Warner, never meant to give any encouragement to the claim of the people aforesaid, to be considered as an independent State ; but that the reason which induced Congress to form that corps was, that many officers of different States, who had served in Canada, and ailedged that they would soon raise a regiment, but were then unprovided for, might be reinstated in the service of the United States.