13 Resolved unanimously, That in the Opinion of Congress, no unappropriated Lands or Estates which are or may be adjudged forfeited or confiscated lying in the said District, ought until the final Decision of Congress in the Premises to be granted or sold.

Ordered, That Copies of the aforegoing Resolutions be sent by express to the States of New York New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay, and to the People of the District aforesaid ; and that they be respectively desired to loose no time in the appointing their Agent or Agents & otherwise preparing for the

hearings aforesaid. sd The aforesaid Resolution being read over and a Question taken to agree to the whole, /

Resolved unanimously in the affirmative.

Extract from the minutes. Cua. THomson, Sec'y.

996 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

CHARLES PHELPS TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW-YORK.

Sirs

Another week has Roled off since I wrote to ye Honorable Legislature by the post last tuesday and no resolution of Congress upon the Vermont affair is yet obtained ; as things are thus putt off from one Day to another, the best Improvement I can make of those Delays is to seek new Conferences with Different members of Congress to open the Greviances of our people Subjects of New York state; by the II] treatment of those of Vermont, and their unreasonable and Injurious Conduct in opposeing the mild, Just, and Equitable Dealings & Administration of New York State to them & us all which is so Expressive of that Leniant pacific and most Commisserating temper which the present administration of New York hath ever Expressed towards us on the Grants and toward all those of Vermont faction from first to last since the Revolution & in Deposeing those tyranic Governors and other Evil officers of the Late arbitrary Crown Administration.