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Monday, April 11, 1774.
The House met.
All Members present as on Saturday.
The Proceedings of Saturday were read.
M.r Earle and M.r T. Wright appear in the House.
M.r Speaker laid before the House a Letter from the Speaker of
the House of Representatives of new York, inclosing several Reso-
lutions of that House. Which Letter and Resolutions are ordered
to be entered on the Journal, and are as follow.
Sir New-York, March 1,st 1774.
Your Letter of the 21.st December last, together with the Resolves
of the Honourable House of Delegates of the Province of Mary-
land, which they entered into on the 15.th October last, inclosed, I
laid before the General Assembly of this Colony at the opening of
this present Session, who being sensible that they are of the utmost
Importance to the Rights and Liberties of the American Colonies,
came to the inclosed Resolutions, which they directed me to com-
municate to you, and to desire you will lay the same before your
House of Delegates at their next Meeting.
To the Honourable Mathew I am, Sir, your most humble
Tilghman, Esq Speaker of Servant,
the House of Delegates of John Cruger, Speaker,
the Province of Maryland.
Assembly Chamber, City of New-York 20.th January, 1774.
The House according to Order resolved itself into a Committee
of the whole House, upon the Letters received from the Speakers of
several of the Houses of Assembly on this Continent, inclosing the
Resolutions entered into by them respectively. After some Time
spent therein, M.r Speaker resumed the Chair, and Col. Seaman
reported from the Committee, that they had directed him to report
to the House the following Resolutions, to wit.
Resolved, nemine contradicente, That it is the Opinion of this
Committee, that a standing Committee of Correspondence and
Enquiry be appointed, to consist of the following Persons, to wit,
John Cruger, Esq Speaker, James De Lancey, James Jauncey,
Jacob Walton, Benjamin Seaman, Isaac Wilkins, Frederick Philips,
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L. H. J.
Liber S4
Apr. 11
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Daniel Kissam, Zebulon Seaman, John Rapalie, Simon Boerum, John
DeHoyellis, and George Clinton, Esquires, or any seven of them,
whose Business it shall be to obtain the most early and authentic
Intelligence of all such Acts and Resolutions of the British Parlia-
ment, or Proceedings of Administration, as do or may relate to or
effect the Liberties and Privileges of his Majesty's Subjects in the
British Colonies in America, and to keep up and maintain a Corre-
spondence and Communication with our Sister Colonies respecting
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