Letter presented from the Continental Treasury Office, requesting the number of the Inhabitants of the Province may be taken, A great number of Petitions from divers Inhabitants of the Province, opposed to a change of the form of Government, were laid before the House and read, Committee to bring in a draft of new Instructions to the Delegates of the Province in Congress

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A Member presented at the table a Letter from the Chairman of the Continental Treasury Office, with some Minutes of that Board, respecting an account of the number of inhabitants of this Province, to be procured by the Assembly and returned to said Office; which were read.

Ordered to lie on the table.

Mr˙ Speaker laid before the House a Letter which he received from the President of the Continental Congress, enclosing a number of Resolves of the Congress, which were read, and ordered to lie on the table for the consideration of the House.

A great number of Petitions from divers inhabitants of this Province, of the same tenour with those presented on Wednesday last from the City and County of Philadelphia, were laid before the House, and read.

Ordered to lie on the table.

The Petition from a number of inhabitants of Cumberland County, praying that the Instructions given by the Assembly to the Delegates of this Province in Congress may be withdrawn, was read a second time, and, after a debate of considerable length, the question being called for and put by the Speaker, whether a Committee shall he appointed to bring in new Instructions to the Delegates of this Province in Congress?

Carried in the affirmative by a large majority.

Ordered, That Mr˙ Dickinson, Mr˙ Morris, Mr˙ Reed, Mr˙ Clymer, Mr˙ Wilcocks, Mr˙ Pearson, and Mr˙ Smith, be a Committee to prepare and bring in a draft of Instructions to the Delegates in Congress.

The resignation of Frederick Molineux, who was appointed Quartermaster to one of the Battalions in the pay of this Province, was presented, and read.

Ordered to lie on the table.

The House adjourned to three o' clock in the afternoon.