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Election of new Committee

At the before mentioned conference with the Committee of Mechanics, it was mutually agreed:

1st˙ That the Committee nominated and held up to the public are not to exceed seventy; nor to be less than sixty persons.

2d˙ To be chosen by the freeholders and freemen, at the City Hall, on Tuesday next, under the inspection of the Vestrymen of the city.

3d˙ To continue in office until the first day of July next.

4th˙ Each Committee to interchange one hundred names, out of which the Committee is to be nominated.

5th˙ To be styled, "The Committee for carrying into execution the Association entered into by the Continental Congress."

The Committee adjourned until to-morrow evening, 16th November, 1774, at six o' clock.

Title: Election of new Committee of Sixty ordered, on the 22d instant
Creator: New-York, Committee of Mechanics
New-York, Committee of Correspondence
Editor: New-York, Committee of Mechanics
New-York, Committee of Correspondence
Resource Type: text
Genre/Form: documents (object genre)
Date Created: 1774-11-15
Presentation Location: New-York, New-York, North America
Before Whom: New-York, Committee of Correspondence
Subject: Key people, events, and institutions: meetings, provincial conventions and assemblies
Politics and causes of revolt: elections and voting
Social reality: skilled workers
Document ID: S4-V1-P03-sp06-D0083
Series: S4
Volume: S4-V1
Part: S4-V1-P03
Sub-Part: S4-V1-P03-sp06
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