Further Report from the Committee of Conference

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Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that the Governour and Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut, the Convention of New York, the General Assembly of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and the Convention of the Colony of New Jersey, and the several Conventions of such other of the United Colonies in which there are any Lead, Mines, be requested to transmit to this Congress, with all convenient despatch, the state and condition of the Lead Mines in their respective Colonies.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that the service will render it necessary for General Schuyler to increase the number of Batteaus to two hundred.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that four of the Prisoners taken at St˙ Johns, and suggested by the said letter from Captain Robertson to have inlisted in the Continental Army, to wit: William Roughhead and Elisha Grister in Captain Hubley' s Company, John Santoir in Captain Brower' s Company, and John Mayot in a Company unknown, ought to be dismissed the service, and returned to their Corps at Lancaster.