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The Committee then proceeded to hear the Proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the 16th day of September last; and on reading the Resolutions of the Committee relating to the impressing of Arms, debates arose thereon; and after some time spent therein, and the Resolutions read a second time, several Members disapprove of the said Resolutions. The question was then put, whether the Congress approves or disapproves of the said Resolutions, and carried in the negative, in manner following, to wit:
Resolved, therefore, That this Congress disapprove of the said Resolutions of the Committee of Safety, on the 16th day of September last, relating to the impressing of Arms.
The Congress then proceeded to hear the further Proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the 17th, 18th, and on the morning of the 19th days of September last, and approved thereof.
Mr˙ Low, (seconded by Mr˙ Marston,) made a motion in the words following, to wit: "Mr˙ President, sundry Affidavits having been exhibited, and being now in possession of this Congress, relative to the conduct of a certain Timothy Doughty, of Dutchess County, and the said Doughty having applied, through a Member of this Congress, for copies of the said Affidavits, I move that copies thereof be accordingly furnished to the said Doughty, on his paying the Secretaries for their trouble."
Debates arose on the said motion; and the question being put, whether the said copies shall be furnished by the Secretaries, it was carried in the negative, in the manner following:
Ordered, therefore, That no copies of the said Affidavits be delivered to the said Timothy Doughty.
The Congress then adjourned until ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.
Resolutions of the Committee of Safety
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4 New-York, (Colonel McDougall dissenting,)
2 Cumberland,
2 King' s, (Mr˙ Vanderbilt dissenting. 2 Tryon,
2 Richmond,
4 3 Albany.
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2 King' s,
4 New-York, (Messrs˙ Low, Marsion, Webster, and Delancy, dissenting.) 2 Tryon,
2 Cumberland,
3 Albany,
9 Ulster.
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