The Speaker Laid before the House a Letter

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Die Sabbati, 10 ho˙, A˙ M˙, the 28th January, 1775.

Mr˙ Speaker laid before the House a Letter he had received from the Honourable Cortlandt Skinner, Esquire, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of New-Jersey, enclosing sundry Resolutions entered into by the said House; and the said Resolutions being read, are in the words following, viz:

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, January 25, 1775.

Mr˙ Crane and Mr˙ Kinsey laid before the House the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia in September last, which were read,

On the question, Whether the House approve of the said Proceedings? It passed in the affirmative.

Resolved, That this House do unanimously approve of the Proceedings of the Congress.

Resolved, That James Kinsey, Stephen Crane, William Livingston, John De Hart, and Richard Smith, Esquires, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed to attend the Continental Congress of the Colonies, intended to be held at the City of Philadelphia in May next, or at any other time and place; and that they report the proceedings to the next session of the General Assembly, instructing the said Delegates to propose and agree to every reasonable and constitutional measure for the accommodation of the unhappy difference at present subsisting between our mother country and the Colonies, which the House most ardently wish for.

Ordered, That Mr˙ Speaker do transmit a copy of the foregoing Resolutions to the Speakers of the Assemblies of New-York and Pennsylvania.

Resolved, That the thanks of this House be given to James Kinsey, Stephen Crane, William Livingston, John De Hart, and Richard Smith, Esquires, for their faithful and judicious discharge of the trust reposed in them at the late Continental Congress.

A true copy:

JONATHAN DEARE, Clerk.