The discharged Post-Riders to be employed to depart on the usual days

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New-York Committee Chamber, May 3, 1775.

The Postmaster having, for the present, discharged the Eastern Post-riders, the General Committee have directed us, their Sub-Committee of Intelligence, to devise the best ways and means for continuing a correspondence with the Eastern Colonies: It is, therefore, our opinion, that the present Eastern Post-riders be employed to depart from this City on the usual days, and to go the usual stages; and the publick is hereby informed that Mr˙ Ebenezer Hazard has undertaken to receive and forward Letters from this City.

From information received by the Committee from Connecticut, it will be necessary (in order to prevent Letters from being opened by the Committees on the road) that they be inspected here by some well known member of the General Committee, and by him endorsed with his name, as one of the Committee of New-York.

P˙ V˙ B˙ LIVINGSTON,

BENJ˙ KISSAM,

ALEXR˙ MCDOUGALL,

PETER VAN SCHAACK.