Extract of a Letter from the Deputy Governour of Pennsylvania to the Earl of Dartmouth

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I am to inform your Lordship, that since my last the Assembly of this Province have met agreeable to their adjournment, and have, to my great surprise, unanimously approved the transactions of the late Congress, and appointed Deputies to attend another, proposed to be held at this City, in May next, as you will perceive by the printed votes, which I enclose for your Lordship' s fuller information.

There seems to be too general a disposition every where to adhere strictly to the Resolutions of the Congress; and the Committees for this City and the adjacent Districts have already taken upon them to regulate the disposition of all British Goods imported since the first of December. They are put up at publick auction in lots, and I am informed it is so managed that they are struck off to the owners at an advance of one per cent, above their first costs and charges, which, according to the recommendation of the Congress, is to be applied to the relief of the poor of Boston.