Present Critical State of the Colony

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Ordered, That the Military Commissions sent to the House from the Congress be delivered by the Clerk of the House to the respective officers.

Two petitions from George Hoffner and Benjamin Miller, of Philadelphia, were presented to the House and read, praying Commissions in the Battalion to be raised in this Province.

Ordered to lie on the table.

Pursuant to the Order of Friday last, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House, to take into consideration the present critical state of this Province; and having spent some time in the perusal of the several Memorials, Petitions, and other Papers referred to them, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr˙ Pearson reported, from the Committee, that they had made some progress in the business before, them, but not having come to any result thereon, they requested leave to sit again in the afternoon; which being agreed to, the House adjourned to three o' clock, P˙ M.

Several Petitions, from a number of the Inhabitants of the County of Philadelphia, were presented to the House and read, setting forth, that the Regulations heretofore prescribed by the Committee of Safety, for the Associators of this Province, have not had the desired effect in the said County; that the Petitioners being impressed, at this time of difficulty and danger, with the necessity of regulating the Military Association of this Province, pray the honourable House to take the premises into their serious consideration, and grant the petitioners such Regulations as they (the Assembly) shall think most proper.

Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to the consideration of the Committee of the Whole House.

The Order of the forenoon being read,

The House resolved itself a Committee of the Whole House on the Papers referred to them; and after further deliberation thereon, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr˙ Pearson reported, from the Committee, that they had made further progress in the business before them, but not being ready to report thereon, the Committee requested leave to sit again in the morning.

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Ordered, That the said Committee have leave to sit accordingly.

The House adjourned to ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.