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Now following the copy of the circular letter mention- 

 ed in the last foregoing resolves, and is from word to 

 word, as followeth, to wit : 



Philadelphia, Jmie 28th, 1774. 



Gentlemen:— The committee of correspondence for this 

 city and comity beg leave to enclose you printed copies 

 of the resolves passed at a very large and respectable 

 meeting of the freeholders and freemen, in the State 

 House square, on Saturday, the ISth instant. By the 4th 

 of those resolves, you will observe that it was left for the 

 committee " To determine on the most proper mode of 

 collecting the sense of this province in the present critical 

 situation of our affairs, and appointing deputies to attend 

 the proposed Congress. In pursuance of this trust, we 

 have, upon the maturest deliberation, determined upon a 

 mode contained in the two following propositions, which, 

 we hope, may meet with the approbation and concur- 

 rence of your respectable county, viz : 



First : " That the Speaker of the honorable House of 

 Representatives be desired to write to the several mem- 

 bers of Assembly in this province, requesting them to 

 meet in this city as soon as possible, but no later than the 

 1st of August next, to take into their consideration our 

 Tery alarming situation. 



Second : ' That letters be written to proper persons in 

 each county, recommending it to them, to get committees 

 appointed to their respective counties, aud that the said 

 committees or such a number of them as may be thought 

 proper, may meet at Philadelphia, at the time the repre- 

 sentatives are convened, in order to consult and advise 

 on the most expedient mode of appointing deputies for 

 the general Congress, and to give their weight to such as 

 may be appointed.' 



The Speaker of the Assembly, in a very obliging and 



