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Nays ; Lancaster township, Derry township, Strasburg 

 township, Bart township. 



Absent ; Conestoga township, Upper Paxton township, 

 Heidleberg township, CocaUco township, Martick town- 

 ship, Manor township. 



Tlie committee then proceeded to appoint deputies, and 

 the following gentlemen, to wit:— Adam Simon Kuhn, 

 James Burd, James Clemson, Esq., Peter Griibb, Sebas- 

 tian Graff, David Jenkins and Bartram Galbraith, or any 

 five of them, were nominated to attend the said provin- 

 cial convention, in behalf of the county of Lancaster. 



Edward Shippen, Chairman. 



The preceding proceedings of the committees and 

 occurrences, being recorded by E. M. (Jmie 3d, 1775.) 



At a meeting of the committee of inspection and obser- 

 vation, of the borough of Lancaster, the 27th of April, 

 1775, at the house of Adam Reigart. 



Present; Edward Shippen, Esq., WiUiam Atlee, Wm. 

 Bausman, Charles Hall, William Patterson, Casper Shaff- 

 iier, Eberhart Michael, Adam Reigart. 



Edward Shippen, Esq. was chosen president. 



It appearing by intelligence from divers places and by 

 the papers, that General Gage, hath at length attacked 

 the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay, and killed and 

 wounded many of them., and the latest accounts from 

 England confirming the accounts that the Parliament of 

 Great Britain are determined by force of arms to compel 

 the colonies to an abject submission to the late acts of the 

 British Parliament, calculated to deprive the inhabitants 

 of the colonies of their inestimable rights and privileges j 

 and that a formidable fleet and army are preparing to 

 invade the colonies or some of them; it is therefore 

 thought proper to request a general meeting of the com- 

 mittee for this county, to consult and determine upon such 



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