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to be as nearly adhered to, as may be possible; but to avoid difficulties, 

 we desire tliat they may be instructed by you, to agree to any measures 

 that shall be approved by the Congress; the inhabitants of this province 

 having resolved to adopt and carry them into execution. Lastly — We 

 desire the deputies from this province, may endeavor to procure an ad- 

 journment of the Congress, to such a day as they shall judge proper, and 

 the appointment of a standing Committee. 



Agreed, that John Dickinson, Joseph Read, and Charles Thomson, be 

 a Committee to write to the neighboring Colonies, and communicate to 

 them the resolves and instructions. 



Agreed, that the Committee for the city and county of Philadelphia, 

 or any fifteen of them, be a Committee of Correspondence for the general 

 Committee of this province. 



Extract from tlie Alinutes. 



Charles Thomson, Clk. of the Com. 



At^ a meeting of the Committee of the County of Lancaster, at Lan- 

 caster, on the 9th September, 1774, Edward Shippen, Esq., in the chair. 



The subscriptions received for the relief of the distresses of the poor 

 inhabitants of the town of Boston, were laid before the Committee, and 

 it appeareth that the sum of one hundred and fifty-three pounds, fifteen 

 shillings and two pence, has been collected in the Borough of Lancaster 

 for the purposes aforesaid, that it being put to the vote whether the said 

 sum should not be immediately remitted to Philadelphia to Mr. John 

 Nixon, the Treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia, to be laid out 

 in such manner as the Committee for the said city and county should think 

 proper for the relief of our distressed poor brethren of the town of 

 Boston, the same was carried in the affirmative, and Edward Shippen, 

 Esq., the chairman, is requested to forward the said sum of money forth- 

 with to Philadelphia for the purpose aforesaid. 



At this time no proper account could possibly be had of the subscrip- 

 tion papers of the several townships in this county. 



The following letter was omitted entering in its proper place, and is as 

 follows, to wit: 



Gentlemen: Enclosed you will receive a printed circular letter signed 

 by the chairman of our Committee, and the resolves therein referred to, 

 with some other printed papers. The use to be made of them, your own 

 prudence and good judgment will suggest; we would be glad to hear as 

 soon as possible from the Committee for your county, and are 



Your most humble servant, 



William Smith. 

 Your assured friend, 



Philadelphia, June 29, 1774. Isaac Kowell. 



1 Rupp, History of Lancaster County. 



