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To Edward Shippen and George Eoss, Esq'rs., who are requested 

 to communicate the enclosed papers to the other gentlemen of the Com- 

 mittee. 



Those gentlemen named and appointed at the meeting of the 9th of 

 July last, attended the provincial convention at Philadelphia, on Mon- 

 day the 15th then next. And the proceedings together with the resolves 

 of that provincial committee, hath been inserted in the public papers. 



At a meeting of the Committee August 11th, they were informed that 

 Joshua and Robert Lockharts, of this borough, shopkeepers, had brought 

 to this town a quantity of tea, that have paid duty under the late act of 

 parliament. A note was therefore sent to them by the committee re- 

 quiring their immediate attendance. In consequence thereof one of the 

 partners called on the Committee, but denied their having received any 

 tea, but as this account by no means appeared satisfactory from several 

 matters which escaped the partner attending, the Committee did inspect 

 their shop, and with some difficulty learned of a chest of Bohea tea, 

 weight 349, neat weight, which they had bought from a certain merchant 

 in Philadelphia. The committee taking an account of all the marks of 

 the case in which it was packed, removed the tea, and wrote to the 

 committee of Philadelphia, who examined the matter, and it appeareth 

 that this tea never had paid any duty, but was part of a seizure made 

 by the Custom House and was afterwards purchased at a public sale 

 by the original owner of it, as by a letter from the committee of Phil- 

 adelphia, dated August 25th, wrote and signed by the Honorable 

 Thomas Willing, the chairman, directed to this Committee, appears ; 

 upon which, the said teas were returned again, and the said Lockharts 

 were acquitted. 



The Continental Congress held at Philadelphia, the 5th of September, 

 1774, continued to the 25th of October; the votes and proceedings of 

 which, have since been published in the pubKc papers, and printed also 

 by a pamphlet containing the bill of rights, list of grievances, occasional 

 resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great Britain, a 

 memorial to the inhabitants of the British American Colonies, and peti- 

 tion to the King. 



November 22d, 1774. The Committee of this borough met and the 

 followmg hand-bill by them ordered to be printed, and sent to, and put 

 up at all the public places in this county, viz : 



"To the freeholders and electors of the county of Lancaster: 

 " The committee for the borough of Lancaster, taking in their considera- 

 tion the resolves and recommendations of the American Continental Con- 

 gress, request that the freeholders and others qualified to vote for Repre- 

 sentatives in Assembly for the county of Lancaster, would meet at the 

 Court house, in Lancaster, on Thursday the fifteenth dav of December 



