Captain Asa Douglas, by a message in writing directed and delivered to the President, requested to be admitted to the Congress, to communicate a matter of some moment.

Ordered, That the doorkeeper desire Mr. Douglas to attend.

Captain Asa Douglas attending at the door, was called in and heard; and Messrs. Lewis Graham, Walter Livingston, Joseph Robinson, and Henry Williams, are appointed a committee to receive such further information from the said Asa Douglas, as he may have to communicate, and to know what he expects of this Congress, and report the same to this Congress.

Mr. [David] Clarkson, chairman of the committee appointed yesterday for that purpose, reported a draft of a letter to the committee of safety for the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and to the committee of correspondence for the Colony of New Hampshire; and the same being read and approved of, is in the words following, to wit:

Brethern ー Having received a minute of the Grand Continental Congress, of which we send you a copy herewith, we wrote a letter to the Governor and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, of which we also send you a copy.

We do not doubt of your ready concurrence in the measures recommended by that august body, in which we do entirely acquiesce.

We pray you to act on this occasion with prudence and expedition, especially as we have received intimations from our brethern on Connecticut, that they cannot send a sufficient force for the purposes mentioned to them in our letter. And we beg leave to assure you that we are, affectionately your friends and brethern in the generous cause of freedom

We are, Gentlemen [&c.]

New-York, 26th May 1775. In Provincial Congress.

To Joseph Warren, Esqr. and others, the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.

A copy of the above to the committee of correspondence for the Colony of New-Hampshire.

Ordered, That two copies of the said letter be engrossed, signed by the President, and transmitted with all convenient speed, one directed to Joseph Warren, Esqr. and others, the committee of safety for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; and the other to the committee of correspondence for the Colony of New Hampshire.

Benjamin Kissam, Esqr. dissented from the said letters.

Ordered, That copies of the proceedings of this Congress, in pursuance of the minutes of the Continental Congress of the 18th May instant, be transmitted to the Delegates from this Colony at the Continental Congress.

Mr. [Henry] Williams, from the Committee appointed to confer with Asa Douglas, returned a report in the words following, to wit:

1. The purport of Mr. Douglas's desiring to be heard by this Congress, was to take the sense of the Congress whether they would choose to receive the Letter he brought from Collo. [Ethen] Allen for the Continental Congress, or whether he ought to proceed with the Letter to the Continental Congress.

2. He was requested by the troops who took Ticonderoga, Crown Point, &c. to solicit this Congress would take their services into consideration, and reward them with money or provisions, as they shall think meet.

3. He was desired by a number of the Officers of King's district, to apply to this Congress to appoint him the commander of such forces as are or may be raised in that district

4. He begs leave to inform this Congress that he has expended £18 in advancing money to the troops and defraying the charges of his journey in going to Ticonderoga and in coming here.

Ordered, That the said report lay on the table for the perusal of the members.