A copy of a recommendation and directions from the Continental Congress, signed by their Secretary, bearing date of the 18th instant, and certified by Henry Remsen, deputy chairman of the committee of New York, to be a true copy, relating to the artillery and stores now in Ticonderoga, was handed to the President, and read, and is in the words following, to wit:

[Here is inserted the resolve of the Continental Congress of May 18, 1775]

The President then gave some farther information relating to the matters mentioned in the said recommendation from the Continental Congress, and particularly what had been done by the committee of the city and county of New York; and also enjoined and gave it in charge from the chair to the members of this Congress that the business concerning the artillery and stores at Ticonderoga, and every thing else relating thereto, is to be considered and kept as matters of secrecy.

The subject matter of the said recommendation or directions from the Continental Congress was taken in consideration and debated, and thereupon.

Resolved, That the Congress will immediately comply with the direction of the Continental Congress respecting the cannon and stores at Ticonderoga, and the other matters recommended in their order of the eighteenth of May, instant: And

Ordered, That Messrs. David Clarkson, Alexander McDougall, Walter Livingston, Robert Yates, Henry Glen, Zephania Platt, Egbert Dumond, Peter Clowes, John Sloss Hobart, Paul Micheau and Governeur Morris, be a Committee to report to this Congress with all convenient speed, the method best adapted to carry the above Resolution into execution.

Benjamin Kissam, Esqr, dissented from the above resolution, and prayed his dissent might be entered on the minutes.