Notice being given
this morning of a meeting, to be held this afternoon at the State House, a
number met, at which it was concluded that a new committee, to the number of
sixty, should be chosen, to manage public affairs for this City, the Southern
and Northern Liberties, to be chosen by ballot, the 12th inst., and to continue
in that station till the meeting and sitting of the next Congress, and two
weeks after the said Congress breaks up, and no longer.
SOURCE: William
Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept
in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1,
1774-1777, pp. 11-2
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