. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. gistrates in the execution oftheir duty agreeable to colonial law, and thatevery effort should be made • to guard againstthose disorders and confusions to which the pe-culiar circumstances of the times may expose to the month of August of thatyear, the Congress, upon its assembling, recog-nized the gravity of the political phase of the sit-uation. The haphazard methods of election ofdelegates gave place to distinct regulation. Theright of electing delegates was laid upon the in-habitants of the county qualifi
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. gistrates in the execution oftheir duty agreeable to colonial law, and thatevery effort should be made • to guard againstthose disorders and confusions to which the pe-culiar circumstances of the times may expose to the month of August of thatyear, the Congress, upon its assembling, recog-nized the gravity of the political phase of the sit-uation. The haphazard methods of election ofdelegates gave place to distinct regulation. Theright of electing delegates was laid upon the in-habitants of the county qualified to vote for mem-bers of the House of Assembly. The choice ofeach county was limited to five delegates or less,the election for the meeting of Congress on Octo-ber 3d to be held in the respective county courthouses upon the 21st day of September. Duringthe continuation of the present unhappy disputesbetween Great Britain and America a popularelection for delegates to the Provincial Congress,as well as the election of members of county com- 108 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. (T^Stt mittees of observation and correspondence, wasordered for the third Thursday of committees were directed to be chosenupon the second Tuesday in March. Having provided for organizing the militia andraising funds for the prosecution of a possiblewar, various questions of religious and economicimportance were passed upon by the ProvincialCongress. For the non-combatant members of theSociety of Friends the members, according to aresolution of August 17th, intend no violence ofconscience and recommended to the Society lib-eral contributions to the relief of their distressedbrethren. From Sussex County came the com-plaint that shop goods were greatly advanced inprice owing to the situation of the market inPhiladelphia and New York, while to relieve thepublic roads of the presence of strollers, vaga-bonds, and runaway servants, who were engagedin horse stealing and other robberies. Congress,upon
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