Circular letters to be written; urging Troops to be marched with the utmost expedition to New-Jersey

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Friday, July 19, 1776, A. M.

The Convention met according to adjournment.

Colonel James Potter, one of the Members for Northumberland, appeared in the House for the first time, took the oaths, and made and subscribed the profession of faith required.

The Ordinance brought in yesterday respecting the Arms of Non-Associators, was read a second time, and then read by paragraphs. During the debates on which, a letter was handed to the President from the honourable the President of the Congress, informing that a false report had been spread through the country, which, it was apprehended, had retarded the march of the Pennsylvania Associators, and that therefore it had been resolved by the Congress, that it should be recommended to this Convention to hasten their march with all expedition.