Inquiry directed to be made relative to Colonel Grubb' s Battalion returning home without being discharged

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Information being given to this Convention that the Battalion, or a part of the same, under the command of Colonel Peter Grubb, of Lancaster County, after having received one month' s pay advance, and having also been supplied with a number of arms in this City, have returned home without marching into New-Jersey, and without being discharged, and have taken the said arms with them,

Resolved, That the Council of Safety do forthwith make diligent and strict inquiry into this matter; and that they have power to call before them the Colonel and such other officers of the said Battalion as they shall judge necessary.

A Petition from six Captains of Companies of Colonel Montgomery' s Battalion of Chester County; Pennsylvania, Militia, complaining that they had not received their pay, and desiring the interference of this House, was read, and

Ordered to lie on the table.

The House resumed the consideration of the Bill respecting Associators and Non-Associators, and, after some time spent therein,

Adjourned to nine o' clock to-morrow morning.