Consideration of the expediency of assuming Government postponed

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Ordered, That the Committee just now appointed, to confer with the Committee of Safety respecting the appointment of Field-Officers, be instructed to inquire into the state of the Army at Cambridge and Roxbury; and if they find the numbers reduced, as is reported to this Congress, that they advise the Committee of Safely to send out immediately for re-enforcements.

Resolved, That the consideration of the expediency of assuming Government, which was to have been entered upon to-morrow afternoon, be postponed to Friday next, at three o' clock, P.M.; and that the Committee who were just now appointed to confer with the Committee of Safety, be directed to give notice hereof to the several Members of this Congress, who are now at Cambridge and Roxbury.

Adjourned to nine o' clock to-morrow morning.