To the public. The Provincial Congress of New-York, yesterday passed a resolve in the following words.

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Creator / Contributor: Scott, John Morin
1730-1784
New York (Colony)
Provincial Congress
Title: To the public. The Provincial Congress of New-York, yesterday passed a resolve in the following words: to wit, "That no military officer in the pay of the Continental Congress, or the Congress of this colony, ought to be eligible to a seat in the Congress of this colony ... In Provincial Congress, New-York, the ninth day of June, 1776. To John Morin Scott, Esquire, Greeting: Whereas the Continental Congress by their resolutions ... appoint you, the said John Morin Scott, provincial brigadier general
Collection Title: In Provincial Congress, New-York, the ninth day of June, 1776
Place: New York
Publisher: s.n.
Date: 1776]
1776
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 40 x 22 cm.
Notes: Attack on the resolution prohibiting a military officer from serving in the New York legislature. Includes a statement of Scott's commission from the Provincial Congress, dated New-York, the ninth day of June 1776.
Signed at bottom: John Morin Scott.
References: Bristol
Subject temporal: 1775-1783
Subject: Qualifications
Politics and government
Subject personal name: Scott, John Morin
1730-1784
Subject corporate name: New York (Colony).
Provincial Congress
Subject geographic name: New York (State)
Material type or medium of original: Broadsides.