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[JUNE 1, 1776]

The Committee of Privileges and Elections have, according to
Order, proceeded to the examination of Thomas Mitchell, who
was apprehended on suspicion of being inimical to the Rights of
America - and it appears to your Committee that the Offence, with
which he was charged, comes under the Cognizance of a Court of
Commissioners, whereupon the Committee came to the following
Resolution. Viz.

Resolved as the Opinion of this Committee that the said
Thomas Mitchell be sent to the Court of Commissioners for the
County of York, there to be tried.