Governor Clinton, on December 15, 1777, issued a proclamation for reconvening the legislature on January 5, 1778; but quorums of both houses did not materialize before the 15th. On January 28, the assembly again took up the engrossed amended bill, referred back to it by the senate in the preceding year (October 6, 1 777), and concurred on the next morning. The amendments had so defaced the bill that the assembly, on January 31, ordered a newly engrossed copy, and on February 2, in its new form, it was transmitted to the senate, where it passed the next morning. The bill was returned to the assembly, where it had originated. Having now been passed in both houses, it was ordered, on the 4th, to be transmitted to the council

of revision, which gave its approval on February 5, 1778, the date of actual enactment, yet a record of this ceri6 State of New York

tification was made in the senate only on the ioth of the month. 1

Senator Abraham Yates, on March 20, 1778, asked formal leave to introduce a bill amendatory of the act of February 5. bill was altered in In the committee of the whole his title and amended in body;was passed by the senate on it

April 2, and forwarded by the hand of Senator Levi Pawling to the assembly for concurrence. The house by unanimous consent at once referred it to the committee of the whole, where was considered favorably and without alteration. it