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Dear Sir:

Affairs here have taken a turn within a few days past, All Ideas of forming a permanent constitution are at this time laid aside. It is now proposed for the present to establish a Council to sit constantly, & County Committees to sit at certain fixed Periods, but nothing is concluded. We find it necessary to emit a very large sum of paper money on the present emergency, a circumstance which

gives me more concern than any thing else, & yet it seems unavoidable. You can easily see the evils attending this measure.

I am pretty well this morning & have leave to be absent from the service of the House in order to prepare my publick accounts for a settlement. Allen Jones, Vice-President. I heard from my family yesterday. They were all well. Offer my love and compliments where due, and believe me, Dear Sir, your affectionate brother and humble Servant,

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