I am with great Respect, your most obedient Servant, Metcalf Bowler [Speaker]. [The Resolves inclosed, as follows.] May 7th 1773. In the House of Deputies. _Resolved_ that a standing _Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry_ be appointed to consist of seven Persons, _to wit_ the honorable _Stephen Hopkins_, Esquire, _Metcalf Bowler_, _Moses Brown_, _John Cole_, _William Bradford_, _Henry Ward_, and _Henry Merchant_ Esquires, and four of whom to be a Committee, whose Business it shall be to obtain the most early and authentick Intelligence of all such Acts and Resolutions of the British Parliament or Proceedings of Administration as may relate to or affect the British Colonies in America, and to keep up and maintain a Correspondence with our Sister Colonies respecting these important Considerations; and the Result of such their Proceedings from Time to Time to lay before this House. Voted Per Order J. Lyndon, Clerk. The above written is a true _Copy_ of a Vote of the House of Deputies of Lower House of Assembly of the Colony of _Rhode Island_. * * * * * _May_ 7th 1773. In the House of Deputies. _Resolved_, that the Speaker of this House be requested to write to the _Speaker_ of the House of Burgesses in _Virginia_, and to all other _Speakers_ of Assemblies in North America, informing them of the Proceedings of this House relating to the Preservation of the Rights of the Colonies. Voted Per Order J. Lyndon, Clerk. * * * * * (2) From a Massachusetts Legislative Committee. Province of Massachusetts Bay, June 3d., 1773. Sir: The very judicious and important Resolves entered into by the House of Burgesses of his Majesty's most ancient Colony of Virginia on the 12th March last, together with your obliging Letter inclosing the same, have been laid before the house of Representatives of this Province. The Wisdom of the Measures proposed in those Resolves, and the great and good Effects that may reasonably be expected to flow from them, not only to the Colonies but the Parent State, were so obvious, that the House immediately adopted them; and appointed a Committee to keep up and maintain a free Communication with Virginia and the Rest of the Sister Colonies. * * * * * [Similar replies from other colonies.] 124. Tea Riots From a Philadelphia Handbill to the Delaware Pilots, September, 1773, given in Scharf and Westcott's _History of Philadelphia_, I, 286.