Committee-chamber, New-York, April 9, 1776 : Whereas the late Provincial Congress of the colony of New-York, by their resolve of the twelfth of March last, did order a new election of deputies to represent this province in Provincial Congress, for the ensuing year: the freemen and freeholders, and such other inhabitants of the city and county of New-York ... are therefore requested to meet ... to elect, by plurality of voices, twenty-one deputies ...