To all People who shall see these presents, We James Duane, William Floyd and Alexander McDougall the underwritten Delegates for the State of New York in the honorable Congress of the United States of America send Greeting.
Whereas by an Act of the Legislature of the said State of New York passed at a Session held at Albany in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and eighty, entitled An Act to facilitate the Completion of the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union among the United States of America2 it is declared that the People of the State of New York were on all Occasions disposed to