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[{"insert":"Saturday, June 15th, P.M."},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"\tWhereas it is become absolutely necessary for the safety, protection, and happiness of the good people of this colony, forthwith to establish some authority adequate to the exigencies of their affairs, until a new government can be formed; and whereas the representatives of the people, in this Assembly met, alone can, and ought at this time, to establish such temporary authority.\n\n\tResolved unanimously, That all person holding any office, civil or military in this colony on the thirteenth day of June instant, may and shall continue to execute the same, in the name of the government of the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware, as they used legally to exercise it in the name of the King, until a new government shall be formed, agreeable to the Resolution of Congress of the fifteenth of May last. Extract from minutes,\n\nJames Booth, Clerk of Assembly."},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"INSTRUCTIONS to the Deputies' appointed by this Government to meet in General Congress, which were unanimously approved of.\n\n\tFIRST, That you concur with the other Delegates in Congress, in forming such farther compacts between the United Colonies, concluding such treaties with foreign Kingdoms and states, and in adopting such other measures as shall be judged necessary for promoting the liberty, safety, and interests of America, reserving to the people of this Colony, the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and policy of the same.\n\n\tSecond, On every necessary occasion, you are firmly to urge the right of this government to an equal voice in Congress with any other province or government on this Continent, as the inhabitants thereof have their ALL at stake as well as others. Extracts from the minutes,\n\nJames Booth, Clerk of Assembly."},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"}]
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Appendix A: State and Local Declarations of Independence
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States
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Massachusetts
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Counties
1354
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Appendix B: Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples
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New York
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Grand Jury Presentments
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Appendix C: The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes
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Ryden, George Herbert, ed. Letters to and from Caesar Rodney 1756-1784. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933. Courtesy of HathiTrust.
