Bad beef smells really really bad and you would not have to put your nose close to the meat to smell it. You would know there was something wrong. I have had beef that is a little brownish in place and it was fresh and not old. I don't know exactly why it looks that way sometimes but it is probably drying blood.
When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress.
The Second Continental Congress consisted primarily of the members of the former First Continental Congress, which had met between September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When the new Congress convened in May 1775, the membership had changed very little.