Resolved, That the foregoing Replication to his Excellency's Answer be published in the newspapers.

Ordered, That Major Hawley, Colonel Lee, and Mr. Gerry, be a Committee to extract such parts of the Resolves which passed in this Congress, the 26th and 28th current, and are necessary now to be published; who reported as followeth:

Whereas it has been recommended by this Congress that the Moneys heretofore granted and ordered to be assessed by the General Court of this Province, and not paid into the Province Treasury, should not be paid to the Honourable Harrison Gray, Esquire, for reasons most obvious.

Therefore, Resolved, That Henry Gardner, Esquire, of Stow, be, and hereby is, appointed Receiver General until the further order of this or some other Congress or House of Representatives of this Province, whose business it shall be to receive all such Moneys as shall be offered to be paid into his hands for the use of the Province, by the several Constables, Collectors, or other persons, by order of the several Towns or Districts, and to give his receipt for the same. And it is hereby recommended to the several Towns and Districts, within this Province, that they immediately call Town and District Meetings, and give directions to all Constables, Collectors, and other persons who may have any part of the Province Tax of such Town or District in their respective hands or possession, in consequence of any late order and directions of any Town or District, that he or they immediately pay the same to the said Henry Gardner Esquire, for the purposes aforesaid. And it is also recommended that the several Towns and Districts in said directions signify and expressly engage to such Constable, Collector, or other persons as shall have their said Moneys in their hands, that their paying the same to Henry Gardner, Esquire, aforesaid, and producing his receipt therefor, shall ever thereafter operate as an effectual discharge to such persons for the same. And it is hereby recommended that the like order be observed respecting the Tax ordered by the Great and General Court at their last May sessions. And it is further recommended to all Sheriffs or Deputy Sheriffs, or Coroners who may have in their hands any Moneys belonging to the Province, that they immediately pay the same to the said Receiver General, taking his receipt therefor. And the said Henry Gardner, Esquire, the Receiver General, shall be accountable to this or some other Congress or House of Representatives of this Province.

And to the end that all the Moneys heretofore assessed in pursuance of any former grants and orders of the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province, and hitherto uncollected by the several Constables and Collectors to whom the several lists of assessment thereof were committed, may be effectually levied and collected; and also to the end that all the Moneys granted or ordered to be assessed by the General Court at their sessions in May last, which have been assessed, or which may be assessed, may be also speedily and punctually collected, it is earnestly recommended by this body to the several Constables and Collectors, respectively, who have such assessments in their hands, or to whom any assessments yet to be made may be committed by the assessors of any Towns or Districts, that, in levying and collecting the respective part or proportion of the total of such assessments therein set down to the several persons named therein, they should act and proceed in the same way and manner as is expressed and provided in the form of a warrant, given and contained in one Act or Law of this Province, entitled "An Act prescribing the form of a Warrant for collecting of Town Assessments," &c.

And it is hereby strongly recommended to all the inhabitants of the several Towns and Districts in this Province, that they without fail do afford to their respective Constables and Collectors all that aid and assistance which shall be necessary to enable them in that manner to levy the contents of such assessments; and that they do oblige and compel the said Constables and Collectors to comply with and execute the directions of this Resolve: and inasmuch as the present most alarming situation and circumstances of this Province do make it absolutely necessary for the safety thereof.

Whereas, in consequence of the present unhappy disputes between Great Britain and the Colonies, a formidable body of Troops, with warlike preparations of every sort, are already arrived at, and others destined for the metropolis of this Province; and the express design of their being sent is to execute Acts of the British Parliament utterly subversive of the Constitution of the Province; and whereas his Excellency General Gage has attempted by his Troops to disperse the inhabitants of Salem, whilst assembled to consult measures for preserving their freedom, and to subjugate the Province to arbitrary Government; and, proceeding to still more unjustifiable and alarming lengths, has fortified against the country the capital of the Province, and thus greatly endangered the lives, liberties, and properties of its oppressed citizens; invaded private property by unlawfully seizing and retaining large quantities of Ammunition in the arsenal at Boston, and sundry pieces of Ordnance in the same Town; committed to the custody of his Troops the Arms, Ammunition, Ordnance, and warlike Stores of all sorts, provided at the publick expense, for the use of the Province; and by all possible means endeavoured to place the Province entirely in a defenceless state, at the same time having neglected and altogether disregarded assurances from this Congress of the pacifick dispositions of the inhabitants of the Province, and entreaties that he would cease from measures which tended to prevent a restoration of harmony between Great Britain and the Colonies:

Wherefore it is the opinion of this Congress, that notwithstanding nothing but slavery ought more to be deprecated than hostilities with Great Britain, notwitstanding the Province has not the most distant design of attacking, annoying, or molesting his Majesty's Troops, aforesaid, but on the other hand will consider and treat every attempt of the kind, as well as all measures tending to prevent a reconciliation between Great Britain and the Colonies as the highest degree of enmity to the Province, nevertheless there is great reason, from the considerations aforesaid, to be apprehensive of the most fatal consequences; and that the Province may be in some degree provided against the same, and under full persuasion that the measures expressed in the following Resolves are perfectly consistent with such Resolves of the Continental Congress as have been communicated to us, it is resolved, and hereby recommended to the several Companies of Militia in this Province, who have not already chosen and appointed officers, that they meet forthwith, and elect officers to command their respective Companies; and that the officers so chosen assemble as soon as may be; and where the said officers shall judge the limits of the present Regiments too extensive that they divide them, and settle and determine their limits, and proceed to elect field officers to command their respective Regiments; and that the field officers, so elected, forthwith endeavour to enlist one-quarter, at least, of the number of the respective Companies, and form them into Companies of fifty Privates, at the least, who shall equip and hold themselves in readiness to march at the shortest notice; and that each and every Company, so formed, choose a Captain and two Lieutenants to command them on any necessary and emergent service, and that the said Captain and Subalterns, so elected, form the said Companies into Battalions, to consist of nine Companies each, and that the Captain and Subalterns of each Battalion, so formed, proceed to elect field officers to command the same. And the Congress doth most earnestly recommend that all the aforesaid elections be proceeded in and made with due deliberation and generous regard to the publick service.

Also Resolved, That the security of the lives, liberties, and properties of the inhabitants of this Province depends, under Providence, on their knowledge and skill in the Art Military, and in their being properly and effectually armed and equipped; if any of said inhabitants are not provided with Arms and Ammunition, according to law, that they immediately provide themselves therewith, and that they use their utmost diligence to perfect themselves in the military skill; and that if any Town or District within the Province is not provided with the full Town stock of Arms and Ammunition, according to law, that the Selectmen of such Town or District take effectual care, without delay, to provide the same.