date: also the sum of six pence per pound for every pound above ten pound (excepting that person who receives the bounty of fifty Pounds) manufactured by any person within said Colony, in the said year, and that the Committee of Supplies be directed and empowered to examine any quantity offered, and to draw on the Treasurer agreeable to this Resolve, or some other Committee who shall be particularly empowered for this purpose.

Whereas a number of the Towns of this Colony have not yet paid into the hands of George Jaffrey, Esq., their Province Tax:

Resolved, That the Constables and Collectors of said Towns be, and hereby are directed to pay said money into the hands of Colonel Nicholas Gilman, Receiver-General for the Colony of New-Hampshire, who is authorized to receive and give receipts for the same.

Voted, That Deacon Samuel Books be Postmaster for this Town.

Adjourned till eight o’clock to-morrow.

Friday, June 9, 1775.

Voted, That Ebenezer Thompson, Esquire, and Colonel Nicholas Gilman, be a Committee to procure the plates, and see the Notes struck off. Adjourned to three o’clock.

Met according to adjournment.

Resolved, That the Receiver-General of this Colony, appointed by this Congress, be hereby empowered to give his notes of hand on the faith of the Colony, payable to the possessor, for the sum of Ten Thousand and Fifty Pounds, of the present currency, or lawful money, to be paid into the Treasury aforesaid by a Tax on the polls and estates of the inhabitants of this Colony, in the following manner, viz: four thousand Pounds to be paid by the twentieth December, which will be in the year of our Lord 1776, and six per cent. interest from the date; and the sum of three thousand Pounds the twentieth December, 1777, and three thousand and fifty Pounds the twentieth December, 1778. And the said notes shall be struck by copper-plate, to be engraved under the direction of this Congress for the several sums following, to complete said sum of Ten Thousand and Fifty Pounds, viz: Six thousand Pounds in Forty Shilling notes; three thousand Pounds in Twenty Shilling notes; nine hundred Pounds in Six Shilling notes, and one hundred and fifty Pounds in One Shilling notes; and the form said notes to be in the following words, with such other devices as may be ordered by the Congress, viz:

“The possessor of this note shall be entitled to receive, out of the Treasury of this Colony, the sum of . . . . .Shillings, lawful money, on the twentieth of December, 177–, with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum; and this note shall be received in all payments at the Treasury at any time after the date hereof, for the principal sum, without interest, if so paid before the said twentieth day of December, A. D. 177–.

And the Treasurer or Committee who shall number the same, shall fill the blank left for time of payment in a number of bills sufficient to complete four thousand Pounds, with the figure 6, and number to complete three thousand Pounds with the figure 7, and the remainder with the figure 8. And the said Notes, when brought unto said Receiver-General and paid by him, shall, after the said time fixed for payment, be burnt to ashes in the presence of the Congress of this Colony.

Adjourned to eight o’clock to-morrow.

Saturday, June 10, 1775.

Voted, That all Bills of Credit on the faith of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, have a free currency in this Colony of New-Hampshire.

Voted, That the President of the Congress be empowered to sign any papers in the recess of the Congress, which it is necessary should be signed by him as President, and in particular the commissions to all officers appointed for the Army belonging to this Colony.

Voted, That one month’s wages be paid to all the officers and soldiers in the pay of this Colony as soon as may be, and that prior thereto the Paymaster administer to each of the said officers and soldiers the oath appointed by this Congress.

Voted, That George Frost, Esq., be one of the Committee with Ebenezer Thompson, Esq., instead of Colonel Nicholas Gilman, to procure the plate, see the money struck off, signed, and delivered to the Receiver-General.

This body having taken into consideration the great stagnation of Trade, and the difficulty to which their constituents are reduced by the unhappy dispute with Great Britain, as to the turning either their real or personal estates into cash, think it necessary to recommend for the present all possible lenity and forbearance in creditors towards those who may stand indebted to them, but that they avoid multiplying suits at law, and especially the carrying them to such length as the levying execution on real estates, which must, in this case, in our apprehension, be sold much below their real value. We most particularly recommend this lenity and forbearance in reference to such who have or may engage as officers and soldiers in the defence of the invaded rights and liberties of America; and we further recommend to debtors all possible care and endeavour to discharge to the utmost of their power all just demands upon them.

Adjourned to the twenty-seventh instant.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of the Committee of Anne Arundel County, at Pigg point, on Saturday, the twentieth of May, at the request of Mr. David Weems, Jr.; Joseph Galloway, Esq., in the Chair. Present: Mr. Thomas Tillard, Thomas Deale, Marmaduke Wyvill, Thomas Tongue, Robert Brown, William Tillard, Edward Tillard, Samuel Harrison, and John Stewart.

Mr. Weems desired to know if he might procure some articles that he had occasion for, of any of the masters of ships, particularly an anchor and cable of Captain David Carcaud, of the Ship Industry.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that Mr. Weems, nor any other person, can, consistent with the letter and spirit of the Association of the Continental Congress, purchase or receive the same.

Resolved, That Captain Carcaud cannot sell, or in any manner dispose of, or land the aforesaid anchor and cable, or any rigging, sails, or other goods he may have on board his ship, to any person within the Province of Maryland, or any part of America .