Present: The Honourable Nicholas Cooke, Esquire, Deputy-Governour; Ambrose Page, Esq.; John Sayles, Jun., Esq.; John Jepson, Esq.; James Arnold, Jun., Esq.; Jonathan Randall, Esq.; Peter Phillips, Esq.; Joseph Hazard, Esq.; Assistants. The Secretary.

Deputies from the several Towns.

The Honourable Metcalf Bowler, Esquire, Speaker.

NEWPORT.—Mr. John Wanton, (son of Gideon,) Mr. Thomas Freebody.

PROVIDENCE.—Mr. John Jenckes, Mr. John Smith, Col. John Mathewson.

PORTSMOUTH.—John Shearman, Esquire.

WARWICK.—William Greene, Esq., Mr. Jacob Greene, Colonel John Low.

WESTERLY.—Joshua Babcock, Esq., Mr. James Rhodes.

NEW-SHOREHAM.—(None.)

NORTH-KINGSTOWN.—John Northup, Esq., Major Sylvester Gardner.

SOUTH-KINGSTOWN.—Carder Hazard, Esquire.

EAST-GREENWICH.—Mr. Allen Johnson.

JAMESTOWN.—Captain Samuel Carr.

SMITHFIELD.—Daniel Mowry, Jun., Esq., Stephen Whipple, Esquire.

SCITUATE.—Rufus Hopkins, Esquire.

GLOUCESTER.—Silas Williams, Esq., Mr. Daniel Owen.

CHARLESTOWN.—(None.)

WEST-GREENWICH.—William Nichols, Esquire, Thomas Gorton, Esquire.

COVENTRY.—John Rice, Esquire.

EXETER.—George Peirce, Esquire.

MIDDLETOWN.—(None.)

BRISTOL.—Major-General William Bradford, Major Benjamin Bosworth.

TIVERTON—Major John Cooke.

LITTLE-COMPTON.—Captain Thomas Brownell, William Richmond, Esquire.

WARREN.—Mr. Cromwel Child.

CUMBERLAND.—John Dexter, Esq., Jeremiah Whipple, Esquire.

RICHMOND.—George Webb, Esq., Capt. Richard Bailey.

CRANSTON.—(None.)

HOPKINTON.—(None.)

JOHNSTON.—Mr. Emmor Olney, Mr. Ebenezer Sprague.

NORTH-PROVIDENCE.—Mr.Joseph Olney, Major Thomas Olney.

BARRTNGTON.—Col. Nathaniel Martin, Mr. Thomas Allen.

JOSIAS LYNDON, Clerk of the Lower House.

In Council was read, the Return of the Officers chosen to command the company of Pawtuxet Rangers, in the Towns of Warwick Cranston, which is as follows, to wit:

Samuel Aborn, Captain; Benjamin Arnold, First Lieutenant; Rhodes Arnold, Second Lieutenant; Stephen Greene, Ensign.

Which being duly considered by the Council,

It is Voted and Resolved, That the said Officers be, and they are hereby, approved.

It is Voted and Resolved, That six Companies, consisting of sixty men each, including officers, be immediately raised in this Colony, in addition to those already ordered to be raised; that they be equipped with Arms, Ammunition, and all other necessaries; that two Companies be added to each Regiment now in the service of this Colony, and encamped near Boston;.that as soon as twenty men in a company shall be raised, they be sent forward, under the care of one commissioned officer, and the whole as soon as possible; that the same bounty and wages be allowed to them as to those already raised; and that, to defray the expense thereof, ten thousand Pounds, in lawful money bills, he emitted, and signed in the same manner and proportion as the first emission, excepting that the bills now ordered to be omitted be signed in the following manner, to wit; all the bills of five Shillings, and upwards, by three signers; and all under, by two signers.

An Act to repeal an Act, intituled, An Act for regulating Appeals to His Majesty in Council, in GREAT BRITAIN.

Be it enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, That the Act intituled an Act for regulating Appeals to His Majesty in Council, in Great Britain, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

It is Voted, and Resolved, That the Act to prevent the Honourable Joseph Wanton, Esq., from acting as Governour of this Colony, until the oath of office shall be administered to him in open General Assembly, with the consent of the Assembly, &c., which was passed at the Session held on the first Wednesday in May last, and continued by an Act passed at the Session held on the second Monday in June instant, be continued, and remain in force, until the rising of this Assembly, at the next Session: and that a copy of this Act be inserted in the Newport Mercury, and Providence Gazette.

Whereas, it is absolutely necessary, for the well governing and exerting the force of an Army, that the same should be under the direction of a Commander-in-Chief:

It is therefore Voted and Resolved, That the Army of Observation raised by this Colony, during the operations of the present campaign, be under the command and direction of the Commander-in-Chief of the combined American Army, stationed in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay; and that the Secretary transmit a copy of this Act to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; and to the Brigadier-General Troops.

It is Voted and Resolved, That his Honour the Deputy-Governour be, and he is hereby, requested to write an answer to the Letter from the Governour of Connecticut; and to the Speech of the Oneida Tribe of Indians to the four New-England Colonies.

It is Voted and Resolved, That Messrs. Jabez Champlin, James Angell, Metcalf Bowler, John Waterman, James Rhodes, John Sands, Sylvester Gardner, John Hawkins, Allen Johnson, Benjamin Underwood, Elisha Mowry, Jun., Rufus Hopkins, Asa Kimbal, Joseph Stanton, Jun., Thomas Gorton, Stephen Potter, George Peirce, John Barker, Benjamin Bosworth, John Cooke, Thomas Brownel, Cromel Child, John Dexter, George Webb, Richard Searle, Abel Tanner, Emmor Olney, Thomas Olney, and Thomas Allen, be, and they are hereby, appointed and directed to take an account, as soon as may be, of the Powder, Arms and Ammunition, in the several Towns in this Colony in which they respectively dwell, including private as well as publick stock; that they be, and hereby are, directed and empowered to go to the house of each person in their respective Towns, to take an account of the Powder, Arms and Ammunition; that they make report to his Honour the Deputy-Governour, that he may transmit an account thereof to the Continental Congress; and also make report to this Assembly, at the next Session; and that in case any of the persons hereby appointed shall refuse to serve, the members of the General Assembly, of the Town in which the person so refusing dwells, appoint another in his stead, who will undertake.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the Committees of Inspection in the several Towns in this Colony be, and they are hereby, appointed to collect all the Saltpetre and Brimstone in the respective Towns wherein they dwell, at the charge of the Colony, and send the same with all possible despatch to the Committee of Inspection Tor the Town of Providence, by them to be immediately forwarded to the Provincial Congress at New-York.

It is Voted and Resolved, That Captain Joseph Stanton, Jun., be, and he is hereby, appointed one of the Committee of Safety for the County of King’s County, in respect to the Soldiers now ordered to be raised by this Assembly.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the Gunner, and all the Soldiers, at Fort George, be immediately discharged; that Mr. Thomas Freebody have the care of the Buildings on Goat-Island, and let them out; that he hale up the Fort-boat, take particular care of her, an preserve her for the use of the Colony; that he procure the Cannon to be brought over from the Fort to Newport; and that he advertise the Guns which, were stolen from the Fort.

In Council was read the Return of the Officers chosen to command the Providence Grenadier Company, and is as followeth, to wit:

Jonathan Arnold, Captain; Zephaniah Andrews, First