each Lieutenant and Ensign, two Shillings, lawful money; and each other person one Shilling lawful money; and when they march for the defence of the Colony, or out of the Colony, each Captain shall receive six Shillings lawful money per day; each Lieutenant five Shillings lawful money per day; each Ensign four Shillings lawful money per day; and each other person three Shillings lawful money per day; and shall also be billeted at the charge of the Colony: and that the Commanding Officer make his return once a month to the Committee of Safety, and draw the money.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several Independent Companies in this Colony, or such of them as shall think proper, form themselves into Companies of Minute-men, under the same regulation and command as above mentioned, and exercise and do duty in the same manner; and that they receive the same pay and allowance.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Secretary, as soon as may be, transmit copies of this Act to the several Sheriffs in the Colony, who are hereby directed to forward them by the first safe hands, to the persons appointed to enlist the said Minute-men in their respective Counties.

It is Voted and Resolved, That Mr. John Martin be, and he is hereby, appointed a Surgeon to the Rhode-Island Brigade; that he do all the services in said Brigade that his capacity will admit of; and that he be allowed for the same the monthly wages of nine Pounds lawful money.

It is Voted and Resolved, That Captain John Grimes be, and he is hereby, appointed Commander of the small Sloop chartered by the Colony, in the room of Captain Christopher Whipple, who refused; that all other vacancies, in either of the Sloops chartered by the Colony, be filled up by the Committee of Safety; and that the Officers be commissioned by the Secretary of this Colony.

It is Voted and Resolved, That when the places of any commissioned Officers in the Army of Observation, raised by this Colony, shall happen to be vacant, the Brigadier-General of the said Army, with the advice of the Field-Officers thereof, fill up all such vacancies with Officers; who shall have full power to act by virtue of such appointment, until his Honour the Deputy-Governour shall send them Commissions, signed by the Secretary.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the Secretary publish the Acts and Orders now made and passed by beat of drum, in the Town of Providence, in ten days after the rising of this Assembly, and within thirty send copies thereof to the Sheriffs of the several Counties in this Colony, by them to be transmitted to the Town-Clerks in their respective Counties; and that this Assembly be, and hereby is, adjourned until the third Monday in August next, then to meet in the Town of Providence.

GOD save the King.

Published according to order, on Monday, the tenth day of July, A. D. 1775, by

HENRY WARD, Secretary.

PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY.

Monday, June 19, 1775, P. M.

Mr. Speaker, with twenty-three Members, met pursuant to adjournment; and a quorum not appearing, they adjourned to three o’clock to-morrow afternoon.

Tuesday, June 20, 1775.

A quorum met, pursuant to the adjournment of last night.

Ordered, That Mr. Brown and Mr. Edmonds wait on the Governour, and acquaint him that the House are met, pursuant to their adjournment, and ready to receive any business he may be pleased to lay before them.

Wednesday, June 21, 1775.

The House met pursuant to their adjournment.

The Members appointed to wait on the Governour with the Message of last night, reported they had delivered the same according to order; and that his Honour was pleased to say, he had no business at present to lay before the House.

A Petition from a number of inhabitants near Head’s Creek, in the Townships of Chestnut-Hill and Domencing, in Northampton County, was presented to the House, and read, complaining of great inconveniences suffered by the petitioners, from a saw-mill dam erected on the said creek, obstructing the navigation thereof, and praying relief.

Ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Speaker laid before the House a Letter from Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, Agent for this Province in London, dated the 15th of February last, enclosing a list of six Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, presented to His Majesty in Council the 14th of the same month, respectively intituled and passed, as follows, viz:

No. 1. “An Act for the relief of Samuel Sweet, a languishing prisoner in the Gaol of Philadelphia; and Thomas Bamford, a languishing prisoner in the Gaol of Lancaster County, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons;” passed the 28th of September, 1773.

No. 2. “An Act for the support of the Government of this Province, and payment of the Publick Debts;” passed the same day.

No. 3. “An Act to prevent counterfeiting the Paper Moneys of other Colonies;” passed the same day.

No. 4. “An Act to continue an Act intituled ‘An Act to amend the Act intituled An Act to prevent the exportation of Bread and Flour not merchantable;’ ” passed the 23d of July, 1774.

No. 5. “An Act for lending the sum of Eight Hundred Pounds to the several and respective Counties of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland, for building a Court-House and Prison in each of the said Counties;” passed the same day.

No. 6. “An Act for the support of the Government of this Province, and payment of the Publick Debts;” passed the 29th of September, 1774.

All which Acts are herewith most humbly presented this 14th day of February, 1775, by me, Henry Wilmot, Agent for the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania.

Upon motion, Ordered, That Mr. Gray, Mr. Hillegas, Mr. Rodman, Mr. Pearson, Mr. Wayne, Mr. Ross, Mr. Swoope, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Hunter, and Mr. Dougherty, be a Committee to prepare and bring in a Bill for striking the sum of Twenty-Two Thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, to be sunk by the excised on spirituous liquors.

Thursday, June 22, 1775, P. M.

The House met, and adjourned to five o’clock, P. M.

The Committee appointed to prepare and bring in a Bill for striking the sum of Twenty-Two Thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, to be sunk by the excise on spirituous liquors, reported an essay for that purpose, intituled “An Act for the support of the Government of this Province, and payment of the Publick Debts;” which was read the first time, and ordered to lie on the table for a second reading.

Friday, June 23, 1775.

The Bill intituled “An Act for the support of the Government of this Province, and payment of the Publick Debts, ” being read the second time, and debated by paragraphs, was ordered to be transcribed for a third reading.

A Petition and Memorial from the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, was presented to the House, and read, setting forth, that the petitioners, reflecting upon the great and imminent danger to which the liberties of America are exposed, by the open and declared determination of the British Ministry to enforce certain cruel and oppressive Acts of Parliament; and contemplating those mournful events which have already happened, as well as those which may happen, during this important struggle, have been induced to form and recommend a Military Association within this City and Liberties; that, in forming such Association, they have extended their views beyond a mere parade and useless show; and animated with a lively sense of the inestimable value of the blessings of civil liberty themselves, they have endeavoured to