such Officers and Soldiers as shall be draughted from the Battalions from time to time for actual service. And the said Commissioners and Assessors shall produce their accounts for the furnishing the Arms and Accoutrements aforesaid to the Committee hereinafter appointed, which being approved of by the said Committee, they shall draw orders on the Treasurer for the payment thereof, and he is hereby enjoined to pay the same out of the Bills to be emitted by the Resolution of this House.

5. Resolved, That the Firelocks to be provided as afore-said be of one size and bore, with steel Rammers, well fitted to the same; and that patterns of the said Firelocks, Rammers, and Bayonets, be immediately made in the City of Philadelphia, and sent to the different Counties.

6. Resolved, That this House do recommend to and enjoin the Officers and Committees of each County in this Province, to select a number of Minute-Men equal to the Arms, &c., provided for the same, to be in readiness, upon the shortest notice, to march to any quarter, in case of emergency.

7. Resolved, That provision be made for defending this Province, and the City in particular, against the attacks of armed vessels that may be sent to annoy them.

And whereas, the safety of a Country greatly depends on having within itself the means of defence, and it appears that sufficient quantities of Saltpetre may be collected, not only for defence, but for other purposes:

8. Resolved, That the sum of twenty Pounds be paid for every hundred weight of good merchantable Saltpetre that shall be made and manufactured in this Province, and delivered to the Committee of Safety hereinafter named, within the space of three months from this time; and that the sum of fifteen Pounds be paid for every hundred weight of good merchantable Saltpetre that shall be made and manufactured in this Province and delivered to the said Committee within the space of three months next following; and so in proportion for a greater or lesser quantity.

9. Resolved, That John Dickinson, George Gray, Henry Wynkoop, Anthony Wayne, Benjamin Bartholomew, George Ross, Michael Swoope, John Montgomery, Edward Biddle, William Edmonds, Bernhard Dougherty, Samuel Hunter, William Thompson, Thomas Willing, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Roberdeau, John Cadwalader, Andrew Allen, Owen Biddle, Francis Johnston, Richard Reily, Samuel Morris, Junior, Robert Morris, Thomas Wharton, Junior, and Robert White, Gentlemen, be a Committee of Safety for calling forth such and so many of the Associators into actual service, when necessity requires, as the said Committee shall judge proper; for paying and supplying them with necessaries while in actual service; for providing for the defence of this Province against invasion and insurrection; and for encouraging and promoting the manufacture of Saltpetre; which said Committee are hereby authorized and empowered to draw orders on the Treasurer hereinafter appointed for the several purposes above mentioned.

10. Resolved, That any seven or more of the said Committee shall be a board for transacting the business aforesaid, or any part thereof.

And for carrying the foregoing Resolves into execution, it is

11. Resolved, That Bills of Credit to the value of Thirty-Five Thousand Pounds shall, on or before the first day of August next, be prepared and printed on good strong paper, under the care and direction of George Gray, Joseph Parker, William Rodman, and Isaac Pearson, Esquires, or any three of them, at the charge of the publick, to be defrayed out of the said Bills; which Bills shall be made and prepared in manner and form following, viz:

According to the Resolves of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, made on the thirtieth day of June, in the fifteenth year of His Majesty George the Third; dated at Philadelphia, the twentieth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

And the said Bills shall have such escutcheons and devices as the said George Gray, Joseph Parker, William Rodman, and Isaac Pearson, shall think proper; each of which Bills shall be of the several and respective denominations following, and no other, viz:

Seven thousand of the same Bills of the sum of forty Shillings.

Seven thousand of the same Bills of the sum of thirty Shillings.

Seven thousand of the same Bills of the sum of twenty Shillings.

Seven thousand of the same Bills of the sum of ten Shillings.

And the said George Gray, Joseph Parker, William Rodman, and Isaac Pearson, shall use their best care, attention, and diligence, during the printing of the said Bills, that the number and amount thereof, according to their respective denominations aforesaid, be not exceeded, nor any clandestine or fraudulent practice used by the printer, his servants, or other persons concerned therein,

12. Resolved, That the said George Gray, Joseph Parker, William Rodman, and Isaac Pearson, or any three of them, after the said Bills are printed, shall deliver them to the signers to be signed and numbered by parcels, for which they shall take the receipts of the signers.

13. Resolved, That Sharp Delany, Lambert Cadwalader, Isaac Howell, James Meas, Adam Hubley, John Benezet, Samuel Cadwalader Morris, Thomas Prior, Godfrey Twells, John Meas, John Purviance, and William Allen, Junior, or any three of them, shall be the signers of each and every of the said Bills.

14. Resolved, That when the same Bills shall be signed, they shall be delivered to Michael Hillegas, Esquire, hereby appointed Treasurer, who shall give his receipt for the same, and shall therewith pay off and discharge all such draughts and certificates as shall be made by order of Assembly, or the Committee of Safety aforesaid.

15. Resolved, That the Treasurer aforesaid shall give bond with two sufficient sureties to John Morton and Charles Humphreys, Esquires, in the sum of ten thousand Pounds, for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in him.

And for the more certain paying, redeeming, discharging, and sinking the said Bills of Credit hereby emitted:

16. Resolved, That a Tax on all estates, real and personal, within this Province, shall be raised and levied by the respective Commissioners and Assessors of the several Counties within this Province, in the same manner and mode as the Provincial Tax, by the laws now in force, is raised, levied, and recovered, and shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer; which said Tax first mentioned shall commence immediately after the sinking of the Bills of Credit now remaining to be sunk of those sums granted to the King during the course of the last war; which Tax, for the purposes aforesaid, the several Commissioners and Assessors are enjoined and required to raise, levy, recover, and pay, as they regard the freedom, welfare, and safety of their Country.

Upon motion,

Resolved, That the Committee of Safety draw an order on their Treasurer for fifty Pounds, payable to George Ross, Esquire, and another order for the like sum, payable to James Wilson, Esquire, for their services Deputies of this Province in the Continental Congress.

The House taking into consideration that many of the good people of this Province are conscientiously scrupulous of bearing Arms, do hereby earnestly recommend to the Associators for the defence of their Country, and others, that they bear a tender, and brotherly regard towards this class of their fellow-subjects and countrymen; and to these conscientious people it is recommended, that they cheerfully assist, in proportion to their abilities, such Associators as cannot spend their time and substance in the publick service without great injuries to themselves and families.

Upon motion,

The Memorial of Samuel Preston Moore, Esquire, was again read, and after some debate, referred to the Committee of Accounts, to consider the service of the memorialist, and report thereon at the next meeting.

The House adjourned to Monday, the 18th of September next, at four o’clock, P. M.

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