whom the Resolve of Congress, dated May 9, 1775, empowering the Selectmen to supply the inhabitants of their respective Towns with Arms, &c., did not extend, and by that means many of such men are not provided with sufficient Arms: therefore,

Resolved, That the inhabitants of the several Towns and Districts in the Counties specified in a list hereunto annexed, who may have good and sufficient Firelocks, be, and hereby are, most earnestly advised, as soon as possible to provide and deliver to such person or persons as are to be now appointed by this Congress to receive the same, the full number of good effective Firelocks specified in the said list for each Town and District to supply; for which Firelocks every owner thereof shall receive such sum, in the bills of credit of this Colony, as the person or persons now to be appointed by this Congress to receive such Firelock, and the owner thereof, shall agree to be the value of the same, within forty days after the delivery of such Firelock; for all which Firelocks, delivered as aforesaid, the person to be appointed by this Congress to receive the same, shall give his receipt therefor, in the form following:

“The . . . . day of . . . . . ., 1775.

“Received of A. B . . . . . Firelock, to the use of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, of the value of . . . ., which sum the Receiver-General of the said Colony is directed, in forty days after the date hereof, to pay to the said A B, or order, in bills of credit of this Colony.”

And the Receiver-General, upon such receipt being produced to him, is empowered and required to pay out of the Treasury of this Colony the sum specified in such receipt, in the bills of credit aforesaid, to the person named therein, or his order; and, furthermore, the Selectmen and Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns and Districts aforesaid, are hereby most earnestly requested to afford all possible aid and assistance to the persons to be appointed by this Congress to procure the said Firelocks, that so the said Arms may be supplied to our Army with the greatest expedition. And the persons to be appointed to procure said Firelocks are hereby severally empowered and directed to employ such Wagoners and Teamsters as shall be necessary, with great despatch to convey the same to the Army, and to order the Receiver-General of this Colony to pay out of the Treasury of the same, in bills of credit as aforesaid, such sums as they shall agree on and draw for; and the said Receiver-General is hereby authorized and directed to pay the orders so drawn.

Resolved, That four o’clock, P. M., be assigned for choosing Committees to receive and purchase Fire-Arms, agreeable to the foregoing Resolve.

Afternoon.

A Letter from the President of the Continental Congress, and a Resolve containing several recommendations to this and the other Colonies, and two Letters, (one to the Lieutenant-Governour of Rhode-Island, and one to the Provincial Congress of New-Hampshire,) brought express by Mr. Fessenden, were read; whereupon,

Ordered, That Captain Morton take charge of the Letter to New-Hampshire, and Mr. Slead that to Rhode-Island, to deliver them immediately, and return to Congress as soon as may be.

Resolved, That the Hon. Colonel Warren, Hon. Major Hawley, Hon. Colonel Gerrish, Mr. Gerry, Colonel Prescott, Deacon Cheever, Captain Brown, Captain Robinson, and the Secretary of the Congress, be a Committee to notify and call together the Members of this Congress in any extraordinary emergency, at any other time, or to any other place than that to which it may stand adjourned.

The Order of the Day was moved for.

Whereupon, Committees were chosen to purchase Arms agreeable to the Resolve passed in the forenoon. The names of the Committees chosen are expressed in the following Resolve, viz:

For the County of WORCESTER.—Captain William Page, of Hardwick; Captain Abiel Sadler, of Upton; Mr. Hemenway, of Shrewsbury.

For the County of HAMPSHIRE.—Maj. Benjamin S. Ely, of West-Springfield; Major John Bliss, of Hadley.

For the County of SCTTFOLK.—Captain Lemuel Kollock, of Wrentham.

For the County of MIDDLESEX.—Col. Simeon Spaulding, of Chelmsford; Capt. Josiah Stone, of Framingham.

For the County of PLYMOUTH.—Major Ebenezer White, of Rochester.

For the County of BRISTOL.—Colonel George Williams, of Taunton.

Adjourned to Sunday morning, eight o’clock.

Sunday, June 18, 1775.

Resolved, That the Records and Papers of the Provincial Congress be secured and taken care of, at the discretion of the Secretary; and that the Committee of Supplies be, and hereby are directed to procure a horse for the Secretary, that he may have one ready for that purpose on any emergency.

A Petition from the Committee of Waldoborough for Powder, was read; whereupon,