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1775.    
  May 3,
Committee of Supplies directed to furnish Colonel Benedict Arnold ten Horses, and Powder, Lead and Flints,
782
 
Committee to revise the Commission of the Committee of Supplies,
782
 
Receiver-General directed to borrow One Hundred Thousand Pounds,
782
 
Horses and Carriages of Members of this Congress excepted from impressment,
783
 
Committee to procure a Copperplate for printing the Colony Notes,
783
 
Rev. Mr. Gordon chosen Chaplain to the Congress during their session in Watertown,
783
 
Report of Committee on liberating Prisoners taken by Gen. Gage, the 19th of April, (Note,)
784
 
Resolve on the same subject,
784
 4,
Pay to the Soldiers advanced,
784
 
Committee to hold a Conference with the Delegates from Connecticut to General Gage,
785
 
Their Report,
785
 
Committee to prepare a Letter to the Assembly of Connecticut, on their application to General Gage,
785
 5,
Resolution of April 1, recommending the Writs of General Gage, for electing Members of an Assembly, should be obeyed, reconsidered and rescinded, and declare that no obedience ought in future to be paid to his Writs, Proclamations, or any other of his doings,
786
 
Letter to the Assembly of Connecticut,
786
 
Letter to General Ward, on the obstruction to the liberation of the Inhabitants of Boston,
787
 
New Provincial Congress to be elected, to meet on the 31st of May,
788
 
Resolution from the Committee of Safety, that Government in full form ought to be taken up, to be considered on the 9th instant,
788
 6,
Committee of Safety authorized to procure Powder from any Colony on the Continent,
789
 
Committee to consider the Letter received yesterday from the Speaker of the Assembly of Connecticut,
789
 
Committee of Supplies authorized to import Military Stores from such place and in such quantities as they may judge proper,
789
 
Committee to ascertain what number of Province Arms there are in the Province,
790
 
Establishment for the Train,
790
 7,
Committee of Supplies authorized to procure Fire-Arms and Bayonets from any Colony on the Continent,
790
 8,
Oath to be administered to the Officers and Private Soldiers of the Army now raising in this Colony,
791
 
Letter to the Selectmen of Hopkinton,
791
 
Letter from Committee of Portsmouth, of the 6th instant,
792
 
Letter from General Ward,
792
 
Answer to the Letter from Portsmouth,
792
 
Committees of Correspondence of the several Towns to inquire into the principles and conduct of suspected persons, and to cause all to be disarmed who are found unfriendly to the rights and liberties of America,
793
 
Letter to General Ward,
794
 
Consideration of the expediency of assuming Government postponed to Friday, the 12th inst.,
794
 9,
Committee to prepare a spirited application to General Gage, respecting his treatment of the Inhabitants of Boston,
795
 
Resolutions on the false account of the late Excursion of the King’s Troops,
795
 
Resolution for supplying those Soldiers with Fire-Arms who are not equipped therewith,
796
 
Twenty Armourers to be appointed by the Committee of Safety, to repair the Arms of the Soldiers of the Massachusetts Army,
796
 10,
Letter to General Gage, on his violation of the Agreement for the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston,
798
 
Report on the Complaint made against Samuel Pain and William Campbell, by the Selectmen of Worcester,
799
 
Committee to consider the Applications from the Eastern parts of the Province, for Arms and Ammunition,
799
1775.    
  May 11,
Resolutions providing for a present supply of Powder to the most exposed of the Eastern Towns,
799
 
Committee to write a Letter to New-York, advising them of the sailing of two Men-of-War from Boston,
800
 12,
Committee to consider the expediency of raising a Company or two of Indians,
800
 
All persons required to give Rev. Mr. Gordon free access to the Prisoners,
800
 
Committee to write to the Continental Congress, for obtaining their recommendation for this Colony to take up and exercise Civil Government,
801
 
General Ward directed to order four respectable Officers to escort the President to Colonel Quincy, at Braintree, to-morrow morning,
801
 
Committee to estimate the damages done at Concord, Lexington, and Cambridge, by the King’s Troops, on the 19th of April,
801
 
Establishment for the Companies of Matrosses,
801
 13,
Committee to take a third set of Depositions relative to the Battle of Lexington,
802
 
Post-Roads established,
802
 
Post-Masters appointed,
803
 
Rates of Postage,
803
 15,
Committee to attend the Provincial Congress of New-Hampshire,
803
 
Committee to prepare the Application to the Continental Congress directed to desire the Congress to take charge of directing and regulating the American Forces,
804
 
Committee to examine the Letters of Governonr Hutchinson, lately discovered, and report such Letters and Extracts as they think it will be proper to publish,
804
 
Persons prohibited from removing their Goods and Effects out of the Colony, without permission of the Committee of Correspondence of the Town they belong to,
804
 
Committee of Falmouth authorized to send an Embassy to Canada, to ascertain the designs and manœuvres of the Inhabitants of that Colony,
804
 
Report of Committee to authorize the establishment of a Court of Inquiry, to hear and decide on complaints against any person for treason against the Constitution of their Country, submitted, debated, and rejected,
805
 16,
Committee to consider the verbal information of the capture of three Vessels, by a King’s Cutter, at Dartmouth,
806
 
Dr. Church appointed to go to the Continental Congress, with the application from this Congress,
806
 
Instructions to the Delegates to the New-Hampshire Congress,
806
 
Officers of the Artillery allowed to enlist Man from the other Regiments,
807
 
Committee to consider what should be done relative to the Prisoners in Boston, and the Inhabitants who are there kept in duresse,
807
 17,
Letter from Edward Mott, dated May 11, giving an account of the capture of Ticonderoga, and a Letter from Ethan Allen, received and read,
807
 
Colonel Easton, from Ticonderoga, introduced to the House, and each Member authorized to ask him any questions,
807
 
Form of Oath to be taken by the General Officers,
808
 
Letter to Assembly of Connecticut, proposing to have the Cannon and Stores taken at Ticonderoga forwarded to the Army at Cambridge,
808
 
Colonel Allen to remain in possession of Ticonderoga and its dependencies, that Fortress having surrendered to him and others
808
 
Connecticut requested to garrison and maintain Ticonderoga, until the advice of the Continental Congress can be had,
809
 
Committee to revise the Commission of the Committee of Safety,
809
 18,
Officers of the Army of this Colony disqualified from being Members of the Provincial Congress,
809
 
Committee of Safety elected,
810
 
Report of Committee on the application of Lady Frankland,
810
 
Mr. Craft sent for; the allegations against him

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