MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Meet by adjournment at Watertown,

Returns required of the Men now in Camp,

The New-England Army, proposed to be raised for the defence and security of the lives, liberties and properties of the Americans, amounts to but twenty-four thousand five hundred Men, whereas thirty thousand were supposed necessary; the Provincial Congress is requested to state whether they will make any addition to their establishment,

Letter to the Provincial Congress on the application of Colonel Paul Dudley Sergeant, late of New-Hampshire,

Return sent to the Provincial Congress, of the Gentlemen who have been commissioned, or that have received any encouragement for Commissions,

An attack on our Army near Boston, by General Gage, being daily expected to be made, the General is directed to ascertain the condition of every Regiment,

Debates and determinations of the Committee required to be kept a profound secret,

Attention of Congress called to the destruction of the property of Refugees,

Sufferings of the Troops for want of Barracks or Tents,

Braintree, Hingham and Weymouth authorized to raise Men for the defence of the Sea-Coast of the Town,

Allowance for Provisions for Soldiers in the Massachusetts Army,

Re-enforcements to General Gage’s Army; his very extraordinary Proclamation, declaring the Inhabitants of Massachusetts-Bay Rebels, and other movements of Mr. Gage, are evidences of his intention soon to make another attempt to penetrate into the country,

The Army should he augmented immediately; all the Soldiers supplied with Arms; and all the Militia of the Colony held in readiness to march on the shortest notice,

Bunker’s Hill to be maintained by a sufficient force being posted there, and a hill on Dorchester Neck to be secured,

Committee to consult with the Council of War and General Officers on matters of importance, and to inform them of the Resolve of this Committee respecting Bunker’s Hill and Dorchester Neck,

Committee to inquire whether Houses or Tents can be obtained for Troops that want cover,

Field-Officers for Colonel Gridley’s Regiment,

Orders to the Towns in the vicinity of Boston to send their Town stocks of Powder to Watertown,

Four Horses required for the Committee, as the firing; on the Colony Troops requires quick intelligence from the scene of action,

Provision made to prevent the spreading of the Small-Pox in the Army,

Militia of the neighbouring Towns ordered to march forthwith to Cambridge,

Order for their march countermanded; but are required to be in readiness to give assistance when called upon,

Town of Waltham required to send their Town stock of Powder to Watertown,

Hospitals provided for the Colony Army,

Officers for a Company of Artificers in the Regiment of Artillery,

Congress requested to order the Selectmen of the several Towns in the Colony to collect and transmit the names of the persons killed or wounded on the nineteenth day of April, and at any time since, or that may hereafter be killed or wounded in the unnatural contest between Great Britain and the American Colonies,

Such of the Militia only are to march as are called for by express orders of the Committee, on any alarm that may take place,

Appointment of Aids-de-Camp to the Generals recommended,

Town of Medford required to furnish Spades and Shovels for the works begun on Winter Hill,

Colonels required to make immediate returns of the Officers of their several Regiments,

Appointment of two Supervisors of the Camp recommended,

Committee to examine the works carrying on, on Prospect Hill,

Cannon in Cambridge and Watertown, not mounted, and all Military Stores not wanted, to be removed forthwith to Newton,

Letter to the Provincial Congress, recommending the appointment of Supervisors of the Camps, at Cambridge and Roxbury,

Hospital at Cambridge placed under the direction of Dr. John Warren,

Officers in Captain Craft’s Company, in Colonel Gridley’s Regiment,

Resolve of the Provincial Congress, of the 26th instant, directing the Committee of Safety to deliver Arms to such Officers as shall produce orders therefor from General Ward,

Orders from. General Ward to the Committee to deliver Arms to Commanding Officers of Regiments,

The Arms delivered by the Committee; but they protest against the General’s order, lest it should be adduced in future as a precedent for setting the Military power above the Civil,

Captain Samuel Russel Trevet discharged from his arrest, which was made by a mistake of one of the General Officers,

Congress requested to take speedy and effectual measures to prevent the spreading of the Small-Pox in the American Army,

Colonel Palmer directed to attend the Committee, and give them information relative to former emissions of Bills of Credit, before they can order a new emission,

Edmund Quincy empowered to receive and convey to the Committee certain Household Goods and other effects of Thomas Hutchinson, and other enemies to the rights and liberties of America,

An emission of Bills of Credit, amounting to one hundred thousand Pounds, recommended,

Congress requested to have drawn up and transmitted to England, a fair, honest and impartial account of the Battle on the 17th of June, to counteract the misrepresentations of General Gage,

Congress requested to recommend to the Grand American Congress to seize and hold every Crown Officer within the United Colonies, until our friends, who have been seized by General Gage, be set at liberty and fully recompensed for their loss and imprisonment,

General Washington requested to issue an order to suppress retailers of Spirituous Liquors within and near the Camps,

The Inhabitants of the Colony, as they regard the peace and welfare of the Country, are requested to behave peaceably and quietly towards Captain Jacob Rogers, late of Charlestown, now of Reading,

Appointment of four Master Armourers recommended,

Instructions to Officers of the Massachusetts-Bay Forces, who are to go on the recruiting service, sent to the Council of War for approval,

Monsieur Viart, a prisoner, sent to Worcester, at the request of General Washington,

Committee appointed to draw up a true account of the late Battle of Charlestown,

Committee of Marblehead informed that five Ships sailed this day from Boston, their destination unknown,

Fifteen Prisoners taken on Long-Island, near Boston, and sent by General Washington to this Committee, who by their Commission have no power to dispose of them, are sent to the Provincial Congress,

Benjamin Guillam appointed Master Armourer, to superintend the repair of such part of the Arms of the American Colony Army as belongs to this Colony,

Ten Prisoners taken some time past, at Machias, and sent this day to the Committee by General Washington, sent to the Provincial Congress,