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June 17, | Report of Committee on procuring Fire-Arms and Powder from Philadelphia and elsewhere, | 1419
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| Militia throughout the Colony requested to hold themselves in readiness to march at a minutes warning: and the Inhabitants on the Sea-Coast are requested to carry their Arms with them on the Sabbath and other days when they meet for publick worship, | 1419
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| Report of the Committee on the Resolves of the Committee of Safety relative to an augmentation of the Army, supply of Arms, &c., | 1420
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| Letter from the President of the Continental Congress, and a Resolve containing several recommendations to this and the other Colonies; brought by express, | 1422 |
| Committee appointed to 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, | 1422
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| Committees to purchase Fire-Arms in the several Counties, | 1422
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18, | Records and Papers of the Provincial Congress to be secured and taken care of, at the discretion of the Secretary, | 1422
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| Committee to prepare a Letter to the Continental Congress, on the late attack of the Kings Troops at Bunkers Hill, | 1423 |
| Committee of Supplies directed to write to Rhode-Island and New-Hampshire for Powder, | 1423
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| Committee to see that the Army at the Intrenchments be well supplied with victuals and drink, | 1423
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| Report of the Committee on establishing Officers to take care of the Ordnance Stores, | 1423
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| President of this Congress to be chosen this afternoon, in place of the Honourable Joseph Warren, supposed to be killed in the late battle at Bunkers Hill, | 1424
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| Report on the Resolve of the Continental Congress for establishing Civil Government in this Colony; read, debated, and deferred till Dr. Church, who was at Philadelphia when the Resolve passed, shall be present, | 1424
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| James Warren chosen President of the Congress, | 1424
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| To-morrow morning assigned for considering the Report on fitting out Armed Vessels, | 1424
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| The Secretary directed to subscribe the name of the late President to all Commissions bearing date on the 19th of May, | 1424
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| Committee of Supplies directed to furnish destitute Soldiers with Clothes and Blankets, | 1425
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| Fifteen hundred good Spears to be immediately furnished to the Army at Cambridge, | 1425
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20, | Report of the Committee on the Petition of Col. Phinney, recommending the establishment of a Regiment to guard the Sea-Coast in the County of Cumberland, | 1425
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| Laid on the table till the matter respecting Armed Vessels is considered, | 1425
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| Committee to purchase Spears for the Army, | 1425
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| Report of the Committee on the Resolve of the Continental Congress respecting Government, | 1425
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| Letter to the several Towns in the Colony, requesting them to elect Representatives to an Assembly to meet the 10th day of July next, | 1426
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| Report on the expediency of establishing Armed Vessels further considered, debated, and ordered to subside for the present, | 1426
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| Another Hospital for the sick and wounded of the Army established, | 1427
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| Committee to confer with four Indians this day arrived from Penobscot, under the conduct of John Lane, | 1427
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| Committee to inquire into the grounds of a report which has prevailed in the Army that there has been treachery in some of the Officers, | 1428
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| Colonel Heath chosen a Major-General, | 1428
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| Letter to the Continental Congress, | 1429
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| Letter to General Ward, requesting to send one or more Regiments from Roxbury to Cambridge, | 1430
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21, | Commission to Major-General Heath, | 1430
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| Committee to consider the expediency of removing Colonel Glovers Regiment from Marblehead to Cambridge, | 1431
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| Resolution relative to the Estates of Refugees, (See Note,) | 1431
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| Address from an Indian Chief of the Penobscot Tribe, | 1432 |
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| Committee to inquire into the present want of discipline in the Massachusetts Army, | 1432
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| Joseph Fry chosen Third Major-General, | 1433
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| Report of the Committee to consider the request of the Penobscot Indians, now at Watertown, | 1433
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| Commissions for the Officers of the Train of Artillery directed to be prepared and delivered, | 1433
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June 22, | Proclamation for a Fast recommitted for amendment, | 1434
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| Committee to consider the propriety of commissioning the Officers of Colonel Gerrishs Regiment, | 1435
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| Report of the Committee on the means by which the Army before Boston may be most expeditiously strengthened, | 1435
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| Corn and Ammunition to be furnished the Inhabitants on Penobscot River, &c., | 1436
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23, | Rank of the Officers in Colonel Gridleys Regiment, | 1436
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| Report of the Committee appointed to consider the state of Colonel Phinneys Regiment, | 1437
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| Committee to take into consideration the Regiment that was moved from Marblehead to Cambridge | 1437
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| Committee to consider of proper expedients to augment the Army, and to write to the other New-England Governments on the subject, | 1438
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| Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the misconduct in the late Engagement, | 1438
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| Committee of Safety directed to make out a new list for Officers of the Train of Artillery, and that no person unworthy of that office be appointed, | 1438
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| Payment ordered to Mr. John Lane for his expenses in bringing up four Chiefs of the Penobscot Tribe of Indians, | 1438
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| Town of Malden authorized to defend themselves in case of an attack from the enemy, | 1439
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| Former vote respecting the removal of the Library and Apparatus reconsidered, and another adopted, | 1439
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| Letter to General Ward, directing him to order eight Companies, now posted in Plymouth, to join the Army before Boston, | 1440
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| Robert Haskell permitted to go from Beverly to Nova-Scotia in a Fishing Vessel, | 1440
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24, | Committee to consider some method of regulating Trade with the Indians, | 1440
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| Committee to consider what further is necessary to be done respecting Bills of Credit of the Colony, | 1440
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| Establishment for Surgeons of Hospitals, | 1440
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| Committee to get the Resolve for a Fast printed, | 1441
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| Captain John Lane admitted to the floor of the House, to answer such questions as the Congress shall propose to him, | 1441
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| Report of the Committee appointed to prepare a Letter to the Governour of Rhode-Island, | 1442
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| Committee to consider a Letter from General Ward, informing of the desertion of Lieutenant Cox, of Salem, | 1442
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| Report of the Committee appointed to consider the expediency of stationing part of Colonel Phinneys Regiment in Cumberland and Lincoln, | 1442
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| Proclamation for a Fast suspended, | 1442
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| Report of the Committee on the desertion of Lieutenant Cox, | 1442
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| Committee to consider what steps should be taken for receiving General Washington with proper respect, | 1443
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| Report of the Committee to consider of an adequate allowance for Captain John Lane, | 1443
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| Colonel Porter directed to have a Scythe fixed on a Spear, in such manner as he thinks fit, and bring it before the Congress when fixed, | 1443
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| Committee appointed to procure Spears empowered to order Blacksmiths to work on the Sabbath, | 1443
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| Report of the Committee appointed to regulate Trade with the Indians, | 1443
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| Rev. Mr. Gordon chosen to preach an Election Sermon, on the 19th of July next, | 1444
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25, | Committee to procure Shovels and Spades for the Army immediately, | 1444
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| Honorary commission to Mr. Gilman, Interpreter to the Penobscot Indians, | 1444 |