Resolved, That the Committees of Safety for the several Districts in this Province be composed of the following persons, to wit:

For the District of WILMINGTON: Frederick Jones, Sampson Mosely, Archibald Machine, Richard Quince, Thomas Davis, William Cray, Henry Rhodes, Thomas Rutledge, James Kenan, Alexander McAlister, George Mylne, John Smith, and Benjamin Stone.

For the District of EDENTON: Luke Sumner, William Gray, John Johnston, Thomas Benbury, Gideon Lamb, Joseph Jones, Miles Harvey, Lawrence Baker, Kennith McKinzie, Stephens Lee, Charles Blount, Isaac Gregory, and Day Ridley.

For the District of HILLSBOROUGH: William Taylor, Joseph Taylor, Samuel Smith, John Atkinson, John Butler, William Johnston, John Hinton, Joel Lane, Michael Rogers, Ambrose Ramsey, Mial Scurlock, John Thompson, and John Park.

For the District of NEWBERN: John Easton, Major Croom, Roger Ormond, Edward Salter, George Barrow, William Thomson, William Tisdale, Benjamin Williams, Richard Ellis, Richard Cogdell, William Brown, James Glasgow, and Alexander Gaston.

For the District of SALISBURY: John Crauford, James Auld, Hezekiah Alexander, Benjamin Patten, John Brevard, Griffith Rutherford, William Hill, John Hamlin, Charles Galloway, William Dent, Robert Ewert, and Maxwell Chambers.

For the District of HALIFAX: James Leslie, John Bradford, David Sumner, Allen Jones, William Eaton, Drury Gee, John Norwood, Rev. Henry Patillo, James Mills, William Billamy, William Haywood, Duncan Lamon, and John Webb.

The Congress adjourned till to-morrow morning, six o’clock.

Sunday, September 10, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

Whereas the Independent Companies now subsisting in this Province may probably interfere with the Regulars’ and Minute service:

Resolved, That the same be and they are hereby dissolved; but any person or persons after the Regulars and Minute-Men are completed, may with leave of the Committee of the County, wherein he or they reside, form an Independent Company or Companies, subject to the regulations of such Committee.

Resolved, That it be recommended to such of the inhabitants of this Province as may not be provided with Bayonets to their Guns, to procure the same as soon as possible, and be otherwise provided to turn out at a minute’s warning.

Whereas the Magistrates nominated in the last Commission of the Peace issued by his Excellency for the County of Pitt, have refused to qualify, for motives laudable in themselves; but since it is absolutely necessary that Courts should be held in every County for the probat of Deeds, Wills, granting Administration, Guardianship, &c.:

Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to the Magistrates in the said Commission mentioned, to qualify and hold Courts under the same.

The Congress taking into consideration the encouragement of Manufactures within this Province, entered into the following Resolutions, viz:

Resolved, That the sum of twenty-five Pounds be paid for every hundred weight of good merchantable Saltpetre that shall be made and manufactured in this Province, and delivered to the. Provincial Council within the space of six months from this time; and 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 said Council within six months next following; and so in proportion for any greater quantity.

Resolved, That the sum of two hundred Pounds be paid for the first five hundred weight of good merchantable Gunpowder, equal in goodness to Gunpowder imported from Great Britain, of the price of eighty-five Shillings sterling per hundred weight, that shall be made and manufactured within this Province, and delivered to the Provincial Council within the space of six months from this time; and that the sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds be paid for the second five hundred weight of good merchantable Gunpowder that shall be made and manufactured in this Province, and delivered to the said Council within twelve months next following; and so in proportion for any greater quantity.

Resolved, That a Premium of two hundred and fifty Pounds be given to the first person who shall erect and build a Rolling and Slitting Mill, for the purpose of preparing Iron to make Nails, and which Mill shall be actually set to work and five tons of Iron slit out within this Province, and approved of by the Provincial Council, within two years from this time; and that the sum of two hundred Pounds be given to the person who shall erect and build a second Rolling and Slitting Mill, for the purpose aforesaid, and which Mill shall be actually set to work and five tons of Iron slit out within this Province and approved of by the Provincial Council, within two years from this time.

Resolved, That a Premium of fifty Pounds be given to the person who shall first make in a workmanlike manner fifty pair of Cotton Cards, of Wire made and drawn in this Province, equal in goodness to Cotton Cards imported from Great Britain of the price of two Shillings sterling per pair; also the like Premium to the person who shall first make in a workmanlike manner one hundred pair of Woollen Cards, equal in goodness to Woollen Cards imported from Great Britain of the price of fifteen Pence sterling per pair, the same to be delivered to and approved of by the Provincial Council within twelve months from this time.

Resolved, That a Premium of fifty Pounds be given to the first person who shall make, in a workmanlike manner, twenty-five dozen Pins, each dozen to contain twelve thousand, of Wire drawn in this Province, to be equal in goodness to Pins imported from Great Britain of the price of seven Shillings and six Pence sterling per dozen, the same to be delivered to and approved of by the Provincial Council within twelve months from this time.

Resolved, That a Premium of fifty Pounds be given to the first person who shall make, in a workmanlike manner, twenty-five thousand Needles, sorted, such as are had from Great Britain, from number one to number twelve, inclusive, to be equal in goodness to Needles imported from Great Britain of the price of two Shillings and six Pence sterling per thousand, the same to be delivered to, and approved of by the Provincial Council within twelve months from this time.

Resolved, That a Premium of one hundred Pounds be given to the first person who shall erect and build a Furnace for manufacturing of good merchantable Steel, equal in goodness to Bristol Steel, and which Furnace shall be actually set to work and one ton of good merchantable Steel, as aforesaid, at least, be produced to the Provincial Council, and approved of by the said Provincial. Council, within eighteen months from this time; and that the sum of twenty-five Pounds be given to the person who shall erect and build a second Furnace for manufacturing good and merchantable Steel, equal in goodness to Bristol Steel, and which Furnace shall be actually set to work and one ton of good merchantable Steel as aforesaid, at least, be produced to the Provincial Council, and approved of by the said Council, within the time aforesaid.

Resolved, That a Premium of two hundred and fifty Pounds be given to the first person who shall erect and build a Mill for manufacturing of Brown, Whited Brown and good Writing Paper, and which Mill shall be actually set to work, and thirty reams of Brown, thirty reams of Whited Brown, and thirty reams of Writing Paper, at least, be produced to the Provincial Council, and approved of by the said Council, within eighteen months from this time; the Brown Paper to be of equal goodness to Brown Paper imported from Great Britain of the price of two Shillings and six Pence sterling per ream; the Whited Brown equal in goodness to Whited Brown Paper imported of the price of three Shillings sterling per ream; and Writing Paper equal in goodness as aforesaid to eight Shillings sterling per ream.

Resolved, That a Premium of fifty Pounds be given to the person who shall produce to the Provincial Council