Committee may see fit. And the honourable Board are hereby desired to appoint some suitable person to order and direct the said Companies, in the said County of Lincoln, as he shall think will most promote the interest and safety of the Colony.

It is likewise Resolved, That the pay of the said three Companies shall be equal to the pay established for the Massachusetts Forces, raised for the defence of the Sea-Coasts. And it is further requested of the honourable Board, that in case the general service should require the aid of any of the Forces already stationed in the County of Lincoln, such Commanding Officer might be authorized to draw from the place where such Forces may be stationed, so many Companies or parts of Companies as he shall think necessary; and such Companies, both Officers and Soldiers, are hereby directed to obey the orders of the said Commanding Officer accordingly.

And the Selectmen of the several Towns where such Forces shall be ordered, (or the Assessors of any Plantation where there are no Selectmen,) are hereby empowered and directed to supply them with suitable Provisions (two months’ allowance for Captain Curtis’s Company excepted) during their stay in such Town or Plantation; for which they shall be paid out of the publick Treasury the sum of six Shillings per week for each man who shall be so supplied. And the Committee of Supplies are hereby directed to furnish said Curtis with three barrels of Powder, one thousand weight of Ball, five hundred Flints, and two hundred bushels of Indian Corn, or Flour equivalent, to be delivered to such Commanding Officer as may be appointed by the honourable Board, for the use of the said Forces; such Powder, Ball and Flints to be disposed of at the discretion of the Commanding Officer, and the Corn or Flour to be delivered to such Selectmen or Assessors of any Towns or Plantations who may supply said Forces with Provision; they to be accountable for what they may respectively receive.

And it is further Resolved, That the Committee who may be appointed by the honourable Board to give out Enlisting Orders, be empowered and directed to procure, or cause to be procured, eight other Whale-Boats, for the use of the said Forces; and if such Boats cannot be readily provided, the said Committee are hereby empowered to draw an order on the Hon. Jedediah Preble, Esq., and the Hon. Enoch Freeman, Esq., of Falmouth, for the Boats they have been building; who are hereby directed to deliver the same to such order accordingly, and charge them to the Colony, and immediately to cause as many more to be built at the expense of the Colony, for the use of the Forces stationed in the County of Cumberland.

And it is further recommended to the honourable Board, to empower suitable persons to have the direction of the Forces stationed in the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln, and from time to time to order any or all the said Forces to any place in either of the said Counties, as emergencies may require.

And the honourable Board are likewise desired to give instructions to the Commanding Officer in said County of Lincoln to order that Fort Pownall, at Penobscot, be immediately demolished.

In Council, August 4, 1775: Read and concurred.

The House took under consideration the Petition of a number of the Inhabitants of Waltham against the election of Mr. Dix, and after debates thereon, the question was put, Whether Mr. Dix was duly chosen, and had a right to a seat in this House? and it passed in the negative.

On a motion, Ordered, That a new Precept be issued to the Inhabitants of the Town of Waltham for the choice of some person or persons to represent them in this House.

Mr. Dickerson was appointed in the room of Mr. Dix on the Committee of Accounts.

Ordered, That Mr. Derby, Mr. Lock, and Major Johnson, be a Committee to inquire into the cause of General Sullivan’s taking a House in the Town of Mistick for a Hospital.

Ordered, That the Committee appointed to consider what Towns it would be expedient to draw Powder from, be a Committee to report some directions to those persons who may be employed to procure it.

Resolved, That Mr. William Greenleaf, Joseph Greenleaf, Esq., and Dr. Peter Roberts, be, and hereby are empowered to repair immediately to Chelsea, to take care and make provision for the poor distressed Inhabitants of Boston now coming over Winnisimit Ferry.

A Petition of Mr. Elijah Babcock, praying this Court to give him an order on the Treasury for the payment of his account of sundry charges as Commissary in the Northern Department, was read, and committed to the Committee on Accounts.

Ordered, That Captain Batchelder, Colonel Orne, and Colonel Thompson, be a Committee to consider the Report of the Committee appointed to confer with Lewis, a Chief of the Caughnawaga Tribe of Indians, and report what is best to be done.

Ordered, That Mr. Bryant, Captain Goodman, and Colonel Cutt, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to examine Mr. Edward Parry, who has been brought from Georgetown to this Court, in consequence of a Resolve of the late Provincial Congress, the 26th of June last, and report what is proper to be done with him.

In Council, August 3, 1775: Read and concurred, and Charles Chauncy and Benjamin Lincoln, Esquires, are joined.

A Petition of David Thompson, Junior, of Stoughton, who represents, that having lost his arm in the service of the Country, at Fort William Henry, he has received a yearly pension from this Colony till last year, and it being now discontinued, prays this Court to consider his indigent circumstances, and grant him relief, was read, and committed to Colonel Lovell, Colonel Cushing, and Mr. Sergeant.

The Committee appointed to consider the Report of the Committee of both Houses appointed to confer with Mr. Brown, on the situation of the Inhabitants of Boston, reported.

The Report was ordered to lie on the table.

The Report of the Committee on the Petition of the Committee of Inspection of the East Parish of the Town of Pownalborough, was considered, and accepted.

Resolved, That the facts alleged in the Petition of Timothy Langdon and others, Committee of Inspection for the East Parish of the Town of Pownalborough, against Mr. Abiel Wood, respecting his conduct, were proper to be considered by the Committee of Inspection, and that from their representation, they had sufficient evidence of the facts to deem him an enemy to his Country; and that Committtees of Inspection are the only bodies recommended by the Continental Congress to judge and determine respecting infringements of the Association of the Continental Congress; and that Committees of Correspondence are not authorized for that end; and that, from the representation made by the Committee of Inspection, this Court approve of their conduct.

In Council, August 3, 1775: Read and concurred.

Afternoon.

The Committee appointed to consider the Report of the Committee who were appointed to confer with Lewis, an Indian Chief, reported.

The Report was accepted, and recommitted, to be drawn into a Resolve.

Three Bonds to the Receiver-General, viz: Captain Isaac Matthews’s, Captain Samuel Wright’s, and Captain John Stevens’s, each of them conditioned to pay the Men in their respective Companies the wages due to them for their service at Crown Point, agreeable to the muster-rolls committed to them, were severally read, and approved of.

The Committee on Accounts and Muster-Rolls reported a Resolve on the Muster-Roll (amounting to one hundred and forty-two Pounds, three Shillings, and eleven Pence) and Petition of Captain John Stevens, which was accepted, and sent up for concurrence.

Resolved, That the aforegoing Pay-Roll, exhibited by Captain John Stevens, in Colonel Benedict Arnold’s Regiment, is right cast and properly vouched, and that the same, amounting to £142 3s. 11d., be paid out of the publick