of the Sea-Coasts, and are in continual danger of having their Harbour blocked up by the Tenders and Armed Vessels of our enemies: Therefore, Resolved, That proper Officers be commissioned to take the command of said Vessels, and that the Commanding Officer who shall be appointed be authorized to enlist a proper number of Seamen, not exceeding thirty, to navigate each of said Vessels; and that said Officers and Seamen shall be under such pay of this Colony as shall be hereafter allowed. And that the Commanding Officer of said Vessels, from time to time, be directed to apply to the Committee of Safety of said Machias, for Men to man said Vessels upon any emergency, from the Company which is to be stationed at said Machias, under the command of Captain Stephen Smith; and said Committee are empowered to order said Men accordingly, and when so ordered by the Committee of Safety, on board, they are to be under the command of the Commanding Officer of said Vessels.

And whereas Ichabod Jones, late of Machias, a known enemy to the rights and liberties of America, has fled, leaving at Machias a considerable estate, real and personal: It is therefore recommended to the Committee of Safety of that place to take effectual care of said estate, agreeable to the resolves and recommendations of the late Provincial Congress.

In Council, August 21, 1775: Read and concurred.

Ordered, That Colonel Orne, Captain Goodman, and Mr. Hobart, be a Committee to revise the several Resolves of this Court relative to the instructions given to the Committee appointed to receive in and deliver out those articles of Clothing for the use of the Army, and to report what is proper further to be done thereon.

Ordered, That the Messenger of the House inquire for Mr. Paul Revere, and desire his attendance at this House.

Ordered, That Mr. Story, Mr. Sawyer, and Mr. Green-leaf, be a Committee to bring in a Resolve directing inquiry to be made into a report that Jeremiah Pole and Robert Pagan have lately exported a quantity of Fish, contrary to the Resolves of Congress, and in case they find it upon examination to be true, that they cause the said persons to be apprehended and sent to this Court.

John Whitcomb, Esq., brought down the Resolve on the Petition of Messrs. Foster and Obrian, with the following order of Council thereon, viz:

In Council, August 21, 1775: Read, and the former part of this Resolve concurred, and the latter part is non-concurred.

Sent down for concurrence.

Read and non-concurred; the House not being able to determine with sufficient precision where the former part ends, or where the latter part begins.

The Report of the Committee appointed to consider what was proper to be done with Governour Hutchinson’s Letters.      Read and accepted.

The Bill for making and emitting Bills of Publick Credit. Read the third time, and parsed to be engrossed.

Sent up by Mr. Gardner, Colonel Orne, Captain Goodman, Colonel Dwight, and Colonel Cushing.

The Committee appointed to bring in a Resolve, directing that inquiry should be made into a report that Jeremiah Pote and Robert Pagan had exported Fish contrary to the Resolves of Congress, reported. Read and accepted.

Whereas it has been represented to this House, that Jeremiah Pote and Robert Pagan, of Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, have lately exported a quantity of Fish, contrary to the Resolves of Congress: therefore,

Resolved, That the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Falmouth, aforesaid, be directed to make strict inquiry into this matter; and if upon examination thereof they should find the persons aforesaid, or either of them, or any other person or persons in the Town of Falmouth, have been guilty of violating the Resolves of the Congress of this Colony, or the Resolves of the Continental Congress, that they cause the said person or persons, so found guilty, to be apprehended and sent to this Court, to answer for their conduct in this matter, on the first Thursday of the next sitting of this Court.

In Council, August 21, 1775: Read and concurred.

The Order of the Day moved for.

Ordered, That three o’clock in the afternoon be assigned for the choice of the Committee to prepare an estimate of the sums disbursed by this Colony, during the unhappy contest with Great Britain.

The Committee on the Petition of the Selectmen of Roxbury, reported. The Report was read and accepted, and is as follows, viz:

The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Roxbury, relative to their Colony Tax the current year, beg leave to report facts as follows, viz: That said Town of Roxbury, by the Troops stationed there and by the enemy, have lost the income of one third part of their real and personal estate, as appears by their assessors. That the polls in said Town of Roxbury pay near one third part of their Colony Tax, by which it appears said Town of Roxbury ought to be abated two-ninths of their Colony Tax the present year.

The Committee appointed to revise the Resolves of Court relative to the instructions given to the Committee appointed to receive and dispose of the Clothing for the use of the Army, reported. The Report was recommitted, to be drawn into a Resolve.

Ordered, That the Committee who were to procure a Blanket for the Indian Chief of the St. Fran†ois Tribe, be directed to procure Blankets for the four others.

Ordered, That Captain Batchelder be directed to report a Resolve for the granting those several Indians (the Chief included) forty Shillings each, as a month’s advanced pay.

Ordered, That the Committee who were appointed to procure the Blankets be empowered to receive the Money, and to pay it to said Indians.

Ordered, That the Account exhibited by Major Brooks, for procuring Spears, be recommitted; and that the Committee be instructed to consider the services done.

The Bill for confirming and establishing the Resolve of the several Provincial Congresses of this Colony. Read a second time, and ordered to be read again at four o’clock, P. M.

Afternoon.

Ordered, That Colonel Otis be on the Committee upon the Petition of Joshua Davis, in the room of Dr. Baylis.

Benjamin White, Esq., brought down the Bill prescribing the form of Oaths.

Captain Batchelder reported a Resolve for the paying the five Indians forty Shillings each, in the following manner, viz:

Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Colonel Otis, Mr. Hopkins, and Captain Batchelder, ten Pounds, for the use and service of five Indians belonging to the St. Fran†ois Tribe, one of said Indians being a Chief of said Tribe; the other four having entered into the Continental Army, are to receive eight Pounds of said sum, as one month’s advance wages for each of them.

Sent up for concurrence.

Ordered, That a Message go to the honourable Board, desiring them to send down the Money Bill, if they have not passed upon it.

Ordered, That Colonel Otis, Mr. Hopkins, and Captain Batchelder, be a Committee to wait on his Excellency General Washington, and confer with him respecting the Indian Chief at St. Fran†ois, and acquaint him with the provision the House have made for him and four others of that Tribe.

Whereas it is represented to this House that some of the Inhabitants of the Town of Eastham, and some of the Inhabitants of the Town of Chatham, and other Towns in the County of Barnstable, have in divers instances violated the Resolves of the Continental Congress and of the Congress of this Colony:

Therefore, Resolved, That Colonel Nathaniel Freeman and Colonel Joseph Otis be desired to make inquiry into this matter; and if upon examination they find that any person or persons in any of the Towns aforesaid have been guilty of violating any of the Resolves aforesaid, and have