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Letter, received yesterday, reported. Read and accepted. Resolved, That the Shirts, Breeches, Stockings, and Shoes, provided by the Committee appointed to procure Clothing by the last Congress, and by order of the Committee of Supplies, and received by a Committee of this House, be delivered to the Quartermaster-General of the Continental Army, for the use of the same, and take his receipt therefor; and that such as are now in hand be forwarded by the said Committee as soon as may be. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred. The Report of the Committee appointed to consider some method of calling in the outstanding Moneys due to this Colony, read and recommitted. The Report of the Committee appointed to consider what method can be taken to obtain the release of those Inhabitants of Boston who are now in Jail in that Town, accepted by the honourable Board, and brought down yesterday. Read and concurred. The Committee to whom was recommitted the Resolve of this House, passed yesterday, appointing a Committee to sign and number the Bills of Credit, reported. Read and accepted. Resolved, That Mr. Joseph Wheeler, Colonel Joseph Cushing, Colonel Ebenezer Sayer, and Deacon Thomas Plympton, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to number and sign the Bills of Credit to be emitted by this Colony, in pursuance to an Act passed this session, entitled “An Act for making and emitting Bills of Publick Credit;” and that three of said Committee, and no more, sign each of said Bills; one of them with red ink, one with blue ink, and one with black ink. And it is further Resolved, That the Committee appointed to inspect the Press and attend the printing of the Bills shall, when any convenient number of Bills are struck off, deliver them to one or more of the said Committee appointed to number and sign said Bills, taking a receipt for the same, expressing the number of the Bills so delivered, and the amount of their value; which receipt shall be delivered to the Receiver-General of the Colony, to be taken up by the Committee who sign said Bills; when they shall deliver the same Bills therein expressed to him, numbered and signed according to the Act aforesaid. And it is further Resolved, That the said Committee for inspecting the printing said Bills, before they enter on said service, be sworn before some Justice of Peace, who for that purpose shall be appointed by the honourable Board, to the faithful discharge of their said office. It is further Resolved, That as often as the said Committee for numbering and signing the said Bills shall deliver to the Receiver-General of the Colony any Bills as afore said, the Receiver-General shall give them a receipt for the amount of the value of the same Bills, to be by the same Committee kept for the use of the Colony. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred, and James Prescott and Joseph Palmer are joined. A Petition of Joseph Bacon, praying an allowance for his services as Post-Rider between Cambridge and Lebanon, was read, and referred to the next sessions of this Court. Resolved, That the vote of this House, directing the Committee appointed to inspect the impression of the Bills of Credit, to destroy the Bills dated in 1777, be reconsidered; and that they be altered with a pen to 1778: thus . . . . . . . 1778. Resolved, That Colonel Lovell be, and is hereby appointed to take care of and secure a number of Boats belonging to the Colony lately taken from the Hospital Island, and are now at Weymouth, until the further order of this Court. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred. Ordered, That the Secretary lay upon the table the Resolve of this Court relative to Governour Hutchinson’s Letters. The Secretary came down and laid it on the table accordingly. Resolved, That the several abatements hereafter expressed be made in the Province Tax for the year 1775, upon the several Towns hereafter named, viz: The Town of Boston the whole, Roxbury two-ninths, Marhlehead one-fourth, Charlestown seven-eighths, Cambridge one-eighth, Gloucester one-fourth of their proportion of said tax; and that the Committee appointed to prepare a Tax Bill govern themselves accordingly in proportioning the same. Hon. Jerathmeel Bowers, by leave of the House, brought in the following Resolve, which was accepted, viz: Whereas a Resolve was passed by the General Court, on the fourteenth of this instant, directing “ that from and after the fifteenth day of August instant, no Ship or Vessel should sail out of any port in this Colony, on any whaling voyage whatever, without leave first had and obtained from the Great and General Court of this Colony, or from some Committee or Committees, or persons they shall appoint to grant such leave:” and it being necessary that an adjournment of this Court should soon take place, and by means thereof many persons may suffer damage for want of such permits; therefore, Resolved, That the major part of the Council for this Colony be, and they accordingly are hereby fully empowered to grant leave for any Vessel or Vessels to sail out of any port in this Colony, on any whaling voyage whatever, as to them shall seem fit and reasonable, for the benefit of individuals and the good of the publick, provided there be good and sufficient security given that the oil and bone returned on said voyage shall be brought into some port in this Colony, except the Port of Boston, if such permit do not interfere with any Resolve or recommendation of the Continental Congress; the power therein given to the major part of the Council to continue only in the recess of the General Court. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred. On the Petition of the Selectmen of Wareham, pray that Boats be provided for the Company stationed at Wareham and Rochester, for the assistance of Provision Vessels and the Islands adjacent, &c., Resolved, That the Selectmen of said Rochester be di-directed and empowered to hire, at the expense of this Colony, six Whale Boats, three to be placed at Wareham and three at Rochester, for the purposes mentioned in the Petition, till the further order of this Court. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred. A Memorial of Timothy Edwards and Samuel Brown, Jun., relative to provision made for the Forces at Ticonderogn, was read, and committed to Captain Batchelder, Mr. Bryant, and Captain Parker. Moses Gill, Esq., brought down the following Resolve: “ In Council, August 24, 1775. “Whereas this Court, at their present Sessions, have passed a Resolve appointing Samuel Adams, Joseph Palmer, Moses Gill, Esquires, Major Hawley, Colonel Barrett, Mr. Durfee, and Colonel Cutt, a Committee to receive all such Donations as may be sent by the humane and charitable, in this or any other Colony, for the benefit of the poor sufferers by means of the Boston Port Bill, which Committee are to be accountable to this Court for the same: And whereas the sufferers aforesaid stand in great need of said Donations, for their immediate relief; therefore, “ Resolved, That the Committee beforementioned be, and hereby are empowered to distribute the Donations they may receive, among the sufferers beforementioned, according to their best discretion.” Read and concurred, with the following alteration, viz: That Captain Thatcher be on the Committee, in the room of Major Hawley, who desires to be excused. In Council, August 24, 1775: Read and concurred. The Committee on the Petition of Edward Emerson *To the Honourable JAMES BOWDOIN, Esq., President of the General Court of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY: The Petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Wareham humbly sheweth: That whereas Soldiers being stationed in said Town, it is necessary that they be provided with Boats, in order to hold correspondence with those stationed on the opposite Islands, to go to their assietance in case of necessity, and likewise to pilot in any vessels that may arrive on our coasts desirous of the same; and as there are none procured, your Petitioners pray that provision may immediately be made by the honourable General Court.
WAREHAM, August 21, 1775.
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