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1775.    
 
Forty Thousand Pounds to be raised on the Polls and Estates of the Inhabitants of the Colony,
316
 
Committee to consider in what manner the Taxes shall be laid,
316
August 9,
Report of the Committee appointed to apply to Colonels of the Regiments, raised in the Colony, for a complete List of the Men in their respective Regiments,
317
 
Committee to consider what Offices are inconsistent with the publick interest, to be held by one person,
318
 
Committee on a Petition from the Selectmen and Committee of Braintree,
318
 
Letter from the Committee of Supplies,
318
 
Committee to bring in a Bill to prevent the waste of Powder, by firing at fowl, or game of any kind, and marks,
319
 
Edward Party to he sent immediately to some inland Town, more than seventy miles from the sea-coast, there to be detained,
319
 
Committee to bring in a Bill for the emission of One Hundred Thousand Pounds,
319
10,
Committee on paying advance wages to the Commissioned Officers,
320
 
Report on the Letter from Dartmouth, (respecting Whaling Voyages,) read and accepted,
320
 
Committee to wait on General Washington, and confer with him on supplying the Town of Gloucester with Ammunition and Men for their defence,
321
 
Committee to confer with General Washington on the subject of a number of Letters from Machias,
321
 
Report of the Committee on the Letter from General Washington, relative to Thomas Cowden,
321
 
Confession of Thomas Cowden,
322
 
New draught of a Bill for annulling Commissions, read and concurred,
322
 
Rates allowed the Teamsters for transporting the Poor of Boston and their effects,
322
11,
Committee to receive Coats, Breeches, Shirts, Shoes, and Stockings, for the Soldiers,
323
 
Clerk of the House ordered to officiate as Speaker, in the absence of the Speaker,
324
 
Men and Military Stores ordered to Gloucester for the defence of that Town,
324
12,
Resolve prohibiting the needless expense of Gunpowder,
325
 
Andrew Hamilton, a crafty, designing person, very officious in prying into the management of the publick affairs of the Colony, ordered to be sent to Springfield Jail,
325
 
Edward Parry ordered to be sent to Sturbridge, as a prisoner,
326
 
Order for the arrest of Mr. Mills, late a Printer in Boston, and Joseph Otis, who has lately acted as Sheriff of Boston,
326
 
Committee on a Letter from General Washington, concerning the state of the Army, and the propriety of fitting out Privateers,
327
 
Resolve in consequence of General Washington’s Letter respecting Desertion from the Army,
327
14,
Committees on Petitions from Machias and from Falmouth,
328
 
Letter from Colonel Reed, informing them of the determination of General Washington to confine the British Officers, who are prisoners, in consequence of the treatment of the American Prisoners by Genera! Gage,
328
 
Resolve relating to the killing of Sheep,
329
 
Memorial from the Officers of the Eastern Regiment in the County of Lincoln,
329
 
Committee to inquire into the grounds of the complaints made by the Soldiers of their allowance,
330
15,
Committee to examine the Resolves of the Congress respecting the Estates of the Refugees,
330
16,
Petition of the Committee for the Town of Falmouth,
331
 
Petition from the Committee of Goldsborough, Number Four, Narragaugus, and Pleasant River,
331
 
Men and Supplies ordered for the assistance of the said Towns,
332
 
Act vacating the Civil and Military Commissions in the Colony, issued by any Governour or Lieutenant-Governour of the Province,
332
1775.
Petition from the Inhabitants of the Town of Machias,
333
 
Captain Jeremiah Obrian directed to raise a Company of fifty men, for the protection of Machias,
333
 
Committee to confer with an Indian Chief, who appears as an ambassador from the St. François Tribe of Indians,
334
 
Committee to confer with the Delegates to the Continental Congress, with respect to the sum necessary to defray their expenses to and at Philadelphia,
334
 
Committee to consider what Oaths are proper and necessary to be taken by the Officers, civil and military, who may be appointed by the Council,
334
     
August 17,
Act declaratory of the right of certain Towns in the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay to elect Representatives to the General Court,
334
 
Report on the Memorial of the Officers of the Eastern Regiment,
336
 
One hundred Pounds granted to the Hon. John Hancock, for his expenses, &c., to and at Philadelphia,
336
 
Petition from the Town of Salem,
337
 
Petition of Lydia Paddock,
338
18,
Report of the Committee appointed to confer with the Chief of the St. François Tribe,
339
 
Committee to receive Donations from the humane and charitable in this or any other Colony, for the Poor of Boston,
340
 
Petition and Remonstrance of the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Lexington,
341
 
Committee to consider what is proper to be done for the support of the Poor of Boston,
341
 
Committee to consider what is proper to done with the Letters and other papers of the late Governour Hutchinson, and how they shall be preserved,
341
 
Petition of Edward Emerson,
342
 
Petition of Thomas Rice and others, setting forth the distressed state of the Inhabitants at the Eastward,
342
 
Petition of Dr. Ebenezer Marvin,
343
19,
Benedict Arnold’s Account of expenditures on his expedition to Ticonderoga,
344
 
Report of the Committee on Governour Hutchinson’s Letters,
345
21,
Petition of Benjamin Foster and Jeremiah Obrian, of Machias,
345
 
Commissions ordered for the Officers of the two Armed Vessels fitted out by the Inhabitants of Machias,
345
 
Commitee to revise the Resolves relative to the Instructions to the Commitee on the Clothing for the Army,
346
 
Committee appointed to procure a Blanket for Lewis, the Indian Chief, directed to procure Blankets for four others,
348
22,
Committee to consider the manner of supplying the Armed Vessels with Provisions and Ammunition,
349
 
Act to confirm and establish the Resolves of the several Provincial Congresses of this Colony,
350
 
Petition of Joshua Davis,
350
 
Committee on a Petition of Edward Emerson for permission to fit out a Privateer,
351
 
Act prescribing the form of an Oath to be taken by all Commission Officers, civil and military, of the Colony,
352
 
Committee to make inquiry in the Colony for virgin Lead and Leaden Ore,
353
 
Committee on the Petition of George Armstrong, praying a reward for his bravery at Noddle’s Island, &c., while a volunteer in the American Army,
353
23,
Jeremiah Obrian, Commander of the armed Schooner Diligent, and of the Sloop Machias-Liberty, authorized to fit out the Vessels at the expense of the Colony,
354
 
Committee to repair to Swanzey, and inquire into the complaints made against Jerathaneel Bowers, a Member of this House,
354
 
Petition of Hannah Guldthwait, of Boston,
355
 
Pay Roll of the Sloop Enterprise, on Lake Champlain,
355
 
Act for making and emitting Bills of Publick Credit, to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, lawful money,
357

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