British Prisoners in Concord Jail, taken on the 19th of April last, provided with Clothes,

Message from the Council,

Report on the Letter from the Chiefs of the St. John’s Tribe of Indians,

Letter to the Continental Congress, read and recommitted,

Committee, on an application from Capt. Rogers, to inquire into the charge against him, of assisting and refreshing the King’s Troops on the 19th of April last,

Committee on the Accounts of such Towns as have made provision for the Poor of Boston,

Letter to the Continental Congress read again, and recommitted for amendment,

Petition of the Town of Salem,

Letter to the Continental Congress again read, and accepted,

Committee to consider what further encouragement is necessary to be given to the manufacture of Saltpetre,

Committee to make suitable provision for the Committee from the Continental Congress to the Camp,

Committee to inquire of His Excellency George Washington, Esq., the cause of the detention and imprisonment of Dr. Church, a member of the House,

Committee to inquire into the services of Agents Bollan and Franklin, and report what sums are proper to be allowed them,

Letter to the St. John’s and Mickmack Tribes of Indians,

Petition of the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Worcester,

Order for the release of Monsieur Viart,

Petition of the Selectmen of Provincetown,

Letter from Dr. Church to the enemy; communicated to the Speaker by Joseph Reed, Secretary to General Washington,

Dr. Church directed to be brought before the House to show cause why he should not be expelled,

Committee to consider a proper method to bring Dr. Church before the House,

Bill for the encouraging the fixing out Armed Vessels, passed to be engrossed,

Resolve from the Council empowering Committees to permit Vessels to trade to other Colonies,

Bill for regulating the Militia read a second time,

On the question, whether the Bill shall be read a third time, it passed in the negative, and was recommitted,

Letter to the Delegates in Congress, to enclose the Letter to the Congress, read and accepted,

Report on matters relating to the Poor of the Town of Boston,

Committee to examine the Resolves of the Provincial Congresses, and report such as are proper to be printed,

Committee to receive and deliver to the owners such wearing apparel and household furniture, belonging to the inhabitants of Boston and Charlestown, or any other Towns, as may be found in any Town in the Colony, which were taken from Charlestown on the day of the battle there,

Resolutions relating to the Clothing of the Army,

Committee to inquire into the state of the Treasury,

Committee to bring in a Bill for regulating the Militia,

Letter received from Dr. Church, expressing a desire to resign his seat in the House,

Petition of the Selectmen of Springfield,

Eighteen hundred and fifty-four Pounds sterling ordered to be paid to Benjamin Franklin, now at Cambridge, in full for the services and disbursements as Agent of the Colony in Great Britain,

Letter to the Continental Congress,

Committee to consider what steps are proper to be taken with the incomes of the Estates of the Refugees,

Information of the destruction of Falmouth received,

 

Committee, in conjunction with a Committee of the Council, to consider and report a method of appointing Officers in the Militia, best calculated to promote the interest of the Colony,

Rejected by the Council,

Committee on a Petition from the Selectmen of Salem, praying for Ammunition,

Letter to the Delegates in Continental Congress,

Petition of Thomas Goldthwaite,

Committee on the conduct of Captain Goldthwaite and Jonathan Lowder, the Gunner at Fort Pownall,

Committee to receive from Dr, Franklin one hundred Pounds sterling, sent from England for the sufferers in the battle of Lexington,

Committee to confer with the Council, in regard to the appointment of Militia Officers,

Joint Committee to consider in what manner an Attorney-General may and ought to be appointed,

Order for the examination of Dr. Church before the House, on the 27th,

Petition of Jerathmeel Bowers, in favour of John Shardon, of Swanzey, a prisoner with the enemy,

Bill to encourage the fitting out Armed Vessels, passed by the Council with amendments,

Petition of the Selectmen of Salem,

Several Towns requested to furnish Powder for the defence of Salem,

Dr. Church brought to the Bar of the House,

Proceedings of the House on the charge against Dr. Church,

Account of the examination of Dr. Church, written by himself, when he was in prison at Cambridge,

Committee to consider the conduct of Dr. Church, and report such order as is proper for the House to take thereon,

Galleries of the House to be kept clear, in future, unless otherwise ordered,

Petition of William Davis, of Dartmouth,

William Davis permitted to send the Sloop Reliance to any foreign ports, to procure a cargo of Gunpowder,

Committee to prepare a form of Proclamation for a general Thanksgiving throughout the Colony,

Bill ordered to be brought in to redress such grievances as the Baptists labour under,

Committee on a Letter from General Washington, on the subject of affording assistance to Cape Anne,

Committee on a Letter from General Washington, on supplying Hay and Wood for the Army,

Report on the best method of obtaining Muster-Rolls of the Forces raised by the Colony, read and accepted,

Report on granting assistance to the Town of Falmouth,

Bill for apportioning and assessing a Tax of Forty-Six Thousand Pounds, passed,

Report on the most effectual measures for encouraging the manufacturing of Saltpetre, read and accepted,

Report on General Washington’s Letter, respecting the scarcity of Hay and Wood, read and rejected,

Committee to wait on General Washington, and acquaint him with the true reasons of the scarcity of Wood and Hay,

Bill for fitting out Armed Vessels, passed,

Report of the Committee on Frauds committed by any person belonging to the Forces raised by the Colony,

Representation of the Committee of Safety and Correspondence of the Towns of Brunswick, Bowdoinham, and Topsham,

Their conduct approved,

Jedediah Phipps taken into the service of the Colony, to assist in improving the manufacture of Saltpetre,

Committee to report the most effectual method of procuring Hay and Wood for the Army,

Report on the method of obtaining Vouchers to support the Accounts to be transmitted to the Continental Congress, read and accepted,