Report on the Resolves respecting the Poor of Boston, read, amended, and accepted,

Report on providing an Engineer for the Town of Plymouth, read and accepted,

Report on the most effectual method of encouraging the manufacturing Fire-Arms, read and accepted,

Dr. Benjamin Church expelled the House,

Memorial of the Selectmen of Newburyport, requesting provision may be made for the poor of Boston, now in that Town,

Order for the distribution of the Poor of Boston, now in Newburyport,

Message from the Council on the differences between the two Houses, relative to the right of appointing Military Officers,

Committee to consider and report a method of appointing Officers to the Militia,

Report on the application of General Washington for Hay and Wood, read and rejected,

Committee to assist the Quartermaster-General in procuring a supply of Hay and Wood for the Army,

Report on the Letter from General Washington, respecting Gloucester, read and accepted,

Report on supplying the Truckmaster at Penobscot with Powder, accepted,

Proclamation for a general Thanksgiving,

General Joseph Frye chosen to command the Soldiers stationed in Cumberland County,

Rejected by the Council,

Report on the state of the Treasury,

Petition of Azor Orne and Elbridge Gerry, in behalf of the Town of Marblehead,

Committee on paying the Militia and MinuteMen, who mustered on or about the 19th of April,

Committee to inquire of General Washington if he has any objections to the publishing Dr. Church’s Letter,

Message from the Council, requesting a copy of the Resolve of the Continental Congress, relating to the appointment of Officers,

Resolve concerning the necessary qualifications of Retailers to receive Licenses,

Message from the Council, on the appointment of General Frye to take command of the Troops stationed in Cumberland,

Report on the payment of the Militia and MinuteMen who mustered on or about the 19th of April,

Resolve for the more expeditious settlement of Publick Accounts,

Committee on the Messages received from the Council, yesterday, and on the 3d instant,

Committee on a Letter from the Continental Congress for collecting an account of the depredations committed by the Ministerial Troops, with an instruction to extend their inquiries as far back as the taking place of the Port Bill,

Committee to consider the best method of procuring Sulphur, and the expediency of erecting Powder-Mills,

Answer to the Message of the Council of the 7th instant,

Answer to the Message of the Council of the 3d instant,

Report on the best method of procuring Sulphur,

Letter from General Washington, respecting one Smithwick,

Letter from General Washington, on the danger of communicating the Small Pox, by persons coming out of Boston,

Committee to consider of a proper place for erecting a Powder Mill,

Petition from the Selectmen and Committee of Northampton,

Clothing ordered for the Midshipmen, Officers, and Privates, prisoners at Northampton,

Petition of Noah Lee, a Captain under Arnold, in the expedition against Ticonderoga,

Report on disposing of the Estates of Refugees,

Committee to prepare Accounts for the Continental Congress discharged, and another appointed,

New Committee for distributing the Donations for the Poor of Boston, appointed,

 

Committee to consider of a meet establishment for the General Officers who have been in the service of the Colony,

Committee to bring in a Resolve empowering all persons to make captures of Vessels of the enemy,

Committee of the Town of Chatham directed to keep possession of the Schooner Williams, belonging to John Price, a Tory of the first magnitude,

Relief ordered for the inhabitants of Falmouth, many of whom are reduced to the greatest distress and want by the late unparalleled inhumanity of the British Forces, in burning the greatest part of the buildings of that Town,

Message from the Council, on the appointment of Military Officers; requesting the House to yield their claim for the present, or point out some other mode of proceeding,

Message from the Council, on appointing an Officer to command in the County of Cumberland,

Captures of enemies Vessels, by persons not legally commissioned therefor, authorized,

Report on providing for the General Officers, read and not accepted,

Further provision for the Poor of Boston,

Message to the Council, proposing to choose, by joint ballot, one Officer to command in the County of Cumberland,

Resolution continuing the present Military Officers in their several stations, until the further order of the General Court,

Message from the Council, agreeing to the appointing of one Officer to command in the County of Cumberland, by joint ballot, saving that it shall not be considered a precedent hereafter,

General Joseph Frye chosen to command in Cumberland, by joint ballot,

Order for apprehending and securing Dr. Church, in case he is liberated from his present confinement,

Recommendation to the several Towns in the Colony to supply the people at Machias with Powder, for their defence,

Resolve for continuing Military Officers, brought down from the Council with amendments,

The amendments rejected, and the House resolve to adhere to their own vote,

Message to the Council, desiring a recess till the 29th of this month,

General Court adjourned to Wednesday, the 29th of this month, then to meet in the MeetingHouse, in Watertown,

CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS ETC.

Address of the Merchants, &c., of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the King; expressing their abhorrence and detestation of the conduct and behaviour of some of their fellow-subjects in America,

Petition of the principal Gentlemen, &c., of the City of Worcester, to the King; praying His Majesty to adopt measures for putting a stop to the further effusion of blood in America, and for reconciling Great Britain and her Colonies,

Letter from an American in London to his friend in Williamsburgh, Virginia. The Petition of the Congress, as a ground for reconciliation, has been rejected; it was urged as beneath the dignity of Parliament, to treat with a people in actual Rebellion. Much was expected from the motion, and it is feared this is the last struggle of the minority, who are too weak to do any thing effectual,

Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress, giving his views generally of the situation of affairs in the Northern Department,

Letter from Dr. Samuel Stringer to Gen. Schuyler, dated Fort George, October 25,

Letter from General Schuyler to the Committee of Albany, dated Ticonderoga, November 2,

Letter from General Schuyler to Elisha Phelps; Deputy-Commissary, dated November 7,

Letter from General Schuyler to the Committee of Albany, November 7,