Monday, December 11, 1775.

Received a Letter from General Washington.

Received a Letter from Colonel Bartlett, enclosing a Letter from Messrs. Penn and Lee to Speaker of House of Representatives, and sundry Resolves of Continental Congress.

Examined and allowed Captain Abraham French's Pay-Roll of his Company, and ordered it to be paid, being fifty Pounds nine Shillings eight Pence.

Tuesday, December 12, 1775.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Committee appointed to procure Powder abroad, six hundred Pounds, to be by them accounted for.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Parker two hundred Pounds, for payment of Troops in Colony service.

Examined and allowed Captain Cutting Culley's PayRoll of his Company, and ordered it to be paid, being forty-nine Pounds two Shillings ten Pence.

Do. Captain Samuel Hayes's—forty-seven Pounds ten Shillings.

Wednesday, December 13, 1775.

Ordered the Receiver-General to pay the Committee for procuring Powder abroad, the light Gold in the Treasury, according to an account thereof by him exhibited to this Committee.

Ordered the Receiver-General to pay Colonel Thornton six Pounds—the sum voted him by the late Congress, for his time and expense going to Cambridge and attending the Grand Council there.

Ordered the Receiver-General to pay Colonel Weare and Captain Moulton nine Pounds three Shillings and seven Pence, the amount of their Account for getting Twenty Thousand Pounds printed.

Ordered the Receiver-General to pay George Gains, Quartermaster, one hundred Pounds, to be by him accounted for.

Agreed and directed that Colonel Thornton and Colonel Weare wait on General Washington, to confer with him about recruiting the Continental Army.

Received a Letter from General Sullivan.

Thursday, December 14, 1775.

Received and considered the Petition of Captain John Evans, and answered it.

Friday, December 15, 1775.

Examined and allowed the Pay-Roll of Captain Joseph Clifford, and ordered it to be paid, being twenty-two Pounds twelve Shillings eight Pence.

Do. Captain Richard Dows—sixty-eight Pounds six Shillings four Pence.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay William Parker three hundred Pounds, for the payment of Troops in the Colony service.

Saturday, December 16, 1775.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Elisha Odlin thirty Shillings, for going express to Canterbur and Dover.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay John Rice, Esquire, four Pounds, for Committee's board to this day.

Examined and allowed Captain Benjamin Butler, Esquire, his Pay-Roll, and ordered it to be paid, being fifty-five Pounds eleven Pence.

Ordered Receiver-General to pay Colonel Hobart seven thousand Pounds, for the payment of the New-Hampshire Troops in the Continental service to the 4th August.

Gave Colonel Hobart orders respecting the payment of the New-Hampshire Troops in the Continental service.

ORDERS TO COLONEL HOBABT.

To Colonel Samuel Hobart, and Colonel TIMOTHY WALKER, Jun., Esquires:

In pursuance of your appointment, by the Congress, as Paymasters to our Troops in the several Regiments under the Colonels Stark, Reed, and Poor, we desire you to proceed to the Camp, and there pay all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives, in the aforesaid Regiments, the wages due to them, from the time of their entering into the service until the 4th of August last, taking their receipts therefor, at the rate the persons in their several capacities have been paid in this Colony and that of the Massachusetts-Bay, making deductions out of the wages for what he has received already from this Colony, in part; also deducting from every person's wages the price of a blanket, where it appears he has received from the Colony more than one, or money in lieu. And where it appears that any Captains have drawn more blankets, or cash therefor, than one for each non-commissioned officer and soldier in his Company, unless he make it appear who of his Company has received those overplus ones, that the same may be, respectively, stopped out of the soldiers' wages, then the same to be stopped out of the said Captain's wages. And as the several pay-rolls of die respective Companies in the aforesaid Regiments have not been brought to this Committee for allowance, you are desired to see that those rolls be properly made out, and sworn to by the respective Captains, or, in their absence, by one of the subalterns, that such rolls are just and true.

You are also desired to deliver the commissions put into your hands to the several Captains who lately led the recruits from this Colony to the Continental Army, and the subalterns under them, filling up the blanks with such names as you shall be informed by the Captains are appointed to the respective offices.

December 16, 1775.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

Tuesday, October 31, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

Voted, That Colonel William Whipple, Colonel Timothy Walker, the Rev. Mr. Fletcher, Mr. James McGregor, and John Dudley, Esquire, be a Committee to consider what sum of money will be sufficient to be emitted at this time, to answer the demands on this Colony, and a scheme for the emission thereof, and make a report thereof as soon as may be.

Wednesday, November 1, 1775.

The above Committee made report as follows, viz:

Pursuant to the vote yesterday, we have considered what money will be necessary for the present exigencies of the Colony, and are of opinion that, the Receiver-General should issue notes for Twenty Thousand Pounds, lawful money; four thousand Pounds of which to be redeemed on the 20th of December, 1779, six thousand on the 20th of December, 1780, six thousand on the 20th of December, 1781, and four thousand on the 20th of December, 1782; and that eighteen thousand Pounds of the said sum be in notes of the following denominations, viz: forty Shillings, thirty Shillings, fifteen Shillings, ten Shillings, and five Shillings; and that two thousand Pounds, of the said sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, be of the following denominations, viz: three Shillings, two Shillings and six Pence, one Shilling and nine Pence, one Shilling and six Pence, nine Pence, and six Pence.

Which Report was received, and voted to be a Resolve of this Congress.

Voted, That Colonel Weare and Captain Josiah Moulton be a Committee, under oath, to get the aforesaid sum of money (according to said scheme) printed, and to deliver the same to the Treasurer, and take his receipt therefor.

Voted, That Samuel Hobart, Esquire, be appointed to sign said Notes with the Treasurer.

Voted, That the said Notes, at the several periods fixed for payment of the same, be paid by a tax on the polls and estates in this Colony, and, when paid into the Treasury, to be burnt to ashes, in presence of the Representatives of the people of this Colony, or a Committee appointed by them.

Thursday, November 2, 1775.

Voted, That the men raised as Minute-Men in this Colony be inlisted for four months only, then to be dis-