plied from that Island, and the Inhabitants thereof must suffer while under the aforementioned restraint,

Therefore, Resolved, That the order of this Court, of the 9th of December last, so far as it respects Martha's Vineyard only, be, and hereby is, annulled, and that this Resolve be printed in the Cambridge and Watertown Papers.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred.

The Memorial of the Selectmen of the Town of Sherburne, on the Island of Nantucket, at the request of a number of the Inhabitants, humbly sheweth: "that your memorialists are deeply concerned to find that there is a resolve of the General Assembly of this Colony, forbidding any importation of fuel or provisions into this town; and that it is recommended to the United Colonies to afford no further supplies, by reason, as we apprehend, of some misrepresentation being made of our past conduct.

"Your memorialists beg leave further to represent, that such restraint will, in its operation, in a very short time, subject the inhabitants to extreme distress, as there is already great complaint for want of fuel and other necessaries. Numbers of families begin to feel the pressing calls of hunger and want; therefore, your memorialists beg your attention to a resolve of the Continental Congress of the 11th of December last, founded in humanity, as they say, pointing out the necessity of said town's being further supplied through a Committee of this Colony. Your memorialists, therefore, humbly request, that said restraint recommended to the other Colonies, may be recalled, or otherwise, as your Honours shall think proper.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and committed to Colonel Freeman, Mr. Brown, of Boston, and Mr. Davis, of Barnstable, with such as the honourable Board may join, and the Committee are directed to report what is proper to be done.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and John Winthrop and Charles Chauncy, Esquires, are joined.

In the House of Representatives: Whereas, there has no establishment been made for the General Officers appointed by the Congress of this Colony, for their service in the Massachusetts Army, from the time they entered into said service, until they were put into the pay of the Continent, or were otherwise discharged:

Therefore, Resolved, That there be allowed, and paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to the General Officers appointed by the Congress of this Colony for their services in the Massachusetts Army, from the time they entered into said service, until they were put into the pay of the Continent, or were otherwise discharged at the several rates following, viz: The Honourable General Ward, who served this Colony as Commander-in-chief, twenty-one Pounds per month; To General Thomas, who served this Colony as Lieutenant-General, eighteen Pounds per month; and to Generals Whetcomb, Heath, Frye, and Pomeroy, sixteen Pounds per month—each accounting twenty-eight days to a month; and, they are hereby respectively desired to make up their Accounts accordingly, and lodge them with the Secretary of this Colony, for examination and allowance of the Committee on the Muster-Rolls of the Army.

Adjourned to ten o'clock, to-morrow morning.

Friday, January 26, 1776.

Present in Council: Honourables William Sever, Caleb Cushing, John Winthrop, Thomas Cushing, John Whetcomb, Jedediah Foster, James Prescott, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles Chauncy, Michael Farley, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Holten, Jabez Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.

Captain Batchelder came up with a message from the House to inform the Board, that the House had assigned this day, at twelve o'clock, to come to the choice of Guardians for the Hassanimisco Tribe of Indians, at Grafton, if agreeable to the honourable Board.

Jabez Fisher, Esq., went down with a message to the House, to inform them that the Board agreed to the foregoing proposal of the honourable House.

In the House of Representatives: Whereas, this Court observe, that in consistency with the letter of the purview of their Resolve of the 19lh December last, relative to the compensating the loss of Arms, Accoutrements and Clothing, sustained by certain persons who engaged the Ministerial forces, on the 19th of April and 17th of June last past; accounts of losses may be exhibited to the Committee of this Court from officers and privates, not so much as raised by this Colony, and others may make a claim of compensation for losses, which losses were not caused by their being actually engaged in fight with the Ministerial troops on the days aforesaid, or either of them, which is evidently diverse, and without the true intent and design of the Court at the time of their passing the said Resolve, as appears from the preamble thereof, as well as the justice and reason of the case.

It is, therefore, Resolved, That the aforesaid Resolve of the 19th December last ought not to be taken or construed to extend to any Commissioned, non-Commissioned Officers or Privates, who, on the said 19th day of April or 17th of June, or either of them, were not on the establishment of this Colony, or to losses which were not caused by such persons having been actually engaged in battle against the Ministerial troops on the said days, or either of them, and no Committee or Committees of this Court, or either House appointed to consider of the claims of persons for compensation of losses, in consequence of the said Resolve of the 19th December, ought to allow, or report in favour of an allowance of any such claim, without satisfactory evidence that the person, or persons, making such claim was on the establishment of this Colony, and that he was actually engaged in fight with the said Ministerial troops.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In Council: Ordered, That Jedediah Foster and Michael Farley, Esquires, be a Committee on the part of the Board to count and sort the votes for Guardians to the Hassanimisco Tribe of Indians, at Grafton; who reported that the number of votes were:

On the part of the Board,	9
On the part of the House,	55
Total,	64

Thirty-three made a vote; and that Edward Rawson, Esquire, had 64, Stephen Maynard had 48, Deacon Hall had 45, and were accordingly chosen.

The Committee appointed to arrange the Militia through the Colony reported:

That there be four Regiments formed in the County of Plymouth, in the manner following, viz:

First Regiment: Plymouth, Plympton, Halifax, Kingston, Duxborough.

Second Regiment: Scituate, Marshfield, Hanover, Pembroke.

Third Regiment: Bridgewater, Abington.

Fourth Regiment: Middleborough, Rochester, Wareham.

That there be eight Regiments formed in the County of Worcester, in the manner following, viz:

First Regiment: Worcester, Leicester, Holden, Spencer, Paxton.

Second Regiment: Lancaster, Harvard, Bolton, Princeton.

Third Regiment: Mendon, Uxbridge, Northbridge, Upton, Douglass.

Fourth Regiment: Brookfield, Western, New-Brain-tree, Hardwick, Oakham.

Fifth Regiment: Sutton, Oxford, Sturbridge, Charton, Dudley.

Sixth Regiment: Southborough, Westborough, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Grafton.

Seventh Regiment: Rutland, Petersham, Hutchinson, Athol, Templeton, Winchendon, Royalston, Hubbardson.

Eighth Regiment: Lunenburgh, Leominster, Westminster, Fitchburgh, Ashburnham, including the adjacent lands lying north of Princeton.

That there be six Regiments in the County of Hampshire, three on the West side of the Great-River, and three on the East side, in manner following, viz:

South Regiment, on the East side of the river: Springfield, Wilbraham, Brimfield, South-Brimfield, Palmer, Monson, Ludlow.

South Regiment, on the West side of the river: West-Springfield, Westfield, Southwick, Granville, Blanford, Murrayfield.