above Counties for the Canada expedition, which Blankets, for the County of Hampshire in particular, were stayed accordingly, before they arrived at the Commissary's Office, and, by a Resolve of January 22, were ordered to be delivered to Colonel Elisha Porter, for the use of his Regiment upon the Canada expedition, by reason of which, the Committee for collecting of Blankets for the County of Hampshire, cannot obtain the Commissary's receipt for the Blankets collected in said County:

Therefore, Resolved, That when the Committee, who were directed to procure Blankets in the County of Hampshire, shall produce a receipt for the same from Col. Elisha Porter, or the major part of the Selectmen of any town in the County of Hampshire, where such Blankets shall be deposited, certifying the number and value thereof, and that they were received for the use of Colonel Porter's Regiment, it shall be accepted and allowed in the same manner as if the same had been under the hand of the Commissary-General of this Colony.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

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

Tuesday, January 30, 1776.

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

In Council: Ordered, That Moses Gill, Esq., with such as the honourable House shall join, be a Committee to examine what number of Sheets of the value of ten Pounds sixteen Shillings each, and what number of Sheets of the value of one Pound four Shillings, of the emission for seventy-five thousand Pounds, have been stamped or struck off, and to separate and put into different bundles each sort of Sheets, marking the value of each bundle, and make report to this Court what number of Sheets there are of each denomination.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred; and Captain Bragdon and Captain Stone are joined.

The Committee appointed by both Houses to examine what number of Sheets of the value of ten Pounds sixteen Shillings each, and what number of Sheets of the value of one Pound four Shillings each, of the emission for seventy-five thousand Pounds, have been stamped or struck off, and to separate and put into different bundles each sort of Sheets, and make report to this Court what number of Sheets there are of each denomination, have, agreeable to order of Court, attended the Committee for signing and numbering said Bills, into whose hands the whole of said emission is committed, and have critically inspected and sorted the Sheets of each denomination and put them into different bundles, find, upon a due and accurate examination, that there is now in the hands of said Committee two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight sheets, of ten Pounds sixteen Shillings each, amounting to thirty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight Pounds eight Shillings; also, five thousand two hundred and fifty Sheets of twenty-four Shillings each, amounting to six thousand three hundred Pounds; and, that the Committee for signing the Bills is possessed of the Treasurer's receipt for three thousand three hundred of the large Sheets, amounting to thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty Pounds, and one thousand of the small Sheets, amounting to twelve hundred Pounds, which, together with the Sheets in the Committee's hands, is as follows:

Six thousand two hundred and fifty Sheets, at twenty-four Shillings each, is seven thousand five hundred Pounds; and six thousand two hundred and forty-eight Sheets, at ten Pounds sixteen Shillings, is sixty-seven thousand four hundred and seventy-eight Pounds six Shillings. The whole of said emission, as now estimated, is seventy-four thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight Pounds eight Shillings; two sheets of the largest sum wanting, to complete the seventy-five thousand Pounds ordered to be emitted.

Your Committee, also, find a surplus age of eleven Sheets of the smallest denomination in the Committee's hands, and conclude there must be some mixture of Sheets, either in the hands of the Treasurer or Committee of Council, for discharging the public accounts: therefore, beg leave to report, as their opinion, that it will be necessary to appoint a Committee to examine the Sheets of each denomination in the Treasurer and Committee of Council's hands, and Committee of Clothing, in order that all mistakes respecting the last emission may be rectified.

MOSES GILL, per order.

In Council: Read, and recommitted; and the Committee are directed to examine the Sheets of each denomination in the Treasurer's, Committee of Council's, and Committee of Clothing's hands.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Whereas, it appears to this Court that the sum of sixty Pounds, now in the hands of Thomas Crafts, Jun., Edward Proctor, Winthrop Gray, and Daniel Sigourney, was the property of Joseph Goldthwait, a noted enemy to the rights of America, and now actually employed in the Ministerial army in Boston,

Resolved, That the before-mentioned Thomas Crafts, Jun., Edward Proctor, Winthrop Gray, and Daniel Sigourney be, and are hereby directed to pay the above-mentioned sum of sixty Pounds into the hands of Henry Gardner, Esq., Treasurer and Receiver-General for this Colony, there to remain for the further order of the General Court.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That there be paid, out of the public Treasury of this Colony, to Thomas Crafts, Jun., Edward Proctor, Winthrop Gray, and Daniel Sigourney, or to any two of them, the sum of two hundred Pounds, they being a Committee of the Court to receive the inhabitants of Boston at Chelsea.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

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

Wednesday, January 31, 1776.

Present in Council: Honourables William Sever, Caleb Cushing, John Whet comb, Jeddah Foster, James Prescott, Elided Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles Chancy, Michael Farley, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Holton, Jibes Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.

Mr. Mills came up with a message from the House, desiring that the honorable Board would send down the division and arrangements of the several Regiments.

Mr. Story came up with a message from the House, desiring the honorable Board to take upon themselves the trouble to arrange the Regiments of the County of Hampshire, there being but one or two Members from that County now in the House.

In Council: Whereas, the General Court have received such information as that there is reason to apprehend a confederacy is forming by some evil-minded persons in this and other Colonies, which may injure the credit of the Continental Bills, and the Bills of this and the other Colonies,

Therefore, Resolved, That it be recommended to the Committees of Inspection and Correspondence in all the towns in this Colony, to make strict inquiry in their several towns, and if they shall find any person within the same endeavoring, in any way whatever, to prevent the credit of the Continental Bills, or the Bills of this, or any other of the United Colonies of America, or to alter or counterfeit the same, that they cause such person to be arrested and secured, and give information thereof to this Court, in order that such person may be proceeded with according to the just demerits of such high crimes and misdemeanors, and that this Resolve be published in all the Newspapers in this Colony.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Ordered, That it be an instruction to the Committee appointed to bring in a Bill to prevent the bodies of Soldiers to be arrested for debt, or their estates attached in certain cases: In the same Bill to make provision to prevent desertion in the Army, and any person from harboring deserters.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

Petitions of the Committees and others, inhabitants of the towns of Machias, Goldsborough, Number-Four, Narraguagus, Pleasant-River, and Chandler's River, in the County of Lincoln, on behalf of said inhabitants, setting forth: "that ever since the first settlement of said Townships until the last year, your petitioners comfortably sup-