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Therefore, Resolved, That each Town, who have presented their Accounts to this Court for payment, and yet remain unpaid, and those who in future shall present such Accounts for payment, shall lodge with them, before they shall be passed on, a certificate from the officer who commanded such men, on the alarm aforesaid, that no part of the provisions mentioned in such Account were expended on their march to Head-Quarters, and a certificate from the Commissary what number of days such Company were in camp, and did not draw their allowance from the publick stores.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred.

An engrossed Bill, entitled, "An Act to enable the Inhabitants of Falmouth to support prosecutions against persons who have in possession goods taken from said Inhabitants during the late fire," having passed the House of Representatives, to be enacted,

In Council: Read a second time, and passed a concurrence, to be enacted.

An engrossed Bill, entitled "An Act for reviving a number of Laws that are expired, or near expiring," having passed the House of Representatives, to be enacted,

In Council: Read a second time, and passed a concurrence, to be enacted.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That Doctor John Greenleaf be joined to the Committee appointed to receive, examine, and pay for all good and merchantable Saltpetre, at the rate heretofore established by this Court, that shall be manufactured in this Colony; and that there be paid to the said Committee, out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, the sum of one thousand four hundred Pounds, to enable them to pay for the same, they to be accountable to this Court for the money they or either of them shall receive; and Mr. Jedediah Phips is directed to attend at Watertown, on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, for that purpose, until the 1st day of June next, and to advertise this order for his attendance in the Watertown and Cambridge Newspapers three weeks, successively.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the following be the form of an Inlistment, to be signed by such soldiers as are to be raised by this Colony in the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, to join the American Army in Canada;and Brigadier Thompson is hereby appointed to get the same printed, as soon as possible:

We, the subscribers, do hereby severally inlist ourselves into the service of the United American Colonies, until the 1st day of January next, if the service do require it, and each of us do engage to furnish, and carry with us into the service aforesaid, a good, effective fire-arm, and blanket; also, a good bayonet, cartridge-pouch, and a hatchet or tomahawk, or cutting-sword, if possible. And we, severally, consent to be formed into a regiment, under the command of such Field-Officers, Captains, and Subalterns, as are, or may be appointed and commissionated by the American Congress; and, when so formed, we engage to march under said officers into Canada, with the utmost expedition. And we further agree, during the time aforesaid, to be subject to such Generals, and other officers, as are, or shall be appointed, and to be under such regulations, in every respect, as are provided for the American Army.

Dated the .... of .... A. D. 1776.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

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

Saturday, February 10, 1776.

Present in Council: Honourables William Sever, Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, John Winthrop, Thomas Cushing, Jedediah Foster, James Prescott, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Michael Farley, Samuel Holten, Jabaz Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.

In the House of Representatives: Ordered, That the Petition of Isaac Battle and Samuel Nichols, praying to be fixed out a Privateering by the Colony, be committed to the Committee appointed to build ten Armed Vessels.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to the Honourable Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., and others, a Committee of this Court for fitting out ten vessels, to procure Gunpowder, Ammunition, &c, the sum of two thousand Pounds for that purpose, they to be accountable to this Court for the same.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

Jn the House of Representatives: Ordered, That Mr. Speaker and Major Hawley, with such as the honourable Board may join, be a Committee to wait on his Excellency General Washington, and inform him that this Court is about to rise, and to know if he has any application to make to the Court.

In Council;Read, and concurred, and Colonel Lincoln is joined.

In the House of Representatives; Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to Richard Devans, Esq., Commissary-General of this Colony, the sum of one thousand Pounds, to enable him to procure Warlike Stores for the use of the Colony.

In Council;Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: The House made choice, by ballot, of the following gentlemen for Field-Officers of the Second Regiment of Militia in the County of Plymouth, viz: Anthony Thomas, Colonel; John Cushing, Jun., Lieutenant-Colonel; Jeremiah Hall, First Major; Nathaniel Cushing, Second Major.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

In the House of Representatives: Whereas, the votes and proceedings of the honourable Continental Congress, respecting the Regiment now raising in this Colony to join the Continental Army in Canada, make it necessary that some alteration should be made in the Resolves of this Court of the 21st of January last, respecting the encouragement thereby offered and proposed to such as should inlist themselves into the said service; and whereas, it is apprehended the mode of appointing the Captains, Subalterns, and non-Commissioned Officers, therein recommended, will retard the speedy inlistment and forming the several companies to be raised, which ought to be forwarded with all despatch;

Therefore, Resolved, That the Order of Court of the 21st of January last, relative to raising a Regiment of men in the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, to serve in Canada, so far as it relates to the two months' advance wages, the electing Captains, Subalterns, and non-Commissioned Officers, by the men, and the officers being confined to raise said Regiment in the Counties aforesaid, be reconsidered.

Resolved, That the blank Commissions for the Captains, Subalterns, and Staff-Officers, sent by this Court to the Continental Congress, to the said Regiment, be lodged in, the hands of the Field-Officers appointed to raise and command said Regiment, as, also, inlisting papers to those men who come recommended to them for their loyalty to their country, their courage, and good conduct, as properly qualified for officers, and, upon their raising the complement of men assigned them, to deliver them their commissions.

And for the encouragement of such as shall inlist themselves into the said service,

It is further Resolved, That, agreeable to the Resolves of the honourable Continental Congress, there shall be paid to each effective, able-bodied non-Commissioned Officer and Soldier, who shall inlist as aforesaid, and be properly accoutred, according to the terms of their inlistment, the sum of forty Shillings, lawful money, as a bounty; and, also, that there shall be advanced and paid to every Officer and Soldier one month's advance wages, that they may be enabled to purchase necessary clothing; both the said sums to be paid them on their passing muster.

It is further Resolved, That those who have inlisted already, upon the former inlistment, given out upon their signing the inlistment now ordered, shall be entitled to the same bounty and privileges as if they had not before inlisted, and shall be entitled to receive pay from the date of their first inlistment. The said sums of one month's advance wages, and forty Shillings bounty, to be in lieu of the two months' advance wages ordered in the said Resolves of the 21st of January.

And whereas, by the said Resolves of the 21st of January, three companies were to be raised from the County of Berkshire, as part of the said Regiment; and whereas,