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Memorial of James Car gill, of Newcastle, in the County of Lincoln, setting forth to your Honours: "that the schooner Dolphin was, by order of the honourable Court, committed to his care; and that your memorialist fitted her with two new masts, also, with carpenter and smith's work to fit her for use; and, also, ordered Andrew Reed, Jun., to coast in said schooner to Portsmouth and New-hury, in order to get rigging for her, which she was very scant off. Said schooner was ordered to proceed on business the 1st of January last. Your memorialist would be glad of your Honour's directions concerning said schooner.
In the House of Representatives: On the Petition of James Cargill, Resolved, That Colonel Cargill be allowed to detain the abovesaid Schooner, till further order of this Court, and be accountable for her earnings when required.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
In the House of Representatives: The House made choice, by ballot, of the following gentlemen as Field-Officers of the Fourth Regiment of Militia for the County of Middlesex, viz: Henry Gardner, Esq., Colonel; Ezekiel How, Lieutenant-Colonel; Jonathan Hapgood, First Major; Cyprian How, Second Major.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
Adjourned to ten o'clock, to-morrow morning.
Friday, February 16, 1776.
Present in Council: Honourables Benjamin Greenloaf, Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, Thomas Cushing, John Whetcomb, Jedcdiah Foster, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Michael Farley, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Holten, Jabcz Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.
In the House of Representatives: The House made choice, by ballot, of Joseph Gilbert as Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Militia, in the County of Worcester, in the room of Colonel Warner, elected Brigadier.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the honourable Council be empowered to supply his Excellency General Washington with the three thousand pounds of Powder which may arrive in the recess of the Court, or any part thereof.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
In the House of Representatives:(Blank.)
In the House of Representatives: The Pay-Roll of the honourable Members of the House, with their travel and attendance, was made, and allowed by the House.
In Council: Read, and allowed; and
Ordered, That a warrant be drawn on the Treasury for the sum of two thousand two hundred and seventy-four Pounds ten Shillings, in full of said Roll,
In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the Commissary-General be, and he is hereby empowered and directed to deliver to his Excellency General Washington, or his order, such Colony Fire-Arms as are in his keeping, that are fit for service, he paying the price they shall be set at by a Committee to be appointed by this Court to appraise the same; and that Captain Brown, of Watertown, Colonel Thatcher, and Major Fuller, be a Committee for that purpose, who are directed to keep an account of the number of the Guns so appraised, and the amount thereof, and to report the same to this Court.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
A Letter from Henry Laurens* President of the Council of Safety of their sister Colony of South-Carolina, relative to raising Seamen in this Colony, for the service of that.
In Council: Read, and Ordered, That Walter Spooner
and Thomas Cushing, Esquires, with such as the honourable House shall join, be a Committee to consider the same, and report.
In the House of Representatives: Read, and concurred, and Colonel Orne, Brigadier Thompson, and Mr. Brown of Boston, are joined on the part of the House.
In the House of Representatives: The House taking into consideration the disbursements, expenses, and time of services of the Honourable Thomas Cushing, Esquire, a late Member of the Continental Congress on the part of this Colony; thereupon,
Resolved, That the sum of one hundred and forty-six Pounds eight Shillings be allowed and paid to Thomas Cushing, Esquire, for two hundred and forty-four days' attendance on the business of the Colony at the Continental Congress the last year; his Account of disbursements and expense for the Colony to be considered and acted upon the next session of the General Assembly.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
In the Houseof Representatives: Ordered, That the Roll of the Company who marched from Slock bridge, under Captain Brown, for the reduction of Ticonderoga, be committed to the Committee on Minute and Militia-Rolls.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
In the House of Representatives: Whereas, the Colony cannot be supplied with a sufficient quantity of Paper for its own consumption, without the particular care of its inhabitants in saving rags for the Paper-Mills:
Therefore, Resolved, That the Committees of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety, in the several Towns in this Colony, be, and they hereby are required immediately to appoint some suitable person, in their respective towns, (where it is not already done,) to receive rags for the Paper-Mills; and the inhabitants of this Colony are hereby desired to be very careful in saving even the smallest quantities of rags proper for making Paper, which will be a further evidence of their disposition to promote the publick good.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
An engrossed Bill, entitled "An Act for carrying into execution a Resolve of the American Congress for ascertaining the number of Inhabitants in this Colony,"having passed the House of Representatives, to be enacted,
In Council: Read a second time, and passed a concurrence, to be enacted.
Adjourned to nine o'clock, to-morrow morning.*
Captain Robert Cochran be allowed to inlist a number of seamen for the purpose mentioned in the letter, and that the Council of this Colony give him a permit for that purpose. All which is submitted.
WALTER SPOONER, per order.
IN COUNCIL, February 16, 1776: Head, and accepted, and there upon Resolved, That Captain Robert Cochran be permitted by the major part of the Council to inlist a number of seamen for the defence of South. Carolina, not exceeding three hundred men, out of the inhabitants of this Government, excepting such as are employed in the Continental Army in the armed vessels fitted out, either by this Colony or any of the inhabitants thereof, or in the forces raised by this Government for the defence of the sea-coast, (A.) Sent down for concurrence.
PEREZ MORTON, Deputy Secretary.
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