Read, and Ordered, That this Letter, with the Papers accompanying, be committed to the Committee on General Frye's Memorial.
Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., brought down a Petition of the Committee of Safety of the Town of Salem, praying to be instructed what their duty is respecting Captures made by Privateers. Passed in Council, viz:
In Coucil, December 2, 1775: Read, and Ordered, That Samuel Holten, Esq., with such as the honourable House shall join, be a Committee to lake the within Petition into consideration, and report.
Read, and concurred, and Mr. Story and Captain Toby are joined.
Mr. Story, agreeable to order, reported. Read, and accepted.
Whereas, it is necessary that a number of men should be immediately raised, agreeable to a Resolve of this Court of yesterday; and, as it appears to this Court, that the men
stationed upon the Sea-Coasts in the Towns of Newhury, Dartmouth, Rochester, and Wareham, may, without any inconveniency, be spared from any further service in guarding the Sea-Coasts in those towns: Therefore,
Resolved, That the men stationed on the Sea-Coasts in the Towns of Newbury, Dartmouth, Rochester, and Wareham, be, and they hereby are dismissed from the service aforesaid, from and after the fifth day of December instant, and that no further pay, or allowance, be made for that service after that time.
Upon a motion made, and seconded,
Resolved, That a general attendance of the Members of this House, is, at this time, indispensably necessary for the despatch of publick business; and, all Members not necessarily detained by sickness, or absent by order of the House, are enjoined, forthwith, to attend their duty therein until particular leave of absence can be granted, or a recess takes place.
November 7, 1775.
SOLOMON LOMBARD.
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