shall be under the field command of a Major, to be appointed over them by the Court.

And it is also Resolved, That a Commissary be appointed by this Court, to supply the four Companies aforesaid with barracks, wood, and utensils to cook in, and their allowance of provisions and money, according to the afore-going establishment, till the further order of this Court.

And it is Resolved, That there shall be stationed at Plymouth, fifty men, including officers, upon the same establishment; and that there shall be a Commissary appointed by this Court to supply said Company with barracks, wood, and utensils to cook in, and their allowance of provisions and money according to the establishment aforesaid.

And it is also Resolved, That there shall be stationed at Marblehead. two Companies, to consist of seventy-five men each, officers included, one Captain of which Companies shall have the chief command of both.

And it is Resolved, That there be stationed at Salem, one Company, to consist of fifty men, including officers, and that a Commissary be appointed by this Court to supply said Companies at Salem and Marblehcad with the allowance of provisions and money aforesaid, and to provide for them, if necessary, wood, barracks, and utensils to cook in.

And that there be stationed at Gloucester, four Companies, two whereof shall consist of sixty-three men each, including officers, and the other two to consist of sixty-two men each, including officers, and to be under the command of a Colonel, to be appointed by this Court, as already provided; and that a Commissary be appointed by this Court to supply them with the allowance as is above provided for the others on the same establishment; and with barracks, wood, and utensils to cook in, if necessary.

And it is likewise Resolved, That there shall be stationed at Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, five Companies, to consist of eighty men each, including officers; two Companies whereof shall be raised of the inhabitants of said County; two of the inhabitants of the County of York; and one of the inhabitants of the County of Lincoln, to be under the command of one Colonel and one Major, to be chosen and appointed over them by this Court; of which men the Commanding Officer shall place necessary guards on Kennebeck-River, at Harpswell, Brunsuick, North-Yarmouth, New-Casco, Cape-Elisabeth, Scarborough, on Saco-River, and in such other places as he shall think necessary for the defence of the Province of Maine, and that a Commissary be appointed by this Court to supply said Companies with their allowance of money and provisions, according to the above establishment, and with barracks, wood, and utensils to cook in.

And it is also Resolved, That the Council shall, and they hereby are empowered forthwith to issue their warrant to the Treasurer, directing him to pay the aforesaid Commissaries, when chosen, the sum of fifty Shillings for each officer and soldier, which they are to provide for respectively; the said Commissaries giving bonds with sufficient sureties, as the Council shall direct, that the moneys which they shall, from time to time, receive by warrant of Council for the purpose aforesaid, shall be by them faithfully expended in supplying and providing for the Companies under their respective care, and accounted for accordingly; and the Council are further empowered, at the expiration of two months, to order to each Commissary aforesaid, who shall well and truly account with this Court, or such Committee as shall be by them appointed for this purpose, for that part of the sum aforesaid, which he shall have received, the further sum of five Pounds for each officer and soldier under his care, or such a part thereof as shall be found necessary to furnish supplies four months; and at the expiration of that, or any other time for which moneys shall be advanced to each Commissary for supplying the forces as aforesaid, to renew their drafts in the said proportion of twenty-five Shillings a man per month, or so much thereof as shall be found necessary, until the 31st of December next, provided the Commissaries shall, respectively, continue to account for the sums they shall receive as aforesaid, and the Forces shall not be dismissed before from the service of this Colony.

Also, Resolved, That the Captain of each Company aforesaid be, and hereby is directed to make up his Muster-Roil the last day of February next, and after that time, quarterly, so long as he shall continue in the service as aforesaid, and to direct the Company to draw on the Treasurer in favour of some person whom they shall appoint to receive the same; and that the Council are further empowered to issue their warrants on the Treasury for payment thereof, to the persons on said Rolls, or their order.

Resolved, That the Commanding Officer of each Company shall cause them to be improved in military discipline (unless otherwise upon duty) once, or oftener, each day, excepting the Sabbath, and order them to avoid an unnecessary expense of ammunition; and each non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall act in opposition to this Resolve, or disobey the lawful commands of either of his officers relative to the premises, and be thereof convicted before a majority of the Sea-Coast commissioned Officers, stationed in the same town with him, shall forfeit and have deducted from his wages a sum not exceeding six Shillings, nor less than one Shilling for each offence.

Resolved, That there be appointed one person in each County where the Sea-Coast Men are stationed, to muster the same; and each Sea-Coast Officer shall, on an alarm, be under command of any Officer of the Militia of superior rank; and superior to any Officer of the Militia of equal rank.

Resolved, That the Sea-Coast Forces shall be subject to, and governed by the same Articles of War, or Regulations, which shall be provided for the Militia of this Colony, when raised in consequence of an alarm; and where no Field-Officer, or Officers, are appointed over the said Forces they shall, during their continuance on any station., be so far considered belonging to the Regiment of which said station, or place, is a part, as to be tried and punished for any breach of said Articles of War, by a Court-Marlial;, consisting of the officers of the said Regiment, and the Forces aforesaid; or such a part thereof as the said Articles shall direct.

And it is also Resolved, That there shall be stationed at Kittery-Point, one Company, of fifty men, including officers, under the same laws, regulations, and establishments aforesaid, the Commanding Officer of which Company, shall keep a Sergeant's Guard at York; and that a Commissary be appointed by this Court to supply said Company with the provisions, money, barracks, &c., as: above-mentioned for others on the same establishment.

Resolved, That Colonel Freeman be, and hereby is appointed and directed to send a printed copy of the above Establishment, with Inlisting Orders, and Forms of Inlistment, to the several Captains that may be chosen by this Court on said Establishment.

Ordered, That the Committee who reported the foregoing Resolve consider a proper provision for defence of Sheepscut-River, and other exposed parts of the Sea-Coast.

Resolved, That Captain Goodman be, and he hereby is directed to repair immediately to Hartford, in Connecticut, and engage the gentlemen, whom he was appointed to attend to Stoughton and Andover, on the business of erecting Powder-Mills, to come without delay to this place.

The House then adjourned till ten o'clock, to-morrow morning.

Friday, December 29, 1775.

A Petition of Samuel Jackson, of Plymuth, setting forth, that George Erving, of Boston, is in debt to him the sun of seventy-five Pounds, two Shillings and four Pence; that he has in his posssesion a quantity of Molasses of said Erving's, which the Court ordered to be delivered to the Commissary-General of the Continental Army, and having no other way of getting his debt, prays the consideration of this Court. Read, and committed to Mr. Sullivan, Colonel Porter, and Mr. Cooper.

Resolved, That the form of Beating Orders and Inlistments for raising Men, in this Colony service, to defend the Sea-Coast, on the Establishment by this Court for the year 1776, be as follows, viz:

"To...............

" SIR: YOU are hereby empowered immediately to inlist a company, to consist of able-bodied effective men, including officers, &c., as soldiers in the Massa