Benjamin Lincoln, Esquire, brought down the Resolve, which passed this House yesterday, for erecting a Powder-Mill at Andover, with the following Vote of Council there on, viz:

In Council, January 9, 1776: Read, and concurred, with the amendments at A, B, and C, viz: At A, insert "appointed to purchase Saltpetre;" dele from B to C; and them insert: "In case said Mill shall be obliged to stand still any part of said year, for want of Saltpetre, and the same be made to appear to the satisfaction of this Court, said Phillips shall be allowed to receive a sufficient quantity of Saltpetre to employ said Mill the same length of time it was obliged to stand still, and to manufacture it into Powder, on the same terms as during the aforesaid year; and, in case said Phillips requires it, there shall be delivered to him so much Sulphur as is necessary to manufacture the Saltpetre into Gunpowder, he (the said Phillips paying this Colony the first cost of the Sulphur; and he (the said Phillips) shall, at his own expense, not only pro-vide a sufficient quantity of good charcoal for all the Gunpowder he shall manufacture for the Colony, but also provide and keep, at his own cost, a good and sufficient guard at his Powder-Mills, at all tunes, to prevent any wicked and designing persons from destroying the same, and to be at all other necessary expenses in manufacturing said Powder."Read, and concurred.

Benjamin Lincoln, Esquire, brought down a Letter from Mr. Joshua Elderkin, of Windham, in Connecticut, acquainting the Court that he has made such progress in the manufacture of Saltpetre as to be able to produce fifty pounds per week, and declaring his willingness to communicate his discoveries in such way as to the Court may seem meet.

A Petition of Doctor Stephen Ball, of Northborough, playing an allowance for his account of doctoring divers soldiers of the American Army, who were sick, and had leave lo return home. Read, and the Petitioner had leave to withdraw his Petition, and to exhibit an account to the 1st of August.

Ordered, That a message go to the honourable Board, informing them the House has now under consideration a Resolve recommending to the Militia now doing duty in the Continental Army to tarry there until the last of January instant, and to request that the Board would not yet adjourn.

Charles Chauncy, Esquire, brought down the Report of the Committee on the services of the Committee that signed the bills of the one hundred thousand Pounds emission, with the following Vote of Council thereon, viz:

In Council, January 9, 1776: Read, and concurred, with the amendments at A, viz: At A insert, "Read, and accepted, and Ordered, That the said Committee be discharged accordingly."

Read, and accepted, with the following amendment at B, viz: At B, dele the words "Read, and accepted, and Ordered," and insert the words "and, also."

Whereas, it appears to this Court that the part of the Militia of this Colony now in the American Army as a temporary reinforcement, in consequence of a Resolve of said Court, of the 1st of December last past, did conceive, at the time of their inlistment, that by said Resolve they were instituted, to one penny per mile for their travel from their respective homes to the camp, and back again, and that his Excellency General Washington did only engage to the Committee of said Court, when upon a conference with him relative to this matter, that there should be allowed to said Militia so much per day for their travel as the value of their rations in the camp would amount to; and whereas, by referring to the said Resolve, it appears that the said Militia were promised "rations while on their march to and from the camp, to bear their expenses in the same," and the said mode of expression may be naturally construed by the inhabitants of this Colony to mean the usual allowance of this Colony of one penny per mile for travel, whatever might have been the real intent of the Court at the, time of passing said Resolve; and whereas, it is the duty and interest of every Government strictly to keep their faith and engagements with all persons whatever, and this Court is disposed to give all reasonable satisfaction to the persons aforesaid, and any other inhabitants of the Colony, while they continue to act with the spirit and patriotism which appears at present to influence their conduct:

It is, therefore, Resolved, That the Captain or commanding officer of each Company of the Militia aforesaid be, and he hereby is directed forthwith to make up a Roll of the travel of each man of his respective Company, from his home to the camp, and back again, and the amount thereof at one penny per mile, therein deducting the sum or sums which shall have been paid to him or his Company, as rations for travel as aforesaid, and he is further directed to meet the Committee of this Court, viz: Colonel Lovtll and Major Bliss, at Cambridge, at the house of Mr. Jones, Innholder, or Colonel Williams and Mr. Perry, at Rox-bury, at the house of Mr. Blany, Innholder, on the 13th day of January instant, or if his duty in the Army will not admit thereof on said day, to attend on Monday, the 15th of said January, in order to receive the balance that shall be due for said travel, to pay the men borne on said Rolls. And the Commissary-General of the Army aforesaid, is requested to deliver said Committee a schedule of the sums that he shall have paid to each Company for rations as aforesaid; and the Council are hereby empowered to issue their warrants on the Treasurer of this Colony lo pay to said Colonel Lovell and Major Bliss, the sum of four hundred Pounds, and to Colonel Williams and Mr. Perry, the sum of eight hundred Pounds, to enable them to pay off said Rolls as aforesaid, said Committee to be accountable to the General Court for the same:

And whereas, his Excellency General Washington has signified to this Court, that he shall need the assistance of the said Militia until the last of this month, and from the late virtuous zeal and ardour manifested in their conduct, the Court have the highest confidence in their readiness to afford the same:

Resolved, That it be, and hereby is strongly recommended to the Officers and Soldiers of each Company aforesaid, to reinlist themselves to serve in the said Army until the last day of January instant, or for such a part of said time as his Excellency General Washington shall require, upon the pay, and under the regulations expressed in the former inlistment.

Resolved, That the Committee aforesaid are hereby directed to cause the foregoing Resolve to be forthwith printed in handbills, and copies thereof delivered to each Captain and commanding officer of the Companies aforesaid, who are directed to cause the said Resolve to be read to their several Companies.

Whereas, the Soldiers who were inlisted into the American Army belonging to this Colony, who have been discharged, and had received Fire-Arms and Cartridge-Boxes, which were purchased and delivered to them by this Colony, were ordered to return the same to Richard Devans, Esquire, Commissary-General of this Colony, and to take his receipt for the same, to entitle them to receive the sums deducted for such Guns and Cartridge-Boxes out of their wages, as made up in their Pay-Rolls as lately exhibited: And whereas, the said Fire-Arms and Cartridge-Boxes were purchased for the use of the Continental Army, and the Soldiers alleged that they have accordingly returned the same to the Ordnance Storekeeper of the American Army, or such other persons as were properly authorized to receive the same by his Excellency General Washington;

Therefore, Resolved, That any Soldier who has received a Gun or Cartridge-Box from the Colony Store, and shall produce a certificate either from the Quartermaster-General or his Deputies, or the Ordnance Storekeeper of the American Army, that such Gun or Cartridge-Box has been by them returned into the Continental Store, the same certificate shall be deemed sufficient to all intents and purposes as if the same was certified by Richard Devans, Esq., the Commissary-General of this Colony, according to the former Resolve of this Court.

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

Wednesday, January 10, 1776.

A Receipt of Timothy Edwards, dated 12th, August last,