Mr. Story, agreeable to order, reported Read, and accepted.

Whereas, this Court, at the request of his Excellency General Washington, have thought it necessary that a temporary reinforcement of the Army should be made with all possible despatch, and, to effect the same, have proportioned among the several towns in this Colony such a number of men as they apprehend each town ought to raise, upon the present emergency; and (A) whereas, this Court, That the men agreed to be furnished by this Colony should be raised with all expedition, (B) have appointed a Committee out of each County to assist in raising the men, and forming them, when raised, into companies, which Committee are as follows, viz:

For the County of Suffolk: Mr. Guild, Colonel Lovell, Colonel McIntosh.

Essex: Mr. Phillips, Mr. Jewett, Mr. Hopkins, Major Cross.

Middlesex: Colonel Spaulding, Major Brooks, Colonel Perry, Captain Sartle, Mr. Bryant.

Plymouth: Captain Cushing, Colonel Cushing, Captain White, of Middleborough.

Barnstable: Colonel Otis, Colonel Cobb.

Bristol: Captain Hodges, Mr. Starkweather, Doctor Baylies.

Worcester: Captain Parker, Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Allen, Mr. Rice, Colonel Hill.

York: Colonel Sayer, Mr. Sullivan, Major Goodwin.

Cumberland: Mr. Fabyan, Captain Cutter.

Lincoln: Captain Howard, Colonel Jones.

Therefore, Resolved, That the persons aforenamed, for each of the several Counties aforesaid, be, and they hereby are directed to use their utmost endeavours with the Committees of Correspondence and Safety, and Selectmen of each town, to have the several proportions of men affixed to each town in their several Counties raised with all possible expedition, and, when raised, to form them into Companies of ninety men each, including officers, and, as soon as each Company has chosen their several officers, that they cause them to march forthwith to the camp at Cambridge or Roxbury, as his Excellency General Washington shall direct.

Ordered, That the following gentlemen be a Committee to see that the men to be raised from the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire be divided into Companies, and equipped with all expedition, viz:

For the County of Hampshire: Colonel Field, Mr. Dickenson, Major Pyncheon, Major Ely, Major Bliss, and Colonel Howe.

For the County of Berkshire: Doctor Whiting, Captain Goodrich, and Major Smith.

Ordered, That Colonel Otis get four hundred of the Resolves, which respect the raising six Regiments to serve in the Continental Army before Boston, immediately printed, and to see that the press is corrected, and the Form for Inlistment printed on one side by itself.

Ordered, That Captain Brown, of Watertown, get one hundred of the Resolves which respect the raising a Regiment in Hampshire and Berkshire, printed as soon as possible, and to see that the press is corrected, and that the following Form of an Inlistment be printed on one side by itself, and when printed to deliver the same to the Committee above-mentioned.

Form of an Inlistment.

" 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 should 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 by such person, or persons, as the General Court shall appoint, into a company of ninety men, including one Captain, two Lieutenants, one Ensign, four Sergeants, four Corporals, one Drum, and one Fife, to be elected by the company, and commissionated by the Council, and when formed, we engage to march into Canada, with the utmost expedition, and to be under such Field-Officers as the General Court have appointed, or shall appoint; and we further agree, during the time aforesaid, to be subject to such Generals, or superior officers, as are or shall be appointed, and to be under such regulations in every respect as are provided for the Army aforesaid.

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

Major Hawley brought in a Resolve for removing the concern and uneasiness of some people in the Colony on account of the establishment of wages to be paid to the Officers in the American Army.

Read, and Ordered, That Mr. Gardner, Deacon Rawson, and Deacon Nichols, be a Committee to inquire into the truth of the facts therein stated.

Whereas, it is of great importance that the Regiment to be raised by this Colony to serve the United Colonies in Canada, should be inlisted and marched with the utmost despatch, and the appointment of the Staff Officers by this Court, and making commissions to Captains and Subalterns for said Regiment may occasion delay:

Resolved, That the Field-Officers of the Regiment, together with Major Pyncheon, Major Ely, Colonel Field, Mr. Dickenson, Major Bliss, Colonel Howe, Doctor Whiting, Captain Goodrich, and Major Smith, or the major part of them be, and they hereby are appointed a Committee to appoint a Quartermaster, an Adjutant, a Chaplain, Surgeon, and Surgeon's Mate for said Regiment; and the honourable Board are hereby empowered to deliver to said Committee five blank warrants for the said Staff Officers, also, a sufficient number of blank commissions fox the Captains and Subalterns aforesaid, signed. And the said Committee are directed to fill up the said blank coinmissions with the names of such commissioned officers as the Companies shall, respectively, choose.

Moses Gill, Esq., brought down the Resolve reported this afternoon by Mr. Story, with the following Vote of Council, viz:

In Council, January 21, 1776: Read, and concurred with the amendment, viz: Dele from A to B.

Read, and concurred.

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

Monday, January 22, 1776.

An engrossed Bill, intituled, "An Act for forming and regulating the Militia within the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, and for repealing all the laws heretofore made for that purpose."

Read, and Resolved, That it pass to be enacted.

Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the the publick Treasury, to Elisha Porter, Esq., for the use of Carmi Wright, the sum of two Pounds five Shillings, in full for a Gun lost in the battle at Charlestown, the 17th