The Committee appointed to bring in a Resolve for advancing a sum of money to the gentlemen chosen to represent this Colony at the Continental Congress reported.

Read, and accepted.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, in Continental Bills, fo the Honourable John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and Elbridge Gerry, Esquires, Delegates from this Colony in Continental Congress, the sum of one hundred and thirty Pounds each, to enable the said gentlemen to defray their expenses, and support the dignity of their office; they to be accountable to the General Court for the same.

The Committee on the Petitions and Accounts of Selectmen and Committees for supplies to the Soldiers, Seafter the battle of Lexington, reported several Resolves for paying the Selectmen, &tc, of the towns hereafter mentioned, the following sums, respectively.

Read, and passed, viz:

All which were read, and accepted.

Afternoon.

Samuel Holten, Esq., brought down the following Vote of Council on the last Resolve of this House relative to Doctor Gelston, viz:

In Council, January 24, 1776: Read, and non-concurred, and ordered to be recommitted.

Read, and concurred, and recommitted accordingly, to Colonel Freeman, Colonel Thompson, and Deacon Stick-ney, with such as the honourable Board may join.

The House passed several Resolves for payment of Accounts for losses on Bunker's Hill, &c., as reported by the Committee appointed to consider such losses.

On a motion, Ordered, That the Votes of the House on the Accounts last mentioned be reconsidered, and that Mr. Speaker, Major Hartley, Mr. Gerry, Colonel Orne, and Colonel Thayer, be a Committee to consider a Resolve of this Court which passed the House on the 19th of December last, containing instructions to the Committee aforementioned, and to report an explanatory Resolve.

Resolved, That the Receiver-General have liberty to pay the fifty thousand Pounds which this Court have offered to lend his Excellency General Washington, either in Continental Bills, or other money.

Major Hawley had leave to bring in a Resolve empowering the honourable Council to draw on the Treasurer in his favour for money to pay for the Blankets which are or may be purchased for the Regiment to be raised in the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, to go into Canada.

Ordered, That Colonel Freeman get the Proclamation which passed yesterday, printed; one for the Clerk of each Court in the Colony; one for each Town-Clerk, and one for each Minister.

The Committee appointed to consider a meet grant to the President of Harvard College, reported. Read, and accepted.

Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the publick Treasury, to Doctor Samuel Langdon, President of Harvard College, the sum of one hundred Pounds over and above the rents of Massachusetts-Hall, which, with a former grant of one hundred Pounds, is in full for his services for one year, ending the 14th day of October, 1775.

Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be, and hereby are empowered and directed to allow the Reverend Doctor Langdon for such account of expenses as shall appear to them to have been incurred by the removal of hisGoods and Furniture from Cambridge to Concord, when the same shall be exhibited to them.

The list of Fees for the Courts of Admiralty was again considered by the House, and recommitted to Major Sewall, Deacon Curtis, and Deacon Whitney, the House having previously voted that the Judges of said Court should severally be paid for the trial of any cause, at the rate of twenty Shillings per day.

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

Thursday, January 25, 1776.

A Petition of Timothy Munro, setting forth, that he was wounded in battle on the 19Th of April last, has been at great expense for doctoring and nursing, and is now unable to support his family, and praying consideration and relief.

Read, and committed to the Committee appointed to consider Petitions of a like nature.

Major Hawley, by leave of the House, brought in the following Resolve. Read, and accepted.

Whereas, this Court, by one Resolve passed in the House of Representatives on the 21st day of January current, and concurred by the Council on the same day, has engaged that such non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers in the Regiment to be immediately raised in the Counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, for the succour of our brethren in Canada, shall be allowed a Blanket, or twelve Shillings to pay him for the same, if he shall find it himself;

It is, therefore, Resolved, That the sum of three hundred and twelve Pounds sixteen Shillings, shall be paid out of the Treasury of this Colony, to Major Joseph Hawley, to convey and deliver the same to Elisha Porter, Esq., of Hadley, lately appointed a Colonel of the Regiment, to be by him paid to such non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers who shall engage and inlist in the said service, and shall provide a good Blanket for himself, he, the said Porter, to be accountable to this Court therefor.

A Memorial of the Selectmen of the Town of Sher-burne, praying that a Resolve of this Court, forbidding the importation of Fuel and Provisions into that town, may be reconsidered, or that the inhabitants, some of whom are already reduced thereby to great distress, may be otherwise relieved. Read, and committed to Colonel Freeman, Mr. Brown, of Boston, and Mr. Davis, of Bamstable, with such as the honourable Board may join, and the Committee are directed to report what is proper to be done.

The House again considered the Resolve for establishing Fees for the Courts of Admiralty.

It was moved, That the Vote of yesterday, for allowing the Judges twenty Shillings per day for sitting on Trial, be reconsidered.

After debate thereon, the question was put, and it passed in the negative.

Then the House passed the following Resolve, viz:

Resolved, That the Fees to be hereafter demanded and received in the Courts of (A) "Admiralty," within this Colony, shall be as follows, viz:

To the Constable, for warning a Town-Meeting and drawing Jurymen, two Shillings.

For summoning each Juror or Witness, six Pence.

To the Sheriff, or Constable, for every mile's travel from the place of abode to the place of trial, in making a return of warrant or summons, two Pence.

To each Juror, or Witness, for every mile's travel from the place of his abode to the place of trial, two Pence.

To every Witness, for attendance, per day, two Shillings and eight Pence.

For the attendance of the Foreman of the Jury, in each cause, per day, four Shillings and six Pence.

For the attendance of each of the other Jurors, per day, four Shillings.

For the Clerks attendance, each day, five Shillings.

For the Sheriff or Constable's attendance, each, per day, four Shillings.

To the Clerk, for recording the proceedings of the Court, for every page containing twenty-four lines, of eight words in a line, six Pence; for taxing the Bill, five Shillings; for all attested copies, six Pence per page, as above.

To the Sheriff, for selling a vessel and cargo, Sic, paying out the proceeds to the captors, and the fees to the Colony