moneys he shall pay away. That once in every month (or at the end of an expedition, if the same shall not continue a month) the Commanding Officer of each Battalion shall cause to be made out a Pay-Roll of his Battalion, setting forth the number of days each Officer and Soldier has been in actual service under his command: each Company to be in a separate list, and proved by the oath of the Captain, or next Commanding Officer; which Pay-Roll the said Commanding Officer shall cause to be delivered to the Paymaster of his Brigade, signed by such Commanding Officer; and the Paymaster shall pay to the Captain of every Company the pay which shall appear due to such Company by the Pay-Roll, and every Officer the pay which shall appear due to him; and every Wagoner should be entitled to receive from such Paymaster all the pay which shall appear due to him by the Wagonmaster's certificate.

The House, taking the same into consideration, concurred therewith.

The Congress adjourned till Monday morning, ten o'clock.

Monday, May 13, 1776.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

Resolved, That when any person shall be suspected of a design to remove himself or his property out of this Colony, an affidavit shall be made before any Member of the County Committee where the person suspected shall reside, the said Member of Committee shall issue a warrant to some officer, who shall be indifferent in point of interest, to bring the said suspected person before the Committee of the County at the next meeting; and such officer is hereby empowered and required to take security, in such sum as the Committee-man shall direct, by endorsement on the back of his warrant, to appear before the said Committee at the next succeeding meeting; and in case such suspected person shall not give such security, the officer shall commit him. And when such suspected person shall appear, or be brought before the Committee, they shall examine into the proofs and allegations; and if it shall appear to them that such suspicion is well founded, they shall order that he give security to answer whatever claim or claims may be made to appear against him, or stand further committed. And where any person shall have actually absconded out of this Colony, or so conceals himself, or makes resistance, that he cannot be brought before the Committee, and the same shall he made appear by affidavit, to the satisfaction of one or more Committee-men, such Committee-man shall issue a warrant to some sufficient person, not being interested, to take possession of all, or so much of the effects of such absconding person, as shall be sufficient to satisfy the demands of any creditor or creditors who shall apply and make oath of such demands; provided, that the said effects shall not be subject to be sold, or otherwise disposed of, until judgment shall be obtained in some court of justice hereafter to be established.

“In Committee of Secrecy, War, and Correspondence.

“Resolved, That it be recommended to the Congress to allow Mrs. Ealbeck the sum of five Pounds, for the use of a Room, Candles, Fire, &c., for this Committee.”

The House concurred therewith.

Resolved, That the following persons be discharged from their further attendance on Congress, to wit: Hugh McDonald, John McDonald, Daniel Cameron, James McDonald, and Daniel McLean.

Whereas it has been thought necessary to fit out three Armed Vessels for the protection of the trade of this Province:

Resolved, That the following sums be paid the Officers and Seamen employed on board the said Vessels, by the month, to wit:

That all other Officers on board Vessels of equal force and burden, the same regulations and pay as by the Continental establishment.

Resolved, That the following persons be appointed Paymasters to the Militia, viz: Mr. William Green, for the District of Halifax; Mr. Matthew Lock, for the District of Salisbury; Mr. James Council, for the District of Wilmington; Mr. Thomas Burke, for the District of Hillsbo-rough; Mr. William Blount, for the District of Newbern; and Mr. Day Ridley, for the District of Edenton.

Resolved, That the Paymasters of the Militia of this Colony give bond, with security, each in the sum of ten thousand Pounds, for the faithful application of money intrusted to them.

Resolved, That every Householder in the County of Surry shall have a right to sit and vote in Committees for said County, they being elected by persons having a right to vote agreeable to a Resolve of the last Congress, at Hillsborough.

Resolved, That Thomas Mander be discharged from his parole.

Resolved, That Thomas Eaton, Esq., be appointed Colonel of the Militia for the County of Bute, in the room of Philemon Hawkins, Jun., resigned.

Resolved, That Croondates Davis, Clerk of the Committee of Safety for the District of Halifax, be allowed ten Pounds for his services.

Resolved, That Mcmucan Hunt, Clerk of the Committee of Safety for the District of Hillsborough, be allowed ten Pounds for his services.

Resolved, That William Burke be discharged from his parole to Northampton, and that he be enlarged.

Resolved, That any person, inhabitant of this Colony, who shall hereafter take arms against America within the said Colony, or shall give intelligence or aid to the open enemies thereof, and shall be convicted of the facts by vote of Congress, or by any judicial power hereafter to be appointed, shall forfeit all his goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the people of the said Colony, to be disposed of by the Congress, or other general representation thereof; and moreover be considered (when taken) as a prisoner of war, unless the sentence shall be mitigated or pardoned by the Congress, or other general representation.

Mr. Battle and Mr. Nash have leave of absence.

Whereas it hath been represented to this Congress that a division of the Committee of Observation of Pasquotank County will give ease and facility to the despatch of publick business within their department, as a wide river runs through said County, near the middle thereof:

Resolved, That the said County, for this particular purpose, be, and it is hereby, divided into two distinct and separate Districts, North and South, by the middle of the River; and that a Committee, to consist of thirteen persons in each District, a majority of whom shall be a quorum, shall be elected on the third Monday in June next, at such places in each District as the present Committee shall appoint, publick notice of which, by advertisements, the Clerk is hereby directed to give twenty days, at least, previous thereto, at not less than two of the most publick places in each District; and these elections shall be conducted, and those Committees so to be elected, regulated and governed, by the same rules and restrictions now in force, made and entered into for the purpose of instituting County Committees by the last Congress at Hillsborough, and also for amending the same by this present Congress.

Resolved, That the Committee of Pasquotank County, after the third Monday of June next, be, and is hereby, dissolved; and that all matters and things therein pendant, at that time undetermined, shall be transferred to, and determined by, the Committee of the District where such matter originated, with all the papers thereunto appertaining.

Resolved, That the Committees of both Districts be at large to meet at any time or place where they themselves shall think proper, provided that the time and place of the first meeting of each of those Committees be fixed by the present Committee before their dissolution; provided, also, that the Committees of each District may meet at the Court-House on the days appointed for the first day of each Court, to act in conjunction, and be consolidated.

Resolved, That Alexander McCortle be allowed nineteen Pounds ten Shillings for a Wagon, Team, and Driver, on the late expedition to Cross- Creek against the Tories; that the