Resolutions of Provincial Congress for taking up Civil Government,

Matthew Thornton appointed Speaker of the House, and Ebenezer Thompson Clerk,

Twelve Counsellors for the Colony chosen,

Ebenezer Thompson appointed Secretary for the Colony,

Philips White chosen Speaker of the House,

Committee to draw up Rules for the House,

Towns whose Representatives are advanced to the Council to choose new Members,

Monitors appointed,

Rules of Order reported and adopted,

Committee to draft an Act to confirm the proceedings of the late Congresses,

Committee to revise the system of Laws in force in the Colony,

Committee to state the Wages of the present House of Assembly,

Nicholas Gilman appointed Treasurer and Receiver-General,

Chief Justice and Assistant Justices appointed,

Anonymous Letter, dated Portsmouth, January 11, laid before the House,

Petition from fourteen Members of the House presented and dismissed,

Committee to prepare and correct the Plan or Form of Government for the Colony,

Protest of thirteen Members of the House against the plan of taking up Government,

Letter from the Committee for the Town of Portsmouth, requesting the anonymous Letter,

Plan for providing Fire-Arms for the Colony, considered and adopted,

Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of Portsmouth against the taking up of Government,

Committee to draw up a recommendation of an Indian Preacher to the Indian Nations,

Committee to collect evidence of losses sustained in the Colony since the shutting up of our Ports,

Committee to prepare a reply to Committee of Portsmouth,

Bill confirming the proceedings of the late Congresses passed,

Pay of the Members regulated,

Committee to inquire into the cost of erecting a Powder-Mill,

Galley to cruise on the Sea-coast, to be built,

Committee of Safety to transact business in the recess of the Assembly, appointed,

Daniel Fowle, the supposed printer of the New-Hampshire Gazette, ordered to appear before the House,

John Langdon desired to attend the House,

Petitions against taking up Government read, and fully argued by John Pickering, counsel for the Petitioners,

Inhabitants permitted to remain at Gosport, on the Isle-of-Shoals,

Letter from General Washington, requesting two Regiments may be raised by New-Hampshire,

Letter from General Washington, offering additional encouragements for the Regiment destined for Canada,

Regiment to serve on the lines of the Continental Army, from 1st February to 1st April, to be raised,

This Regiment to be sent to Canada, instead of the lines,

Timothy Bedel appointed Colonel,

Committees to procure Arms, Hatchets, and Snow-shoes, for the Regiment,

Committee to build a Row Galley,

Committee to consider the expediency of choosing Delegates to the Continental Congress,

Committee to nominate the Delegates,

Committee to confer on the appointment of Civil Officers in the Colony,

Committee to confer with General Washington,

Committee on the complaint against Adam Stewart,

Delegates to the Continental Congress appointed,

Committee to draw up Regulations for a Court of Admiralty,

Committee on settling the dispute between Colonel Hobart and Colonel Stark,

Committee of Safety authorized to fit out and send off the Regiment to Canada,

Committee on petitioning Congress to station a Battalion at Portsmouth,

Committees to administer Oaths, take Bonds, and preserve the publick Records,

Regulations for the Superior and other Courts,

Emission of £20,008 16, lawful money, ordered,

Committee of Safety directed to lay the plan of Government taken up by this Colony, before the Continental Congress,

Petition from the Assembly to the Continental Congress,

Adjourned to first Wednesday in March,

The Assembly met,

List of the Representatives,

Petition from the Baptists at Brentwood, read,

Committee to make additional Rules for the House,

Courts to be opened and held as usual,

Five hundred men to be raised and stationed at Portsmouth,

Form of civil Government lately established in the Colony to be published by Proclamation, that all persons may conform,

Proclamation for a General Fast, ordered,

Complaint against the Committee of Safety for Hollis, &c., to be heard on the 20th instant,

Committee to give notice to the Eastern Ports, that the enemy’s Privateers are on the coast,

Committee to procure a proper Vessel-of-War to guard the coast,

General Washington desired to return the Powder lent him,

Regiment of seven hundred and twenty-five men to be raised and stationed at Piscataqua,

Three hundred men to be raised and stationed at Portsmouth, immediately,

Further provision made for the defence of the coast,

Petition to dismiss Colonel Folsom, to be heard to-morrow,