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1776.
MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL

Mar. 13,
Committee on a Letter from Stephen Moylan,
1239
14,
Committee on transmitting Books and Letters to Philadelphia, and obtaining an account of the Powder lent to the Continental Army,
1239
Committee to revise the Act for fixing out Armed Vessels,
1239
Appointment of sundry Officers,
1239
15,
Treasurer authorized to exchange Continental Bills for hard money for the Canadian expedition,
1240
16,
Committee to prepare a Letter to their Delegates in Congress, requesting them to use their influence with the Congress that forces may be left within the Colony for its defence,
1240
Petition of James Holmes,
1240
Payments for losses and services, ordered,
1241
Message to the House of Representatives,
1241
Payments for losses at the battle of Bunker’s Hill,
1242
18,
Officers appointed,
1242
Selectmen of Boston required to furnish a list of the names of all who assisted the enemy when the Town was in possession of the British Troops,
1243
19,
Act to encourage the fixing out of Armed Vessels to defend the sea-coast of America, repealed,
1243
21,
Committee to take into immediate consideration the best measures to prevent the spreading of the Small-Pox,
1245
22,
Report of Committee appointed to confer with General Washington on the subject of the removal of any or all the Continental Troops now in the Colony,
1246
23,
Petition of the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Bristol,
1247
Payment for losses in the battle of Bunker’s Hill,
1248
Message to the House of Representatives respecting the fitting for sea the Sloop Machias Liberty and the Schooner Diligent,
1248
25,
Committee to wait on General Washington to request that, in the exposed state of the Colony, he will continue there six Regiments of the Continental Troops for its defence,
1249
Samuel Tufts, of Newburyport, appointed to receive the Saltpetre made within the Colony,
1249
Committee to take an account of the Estates of the Mandamus Counsellors, and other avowed enemies of their country, who have lately left Boston,
1249
Petition of Abijah Burbank for a license to erect a Powder-Mill,
1249
Commissary-General directed to apply to General Washington for his advice relative to removing the property of the Colony from Castle-Island,
1250
26,
Committee on the Petition of Dr. Cooper, a sufferer through the infamous violence and robbery of the British Troops lately driven from Boston,
1250
27,
Committee on the Petition of Richard Derby, Jun., praying for liberty to send three Vessels to the West-Indies,
1250
Address to General Washington,
1251
28,
Petition of Walter Spooner, of Dartmouth, for Cannon for the defence of that Harbour,
1251
Committee on a Letter from R. H. Harrison,
1252
Committee to lay the account of Powder supplied the Army near Boston, since the 10th of June last, before General Washington,
1252
29,
Richard Derby permitted to send three Vessels to the foreign West-Indies,
1252
Captain William Wood with his crew permitted to return to England,
1253
Message to the House of Representatives,
1254
Payment ordered for men on Captain Stewart’s Roll, on the expedition to Ticonderoga and Crown-Point,
1254
Apr . 1,
Committee to consider and report what is proper to be done with those persons in Boston who have appeared to be inimical to the United Colonies of America,
1255
General Washington’s Answer to an Address from the General Court, of the 27th ultimo,
1255
1776.
Payment ordered for losses at the battle of Bunker’s Hill,
1256
Military Officers appointed,
1256
Payment ordered for fitting out the two Armed Vessels commanded by Captain Obrien,
1256
Message to the House of Representatives respecting the Cannon left by the enemy on Castle-Island,
1257
Suits against Officers and Soldiers of the Army, for any entry made by them in houses or lands in the Colony, prohibited,
1257
Apr . 2,
John Rich committed to prison for supplying the enemy when in Boston with Provisions,
1258
Petition from the Committee of Correspondence for the County of Worcester,
1258
Report of Committee appointed to inquire of Baron de Woedtke relative to the design the Captain in whose vessel he came, had of going into Boston,
1258
Petition of Caleb Green for an exchange of some prisoners, whom Captain Wallace threatens to send to England,
1258
3,
Petition of Bartelemi Wassanis,
1259
Act to prevent the forging of Bills of Publick Credit, passed,
1260
Report of Committee on the passages there are for Ships to enter the Harbour of Boston, and the defences necessary for the protection of the Town,
1260
Orders for securing the Estates of the Mandamus Counsellors and other absconders from Boston,
1261
4,
Committee on erecting a Monument to General Warren report that the place where his body was buried has been discovered, and recommend the removal and interment of the remains, so that hereafter the Monument may be erected to his memory,
1262
Payment ordered for losses at the battle of Bunker’s Hill,
1262
5,
Committee to give directions for the fortifying of Boston Harbour,
1262
Memorial of Committee for building and equipping sundry Armed Vessels,
1263
Committee to consider what is proper to be done with the effects of persons inimical to the Colonies, who may be imprisoned,
1263
Order for the arrest of John Lovell, Jun., and others, of Boston, charged with assisting the enemies of the United Colonies,
1264
Petition of the inhabitants of Boston, praying that proper defences may be erected for the protection of the Town,
1264
Committee to erect a Powder-Mill in the Town of Sutton,
1265
6,
Act to amend the Act for encouraging the fitting out of Armed Vessels, passed,
1266
Petition of Israel Stoddard and Woodbridge Little, of Pittsfield,
1266
Committee to consider and report on General Washington’s Instructions to General Ward,
1267
8,
Resolution to prevent fraudulent practices and impositions in procuring the premium for the manufacture of Saltpetre,
1268
9,
Committee on the Deposition of Dr. John Warren, who discovered Arsenick among the Medicines left by the British in Boston,
1269
Report of Committee on the Fortifications necessary for the defence of Boston Harbour,
1269
Transferring Vessels to the inhabitants of Nova-Scotia, to carry on the business of Fishing, prohibited,
1270
10,
Committee on a Letter from John Glover, respecting a number of Tories taken on board a Vessel from Boston,
1271
11,
Petition of Jacob Martin and Nathaniel Perley, of Ipswich,
1271
Sheriff of Barnstable County directed to seize the Tea and British Goods lately arrived there,
1272
Petition of William King, of Great Barrington,
1272
Beating Orders to Officers for inlisting the Regiment to be raised to fortify the Town and Harbour of Boston,
1272
Selectmen of the several Towns directed to give all possible aid to Colonel Knox in removing the Ordnance through the Colony, on the way to New-York,
1273

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