Eight Companies to be raised immediately for the defence of Boston,

Committee to apply for pay for Wood and Hay furnished the Continental Army,

Form of Beating Orders for the Regiment for the defence of Boston,

Pay of Officers and Seamen for the Vessels now building by the Colony,

Officers, Seamen, and Marines, to have the proceeds of one-third of all captures,

Petition of John Ashley and others, of Berkshire County, complaining of Rev. Thomas Allen, of Pittsfield, as unfriendly to the common cause,

Cannon and Carriages directed to be removed immediately from Castle-Island,

Old Ships to be purchased and sunk in the Channel for the more effectual security of Boston,

Depositions, respecting the Medicines left in the Hospital used by the British Troops in Boston, ordered to be published,

Twelve hundred Pounds to be applied to the purchase of Ammunition, Salt, Corn, &c, for supplying the inhabitants of the Eastern part of the County of Lincoln,

Orders for the disposition of the Troops for the defence of Boston,

Petition from a number of Indian proprietors of Gayhead, in Dukes County,

Simeon Sampson appointed Captain of the Armed Brigantine building at Kingston,

The Council desired by the House of Representatives to desist from making out any Commissions, civil or military, for the present,

Committee to proceed to Pittsfield to inquire into the causes of complaint subsisting there,

Committee on a Letter from General Ward,

Jonathan Stickney, Jun., committed to the Jail at Ipswich for encouraging sedition and a spirit of disobedience to all lawful authority among the people,

Guardians for the Gayhead Indians elected,

Message to the House of Representatives,

Instructions to the Committee appointed to fortify the Harbour of Boston,

Committee to inquire into the importation of certain goods contrary to the Resolutions of the Continental Congress,

Richard Weldon appointed Captain of the Armed Brigantine building at Dartmouth,

Orders given for fortifying Noddle’s Island,

Report of Committee on the disposal of the warlike Stores lately imported into Dartmouth,

Committee on a Letter from the President of Congress,

Captain Fisk appointed to the command of the Armed Sloop building at Salisbury,

Names of the five Armed Vessels now building in the Colony: Independence, Rising Empire, Tyrannicide, Republick, and Freedom,

Message from the House of Representatives, representing the absurdity of issuing Commissions in the present style,

Committee to prepare amendments to the Bill for fixing out Armed Vessels for the defence of America,

Directions given for the more expeditiously making the Fortifications necessary for the defence of the Town and Port of Boston,

Representation of Nathaniel Barber, 1287 Military Officers appointed,

Further directions for the defence of Boston,

Committees of every Town in the Colony directed to take possession of, and lease out the Estates of all persons who have joined the unnatural enemies of the United Colonies,

Committees required to return to the General Court the names of all persons who have in any manner acted against, or opposed the rights or liberties of this country,

Adjutants for sundry Regiments appointed,

Sea-Coast men entitled to one-third of the net proceeds of vessels and cargoes taken by them,

 

Encouragements offered for raising Hemp and Flax,

Payments ordered for losses in the battle of Lexington,

Committee for fortifying the Harbour of Boston authorized to employ an additional number of men,

Memorial of the President and Fellows of Harvard College,

Further powers given to the Committee for fortifying the Town and Harbour of Boston,

John Hill, an assistant to Crean Brush in his late unwarrantable and highhanded thefts and robberies, to be arrested wherever he may be found,

Provision for the return of the Poor of Boston and Charlestown,

Payment ordered for the losses of Colonel Parker, slain in the battle of Charlestown,

Act passed for executing the Resolve of Congress recommending the disarming the enemies of the United Colonies,

Petition of Eleazer French, who was wounded in the engagement on Bunker’s Hill,

Shares of Prize-money to the Officers, Seamen, and Marines, of the Armed Vessels of the Colony,

Message to the House of Representatives, recommending the raising of another Regiment for the defence of Boston,

Inhabitants of the Seaport Towns in the Colony, recommended to use their utmost endeavours to proceed in the manufacturing of Salt,

Petition of John Stevens, confined in Prison as a Spy,

Further regulations to prevent impositions in obtaining premiums for the manufacture of Saltpetre,

Encouragement to Seamen to enter the Colony service,

Uniform of the Officers in the Sea service to be green and white,

Colours of the Colony Armed Vessels to be a white Flag, with a green Pine-tree, and an inscription, “Appeal to Heaven,”

John Hill to be examined by the Justices appointed to try Associators and abetters of the Ministerial Army,

Committee to consider some plan of discipline for the Militia of the Colony,

Field Officers for Boston Regiment appointed,

Timothy Pickering’s plan of Military Discipline to be hereafter used and practised in the Colony,

Further authority given to the Committee for fortifying the Town and Harbour of Boston,

Committee to consider and report upon the practicability of cutting a navigable Canal through the Isthmus which separates Buzzard’s Bay and Barnstable’s Bay,

Act passed for executing the Resolve of the American Congress for disarming such persons as are disaffected to the cause of America,

Time for the Premiums for erecting Powder-Mills extended,

Guards ordered to be stationed at some parts of the Sea-coast, near Boston,

Encouragements for making Fire-Arms and Saltpetre in the Colony,

Further powers given to the Committee for fortifying the Town and Harbour of Boston,

Letter to the Indian Chiefs of the Penobscot Tribe,

Further powers given to the Committee appointed to take possession of the Real and Personal Estates of the Mandamus Counsellors and others,

Report of the Committee appointed to examine the Accounts of the Guardians of the several Indian Tribes in the Colony,

Message to the House of Representatives respecting Prisoners,

Further powers given to the Justices directed to bring before them persons resident in Boston, suspected of aiding the enemies of the United Colonies,