William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn, appointed Delegates to the Continental Congress,

Commissioners to take Inventories of the Estates of the Prisoners lately sent out of the Province,

Committee to regulate the Militia,

Committee to take an Inventory of the effects of the Tories in the possession of Colonel Long,

Troops ordered to march, properly armed, to join General Moore, at Wilmington,

Commissioners appointed to receive, procure, and purchase Fire-Arms,

Thanks of the Congress to General Howe, presented by the President,

General Howe’s Answer,

Members of the Congress allowed ten Shillings per day for their attendance, and their ferriages and travelling,

John Daly appointed Captain and Commander of the Fort at Hanging-Point, on Neuse River,

Colonel Long requested to receive General Lee at the line of the Colony, and escort him to Halifax,

Fifteen hundred Privates of the Militia to be drafted immediately, and marched to Wilmington, on Cape Fear, for the defence of the Province,

Names of Prisoners, with the places of their destination,

Regulations for the Militia of the Province,

Six Brigadier-Generals appointed,

Committee to take possession of the Estate of Thomas Macknight, and of James Parker,

Committee to inquire what sum of money will be sufficient to carry on the Military establishment for one year,

Report of Committee on procuring and purifying Sulphur, considered and adopted,

Committee to procure twenty tons of Lead,

Bridges destroyed in the late expedition against the Tories to be rebuilt at the expense of the publick,

Committee to inquire into the ways and means to prevent the desertion of Slaves,

Report of Committee on the desertion of Slaves, considered and adopted,

Committee to bring in a Plan for the more convenient payment of the Militia,

Committee to examine the Proceedings of the late Provincial Council,

Committee to attend the Convention of Virginia, to procure their co-operation in the protection of the trade at Ocracocke,

Emission of one million of Dollars, in paper Bills of Credit, ordered,

Forty Shillings advanced to each of the Militia of Pasquotank,

Militia now to be drafted not to serve longer than three months from the date of their inlistment,

Committee to state the accounts of the Province with the United Colonies, for expenditures since the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain,

Temporary civil Constitution considered in Committee of the Whole,

Council of Safety for the Province to be appointed,

Powers and duties of the Council of Safety,

Provincial Council and District Committees of Safety dissolved,

Council of Safety chosen,

Regulations for the payment of the Militia,

Regulations respecting persons removing their property or absconding from the Colony,

Pay of the Officers and Seamen of the Vessels fitted out for the protection of the Trade of the Province,

Persons taking arms against America shall forfeit all their property within the Colony,

Appeals from the Council of Safety may be taken to the Congress,

Appeals allowed from Committees to the Council of Safety,

Next Congress to be held at Halifax, on the 10th of November, unless sooner ordered by the Council of Safety,

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Committee met pursuant to adjournment,

Elias Nixen, the Port-Master, permitted to take a number of articles on board the Ships-of-War and Governour Tryon’s Ship,

Letter from the President of Congress: An attack upon New-York may be expected; every preparation should be made for its de fence,

Letter from the Committee of Easthampton, enclosing a number of Letters taken from a Vessel driven on shore at Montauk,

Examination of the Prisoners, taken before the Committee,

On the Complaint of John De Lancey, that he had been ill-treated for not attending in his beat, on fatigue, all proceedings against him stayed,

Elias Brevoort appointed Captain in Colonel Lott’s Regiment, in place of John Gregg, who is confined in the Guard-House for conduct inimical to his country,

Oliver Templeton permitted to go on board the Ship Phenix,

John Young ordered to be conveyed, under guard, to Philadelphia,

Letter to the Philadelphia Committee, respecting John Young,

Letter from Jacamiah Allen, informing the Committee of Safety that eighty-two of the Cannon near King’s Bridge are cleared and unspiked,

Letter to Colonel Lunt, of Orange County,

Major Douglass requested to state, immediately, whether he will accept the appointment of Commodore on the Lakes,

John Griffiths permitted to go on board the Packet, on first being sworn that he will give no intelligence on board the Packet, or the Governour’s Ship, or the Ships-of-War,

Application of Abraham Lott, for a change in the regulations for sending Supplies on board the British Ships-of-War, rejected,

John Murray permitted to send Bread on board the Ships-of-War,

Committee to examine all Letters designed to be sent on board the Packet,

Colonel Hyer’s Regiment of Independent Companies taken into pay, as Minute-men, for two months,

Letter from Lord Stirling, with Returns of Cannon and Stores on hand,

The Returns,

Governour Tryon’s Address to the Inhabitants,

John Clauston permitted to take thirty barrels of Flour to Dighton, in Massachusetts,

Abraham Lott permitted to go on board the Asia and Phenix, ships-of-war, to settle his Accounts with the Purser of each Ship,

Quantity and description of Artillery Stores to be supplied with the utmost despatch,

Agreement with Moses Ogden, of Newark, New-Jersey, for Grape-shot,

William Powell’s request for permission to go on board Captain Parker’s Ship, the Phenix, rejected,

Permission given to send thirty barrels of Flour to Berkley, up Taunton River, in Massachusetts,

Complaint of Samuel Loudon, that the Committee of Mechanicks had destroyed the whole impression of a Pamphlet he had printed in reply to “Common Sense,”

One hundred and thirty barrels of Flour permitted to be shipped to Connecticut, on account of the Colony of Connecticut,

Supplies ordered for the Swallow Packet, 1390 Abel Hetfield permitted to go on board the Asia man-of-war,

Nicholas Low permitted to send a cargo of Provisions to the West-Indies.