To David Lenox, for his expenses going to New-York as an escort of Money, the sura of 62 68-90 Dollars;

To William Sheppard, for Wagon-hire on two journeys to New-York, and on a journey to Port-Royal, in Virginia, with General Lee, the sum of 102 64-90 Dollars;

On several Certificates for entertaining General Lee’s Guard, the sum of 37 78-90 Dollars, and that the same ought to be paid to George Ross, Esq.;

To Robert Erwin, for wagonage of Gunpowder to the City of New-York, the sum of 414 Dollars.

Ordered, That the said Accounts be paid.

The said Committee further reported, that Captain John Lowden had laid before them an account of the expenditure of money paid into his hands, for the purpose of raising a Company of Riflemen, amounting to the sum of 582 7-90 Dollars.

Transporting baggage from Northumberland to Reading, 40 Dollars.

Amount of divers articles ordered to be charged to Captain Lowden, which now appear to be Continental charges, 50 3-90 Dollars.

Amount of John Harris and Elias Younkman’s bills, which have been twice paid, and twice charged to Captain Lowden, and which ought now to be charged to the Committee of Berks, 86 44-90 Dollars.

The whole amounting to 758 54-90 Dollars.

Ordered, That Captain Lowden be credited with the above sum, and that the Committee of Berks County be charged with the sum above-mentioned.

The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,

Adjourned to ten o’clock, to-morrow.

Thursday, May 30, 1776.

The Congress took into consideration the Report of the Committee on the mode of regulating the price of Salt, and thereupon came to the following Resolution:

Whereas it hath been represented to Congress that avaricious, ill-designing men, have taken the advantage of the resolve of Congress passed the 30th of April, for withdrawing from the Committees of Inspection the power of regulating the price of goods, to extort from the people a most exorbitant price for Salt:

Resolved, That it be recommended to the Committees of Observation and Inspection in the United Colonies so to regulate the price of Salt as to prevent unreasonable exactions on the part of the seller, having due regard to the difficulty and risk of importation, subject, however, to such regulations as have been, or shall hereafter be, made by the Legislatures of the respective Colonies.

The Committee to whom the Letter from Joseph Woodward, Chairman of the Committee of the New-Hampshire Grants, was referred, and who were directed to hear the persons mentioned in the said Letter, brought in their Report; which was read.*

The Committee to whom it was referred to consider of an adequate reward for the person who brought the late intelligence from England, brought in their Report.

Whereupon, Resolved, That he receive his pay, being a soldier in Captain Morgan’s Company of Riflemen, to be continued from the time of his captivity until the 15th day of June next, and a gratuity of 100 Dollars,

* Report of a Committee on the Letter from JOSEPH WOODWARD, of the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GRANTS, and the Petition of the Inhabitants of said GRANTS.

The Committee to whom the Petition, Address, and Remonstrance, of the persons inhabiting that part of America which is commonly called and known by the name of the New-Hampshire Grants was referred, have examined the matter thereof, and come to the following Resolution thereupon:

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee that it be recommended to the Petitioners, for the present, to submit to the Government of New-York, and contribute their assistance, with their countrymen, in the contest between Great Britain and the United Colonies; but that such submission ought not to prejudice the right of them or others to the lands in controversy, or any part of them, nor be construed to affirm or admit the jurisdiction of New-York in and over that country; and when the present troubles are at an end, the final determination of their right may be mutually referred to proper judges.

IN CONGRESS, June 4.—Resolved, That Heman Allen have leave to withdraw the Petition.

He represents that he had left behind some papers necessary to support the allegation therein contained.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GRANTS, January 17, 1776.

We beg leave, with submission, humbly to communicate to your Honours, by our trusty and well-beloved friends, Lieutenant James Brack-nage, Captain Heman Allen, and Dr. Jonas Fay, a state of that district of land commonly called and known by the name of the New-Hampshire Grants, who are appointed by the Representatives of the several Townships on said Grants, in General Convention assembled this day, and pray your Honours to receive them as persons legally chosen, and to whom said Representatives have reposed the trust and management of preferring a remonstrance of the situation of the state of the Grants aforesaid; and should your Honours see meet to give, to receive your Honours’ advice thereon, which we shall always acquiesce in; and the favour will ever he gratefully acknowledged by, gentlemen, your most obedient, very humble servant,

JOSEPH WOODWARD, Chairman.

To the Hon. John Hancock, Esq., President of the Honourable Continental Congress, now convened at Philadelphia.

To the Honourable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq., President of the Honourable Continental Congress, now assembled at PHILADELPHIA.

The humble Petition, Address, and Remonstrance, of that part of AMERICA being situate south of CANADA line, west of CONNECTICUT RIVER, north of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, and east from a twenty mile line from HUDSON RIVER, commonly called and known by the name of the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GRANTS, humbly showeth:

That your Honours’ Petitioners being fully sensible and deeply affected with the very alarming situation in which the United Colonies are involved by means of a designing Ministry, who have flagrantly used, and still are using, their utmost efforts to bring the inhabitants of the very extensive Continent of America into a base and servile subjection to arbitrary power, contrary to all the most sacred ties of obligation, by covenants, and the well-known Constitution by which the British Empire ought to be governed, your Petitioners, (not to be prolix or waste time,) when the whole Continent are in so disagreeable a situation, would, however, beg leave to remonstrate, in as short terms as possible, the very peculiar situation in which your Petitioners have for a series of years been exercised, and are still struggling. Perhaps your Honours, or at least some of you, are not unacquainted, that at the conclusion of the last war the above described premises, which your Petitioners now inhabit, were deemed and reputed to be in the Province of New Hampshire, and consequently within the jurisdiction of the same. Whereupon applications were freely made to Benning Wentworth, Esquire, then Governour of the Province of New-Hampshire, who, with the advice of his Council, granted, under the great seal of said Province, to your Honours’ Petitioners a large number of Townships, of the contents of six miles square each. In consequence of which, a great number of your Petitioners, who were men of considerable substance, disposed of their interest in their native places, and with their numerous families proceeded many of them two hundred miles, encountering many dangers, fatigues, and great hardships, to inhabit a desolate wilderness, which is now become a well-settled frontier to three Governments. This was not all our trouble, for soon after the commencement of those settlements the monopolizing land-traders of New-York, being apprised that the Province of New-Hampshire had granted the said lands, and that settlements were actually making, did present a petition (as we have often heard and verily believe) in your Petitioners’ names, praying that the same lands granted by New-Hampshire might be annexed to the Province of New-York, on account of its local and other circumstances, for the benefit of the inhabitants. Your Petitioners not being apprised of the intrigue in this case, were mute; therefore, as no objection was made why the prayer of the Petition should not be granted, his Majesty was pleased, with advice of Council, on the 4th day of July, 1764, to grant the same. Immediately after, the land-traders of New-York petitioned the then Governour of that Province for grants of land, some parts of which had been previously granted to your Petitioners by the Governour and Council of New-Hampshire. The dispute then became serious. Your Petitioners then petitioned his Majesty for relief in the premises. His Majesty was pleased to appoint a Committee, who reported to his Majesty in the premises, and his Majesty was pleased to pass Order in the following words:

“At a Court of St. James, 24th day of July, 1767. Present:

“His Majesty taking the said Report into consideration, was pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to approve thereof, and doth hereby strictly charge, require, and command, that the Governour or Commander-in Chief of his Majesty’s Province of New-York for the time being do not, upon pain of his Majesty’s highest displeasure, presume to make any grant whatsoever of any part of the lands described in the said Report until his Majesty’s further pleasure should be known concerning the same.

“WILLIAM SHARP.”

The many intervening and unhappy disputes which have since happened between those land-traders of New-York and your Petitioners would take up too much time, under the present situation of publick affairs, to recite, as Lieutenant James Bracknage, Captain Heman Allen, and Dr. Jonas Fay, whom we have appointed to present this to your Honours, will be furnished therewith, should they find your Honours’ admittance, and such particulars be thought necessary. Let it suffice here only to mention that the oppressions from those overgrown land-traders of New-York were so grievous, that your Petitioners were again induced, at a great expense, to petition his Majesty. In consequence of which, a Committee was appointed, and made a report in favour of your Petitioners, which is too prolix to be inserted here. We are called on this moment by the Committee of Safety for the County of Albany to suppress a dangerous insurrection in Tryon County. Upwards of ninety soldiers were on their march within twelve hours after receiving the news, all the