Vote for paying the Roll of Captain Titus Salter, amounting to £199 14s. Id., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for Lydia McCrellis to receive out of the Treasury £6 13s. 6d., to pay the Doctor's Bill in the last sickness of her late husband, who was a soldier, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Adjourned till to-morrow morning, eight o'clock.

Wednesday, June 26, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, Mr. Hurd, and Mr. Thompson, be a Committee to examine the Account of Captain Titus Salter against the Colony, together with such as the House shall join. Sent down for concurrence.

Vote for a Committee to consider and report their opinion on the Petition of Joseph Leigh, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Wentworth, and Mr. Ashley, added by the Board.

Vote for a Committee to consider of the request of Colonel Hurd to have a Company of Rangers raised for a guard on Connecticut River, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Wentworth, and Mr. Folsom, added.

Vote for Captain Titus Salter to receive out of the Treasury £89 3s. 93/4d., in full of his Account against the Colony, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Whereas one Mr. John Odin, just arrived from the Continental Congress, has presented to the Council ten thousand Dollars, sent by the Congress for the use of this Colony:

Voted, That Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, and Mr. Hurd, with such as the House shall join, be a Committee to receive said Money, deliver it to the Treasurer, and take his receipt therefor. Sent down for concurrence.

Vote to pay Joseph Leigh £6 3s., for three months' service as a soldier in Captain Salter's Company, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for paying John Odin £4 12s., for bringing Money from Boston to Exeter for the Colony, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Adjourned till to-morrow, eight o'clock, A. M.

Thursday, June 27, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Vote brought up for a Committee to endeavour to exchange a ton of Saltpetre for Gunpowder, read and concurred, and Mr. Folsom, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Hurd, added by the Board.

Vote for paying Robert Light £2 2s., for Axes for the Colony, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for paying the Account of Mr. John Pickering, for drawing Bills for the General Assembly, amounting to £5, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for a Committee to consider the expediency of emitting a quantity of Bills for small change, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Hurd joined by the Board.

Vote appointing a Committee to consider of and report what business they think is necessary to be done by the General Assembly this session, and what wages shall be paid the Members of both Houses, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, and Mr. Thompson, added.

Vote for allowing 6s. per day to the Members of the Council and of the House of Representatives for their services in the General Assembly; also 6s. per day to the Secretary, and 6s. per day to the Clerk of the House, and 3s. per day to the Assistant Clerk, over and above their pay as Members, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote to pay Richard Champney £l 4s., for time and expenses to Newbury on publick business, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for sending to Colonel Samuel Folsom £300, to enable him to go on with erecting a Powder-Mill, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote appointing a Committee to consult the propriety of inlisting men out of the standing troops at New-Castle, brought up, read, and concurred. Mr. Folsom, Mr. Wentworth, and Mr. Hurd, added.

Adjourned till to-morrow, eight o'clock, A. M.

Friday, June 28, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

An Act entitled "An Act to remove any doubts that have or may arise concerning the legality of any Taxes granted by the late Congress of this Colony, and to enforce payment of Taxes for the future," having been read a third time,

Voted, That the same be enacted.

An Act entitled "An Act to abolish the Court of Appeals in this Colony, and to empower the Superior Court of Judicature to sustain and determine all matters pending in said Court of Appeals, and to prevent the absurd practice of granting appeals to the King of Great Britain in Council from the judgment of any Courts in this Colony in future," having been read a third time,

Voted, That the same be enacted.

A Vote appointing a Committee to consult upon the best and most effectual method of supplying this Colony with Firearms, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, and Mr. Wentworth, added.

Vote of the House for paying the Roll of Captain Eliphalet Daniel, for five Privates not mustered, pound; 10 12s. 11d, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

A Vote of the House appointing a large number of Civil Officers in the several Counties, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for paying the Account of Nathaniel Sartel Prentice, amounting to £7 2s., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote allowing the Recruiting Officers for Canada to inlist men from those stationed at Portsmouth and New-Castle, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote directing the several Mustermasters to muster all the men inlisted, and make return by next Wednesday night, brought up, read, and concurred.

Adjourned till to-morrow, eight o'clock, A. M.

Saturday, June 29, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That Mr. Folsom, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. Thompson, be a Committee to join with such as the House shall appoint, to report their opinion on the state of Colonel Morey's Account with the Colony, and particularly concerning goods and stores in his hands, whether the Colony had better receive them or not; and thereby determine the expediency of his having an order on the Treasury or not. Sent down for concurrence.

Vote empowering the Mustermasters assigned for particular Companies to muster other Companies, brought up, read, and concurred.

An Act entitled "An Act for the better regulating Highways, "read a third lime, and voted to be enacted.

Vote for Jonathan Hale, Esq., to receive out of the Treasury £200, to buy Firearms for the Towns of Haverhill and Bath, he to give security to replace the same, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for Jonathan Hale, Esq., to receive two barrels of Gunpowder for the use of Haverhill and Bath; which was read and concurred, with this amendment, that said Hale receive said Powder for the use of Haverhill, Bath, and the Towns above, in this Colony. Sent down for concurrence; brought up, concurred, and order made out.

Vote for the Non-Commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers who will engage in the Canada Expedition, to have 38s. bounty given them, in addition to what has been already voted, brought up, read, and concurred.

The Council, taking into consideration the complaint of Samuel Penhallow, Esq., that he had, as a Civil Magistrate of this Colony, on a complaint made to him in said capacity, issued a warrant against a soldier in Colonel David Gilman's Regiment, for a flagrant breach of the peace, and applied to said Gilman for assistance to bring the offender to justice