late Colonel John Hole's 157, Colonel Bartlett's 111, Colonel Thornton's 66, Colonel Enoch Hole's 107, Colonel Webster's 55, Colonel More's 126, Colonel Stickney's 116, Colonel Badger's 73; and for General Folsom to give out orders accordingly; brought up, read, and concurred.

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

Thursday, July 4, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That two hundred Handbills be immediately printed and distributed in this Colony, in the following words:

&qout;To the Selectmen and Committees of Safety, and all Civil Officers in the several Towns in this Colony:

"You, and each of you, are now called upon, in behalf of yourselves and your distressed country, to exert every nerve in forwarding the inlisting and making up the quotas of men in the respective places you belong to, that they may march forward and join their brethren under General Sullivan, and enable him to repel the Army coming against us from Canada."

Vote for a Committee to consider the expediency of adjourning, and to what time, and of the propriety of choosing a large Committee of Safety, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, Mr. Wentworth, and Mr. Ashley, added.

Vote for paying the Staff Roll of Colonel David Oilman, amounting to £83 1s., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote appointing Moses Kettey Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ninth Regiment of Militia, in the room of David Gilman, who has resigned, Samuel Page First Major, and James Hurd Second Major of said Regiment, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for Colonel Weare and Dr. Dearborn to receive £20 to buy Paper to print Bills of Credit on, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote to pay the Roll of Captain John Calfe, amounting to £325 9s. 10d., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote to pay the Roll of Captain Caleb Hodgdon, amounting to £329 12s. 3d., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote appointing a Committee to get two hundred and fifty copies of each of the Acts passed this Session printed, brought up, read, and concurred, and General Folsom added by the Board.

Vote for emitting £20, 160 in Bills of Credit, for the use of the Colony, and for Dr. Levi Dearborn, with such as the Board should join, to get the same printed, and for Philip White, Esq., John Smith, and Josiah Moulton, Jun., to be a Committee to sign said Bills, brought up, read, and concurred, and Meshech Weare, Esq., joined with Dr. Dearborn, to superintend the press.

Vote appointing Joshua Wingate Colonel, James Hacket Lieutenant-Colonel, and Samuel Connor Major, of one of the Regiments to be raised for Canada, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote appointing Captain Pierce Long to provide all necessaries for equipping and fixing off the Reinforcements for Canada, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote appointing eight Mustermasters and Paymasters for the last Regiment voted to be raised for Canada, viz: Major Bartlett, Colonel Sherburne, John Bell, Major Philbrick, Colonel Kettey, Deacon Knowles, Asa Davis, and Colonel Ashley, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for the Mustermasters of the last Regiment voted to be raised to receive each out of the Treasury £940, to pay off the advance pay, &c., and the Mustermasters appointed for the First Regiment each £171, brought up, read, and concurred. Orders made out for all those who were to receive the £940, and to Baldwin Hale, Ezekiel Worthen, and John Dudley, for the £171.

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

Friday, July 5, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Vote for a Committee to examine into the grounds of a complaint against Captain George March, as an enemy to his country, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, and Mr. Wentworth, added by the Board.

Vote appointing a Committee to give out Inlisting Orders, blank Commissions to the Officers, and Instructions to the Mustermasters of the two Regiments destined for Canada, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Folsom, Mr. Clagett, and Mr. Blanchard, added by the Board.

Vote for a Committee to nominate persons out of whom to be appointed a Maritime Officer and a Naval Officer, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Clagett, and Mr. Thompson, joined.

An Act for establishing Courts of Law, Sic, in this Colony, having been read a third time, Voted, That the same be enacted.

Vote for appointing Noah Emery, Jun., Paymaster to the first Regiment of Recruits for the Canada Army, brought up, read, and concurred.

The Board having heard Colonel David Gilman's defence on the complaint of Samuel Penhallow, Esquire, respecting Colonel Gilman's asserting that the soldiers under his command were subject to martial law only, are of opinion that the sentiments conveyed in Colonel Gilman's letter plainly and in express words denied the right of the civil power to control the military, and thereby gave just reason for Mr. Penhallow to be alarmed at such a doctrine, especially from the commanding military officer of the standing troops in this Colony. And the Board do return Mr. Penhallow their sincere thanks for his attachment to, and care of, so essential and fundamental a principle of the Constitution and rights of a free people. Nevertheless do believe that the sentiments conveyed in the aforesaid letter escaped from Colonel Gilman through inattention or ruffle of his mind, and conveyed ideas different from his real sentiments.

Vote for a Committee to name a person for a Maritime Officer, and one or more for a Notary Publick or Notary Publicks, brought up, read, and concurred, and Mr. Clagett, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. Thompson, added by the Board.

Vote appointing Eleazer Russell, Esq., Maritime Officer for the Port of Piscataquog, and Wyseman Clagett and John Pickering, Esqs., Notary Publicks, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote appointing Samuel Penhallow, Esq., one of the Justices of the Inferior Court for the County of Rocking' ham, in the room of George King, Esq., who declines accepting thereof, brought up, read, and concurred. Also appointing William Knight, Esq., a special Justice of said Court; which was also concurred.

Vote appointing a Committee to nominate proper persons to serve as a Committee of Safety in recess of the General Assembly, brought up, read, and concurred, and Colonel Thornton added.

A Vote appointing Captain Joseph Chandler to command one of the Companies in the First Canada Regiment, in the room of Mr. Hadlock, who has resigned, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for Samuel Jones, of Canaan, and Elisha Bingham, of Enfield, to have twenty-five pounds of Gunpowder and £5 in Money, to buy Lead for said Towns, to be accounted for by them, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for paying the Roll of Captain Timothy Clements, amounting to £238 15s., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote for paying the Roll of Captain Nathan Brown, amounting to £267 4s. 1d., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Saturday, July 6, 1776.

Resolve for George March, of Stratham, to confine himself to his farm in said Stratham, on pain of imprisonment; and that he recognise in the sum of £100, with two sufficient sureties in £50 each, to the Government and People of this Colony, to be of good behaviour until further order of the Court, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote appointing fifteen persons to act as a Committee of Safety during the recess of the General Assembly, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for paying Deacon Isaac Williams 20s. for the use of his room for Committees this Session, brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.