Vote for a Committee to confer upon the appointment of Mr. Connor and Mr. Baker, to be Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of Colonel Wingate's Regiment, brought up, read, and concurred, with this amendment, That the Committee name persons for Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of said Regiment; and Mr. Thornton, Mr. Folsom, Mr. Wentworth, Mr. Blanchard, and Mr. Thompson, added by the Board. Sent down for concurrence.

Vote for Colonel Jonathan Chase to receive out of the Colony store five barrels of Gunpowder, brought up, read, and concurred, with this amendment, That Colonel Chase receive three barrels, instead of five barrels. Sent down for concurrence, and brought back concurred.

Vote appointing Samuel Connor Lieutenant-Colonel, and Moses Baker Major, of Colonel Wingate's Regiment, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for the Treasurer to hire £5,000 for the use of the Colony, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote establishing Fees to be taken in the Maritime Court, brought up, read, and concurred.

Vote for paying the Account of Richard Champney, amounting to £22 6s., brought up, read, and concurred, and warrant made out.

Vote promising a bounty of six per cent, upon all bar Lead, and ten Dollars per cent, upon all Sulphur manufactured in this Colony for a certain time, brought up, read, and concurred.

Adjourned till the first Wednesday in September next.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Wednesday, June 5, 1776

At three o'clock, P. M., the House met at Exeter, according to adjournment.

Read sundry Letters for Philadelphia.

Voted, That John Dudley and Samuel Cutts, Esquires, be a Committee to examine how much Silver and Gold coin there is in the Treasury, and make report as soon as may be. Which Committee made report, that there is now in the Treasury, in silver and gold coin, £859 12s., lawful money.

Voted, That. Dr. Dearborn, Captain Prentice, and Mr. Jacob Abbot, be a Committee of this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to draught a Vote concerning the procuring Firearms for the use of this Colony, and present the same to this House as soon as may be.

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

Thursday, June 6, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That a Committee be chosen in this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to consult what business is most necessary to be entered upon, immediately, and to make report to this House as soon as may be; and that Captain Prentice, Colonel Walker, James Betton, Esq., Richard Downing, Esq., and John Dudley, Esq., be the Committee of this House for that purpose.

Which Committee, being joined by a Committee of the honourable Board, made the following Report, viz:

The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider what business is necessary to be done this session, recommend the following things, viz: A Table of Fees to be completed. A determination about opening the Courts of Law. The Civil List to be filled up, and Commissions for the several Courts to be made out. An Act to enforce the payment of the Colony Taxes and others. An Act to prevent the alteration and counterfeiting the Bills of Credit of this and the neighbouring Colonies, and to make the Bills of Credit of said Colonies a legal tender. An Act to regulate Taxation, and the sum to be raised for this year. An Act to regulate the Militia. An Act for abolishing the Court of Appeals in this Colony, and for determining how Appeal shall be made, and heard, from decrees of the Judges of Probate, for the future. That the persons who have laid out the Colony's money may be compelled to render accounts thereof; that the sending our accounts to Philadelphia be no longer delayed; and that attested accounts of the number of the People be procured immediately. Necessary orders to be made out for raging the Continental Battalion. Some directions about Saltpetre to be given. Directions in what name Writs, &c, shall issue. A Resolve that all persons shall be prosecuted, who, after the sitting of the Courts of Sessions in the respective Counties, shall sell liquors without license; and that no person be licensed without procuring a certificate that they have paid their Excise for the year 1775. An Act for the better observation of the Lord's Day. An Act imposing a Fine on all Justices of the Peace and Ministers, for joining persons in wedlock without a Certificate from the Clerk or Clerks of the Towns where the persons married live, that they have been lawfully published. To revive the late Highway Act. To make the Courts of Probate circular. Some further directions about Firearms. An Act for making Captures on the Sea, &.c., and for condemning them; and to commission the Judge and Register of the Admiralty.

M. THORNTON, Chairman.

Voted, To choose a Committee of this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to consider the Petitions of Richard Emms, John Frazier, and James Taylor, and to make report to this House as soon as may be; and that Samuel Cutts, Esq., Captain Long, and Major Tash, be the Committee of this House for that purpose.

Voted, To choose a Committee of this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to examine all Accounts against this Colony, and report thereon to this House as soon as may be; and that Colonel Walker, Henry Prescolt, Esq., and Jonathan Lovewell, Esq., be the Committee of this House for that purpose.

Voted, That the Pay-Roll of Captain Ebenezer Dearing, amounting to £99 17s. 11/2d., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury; and that the President of the Council give order of payment accordingly.

Voted, That Deacon Nahum Baldwin be Mustermaster to the Forces raised and to be raised in this Colony for the current year, until further order of this Colony.

Voted, That Captain Richard Emms, now a prisoner in this Colony, receive out of the Treasury £20 for and towards his subsistence; and that the President of the Council give order of payment accordingly; and that said Emms have leave to depart this Colony for any Foreign Port in the West-Indies, as passenger only.

Voted, That Captain John Frazier and Mr. James Taylor have liberty to depart from this Colony, separately, in any vessel bound to the Foreign West-India Islands, as passengers.

Voted, That the Account of Captain John Calfe, amounting to £2 11s., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury; and that the President of the Council give order of payment.

Voted, That the Pay-Roil of Captain Titus Setter's Company, from March 17th to April 16th, 1776, amounting to £246 0s. 1d., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury; and that the President of the Council give order of payment.

Voted, That the Pay-Roil of Titus Saber's Company, from April 16th to May 17th, 1776, amounting to £197 15s., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that the President of the Council give order of payment.

Upon reading the Petition of John Griffith,

Voted, That he be paid wages as a soldier in Captain Ebenezer Dealing's Company from the time of his inlistment until the time of his discharge.

Adjourned to half past two o'clock, P. M.

Met according to adjournment.

Upon reading the Petition of a number of persons, praying that several Petitions against Lieutenant-Colonel Folsom may be dismissed,

Voted, That the Petition now presented and read, be dismissed.

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

Friday, June 7, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, That Quartermaster Gains furnish Colonel David Gilman with what Powder shall be necessary to clear the rocks out of the Fort now building at Great-Island.

Voted, That George Gains, Esq., and Captain William. Trefethen be a Committee of this House to repair to Boston, and other parts of Massachusetts-Bay, to search for, inquire