Voted, That Noah Emery, Esq., Clerk of this House, receive out of the Treasury 6s. per day for his services as Clerk of this House, over and above his wages as Member of the House during the last session of this House in March last, amounting to £4 16s., and that the President give order of payment.

Voted, That Colonel Isaac Wyman be appointed First Colonel of the Regiment now to be raised and sent into Canada, in the room and stead of Major James Hackett, who was appointed, and has resigned.

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

Thursday, June 20, 1776.

Met according to adjournment.

Voted, To choose a Committee of three Members of this House, to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to confer and consult upon the best method of procuring Provisions and other necessaries for the Regiment going into Canada, and to make report to this House as soon as may be; and that Captain Prentice, Colonel Walker, and Captain Long, be the Committee of this House for that purpose; and also to consult upon the best method of getting Shots and Balls belonging to this Colony, now in store at Mystick, and to write to General Washington for an order to receive the Powder loaned by this Colony for the supply of the Continental Army; and also to try and borrow some Cannon from the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay.

Voted, That Mr. Samuel Moore be a Monitor to this House.

Voted, That the Account of Samuel Ashley, Benjamin Giles, Timothy Walker, Junior, Nahum Baldwin, and Richard Downing, Esqrs., (for their expenses as a Committee to Portsmouth to look out a proper place for a Bridge to New-Castle,) amounting to £3 13s. 101/2d., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that the President give order of payment.

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

Met according to adjournment.

Upon reading sundry Petitions of the Officers and Soldiers of the Sixth Regiment of the Militia, praying that Colonel John Hale and the other Field-Officers appointed for said Regiment may be discharged and dismissed from their said appointment, and some others appointed in their room, the Petitioners and the said Field-Officers being heard upon their evidence before both Houses, it appears to this House that the said John Hale, Esq., has carried and behaved himself as a good friend to the cause of liberty, and has in many cases exerted himself for the good of the American cause, now contending for; and no evidence appearing against the other Field-Officers of said Regiment, it is therefore voted and resolved by this House that the said Petitions be, and hereby are, dismissed.

Voted, To have a Committee of this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to consult upon the matter of sending what hard Money we have to Canada, by the same guard Captain Langdon proposes to send what he has collected by, or in what manner the same shall be sent, and to make report thereon to this House as soon as may be; and that John Dudley, Esq., Captain Josiah Moulton, and Colonel Samuel Sherburne, be the Committee of this House for that purpose.

Voted, That the balance of the Account of Colonel Otis Baker, amounting to 20s., be, allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that the President of the Council give order of payment.

Voted, That Jacob Wilson receive out of the Treasury 28s., in full for boarding and nursing James Winn, a sick soldier, and for his watchers, and that the President give order of payment.

Voted, That the Field-Officers and the Staff-Officers of the Regiment destined for Canada be paid out of the Treasury, each two months' advance pay, instead of the one month's advance pay heretofore voted them, and that the President give order of payment.

Voted, That Colonel Otis Baker, Mr. Elijah Grout, Colonel Timothy Walker, Samuel Dudley, Esq., John Dudley, Esq., Deacon Nahum Baldwin, Colonel Enoch Hale, and Captain Ezekiel Worthen, the several Mustermasters appointed to pay off the Troops destined for Canada, receive, each of them, out of the Treasury £780, to pay off the Soldiers (by them severally to be mustered) their bounty of $20 each, and their one month's advance pay, and to pay off the Captains and Subaltern Officers of said Troops two months' advance pay, instead of the one month's pay heretofore voted them; and that the said Mustermasters be severally accountable for said sum, and that the President give order of payment accordingly.

The Committee appointed to report their opinion of the necessaries to fix off the Canada Regiment, agree to report, that Colonel Hurd be appointed to fix off all the Companies from Cohos, with ten days' provisions—except Captain Parker's and Captain Wetherbee's Companies, who we would recommend to be fixed off by Captain Prentice, at Charlestown, with ten days' provisions—to proceed by way of Crown Point; and that the persons appointed Mustermasters deliver each Company a day's provision for every twenty miles' travel, from the place they march from, until they come to Cohos or Charlestown—otherwise pay to each man Id. per mile for said distance; and that said Hurd and Prentice deliver each man a quart of rum, and that six dozen of axes be immediately provided at Exeter, and sent forward.

M. THORNTON, Chairman.

Which Report being read,

Voted, That the same be received and accepted, and that orders issue from the honourable the President accordingly.

John Hale, Esq., Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Militia in this Colony, together with Robert Reid, Esq., his Lieutenant-Colonel, and William McQuieston, Esq., his Major, came into the House and desired leave to resign their respective commissions appointing them to the command of said Regiment.

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

Friday, June 21, 1776.

The House met according to adjournment.

The form of Orders for the Mustermasters was presented, read, and accepted.

Voted, That Benjamin Giles, Esq., and James Betton, Esq., receive out of the Treasury £20, to be by them accounted for, and that the President give order of payment.

Voted, That Colonel Baker, Mustermaster for Captain Drew's Company, receive out of the Treasury £20; and that Captain Worthen, Mustermaster of Captain Hadlock's Company, receive out of the Treasury £30; and that John Dudley, Esq., Mustermaster of Captain Dearborn's Company, receive out of the Treasury £30; and that Samuel Dudley, Esq., Mustermaster of Captain Harper's Company, receive out of the Treasury £30; and that Colonel Walker, Mustermaster of Captain Shepard's Company, receive out of the Treasury £20; and that Deacon Nahum Baldwin, Mustermaster of Captain Parkers Company, receive out of the Treasury £20: in addition to the sums before voted for them, to pay off the Officers and Soldiers destined for Canada; and that the honourable President give orders of payment accordingly.

Voted, That Captain Daniel Colburn, of Pelham, be Second Major of Colonel Thornton's Regiment, in the room, and stead of James McGregore, who refuses to accept that office.

Upon a motion made in the House for appointing a Second Major to the First Regiment in this Colony, in the room of Ephraim Pickering, who was lately appointed to that office,

Voted, That Lieutenant-Colonel Joshua Wentworth and the said Ephraim Pickering be desired to appear before this House on Wednesday next, to show cause why the said Regiment is not yet settled, and why the said motion may not be granted.

Voted, To choose a Committee of this House to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to consider of a method to carry into execution the vote of this House for building a Bridge at New-Castle; and that Major Downing, Deacon Nahum Baldwin, and Colonel Samuel Sherburne, be the Committee of this House for that purpose.