a blanket to each non-commissioned officer and soldier, and to remain in the said service till the first day of December next, unless sooner discharged; and that the several Companies be raised in the several Regiments of Colonel Morey, Colonel Hobart, and Colonel Chace, and that they receive their orders, directions, and commissions, from the Committee of Safety, in the recess of this Court.

Voted, That Captain Prentice, Colonel Evans, John Dudley, Esq., Matthew Patten, Esq., Ichabod Rollins, Esq., Captain Moulton, Major Tash, Colonel Sherburne, and Daniel Brainard, Esq., be a Committee of this House, to join a Committee of the honourable Board, to nominate to this House sundry proper persons for Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of Colonel Wingate's Regiment, destined for Canada, and to make report as soon as may be; and also to nominate to this House proper persons for Field-Officers for Continental Battalions to be destined to New-Castle and Piscataqua Harbour.

Voted, That the Account of Richard Champney, amounting to £22 6s. 2d., be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that the President give order of payment.

Voted, That Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Connor be appointed the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment destined for Canada under the command of Colonel Wingate, and that Captain Moses Baker be appointed the Major of the said Regiment.

Adjourned for one hour, and then met.

Voted, That any person who shall manufacture in this Colony good Sulphur, and bring in the same to Dr. Josiah Gilman, at Exeter, within six months next ensuing, shall receive out of the Treasury at and after the rate of $10 for every hundred weight, upon certificate of the said Dr. Josiah Gilman that he has received the same, of such person for the use of this Colony, such person being under oath that the same was manufactured in this Colony; and that any person who shall manufacture in this Colony good Bar-Lead within six months next ensuing, and deliver the same to Nicholas Gilman, Esq., Receiver-General, (who is to put such person on oath that the same was manufactured in this Colony,) shall be entitled to £6 per hundred weight therefor out of the Treasury.

Voted, That the Committee of Safety be directed to remonstrate to the Continental Congress against allowing any person or persons extravagant commissions for transacting the publick business in this distressing day.

Voted, That the Members of the honourable Council and of this House be paid out of the Treasury 6s. per day each for each day's attendance in this Session, and 2d. per mile travel to and from their respective homes, and that the consideration of the method how the same shall be replaced in the Treasury be postponed to a future day, and that the Secretary and the Clerk of the House make out the Pay-Rolls accordingly.

The House adjourned to the first Wednesday in September next, at three of the clock, afternoon, then to meet at the Court-House in Exeter.

ACTS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

An Act for establishing the style of Commissions, which shall hereafter be issued, and for altering the style of Writs, Processes, and all Law Proceedings within this Colony; and for directing how Recognisances to the use of this Colony shall in future be taken and prosecuted.

Whereas the hostile and vindictive proceedings of the British Administration against the United Colonies have obtained the sanction of the King of Great Britain, not-withstanding the frequent and dutiful Remonstrances of these Colonies against such cruel measures; and by his command a powerful Navy and Army are come and coming, with avowed purposes of spreading slaughter and desolation through this Continent, by which the good people of this Colony have been necessitated to have recourse to arms to repel such force, and to protect their lives and fortunes: And whereas, under such circumstances, the absurdity of issuing Commissions, Writs, Processes, or other proceedings in law and in Courts of Justice within this Colony, in the name and style of the King of Great Britain, is very apparent, and tends to keep up ideas inconsistent with the form and safety of this Government, and to give the people of this Colony great uneasiness:

Be it therefore enacted by the Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That all Civil Commissions, Writs, and Precepts, for convening the General Court or Assembly, which hereafter shall be made out in this Colony, shall be in the style and name of the Government and People of the Colony of New-Hampshire; and all Commissions, both civil and military, shall be dated in the year of the Christian era, and shall not bear the date of the year of the reign of any King or Queen of Great Britain.

And that all Writs, Processes, and Proceedings in Law, and in any of the Courts of Justice in this Colony, which have been used or accustomed, or by any laws of this Colony, are required to be issued, used, or practised in law, and in any of the Courts of Justice in this Colony, in the name and style of the King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, fee, or in any other words-implying or intending the same, shall, from and after the passing this Act, be made, issued, used, and practised in the name and style of the Government and People of the Colony of New-Hampshire, and no other, and shall bear the date of the year of the Christian era, and shall not bear the date of the year of the reign of any King or Queen of Great Britain, until some accommodation of the American Congress, or Act, Order, or Resolve, of a General American Legislature, or of the Legislature of this Colony, shall be made and passed, otherwise directing and prescribing.

And be it enacted, That all Commissions, civil and military, which have been issued by the Congress or General Assembly of this Colony before the passing of this act, shall have the same force and effect as if this act had never been made, the style and date therein notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted, That all Recognisances that heretofore have been used and accustomed to be taken to the King of Great Britain, by the style and title of our sovereign Lord the King, shall, from and after the date hereof, be taken to the Government and people of the Colony of New-Hampshire; and when scire facias, or other legal process, shall be issued thereon against the recognisor or recognisors, they shall be in the name and behalf of the said Government and people; and when judgment shall he rendered thereon, the money recovered and levied, shall be paid into the Treasury of this Colony for the use of the same.

And be it further enacted, That all suits upon Recognisances which have been taken heretofore, within this Colony, to the King of Great Britain, or otherwise, under any name, character, or form of words whatsoever, that have been, or that may be hereafter forfeited, (if any suits should be brought thereon,) shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be commenced and prosecuted in the name and behalf of the Government and people of the Colony of New-Hampshire, and not in the name of the said King; and the money recovered and levied on such suits, shall be likewise paid into the Treasury of this Colony, for the use and benefit of the said people.

An Act to prevent the forging and altering Bills of Publick Credit, and for preventing the depreciation thereof; and for making the Bills of Credit of the United Colonies, and the Bills of this Colony, a tender in all payments.

Whereas, by reason of the unjustifiable attacks committed against the United Colonies of America by the Troops of Great Britain, and the difficulty of collecting Money, Plate, and Bullion, to support the charges of their necessary defence, the Congress of said Colonies have thought fit, for the carrying on the publick affairs, and answering the present demands of soldiers and seamen employed by them, to order the imprinting and signing a certain number of Bills of Publick Credit of several sums, by Commissioners thereunto duly appointed and authorized: And whereas the Congress and General Assembly of this Colony have also, for the payment of seamen and soldiers employed in defence of the same, ordered that a certain number of Notes and Bills of Credit of several sums should be imprinted, and signed by Commissioners thereunto duly authorized and appointed: And whereas several of the United Colonies have, by their Gov-