6. That he make out and sign the provision return every day for the sick, and draw upon the Director-General of the Hospital, agreeable to the tables of diet before mentioned; for the regulation of which, weekly returns of the number sick (in that week) shall be made out on a stated day, so that whatever the price of diet drawn for said sick shall fall short of the rations stopped from the sick during the week, so much may be drawn for their use in other stores, as wine, rum, sugar, coffee, tea, molasses, candles, soap, &c.

[If that surplus of money is not sufficient, there are no other ways to ^supply than either to do it by stoppages of the soldier's pay, as in the British Army, or by its being advanced by himself, or by the Colonel or the Captain of the regiment to which he belongs, and allowed in his abstract; the General Hospital having nothing to do with the expenses of Regimental Hospitals, and no provision for the purpose being yet made by the Congress.]

7. That no Regimental Surgeon shall send any sick from his Regiment or Regimental Hospital to the General Hospital, without a ticket expressing the name of the sick, his Company, and the Regiment to which he belongs, signed by himself or mate, and mentioning likewise the disorder he labours under, and the time he has been ill.

8. That he send none to the General Hospital labouring under infectious, putrid, or malignant diseases; for the introduction of such fevers into a general hospital will only injure the person sent, and may endanger the Surgeons Mates and other officers, as well as all that are sick of other diseases in the General Hospital, engender the jail or hospital fever, and ruin the Army. Such sick are to be kept separate if possible, and be taken care of by the Regimental Surgeon.

9. That whatever stores or utensils may be wanted for the use of a Regimental Hospital, whether kettles to cook victuals, blankets, &c, they ought to be got from the Quartermaster-General's store, or procured from the same place and In the same manner as the like articles are procured for the well soldiers of the regiment: to be provided by an order from the Colonel, the Surgeon to give his receipt for and take care of the same; for the preservation of which, he may establish such regulations as he sees fit.

10. That as the medicine chest, and a number of articles, as old linen, bandages, &c, have been supplied to regiments at the voluntary motion of the Director-General of the General Hospital, with the approbation of the Commander-in-Chief, whenever the regiments are disbanded, all such particulars are to be returned into the General Hospital; otherwise, when new troops are levied, under the present scarcity and difficulty to procure them, it may not be practicable or easy to supply the Army again with those articles for another year.

11. That for every Regimental Hospital a cook ought to be allowed, to prepare the diet of the sick agreeable to the tables, or nurses who may serve for cooks, one to every ten men: the pay the same as in the General Hospital, viz: half a dollar per week, and rations allowed, (by the regiment.)

12. That each Regimental Hospital ought to have a corporal's guard, or at least three men, one of which to stand sentinel at the Hospital door, to prevent the sick from leaving the Hospital without permission from the Surgeon, and to keep persons from going in, without orders, to disturb the sick, or carry liquor to them. The other persons, whilst relieved from standing sentinel, to serve for the time as waiters, and obey the Surgeon and his Mate, in respect to any assistance which may be reasonably required in behalf of the sick.

Lastly. That in all cases not provided for by the fore-going or any future regulations that may be agreed upon, the Surgeons and Mates shall observe the customs and usages of the British Army, and shall at all times obey such orders as they shall (in the way of duty) receive from the Director-General for the treatment of the sick, or for the discharge of the duties of their station.

COMMITMENT OF JOHN LEWIS.

New-York, July 7, 1776.

John Lewis, a resident in the city of New-York, confined in the City-Hall for his drinking healths to King George and success to his fleet, and manifesting his intention to join the said fleet or the army of the enemy, against the Continental Araiy, by

Jos. SPENCER, Brig. General.

H. GLEN TO COLONEL FONDA.

Schenectady, July 7, 1776.

DEAR SIR: As I am at present not able to complete as many boats as the service requires, I have sent off Ernst Van Epps with three, which are all I can as yet complete, having recommended him to you to procure four batteus for here for two trips to the Falls, as he is then to return here, after having done that work, he having tolls complete for seven boats. You will please load him with flour, for which article I am directed by Walter Livingston, Esq., to apply to you. I believe twelve barrels will be a good load. Excuse my intruding on you for batteaus, which I should not do could I get them any other way; but the urgency is such that I cannot avoid it. I am yours, &c.,

H. GLEN.

To Colonel Fonda.

H. GLEN TO COLONEL DAYTON.

Schenectady, July 7, 1776.

SIR: Since I wrote to you yesterday by Lieutenant Turnavel, of the Artillery, I have succeeded in getting some more bateau-men, whom I have ordered to take flour from Colonel Fonda's, to bring to the carrying-place; so that I hope to be able, by the time the batteaus that take up the artillery, &.c, can return to the Falls, to have a load of provisions ready for them there to take to Fort Stanwix, to which place Major Barber has informed me that, on the arrival of the artillery, you were to go; so that you will please give them directions for that purpose, not to come across the carrying-place till that business is done, but then to come down here to this place I am, sir, yours, &c.,

H. GLEN.

To Colonel Dayton.

H. GLEN TO JOHN PETRIE,

Schenectady, July 7, 1776.

SIR: As a quantity of flour will be brought to the Falls for the troops above you, I am to request of you, after the same is brought over the carrying-place, to have the same put in your barn, and that you will be so good and have a lock over it, so that it is not destroyed. The stay will be but short, as the batteaus that go over are to take it away as soon as they can return; the riding and your little trouble shall be paid for by, sir, yours, &c.

H. GLEN.

To Mr. John Petrie.

COLONEL HURD TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Concord, July 7, 1776.

SIR: By several persons I have met with on the road coming from Coos, and by the last intelligence I can collect, I find the inhabitants there, especially those on and near Connecticut River, from the Upper to the Lower Coos, are much more alarmed and apprehensive of danger from the enemy than we imagined; several families are already removed and removing from thence; among the rest, I have found Mrs. Hurd, with part of my family, here at Concord, who was advised by the most discreet of the people to leave the place; unless she could submit to live, as they must do, crowded into a garrison, and which they were all preparing for. The particulars of this, the bearer, Colonel Bayley, who goes express on the occasion, can acquaint you of, and of the very critical situation of all that part of the country; that it is of the utmost consequence the first of the reinforcements which can be raised should be sent into that quarter, and that immediately.

It is yet uncertain whether General Sullivan has retreated to Crown-Point. There is a person in town (one Kinsman) who informs that Messrs. Gyles and Betton (whom he heard of on the road) had altered their course, and were gone for Albany, and who were at Otter Creek this day week, within twenty miles of Crown-Point. He tells us there was then no account of Sullivan's having crossed the lake; that he was thought still to be at Isle-aux-Noix, or not far distant; and if so, it may be best that great part of the new levies should rendezvous at Coos, as at first designed; they might then, by ranging the woods, give some check to the enemy, and draw off part of their forces from pursuing General Sullivan's Army, as well as to be a protection to our settlers, who must otherwise desert many of their plantations and lose the benefit of the approaching