Resolve for adjourning WORCESTER Court; passed JUNE 4, 1776.

Whereas the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Worcester, is by law to be holden at Worcester, in said County, on Tuesday, the eleventh of June, instant; and whereas many people are called away by the unhappy war that this Continent is engaged in, whose business cannot be acted on at that time; and by reason that many persons who are members of the General Court must give their attendance, if the Court should sit as bylaw appointed: Therefore,

Resolved, That the said Courts be, and hereby are, adjourned to the first Tuesday of September next, being the time at which the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, are by law to be holden at Worcester, within and for said County of Worcester; and that all Pleas, Processes, Writs, Actions, Suits, issued or to be issued, Complaints, Precepts, Recognisances, and all other matters and things, returnable and having day, and that should have had day in the said Courts, if the same were holden on Tuesday the eleventh of June, instant, shall be returnable and have day in the said Courts on the first Tuesday of September next, and shall abide and continue unto that time, and shall then be proceeded on, heard, and determined, to all intents and purposes, as effectually as if said Courts were held on the day by law appointed as aforesaid.

Committee to correspond with Congress, appointed JUNE 4, 1776.

Resolved, That Brigadier Palmer, Mr. Appleton, and Mr. Pitts, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a standing Committee of Correspondence, whose duty it shall be to transmit to our Delegates at the honourable Congress, the Journals of the House of Representatives, and the Acts and Laws that may from time to time be enacted by the General Assembly, together with such other interesting intelligence as may any way affect this or any of the United Colonies.

Report of the Committee of both Houses, appointed to repair to the Town of MENDON, to hear a number of Petitioners relative to some uneasiness subsisting in the Regiment there;accepted by both Houses, JUNE 4, 1776.

Notice being given to the Petitioners, and all others concerned in said Regiment, of our appointment, and the Order of Court respecting the same, two Committees from the Company in the Town of Uxbridge, and a Committee from each of the other seven Companies in said Regiment, were present before your Committee, and were severally fully heard; after which, it appeared to your Committee that six of said Companies, and at least one-half of the Company in Uxbridge, appeared much dissatisfied with the appointment of Mr. Joseph Chapin for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Mr. Caleb Whiting for Second Major, in said Regiment, who were recommended without the knowledge, and contrary to the inclination of said Regiment, the Officers of which had met and agreed to recommend Captain Nathan Tyler for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Ezra Whiting, Esq., for Second Major, which they appeared to be highly in favour of. The other part of the Company in Uxbridge appeared well pleased with the appointment of Messrs. Chapin and Whiting, and doubtless will be uneasy should their appointment be superseded. The remaining eighth Company, being the south Company in Douglass, it appeared to your Committee that they were somewhat divided, but not strenuous. This being the state of facts, as near as your Committee has been able to collect, and there being more than seven to one dissatisfied with the present appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel and Second Major, your Committee are humbly of opinion, that the most likely method to restore harmony to said Regiment, will be to indulge the Petitioners with a new appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel and Second Major, agreeable to their request; and in case that part of the Company in Uxbridge, who are against a new appointment, should renew their request to be joined to the Regiment to which Sutton belongs, that they also be indulged in their request, and be joined accordingly. All which is humbly submitted.

JABEZ FISHER, per order.

Establishment for Gunners on board armed Vessels, &c.; passed JUNE 4, 1776.

Resolved, That the Gunners in the service of this Colony, on board the armed Vessels thereof, be allowed and paid £3 per month; and in the distribution of the Prize Money have the same number of shares as are, by the establishment of this Colony, allowed to the Carpenter; the former establishment of this Colony notwithstanding.

Resolved, That the Commanders of said Vessels be allowed to inlist men to the last of December next, who may not incline to inlist for the time proposed by the last establishment.

Adjutant for Third Regiment in SUFFOLK, chosen, JUNE 4, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Enoch Leonard, as Adjutant to the Third Regiment of Militia, in the County of Suffolk.

Concurred in Council same day.

JOHN CLOUSTON appointed to command the Sloop FREEDOM, JUNE 4, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Captain John Clouston to command the armed Sloop building at Swanzy, called the Freedom.

Concurred in Council same day.

JACOB MILLER appointed Major, JUNE 5, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Jacob Miller as Major of Colonel Josiah Whitney's Regiment.

Concurred by Council same day.

Adjutant for Fourth Regiment WORCESTER, appointed, JUNE 5, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Ebenezer Foster, of Oakham, as Adjutant to the Fourth Regiment of Militia, in the County of Worcester.

Concurred by Council same day.

Adjutant for Second Regiment HAMPSHIRE, appointed, JUNE 5, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of James Sheppard, of Northampton, as Adjutant to the Second Regiment of Militia, in the County of Hampshire.

Concurred by Council same day.

Adjutant for Seventh Regiment in WORCESTER appointed.

The House made choice, by ballot, of William Clark as Adjutant of the Seventh Regiment of Militia, in the County of Worcester.

Concurred in Council, June 5, 1776.

Resolve to suspend sinking Hulks in the Harbour of BOSTON; passed JUNE 5, 1776.

Resolved, That the Hulks which have been prepared by order of the General Court to be sunk in the Harbour of Boston, be in every respect fitted for that purpose, and anchored as near as may be, with convenience and safety, to the places where it is proposed they should be sunk; and that the sinking said Hulks as aforesaid be suspended until the further order of this Court; any order or resolve to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, nevertheless, That if the Committee for fortifying the Harbour of Boston shall, upon any sudden alarm or appearance of danger, judge it necessary that the said Hulks should be then sunk immediately, before any order of this Court can be taken thereupon, the said Committee be, and hereby are, fully empowered to cause the said Hulks to be sunk accordingly.

Resolve to supply the Town of BEVERLY with Shot; passed JUNE 5, 1776.

Resolved, That the Commissary-General be, and he is hereby, directed to deliver to the Selectmen of the Town of Beverly, or order, sixty eighteen-pound Shot, and one hundred and twenty nine-pound Shot, to be by them applied for the use of said Town; they to be accountable to the General Court for the same.