exported Provisions or other Merchandise to the amount thereof, or may hereafter import such stores, such person or persons may lade on board any ship or vessel, and convey and send out of this Colony to any other place, except to the dominions of Great Britain, any kind of Provisions to the amount or value of such warlike stores, imported as aforesaid: Provided, also, That nothing in this resolve shall be construed to extend to the preventing so much Provisions as in the judgment of the Committee of Safety, &c., may be sufficient for the persons on board for the intended voyage, being put on board any ship or other vessel arriving at, trading with, or sailing from, any port, harbour, or other place in this Colony, such voyage not being prohibited by any resolve of Congress, or law or resolve of this Colony. And the Committees of Safety, &c, in the several Towns and other places within this Colony are hereby ordered and directed to see that this resolve be effectually carried into execution.

Resolve on the Petition of GILBERT HARRISON; passed JUNE 19, 1776.

On the Petition of Gilbert Harrison, showing his right to claim the property of certain goods on board the Schooner Volante, lately condemned in the Maritime Court held at Plymouth, and the impossibility of making that claim in the time by law prescribed:

Resolved, That the Judge in said Court and the captors stay all further proceedings on said condemnation, and that the said Gilbert Harrison be allowed to file his claim on the goods aforesaid, before the said Judge, within five days after the passing this resolve; and that thereupon the said Judge notify the trial of said claim in like manner as original trials of captures are by law to be notified, and that the said Judge be served with a copy of this resolve.

Adjutant for the First Regiment in HAMPSHIRE, chosen; JUNE: 19, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Solomon Brewer, as an Adjutant to the First Regiment of Militia, in the County of Hampshire.

Concurred by Council the same day.

Adjutant for the First Regiment in PLYMOUTH, chosen; JUNE 19, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of John Torrey, Jun., as an Adjutant to the First Regiment of Militia, in the County of Plymouth.

Concurred by Council the same day.

Resolve on the Petition of NATHAN SMITH; passed JUNE 20, 1776.

On the Petition of Nathan Smith:

Whereas it appears to this Court that certain persons were concerned in taking and bringing into this Colony a certain Schooner, mentioned in said Petition, a number of whom were of a sea-coast company in the pay of this Colony; and it further appearing that the Vessels or Boats which attacked and took the said Schooner were procured by and at the risk of the captors: Therefore, it is

Resolved, That after the charges of trial and condemnation are deducted from the gross produce of the said Vessel, cargo, and appurtenances, and the shares of the other captors have been assigned, the Colony shall receive one-third part, and the sea-coast men two-thirds part of the residue.

Resolve on the Account of JEREMIAH PUTNAM; passed JUNE 20, 1776.

On an Account of Jeremiah Putnam, for losses of his brother Perly Putnam, in battle on the 19th April, 1775,

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this Colony to Samuel Epes, the sum of £5 10s., for the use of the heirs of Perly Putnam, in full of said Account.

Adjutant for the Eighth Regiment in WORCESTER chosen; JUNE 20, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of Mr. Ebenezer Conant, Jun., as an Adjutant to the Eighth Regiment of Militia in the County of Worcester.

Concurred by Council the same day.

Resolve for supplying Colonels MARSHALL'S, WHITNEY'S, and CRAFT'S Regiments with Medicines; passed JUNE 20, 1776.

Whereas application has been made to this Court requesting that the three Regiments now in the service of this Colony, viz: Marshall's, Whitney's, and Craft's, be supplied from time to time with such Medicines as may be necessary for the sick and wounded: Therefore,

Resolved, That Dr. John Greenleaf of Boston, be requested to supply the chief Surgeon of such Regiments respectively, with such Medicines as may be necessary for the sick and wounded aforesaid, during the continuance of said Regiments in or near Boston; that he be directed to take the Surgeons' receipts for all such Medicines as he may deliver, and that he exhibit his Accounts to this Court for payment. And the said Surgeons, before they shall be empowered to receive of the said Greenleaf any such Medicines as aforesaid, shall take an oath before some Justice of the Peace, that all the Medicines that he shall receive of the said Greenleaf, for the purposes aforesaid, shall be used for the sick and wounded persons in the Regiment to which he is Surgeon, and that he will account with the General Court of this Colony for all such Medicines as shall remain in his hands, after his being discharged as Surgeon of said Regiment; and the said Surgeons are required to produce a certificate from a Justice of the Peace of their being sworn to the faithful discharge of the aforesaid trust, before the said Greenleaf shall be empowered to deliver them any such Medicines as aforesaid.

Commissary-General directed to receive all the Powder due from the Continent; JUNE 21, 1776.

Resolved, That the Commissary-General of this Colony be, and he hereby is, directed to receive all such Powder as is due to this Colony from the Continent, and to give his discharge therefor in behalf of this Colony.

Resolve for supplying the several Towns with Powder; passed JUNE 21, 1776.

Resolved, That the Commissary-General be, and hereby is, directed to deliver out of the Colony Store to each of those Towns that have lent Powder to the Colony, such quantity as may to them respectively remain due, and to pay reasonable charges for transportation of the same; and that there be paid to said Commissary, out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, the sum of £20 for that purpose, he to account therefor with this Court; the Selectmen of such Towns leaving with the said Commissary those receipts whereby they support their claim to such Powder, and also certifying that they have not received recompense therefor.

It is further Resolved, That each Town and unincorporated Plantation in this Colony, not having such a quantity of Powder in their publick stock as will furnish the men borne on the Training-Band and Alarm-Lists with half a pound to each man, be allowed to purchase, at either of the Powder-Mills in this Colony, so much Powder as will make up the quantity aforesaid, which shall be sold to the Selectmen of said Towns, or Committees of unincorporated Plantations, (as fast as it can be spared,) at 5s. per pound; said Selectmen and Committees respectively certifying to the keeper of such Powder-Mill the number of men borne on the Lists aforesaid, together with the whole Powder they have in stock—preference being given to Sea-Coast Towns and unincorporated Plantations adjoining the Sea, when more apply than can be supplied.

Resolve relative to delinquent Collectors; passed JUNE 21, 1776.

Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Colony be, and he hereby is, directed immediately to give notice in the publick Prints, that all Collectors of Taxes or Constables that are delinquent in paying the several sums committed to them to collect from the year 1769 to the year 1774, inclusively, pay him the several sums due from them immediately; and that he issue out his Execution against all such Collectors or Constables as shall neglect to pay the same after the last day of August next.