Resolve on the Petition of JEHATHMEEL BOWERS, Esq., and others; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Whereas, by reason of the unhappy disputes which subsisted in the Town of Swansey, the inhabitants of that Town in the month of March last formed themselves into two parties, each of which assembled and chose such Town Officers as are by law directed to be chosen in the month of March annually; and as each party supposed they were acting agreeable to the rules of law, they did not respectively attend the meeting of the other party, so that such Officers must have been in each case partially chosen; and as it appears to be conducive to the peace and welfare of said Town that the Officers so chosen at such partial meeting should be all of them disqualified from acting any further under such choice:

It is Resolved, That the several meetings aforesaid shall be considered as illegal and void, except for the purposes hereafter mentioned; that all Officers chosen at said meeting shall cease to exercise any powers or authorities by virtue of said choice, only any publication of purposes of marriage and certificate respecting the same by either of the Clerks then chosen, and the doings of the several Selectmen respecting the poor of said Town, be, and they are hereby, confirmed.

And it is further Resolved, That John Turner, Esq., be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered forthwith to issue his Warrant to either of the persons who served as Constables for the said Town of Swansey for the last year, directing him to notify the Freeholders, and other inhabitants of said Town by law qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the Meeting-House in said Town, near Elder Russel's Mansion-House, at the time mentioned in said Warrant, for the purpose of choosing Town-Clerk, Selectmen, and such other Town Officers as are by law directed to be chosen in the month of March annually; which Officers so chosen shall have the same powers and authorities as if they had been regularly chosen in the month of March last; and the said Turner shall preside as Moderator of the same meeting until such Officers are chosen as aforesaid; and the said Turner is directed in his said Warrant to order the said Constable to warn the Freeholders, and other inhabitants by law qualified to elect Representatives for the General Assembly, to meet at the same time and place for the purpose of choosing one or more Representative or Representatives to serve in the General Assembly for the present year, agreeable to the precept which shall be issued, for that purpose, at the choice of which Representative or Representatives, the Selectmen which shall be chosen at the same meeting preside as Moderators.

And it is further Resolved, That the assessment of Taxes by the Assessors of said Town for the year 1775 be, and it hereby is, confirmed and made good, notwithstanding the said Assessors may not have been sworn in the manner directed by law; and the valuation of Real Estates by such Assessors is also hereby established and made good, as a rule to determine the right of Voters for the present year.

And it is further Resolved, That the Agents who appeared to support the Memorial against the election of a Representative for said Town the present year, be paid their own charges and the charges of their Witnesses out of the Treasury of said Town, after their Accounts have been examined and adjusted by the Selectmen which shall be chosen for said Town for the present year; and that the charges of the Agents and Witnesses who opposed the said Memorial, be paid in like manner.

Resolve for annexing the Militia to be raised in NEWTON, for the service in CANADA, to the First Battalion; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Whereas it appears that the men to be raised for the Canada service in the Town of Newton, in the County of Middlesex, were by mistake omitted in the Resolve for forming the First Battalion for said Canada service: Therefore,

Resolved, That the said men to be raised in said Town of Newton be, and they are hereby, annexed to the said First Battalion, said former Resolve to the contrary notwithstanding.

Resolve for paying Captain BRIDGE'S Roll; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Colony Treasury to Captain John Bridge, for the use of the Officers and Soldiers borne on his Roll, the sum of £13 13s. 3d., in full.

Resolve for paying Captain MUNRO'S Company; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Colony Treasury to Captain Edmund Munro, for the use of the Officers and Soldiers borne on his Roll, the sum of £9 11s. 11¾d., in full.

Resolve for paying Captain JOHN PACKER'S Roll; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Colony Treasury to Lieutenant Joseph Symonds, for the use of the Officers and Soldiers borne on Captain John Packer's Roll, the sum of £16 19s. 10d., in full.

Resolve for paying Captain JOHN PARKER'S Roll; passed JUNE 28, 1776.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Colony Treasury to Captain John Parker, for the use of the Officers and Soldiers borne on his Roll, £13 11s. 6d., in full.

Resolve for supplying the Committee for raising Men with Money for that purpose; passed JUNE 29, 1776.

Resolved, That the $21,000 lately received from the honourable Congress for the use of two Regiments ordered to be raised and stationed in this Colony, and also that the $30,000 lately received from the said honourable Congress to be exchanged by this Colony for hard money, amounting in the whole to the sum of £15,300, be paid into the hands of the Committee lately appointed to raise men for the publick service in Canada and New-York, in the manner following, viz: That £1,400, part of the aforesaid sum, be paid to the Committee appointed to go into the County of Berkshire; and that £7,100, part of the sum aforesaid received from Congress, be paid to the Committee appointed to go into the County of Hampshire to raise men; and that £365 be paid to the Committee appointed to go into the County of Cumberland; and that £965 be paid to the Committee appointed to go into the County of York for the purpose aforesaid; and that the remaining sum of £5,470 be paid to the Committee appointed to raise men in the County of Middlesex.

Resolve relative to fortifying the GURNET; passed JUNE 29, 1776.

Whereas this Court some days ago passed a Resolve that two pieces of Cannon, of twelve-pounders, and four of six-pounders, should be placed at the Gurnet, at the entrance of Plymouth Harbour; and it hath been represented to this Court that it is necessary to have some Cannon of a larger size than six-pounders to defend Plymouth and other places adjacent: It is, therefore,

Resolved, That three pieces of Cannon, of nine-pounders, be delivered by the Commissary-General of this Colony, in lieu of three of the six-pounders before granted, with Powder, Shot, and the necessary apparatus therefor, in the same proportion as heretofore granted for the six-pounders; and that Major Thomas Dawes, of Boston, be employed as an Engineer, to repair to the Gurnet and direct in raising a Fortification there, and placing the Guns; and that the Commander of the men stationed there be authorized to make use of seven of the Whale-boats belonging to the Colony.

Resolve appointing a Committee to confer with a Committee of the Assembly of RHODE-ISLAND; passed JUNE 29, 1776.

Whereas the honourable the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode-Island, &c., at their last March Session, did appoint the Hon. William Bradford, Esq., and Simeon Potter, Esq., a Committee to confer with the General Court of this Colony, upon the subject of erecting suitable Fortifications at Bristol Ferry, and also respecting fortifying Howland's Ferry, and to agree with the General Assembly of