receiving these orders, proceed to complete the number required of such Town or Plantation by the Rule before mentioned, by a draught on the whole Militia of said Town or Plantation, consisting of the Alarm List, as well of the Training Band. And in order hereto, the aforesaid Officers, Committees, or Selectmen, respectively, shall seasonably cause to be warned a muster of the whole Militia of said Town or Plantation; and in case any person, either on the Training Band or Alarm Lists, shall neglect to attend agreeable to such warning, not having any sufficient reason therefor, in the judgment of the Officers, Committee, or Selectmen, aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of £10; and in case any person draughted as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to go upon the service herein required, either in person or by procuring some able-bodied effective man in his stead, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of £10; said forfeitures to be paid within twenty-four hours to the Officers, Committees, or Selectmen, aforesaid; and on failure hereof, he shall forfeit and pay the further sum of £3; both of said Forfeitures to be recovered in the same manner as is prescribed in an Act lately passed for regulating the Militia of this Colony for the recovery of Fines and Forfeitures that may be incurred by a failure of attendance on Regimental musters therein required. And the Officers, Committee, or Selectmen, shall proceed in draughting in manner as is before directed, until the moneys forfeited shall be sufficient to complete the number of men required of such Town; which money the said Officers, Committee, or Selectmen, are hereby required to expend for this purpose; and if there shall be any overplus remaining, it shall be employed for the benefit of the Company to which such delinquent or delinquents belonged, in such manner as said Company shall agree.

It is further Resolved, That the following persons be a Committee for the purposes before mentioned, for the several Counties hereafter named, who shall receive out of the Treasury of this Colony such sums as the Council shall order, to enable them to discharge the duty herein required of them, who shall be severally accountable to this Court, viz: Jonathan Metcalf Esq., Benjamin Guild, Esq., Colonel Aaron Davis, Nathaniel Bayley, Esq., Mr. Daniel Perry, and Oliver Wendell, Esq., for the County of Suffolk; Aaron Wood, Esq., Major Samuel Epes, Mr. Nehemiah Abbot, Colonel Daniel Stafford, Dudley Carlton, Esq., Thomas Gerry, Esq., and Captain Daniel Chute, for the County of Essex; Jonas Dix, Esq., Major Timothy Walker, Colonel Josiah Sartell, Colonel Simeon Spaulding. Mr. George Brigham, Captain Joseph Hosmer, Colonel William Thompson, Josiah Stone, Esq., and Captain Joseph Reed, for the County of Middlesex; Joseph Hawley, Esq., Noah Goodman, Esq., Major William Pyncheon, Jun., Mr. David Saxton, Mr. Luke Hitchcock, Captain Israel Hubbard, and Captain Elisha Cranston, for the County of Hampshire; William Drew, Esq., Hugh Orr, Esq., Colonel Edward Mitchell, Colonel Ebenezer White, and Captain Robert Lenthal Eels, for the County of Plymouth; Mr. Amos Knowles, Jun., and Joseph Nye, Esq., of Sandwich, for the County of Barnstable; Captain John Stearns, Colonel Shubael Peck, Colonel Nathaniel Leonard, Edward Pope, Esq., and Colonel Seth Pope, for the County of Bristol; Joseph Storer, Esq., and Colonel Ichabod Goodwin, for the County of York; Thomas Cook, Esq., for the County of Dukes-County; Captain Seth Washburn, Captain Nathaniel Wilson, Mr. Abner Rawson, Captain William Page, Amos Singletary, Esq., Mr. John Ball,. Captain John Haven, Captain Nicholas Dyke, and Major William Learned, for the County of Worcester; Captain Joseph Noyes, Joshua Fabyer, Esq., and John Lewis, Esq., for the County of Cumberland; William Lithgow, Esq., for the County of Lincoln; Mr. Azariah Root, Major Caleb Hyde, and Captain Isaac Stratton, for the County of Berkshire,; Mr. Stephen Hussey, for the County of Nantucket.

Resolve for furnishing the Town of MARBLEHEAD with apparatus for eight Cannon, &c.; passed JULY 10, 1776.

Whereas this Court have granted to be supplied for the Town and Harbour of Marblehead eight pieces of Cannon, and the Commissary-General was directed to deliver the same to Mr. Jonathan Orne, or order, and the Commissary-General declines to deliver with said Cannon the apparatus, as Ladles, Spunges, Match-Rope, Port-Fires, and other articles necessary and fit for said Cannon:

It is therefore Resolved, That the Commissary be, and hereby is, directed to deliver to Mr. Samuel Giles, or order, such articles of the apparatus necessary for said eight pieces of Cannon, as the said Commissary has in his possession belonging to this Colony and not otherwise appropriated, he, the said Samuel Giles, to be accountable to this Court for the same.

And it is further Resolved, That Colonel Thomas Crafts be, and he is hereby, directed to deliver to the said Samuel Giles, or order, a Fieldpiece belonging to and mounted by the Town of Marblehead, and now in possession of said Colonel Crafts.

JAMES BRICKET, Esq., appointed a Brigadier-General, to command the Forces to be sent to CANADA; passed JULY 11, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of James Bricket, Esq., as a Brigadier-General, to command the Forces to be sent to Canada, in the room of John Cummings, Esq., who declines serving. Concurred by Council.

A Second Lieutenant chosen for the Company of Matrosses at SALEM; JULY 11, 1776.

The House made choice, by ballot, of John Berry, as Second Lieutenant of the Company of Matrosses, in the Town of Salem, in the room of David Felt, who declines serving.

Concurred by Council.

Resolve on the Petition of NATHAN PHILLIPS; passed J ULY 11, 1776.

On the Petition of Nathan Phillips,

Ordered, That the Petitioner serve the Committee of Correspondence, &c., of Boothbay, for 1775, with a copy of this Petition, that they show cause, if any they have, on the third Wednesday of the next sitting of this Court, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.

Resolve on the Petition of JOSIAH KING; passed J ULY 11, 1776.

On the Petition of Josiah King,

Ordered, That the Petitioner serve the Committee of Correspondence, &c., of Boothbay, for 1775, with a copy of this Petition, that they show cause, if any they have, on the third Wednesday of the next sitting of this Court, why the prayer thereof should not be granted.

Resolve for paying JAMES OTIS, Esq., Interest on his Notes; passed JULY 11, 1776.

Resolved, That the Receiver-General of this Colony be, and he hereby is, directed to pay the said James Otis, Jun., Esq., or order, the Interest of any Notes or Obligations payable to him, which he may exhibit to said Treasurer, signed by Harrison Gray, in behalf of this Colony, as Reoeiver-General of the same, according to the tenor thereof: Provided, said Notes appear to be signed before the 19th of April, 1775.

Resolve establishing the form of Inlistment for the twenty-fifth part of the Militia, &c.; passed JULY 12, 1776.

Resolved, That the form of the Inlistment for the twenty-fifth part of the Militia, ordered by this Court in their present session to be draughted from the Alarm and Training-Band Lists in this Colony, for the service of the United American Colonies, be as follows:

"We, whose names are underwritten, do hereby severally inlist into the service of the United American Colonies, and severely promise and engage to continue in such service until the first day of December, 1776, unless sooner discharged; and to furnish ourselves each with a good effective fire-arm, and, if possible, a bayonet fitted thereto, a cartridge-box, and blanket, or, in lieu of a bayonet, a hatchet or tomahawk. We also, in like manner, promise and engage to obey all the lawful commands of the officers appointed, or to be appointed, over us, pursuant to the Resolves of the General Court of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay; and, under the direction of such Officers, to march, when ordered, with the utmost despatch, to the Northern Depart-