Advertisement by .the Selectmen of Boston: According to present appearances the town will be free of infection from small-pox by Wednesday next

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September 14, 1776.

The Selectmen inform the publick, that by the return of the Committees appointed to inquire into the state of the Town respecting the Small-Pox, there are now but eighteen persons sick of that distemper, and those chiefly in the outskirts of the Town. They are so far recovered, that the Selectmen are determined to take off the guards from the Neck and the Ferries after Wednesday next; at which time, according to present appearances, the Town will be free of infection.

JOHN SCOLLAY,

EBENEZEB STORER,

SAMUEL AUSTIN,

HENRY BROMFIELD,

JOHN GREENLEAF,

Selectmen of the Town of Boston.