Committee on a Letter from John Hancock, President of the American Congress

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A Letter from John Hancock, Esquire, President of the American Congress, with enclosed Resolutions of Congress, pertaining to this Colony.

In Council: Read, and sent down.

In the House of Representatives: Read, and Ordered, That Mr˙ Gerry, Mr˙ Pitts, and Colonel Orne, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to take into consideration the enclosed Resolves, and report.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and William Sever and Walter Spooner, Esquires, are joined.

In the House of Representatives: Ordered, That Mr˙ Cooper, Mr˙ Pitts, and Colonel Loved, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to take into consideration a Letter from Thomas Crafts, Jun˙,


concerning the people lately brought from the Town of Boston, of December 10, 1775.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and Mr˙ Chauncy and Mr˙ Fisher are joined.

Adjourned to ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.