Orders

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Ordered, That Colonel Warren, Esquire Dix, and Colonel Foster, be a Committee to draw up a Resolve recommending to the Committees of Correspondence of the several. Towns and Districts in this Colony, and to the Selectmen of Towns and Districts who have no such Committees, to take effectual care to discover all such persons in their respective Towns, who will not give them an assurance of their, good intentions and regard to the interest of this Country, and also to recommend to the people of this Colony to take effectual measures to oblige all who are liable by law to appear in arms in the Militia, to appear when properly called upon by their Officers.

Resolved, That the Muster-Masters be and hereby are empowered and directed to administer the Oath to the Officers and Private Soldiers of the Army now raising in this Colony, agreeably to the form prescribed by this Congress.