Report on Matters Relating to the Poor of the Town of Boston

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The Committee on matters relating to the Poor of the Town of Boston reported. Read and accepted.

Resolved, That the Selectmen of the several Towns within this Colony, and such Committees as have been appointed by Congress or of this House, who have transported or received and supported any of the Poor of the Town of Boston or Charlestown, according to the Resolves of the late Congress of this Colony relative to such Poor, he, and hereby are directed to exhibit to a Committee thereafter named fair Accounts of the expense of transporting or receiving and supporting any such Poor, from the time such expense began to the first day of October, instant, expressing the name and age of each person so received and supported; and that Colonel Dwight, Mr˙ Singletary, Colonel Lovel, Captain Toby, and Deacon Nichols, be a Committee to receive and examine all such Accounts, and make report to this House. Also, that the Selectmen of the several Towns who shall still support any of the Poor of the Towns aforesaid be directed, from and after the first day of October, instant, to make up their Accounts to the end of every three months, and exhibit them to the Committee aforesaid.

Upon a motion, Ordered, That Mr˙ Dix, Maj˙ Brooks, and Mr˙ Hubbard, examine the Resolves of the Congresses of this Colony, and select such as are proper to be printed.