Quantity of Powder that may be spared for the publick service from the stocks of the several Towns

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Thursday, May 25, 1775.

The Committee ordered to inspect the several Towns and Districts' stocks of Powder, and consider what Towns are well stocked, and what proportion they could spare for the publick service, have attended that business, and beg leave to report the following proportion, viz:

Upon the foregoing Report,

Ordered, That the Committee who brought in said Report be directed to bring in a Resolve in conformity thereto, and that it be inserted in the Resolve that the Towns shall be respectively paid for what Powder is drawn from their several Towns stock, or have it replaced; and that

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SAMUEL FREEMAN, Sec' y pro tem.

The Committee reported a Resolve, as directed; which was read and accepted, and is as follows, viz:

"Resolved, That there be draughted out of the Town stocks of Powder, from each respective Town before named, the quantity of Powder affixed to the name of the Town, for the use of the Army, in the defence of the Colony, and that it be replaced as soon as the state of the Colony Magazine will admit of it, or otherwise paid for in money; and that the Selectmen of each Town be forthwith served with an account of the draught made on their Town, and that they immediately deliver it to the Committee of Supplies, or their order.