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Saturday, January 6, 1776.
Present in Council: Honourables Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, Benjamin Chadbourn, John Adams, John Whetcomb, James Prescott, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles Chauncy, Michael Farley, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Holten, Jabez Fisher, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.
The Committee of both Houses, appointed to take into consideration the matter of signing and numbering the Bills of Credit for the seventy-five thousand Pounds emission, and report some effectual mode of raising a Committee for that purpose, beg leave to report, that, for the reasons assigned by the Board, on the 4th instant, there be two persons appointed by this Court lo sign and number said Bills, in the room of James Prescott and Joseph Palmer, Esquires, who are excused.
In Council: Read, and accepted, and, thereupon,
Resolved, That two persons, such as the honourable Court shall choose, be appointed to sign and number the Bills of Credit of the last emission, in the room of James Prescott and Joseph Palmer, Esquires, who are hereby excused.
In the House of Representatives: Read, and concured, and Doctor Rice and Major Ely are appointed to sign and number the Bills accordingly, and the Committee are directed to sit forthwith.
In the House of Representatives: Ordered, That the
In Council: Read, and concurred.
Adjourned to ten o' clock, Monday morning.
Doorkeeper Ordered
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Doorkeeper be directed forthwith to take in custody Doctor Samuel Gelston, and put him under a proper guard, until the further order of Court, that the present guard may be released.