Marblehead, Salem and Newburyport required to sell four half-barrels of Powder each

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Ordered, That Colonel Cutts, Ichabod Goodwin, and Deacon Fisher, be appointed to proportion the Powder that is recommended to be sold to the Towns of York, Welles, Biddeford, Boothbay, and Sandford, and to sit forthwith.

The Committee presented the following Report, which was accepted:

Whereas, the Towns of York, Welles, Boothbay, and Biddeford, have applied to this Congress, setting forth the dangerous situation they are in, being seaports, and thereby exposed to the ravages of the enemy, although but a small force should be sent to attack them by sea; and likewise showing that they have not ammunition sufficient wherewith to make defence; should they be thus attacked; and considering them, as they ought to be, part of the whole, and should they suffer, that the whole must be affected: therefore,

Resolved, That it be, and it hereby is recommended to the Selectmen of the Towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Newburyport, that they forthwith sell, out of their Town stock, four half barrels of Powder each, to said Towns of York, Welles, Biddeford, and Boothbay, to put the inhabitants thereof in some tolerable state of defence; and should the Towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Newburyport, be under the necessity of having the quantities which they have delivered to the said Towns of York, Welles, Boothbay, and Biddeford, replaced, in that case the Congress will give orders for the same as soon as may be. The Powder to be apportioned according to the number of inhabitants in the said Towns, as also to Sandford, said Town having made application for supplies of the same kind.