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Friday, March 29, 1776.
Present in Council: Honourable William Sever, Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, John Winthrop, Joseph Gerrish, John Whetcomb, Jedediah Foster, James Prescott, Eldad Taylor, Charles Chauncy, Samuel Holten, Jabez Fisher, Moses Gill, John Taylor, Benjamin White, Esquires.
Resolved, That the Honourable Richard Derby, Junior, Esq˙, be, and he hereby is, permitted to fix out one large Vessel, or two small ones, for a voyage to the foreign West-Indies, and back to this Colony again, and to export in said vessel or vessels three hundred empty Molasses Hogsheads, and other Lumber, to the value of two hundred and twenty Pounds, lawful money, it being the amount of Powder and Fire-Arms lately imported by him into the Town of Salem, the said Derby giving bond with sufficient sureties to the Receiver-General of this Colony, in the sum of two thousand Pounds, conditioned that there shall not be taken on board, or exported in said vessel or vessels, any produce of the United Colonies, more than the above-mentioned sum of two hundred and twenty Pounds, in empty Molasses Hogsheads and Lumber; and that said vessel or vessels shall not proceed to any of the British West-India Islands, but that they shall return to some port in this Colony with their effects, the Island of Nantucket excepted.
In the House of Representatives: Ordered; That the Letter from Tristram Dalton, Esquire, to the Honourable Moses Gill, Esq˙, relative to the Brigantine Unity, Captain Corbit late master, be committed to Mr˙ Cushing and Major Cross.
In Council: Read, and concurred, and Charles Chauney, Esq˙, is joined.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to William Henshaw, the sum of eighteen Pounds eight Shillings and six Pence, in full for his wages in the service of this Colony, as an Adjutant-General.
In the House of Representatives: The House made choice of the following Commission Officers of the Forces stationed at Dartmouth, viz: Benjamin Dillingham, Captain; Manasseh Kempton, First Lieutenant; Eleazer Hathaway, Second Lieutenant; William Talman, Commissary, for said forces.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
Resolved, That the Colonels, or commanding officers, of the Regiment of Militia of this Colony, last raised in consequence of a resolve of Court, as a temporary reinforcement
Whereas the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, according to the time appointed by law, should be holden at Plymouth, in the said County, on the second Tuesday of April next: And whereas sundry of the Justices and officers of the said Court are members of this Court, which is likely to continue sitting beyond the time appointed for holding said Court, and it is probable that matters of great importance may require the attendance of all the members at that time:
Therefore, Resolved, That the said Court be, and hereby is, adjourned to the first Tuesday of July next, being the time at which the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for said County is by law appointed to be holden at Plymouth aforesaid; and that all pleas, processes, writs, actions, and suits, issued, or to be issued, complaints, precepts, recognisances, and all other matters and things returnable, having, and that should have had day, in the said Court, if the same were holden the said second Tuesday of April next, shall be returnable and have day in the said Court, on the said first Tuesday of July next, and shall abide and continue unto that time, and shall then be proceeded on, heard and determined, to all intents and purposes, as effectually as if said Court should have been held on the said second Tuesday of April next.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to Samuel Felch, the sum of two Pounds ten Shillings, in full for a Greatcoat lost in the battle of Lexington.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to Nathan Wheeler, the sum of two Pounds eight Shillings, in full for a Gun lost at the battle of Bunker' s Hill.
In the House of Representatives: The House made choice of Jonathan Mitchell, Esq˙, Colonel of the Forces stationed at Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, in the room of Joseph Frye, Esq˙, in the Continental service.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
The Committee of both Houses, appointed to take into consideration a Letter from Robert H˙ Harrison, of the 27th instant, directed to James Warren, Esquire, requesting that Captain William Wood, lately taken by a Privateer owned by several private gentlemen, may be indulged the liberty of proceeding to England, beg leave to report, by way of Resolve:
Resolved, That Captain William Wood, lately taken by two Privateers owned by persons in this Colony, be permitted, with his crew, to proceed to Cape-Anne and Newburyport, for England, he having given his parole of honour never to act offensively against the United Colonies of North-America.
Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and he hereby is, directed to pay out of the publick Treasury, the sum of three thousand Pounds, to the Honourable Benjamin Greenleaf, Walter Spooner, Moses Gill, Esquires, Major Thomas Durfee, Daniel Davis, Stephen Cross, and Josiah Batchelder, the Committee appointed to import ten thousand barrels of Flour, one hundred tons of pig Iron, &c˙, to enable them to pay the freight and charges of said Flour and Iron;
each of the said Committee to be accountable to this Court for such sum or sums as he shall receive.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to Samuel Bradish, the sum of twenty-nine Pounds five Shillings and eleven Pence, in full for boarding, nursing, and doctoring, for the wound he received in the battle of Bunker' s Hill.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, the sum of eighty Pounds seventeen Shillings and three Pence, in full of the wages due to the Officers and Soldiers on Captain Daniel Lothrop' s Roll.
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of the Continental Army, observe the directions which they have or may receive from his Excellency General Washington, with regard to making up their Pay Rolls or Abstracts; and in case his Excellency shall decline to nay them agreeable to said resolve, that said officers receive pay so far as the General thinks reasonable, and lay the remainder of their demands before this Court for consideration and allowance.