Committee to bring in a Bill for the emission of One Hundred Thousand Pounds

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Ordered, That Major Hawley, Mr˙ Story, and Colonel Freeman, be a Committee to bring in a Bill for an emission of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, agreeable to a Resolve which has passed this Court for that purpose.

Ordered, That Captain Goodman, Captain Parker, Major Hawley, Mr˙ Greenleaf, and Major Bliss, be a Committee to consider how and in what manner those Inhabitants of this Colony who have removed from one Town to another shall be taxed.

The Committee on Colonel Arnold' s Account reported the following Resolve on the two Orders drawn by Colonel Benedict Arnold in favour of Mr˙ John Watson, viz:

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Resolved, That the sum of twenty-three rounds, eleven Shillings, and four Pence half-penny, be paid to John Watson, Esq˙, or order, in full of two Orders drawn by Colonel Benedict Arnold on this Colony, dated the 30th June last.

In Council, August 10, 1775: Read and concurred.

A Petition of Ebenezer Dorr, praying to be allowed out of the publick Treasury a reasonable allowance for a ton and a half of Hay, and a quantity of Grass, taken and used by the Army stationed at Roxbury, was read, and committed to Mr˙ Hale, Mr˙ Dickerson, and Mr˙ Durfee.

Then the House adjourned to eight o' clock, to-morrow morning.