Resolve requiring the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond for Fifty Thousand Pounds

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The Committee appointed to bring in a Resolve, directing the Receiver-General to give Bond for fifty thousand Pounds, with two sufficient sureties of twenty-five thousand Pounds each, reported. Read and accepted.

Resolved, That the Committee appointed by this Court to prepare the form of a Bond to be executed by Henry Gardner, Esq˙, whom this Court has elected to the office of Treasurer and Receiver-General of this Colony, be directed to accept of the said Henry Gardner, Esq˙, a Bond for the faithful discharge of his office, wherein he, with two sufficient sureties, shall be jointly and severally bound in the sum of fifty thousand Pounds, in case the said

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In Council, August 1, 1775: Read and concurred.

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the honourable Board for the Resolve of this House, relative to a new emission of Bills of Credit.

Benjamin Lincoln, Esq˙, brought down the same accordingly.

Ordered, That this Resolve be recommitted, and that Mr˙ Cushing be on the Committee in the room of Colonel Freeman.

Order of the Day moved for.

Resolved, That the consideration of the Petition against Mr˙ Rice be further referred to four o' clock in the afternoon.

Order of the Day moved for.

Ordered, That Mr˙ Wheeler, Mr˙ Hopkins, and Mr˙ Cushing, be a Committee to sort and count the votes for a Counsellor in the room of Mr˙ Pitts. Who reported that Captain Benjamin White was chosen.

Ordered, That Major Hawley, Colonel Orne, Mr˙ Cushing, Dr˙ Church, and Mr˙ Devens, be a Committee to wait upon Captain White to the honourable Board.

Sundry Accounts against General Washington, for expense of horse hire and wagon hire, were laid before this House, and committed to the Committee on Accounts, viz: George Pyncheon, Joshua Loring, John Worthington, Timothy Bliss, and Andrew Cotton' s.

Ordered, That Captain Batchelder, Mr˙ Morgan, Mr˙ Fabyan, and Mr˙ Hording, be added to the Committee on Accounts; and that any five of said Committee be a quorum.

Resolved, That the Coats to be made for the Soldiers be made agreeable to a form exhibited by Mr˙ Billings.

The Committee to whom was recommitted the Resolve for a new emission of Bills of Credit reported.

The Report was ordered to lie upon the table.

The Committee appointed to consider the propriety of furnishing the Town of Newburyport with a quantity of Shot, reported. Read and accepted.

Resolved, That the Town of Newburyport having been at a great expense to procure Powder and Cannon for their defence, that orders be given to the Committee of Supplies to furnish them with the following articles, on account of this Colony, viz: sixty rounds of two-inch shot; sixty rounds of two-and-a-half-inch shot; sixty rounds of three-inch shot; thirty rounds for one thirty-two pounder; thirty rounds for one twenty-four pounder; forty canisters grape shot.

In Council, August 1, 1775: Read and concurred.

Afternoon.

Ordered, That Colonel Mitchell, Mr˙ Goodrich, and Major Bliss, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to consider with Mr˙ John Brown on the situation of our friends in Boston.

Ordered, That Colonel Mitchell, Mr˙ Goodrich, and Major Bliss, with such as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to consider with Mr˙ John Brown on the situation of our friends in Boston.

In Council, August 1, 1775: Read and concurred, and Moses Gill and Jedediah Foster, Esqrs˙, are joined.

Ordered, That the Committee appointed to procure Fire-Arms be instructed to procure as many as they can, not exceeding forty each; and to procure them without Bayonets, if they cannot be procured with.

The Committee on Accounts reported a Resolve for the payment of Timothy Bliss' s and other Accounts.

The Report was read and accepted, and is as follows, viz:

Resolved, That the Accounts exhibited by Timothy Bliss, Andrew Colton, George Pyncheon, John Worthington, and Joshua Loring, for horse and carriage hire, for his Excellency General Washington, on his way from Springfield to Leicester, Worcester, &c˙, amounting to four Pounds, thirteen Shillings, and two Pence, lawful money, are well vouched and right cast; and that the same be paid according to their respective orders to Capt˙ George Pyncheon.