Committee to Collect Evidence of Losses

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Saturday, January 13, 1776.

Met according to adjournment, and made a collection in the House for the Rev˙ Mr˙ Joseph Johnson, of five Pounds two Shillings and six Pence: presented him by Mr˙ Cutts.

Voted, To choose a Committee to collect the evidence of losses sustained in this Colony since the shutting up of our Ports.

Voted, That John Giddinge, Esquire, and Captain John Emery, be a Committee of this House, to join a Committee of the honourable Council, to collect the evidence of losses sustained in this Colony since the shutting up of our Ports.

Voted, That the Staff-Roll of Colonel Wingate, amounting to seventy-three Pounds nineteen Shillings and four Pence, be allowed and paid out of the Treasury, and that the President of the Council give order on the Treasurer for payment thereof.

Upon reading the Petition of the Town of Dove,

Voted, That they be heard thereon on Thursday next if this House be then sitting; and if not, then on the second day of their next session.

The Petition from Greenland, and that from Portsmouth, to be heard on the same day.

Voted, That Colonel Walker, Colonel Morey, Captain Prentice, Captain Long, and Mr˙ Sherburne, be a Committee to draft a Letter in answer to the request of the Committee of Portsmouth.

Adjourned to Monday next, three o' clock, afternoon.