Gloucester

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In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That that part of the Resolution of this Court of the 3d December, instant, providing that a General Officer be appointed to take the command of the Forces stationed at Gloucester, who shall be empowered to call in the neighbouring Militia upon any emergency, as he shall judge necessary, and discharge them again as soon as the service will admit of the same, be and it hereby is rendered null and void.

Resolved, That a Field-Officer, of the rank of Colonel, be appointed to take the command of the Forces stationed at Gloucester, and of the Militia that shall at any time be raised for defence of the same, unless some General Officer of this Colony shall be present; and he is hereby empowered to order the commanding officer of the neighbouring Regiment of Militia, upon any emergency, to repair with his regiment to the Town of Gloucester aforesaid, and cooperate with him in defending the same, so long as he, the said commanding officer of the Sea-Coast Forces, shall judge it necessary; and, the Militia officers and soldiers, who shall be raised as aforesaid, are hereby directed to obey the said commanding officer of the Sea-Coast Forces, accordingly.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

The Committee appointed to take into consideration the expediency of making compensation to the several Officers and Soldiers who were sufferers by loss of arms, accoutrements, or clothing, in the engagements on the 19th of April and 17th of June last, and what shall be sufficient evidence to certify the same.

In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That full compensation be made to such Captains, Subalterns, non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, who sustained loss of Arms, Accoutrements, or Clothing, on the 19th of April and 17th June last, and that each Captain and Subaltern produce a certificate from the Colonel, or commanding officer of such Regiment, and that each non-commissioned officer and private produce a certificate from the Captain, or commanding officer of the company to which such commissioned officer, or private, did, or doth respectively belong; and that such certificate, with other circumstances concurring therewith, shall be admitted as plenary evidence; and, it is further provided, that any other legal, or satisfactory evidence may be admitted, as time, place, or circumstances may require, to the satisfaction of the Committee appointed by this Court, to consider such losses, and compensation shall be made accordingly. This Resolve to be printed in the Watertown Newspaper.

In Council: Read, and concurred.

Adjourned to ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.