Committee on the Accounts

v3:1462

Thursday, October 12, 1775.

It was moved, that the vote of this House [on the 28th of September] for a non-acceptance of the Committee' s Report on the Proceedings of the Committee of Inspection of Deer-Island, relative to the Schooner Nightingale, be reconsidered; and after a long debate thereon, it was moved that the question be determined by yeas and nays; and the question being put, it passed in the negative.

The question was then put, whether the House will reconsider the vote of a non-acceptance of said Report, and it passed in the negative.

Ordered, That a message go to the honourable Board, for the Report of the Committee relative to the two Chiefs of the St˙ John' s Tribe.

Eldad Taylor, Esq˙, brought it down accordingly.

Afternoon.

The Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Letter from the two Chiefs of the St˙ John' s Tribe of Indians was read, and committed to Captain Batchelder, Colonel Williams, and Mr˙ Rice.

The Committee appointed to consider the services of all the Officers and Soldiers, &c˙, before the first day of August last, reported. Read and recommitted; and Major Cross was appointed on the Committee, in the room of Major Hawley.

The Committee on the Petition of the Selectmen of Salem reported. The Report was recommitted.

A Petition of Andrew Gilman, praying a recompense for his services in cultivating a friendly disposition in the Indians, was read, and committed to Captain Batchelder, Colonel Williams, and Mr˙ Rice.

Ordered, That Major Brooks, Mr˙ Rawson, Colonel Barret, Colonel Thurston, and Mr˙ Moody, be a Committee to consider what is proper to be done relative to the Accounts of such Towns as have made provision for the Poor of the Towns of Boston and Charlestown.

Voted, That ten o' clock, to-morrow forenoon, be assigned for the consideration of the Report relative to Saltpetre.

Ordered, That Major Ely be on the Committee to consider some effectual measure for promoting the manufactory of Fire-Arms, in the room of Colonel Davis.