Committee to Revise the Commission of the Committee of Safety

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The Committee appointed to bring in a Resolve relative to the payment of the late Delegates to the Continental Congress, reported; the Report was accepted, and is as followeth, viz:

Whereas, the accounts of expenses incurred by the Honourable, Thomas Cushing, Mr˙ Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esquires, in the execution of the trust reposed in them as Representatives of this Province, at the Grand Continental Congress held at Philadelphia, in the months of September and October last, has been exhibited to and approved of by this Congress, and there appears to be due to the said Delegates the sum of nine Pounds, seventeen Shillings, and ten Pence, lawful money, in order to discharge their said expenses; and this Congress have voted that the sum of fifty-six Pounds be paid to each of the aforesaid Delegates, in order to compensate them for their time spent in said service: Therefore,

Resolved, That Henry Gardner, Esquire, Receiver General of this Province, be directed, and he is hereby accordingly directed to pay to the Honourable Thomas Cushing, Esquire, the above sum of nine Pounds, seventeen Shillings, and ten Pence, for expenses, and the sum of fifty-six Pounds for his time spent in the service aforesaid; and to Mr˙ Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esquires, each the sum of fifty-six Pounds, as a recompense for their time spent in said service.

The same Committee reported the following Resolve, which was accepted, viz:

Whereas the Honourable John Hancock, Honourable Thomas Cushing, Mr˙ Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esquires, were, by a former Provincial Congress, chosen and appointed a Committee of Delegates to meet the Delegates from the other American Colonies, at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May next, or sooner, if necessary. And whereas it is ordered by this Congress that the sum of one hundred Pounds be allowed and paid each of them to enable them to perform said journey:

Therefore, Resolved, That Henry Gardner, Esquire, Receiver General of this Province be, and hereby is ordered and directed to pay unto Robert Treat Paine, Esquire, the sum of forty-six Pounds, lawful money, in consideration of the same sum being by him accidentally lost out of his pocket while on his journey to Philadelphia, in the service of this Government.

Afternoon.

Ordered, That Mr˙ Sullivan, Colonel Patterson, and Colonel Thomas, be a Committee to revise the commission of the Committee of Safety, and the commission of the Committee of Supplies, and point out what amendments, if any, are necessary.

Upon a motion made, the question was put whether the vote relative to committing the Petition of Thomas Legate, Esquire, be reconsidered, and the Petitioner have leave to withdraw his Petition, and passed in the affirmative.

Ordered, That the Secretary be directed to publish the names of the Mandamus Counsellors (in all the Newspapers in this Province) now in Boston, agreeably to the order of the late Provincial Congress.

The Committee appointed to take into consideration how the Ordnance should be disposed of, are directed to make report to the Committee of Safety.