Committee of Boston to the Committee of Safety

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Boston, April 25, 1775.

SIR: We shall communicate to the Committee of Donations the advice which your letter of yesterday gave us, respecting the application of the donation money in their hands, and are much obliged for your assurances that you shall not fail to lend the inhabitants of the Town your best assistance with regard to the furnishing them with habitations in the country. They will also want a great number of Wagons to carry off their effects, which, we hope, can be had from the country, and which you will please to permit to come in. We beg leave to repeat with earnestness our desire and the desire of the Town, that those who incline to remove from the country with their effects into Boston, may do it without the least injury or interruption. For this purpose you will permit us to wish that you would publish proclamations or notifications that passes may be had for all such persons at Roxbury and Cambridge, and such other places as you shall please to appoint. You will have the goodness to excuse us for again soliciting that this may be done as speedily as possible. We are, respectfully, your humble servants,

JAMES BOWDOIN,
EZEK' L GOLDTHWAIT,
JOHN SCOLLAY,
TIMOTHY NEWELL,
THOMAS MARSHALL,
SAM' L AUSTIN,
JOHN PITTS,
EDWARD PAYNE,
HENDERSON INCHES,

Committee.

Permission will be given for thirty Wagons to enter the Town at once, to carry away the effects of the inhabitants. So soon as those have returned to the end of the Causeway leading to Roxbury, then others will be permitted to come in. None will be permitted to enter till after sunrise, nor to remain after sunset. If any Vessel or Boat, now in the Harbour, be employed to remove the inhabitants' effects, security must be given that the Vessel or Boat be returned. That leave be obtained for some persons to go to the different Parishes to give notice to such persons who incline to come with their effects into Boston, that they may come without molestation; and it is desired that the Wagons and Vessels employed to come and carry away the Goods of the inhabitants of Boston, may bring the effects of those who are desirous to leave the country, they paying half the charge.