SEPT. 28-Proclamation of Governor Gage, declaring his intention not to meet the general court at Salem, on the 5th of October, and discharging all persons elected as representatives from attendance,
OCT. 5-Members elected to the general assembly meet at Salem, and organize a
Provincial Congress formed at Salem. List of the delegates. Original territorial limits of the county of Suffolk,
Incorporation of Rutland district by the name of Hutchinson. Proceed-
ings of the citizens, and of the general court, in relation thereto,
County of Lincoln,-Congress adjourns to meet at Concord,
Report relative to the payment and collection of outstanding taxes,
21-Resolutions relative to the mandamus counsellors,
Consideration of the propriety of sending an agent to Canada referred to the next meeting of the Congress,
Committee to determine what quantity shall be provided, and estimate
Reply to the governor's answer recommitted for amendments,
Members of the governor's constitutional council desired to attend the
next session of this Congress,
Report of the committee relative to the removal of the inhabitants of Bos- ton, recommitted,
Resolve inviting the constitutional counsellors to attend the next Con-
Report on the warlike stores in the commissary general's office,
"29-Report on a system of military exercise for the province,
Committee to extract such parts of the proceedings of Congress, passed on the 26th and 28th, as are necessary to be published,
Two members added to the committee of safety, Congress adjourned to the 23d day of November,
Nov. 23-Congress meet according to the adjournment,
Walter Spooner, one of his majesty's constitutional council, desired to
attend the Congress,
John Adams and Robert Treat Paine desired to attend, Representatives of Massachusetts in the Continental Congress,
24-Members of the Continental Congress desired to report their proceed-
ings,
Rev. Doct. Appleton appointed chaplain,
66 28-Committee to take into consideration the state of manufactures in the province, and how they may be improved,
29-Committee to make an estimate of the injury to the province by the
operation of the Boston port bill,
John Hancock chosen president, and Benjamin Lincoln, secretary, Committee to take into consideration the state of the province,
"2-Rev. Doct. Appleton appointed chaplain,
"3-Committee to extract from the journal of the last Congress what relates to the public taxes and the militia, and cause it to be printed, Committee to consider the representations of committees of Boston and other towns, that many of the inhabitants are employed in working for the army in Boston,
Secretary empowered to adjourn Congress in the absence of the presi-
dent, 7-Inhabitants recommended not to supply the troops in Boston with any thing that may enable them to annoy the people,
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