Resolves in re Military Affairs.

The Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the Consideration of the Memorial of joynt Selectmen & Committees in the County of Cumberland, have attended the service assigned them, & ask leave to report the following Resolves

On the Representation of Joynt Selectmen and Committees in the County of Cumberland

Resolved, that the Governor be requested to issue Orders to the Commanding Officers of the Counties of York and Cumberland, to Detach from the aforesaid Counties, Five hundred Men, with proper Officers to Command the same, for the term of Four months from the time of their Arrival at the place of Rendezvous unless sooner discharged, the said Officers and Privates to be on the same Establishment as those are in the Continental Army to rendezvous at Falmouth or such other place as the Officers Commanding shall direct, and be under the Command of such Officers as the Governor shall appoint; to be employed for the Defence of the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln as Occasion shall require―.

Be it further Resolved, That the Governor be requested to give such Orders as he shall judge necessary to the Commissary General, to supply the said Men with Military Stores and provisions the issuing Commissary of the said Stores and provisions to be accountable to the Commissary General for the Expenditure of the same

Fifteen Shillings, it being the Cost of Advertising the Said Land & it is hereby further Resolved That the Honble Benja Chadbourne & David Sewall & Nathaniel Wells Esq be a Committee to Confer with Lady Mary Pepperrell & his Daughter Mr Sparhawk on the Subject of their Interest in the said unimproved Lands, or any other Lands which they hold in the same Manner and to make some Agreement or Composition with them for the same in Behalf of this Commonwealth and to make Report of their Doings thereon To the General Court for their Approbation

Sent up for concurrence

In Senate March 18, 1783

Tristram Dalton Spk'

Read & Concurred as taken into a New Draft

Sent down for Concurrence

I this day recd yours of the 25th past, informing me of my Appointment as a Collector of Excise for the County of Cumberland. (I had rec" previous information & wrote to a Gentleman of the House respecting the matter but have rec" no returns) Sir I gladly accept the appointment, and think my

self under the Highest Obligations, therefor, hoping to answer every expectation Sir, I am with much Esteem

Your faithfull Humb' Serv

John Avery Esq

James Lunt

Resolve Relative to Land in Plantation Little Falls.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives March 18th 1783 On the Representation of the Honorable David Sewall Esq' that certain Unimproved Lands called Lady Pepperrell's, in the plantation of Little Falls in York County app'd £14.. 19.7, & advertised for Sale in order to pay the same, are in his opinion the Property of Sir William Pepperrell an Absentee & may accrue to this Commonwealth by a Confiscation of the said Absentee's Estate

Resolved that Joseph Chadbourne Collector of Taxes for the Plantation of Little falls, be & He hereby is prohibited selling the said Land, and the Treasurer of this Commonwealth is hereby directed to stay his Execution against the said Collector for the said Tax of £14: 19.. 7 untill the further Order of this General Court; & the said Treasurer is further directed to allow the said Collector Fifteen Shillings for Costs of advertising the said Land

And it is further Resolved That the Honorable Benjamin Chadbourne David Sewall & Nathaniel Wells Esquires be & they hereby are constituted a Committee to examine & ascertain the State of the Property, of the unimproved Lands above mentioned, & also any other unimproved Lands in the said County of York in a like Predicament; and the said Committee are authorized & impower'd, in the Cases that may appear to them necessary, to treat with Lady Mary Pepperrell & her Daughter on the Subject of their Right or Interest in any of the said Lands, to propose Terms of Agree

ment & Composition for their Relinquishment of the said Rights & Interests, to be presented to the General Court for their approbation—

Certificate of Indebtedness of Absentees.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Cumberland Ss

To John Lewis, Samuel Small and Samuel Freeman Esqr a Committee appointed and impowered by the General Court of the said Commonwealth to sell the Real Estate of Absentees in the said County of Cumberland

These certify That there is due from the Estate of Francis Waldo Esq. late of Falmouth in said County an Absentee, to the following Persons, the Sums set against there respective names, as the same has been liquidated and allowed by the Commissioners appointed to receive and examine the Claims on said Estate- viz

To Enoch Freeman Esq the sum of

£25

10 8

And also to Thomas Child Esq. as Agent to

said Estate as p' his Accounts settled and al

lowed the sum of

Total

£136- 5-7

£254-17-8

Amounting in y° whole to the Sum of Two hundred & fifty four Pounds 17/8 lawful money

Wm Gorham

County of Cumberland

Judge of Probate

of Wills &e for said

Dated the eighteenth day of March A D 1783

Resolves in re Military Affairs.

The Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the Consideration of the Memorial of joynt Selectmen & Committees in the County of Cumberland, have attended the service assigned them, & ask leave to report the following Resolves

On the Representation of Joynt Selectmen and Committees in the County of Cumberland

Resolved, that the Governor be requested to issue Orders to the Commanding Officers of the Counties of York and Cumberland, to Detach from the aforesaid Counties, Five hundred Men, with proper Officers to Command the same, for the term of Four months from the time of their Arrival at the place of Rendezvous unless sooner discharged, the said Officers and Privates to be on the same Establishment as those are in the Continental Army to rendezvous at Falmouth or such other place as the Officers Commanding shall direct, and be under the Command of such Officers as the Governor shall appoint; to be employed for the Defence of the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln as Occasion shall require.

Be it further Resolved, That the Governor be requested to give such Orders as he shall judge necessary to the Commissary General, to supply the said Men with Military Stores and provisions the issuing Commissary of the said Stores and provisions to be accountable to the Commissary General for the Expenditure of the same