Resolve

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Ordered, That Mr. Hall, Captain Batchelder, and Mr. Ellis, be a Committee to consider a Resolve of the Committee of Safety, recommending to this Congress to make an establishment for four Master Armourers.

Ordered, That Mr. Samuel Sanger, Mr. Johnson, and Deacon Wyman, be added to the Committee who were appointed to give Passes for removing the Poor of Bostonand Charlestown to the Towns in the County of Worcester, and that Major Fuller be excused from serving on said Committee.

Ordered, That Captain Stone, Captain Brown, and Colonel Smith, be a Committee to revise the Resolves of Congress relative to the Poor of Boston and Charlestown, and report what they think proper to be done thereon.

Agreeable to the recommendation of the Committee of Safety,

Resolved, That Mr. Jonathan Hastings be and hereby is appointed Postmaster for the Town of Cambridge, in the room of Mr. James Winthrop.

The Committee appointed to examine several accounts of the expense of procuring Axes and Shovels, reported. The Report was accepted, and Mr. Woodbridge was appointed to bring in a proper Resolve for the paying of the several accounts agreeable thereto.