Upon a Motion, Ordered, That Colo Thompson, Colo Woodbridge, Mr Hopkins, & Colonel Norton, be added to the Committee for considering the expediency of ordering that any part of the Powder and Arms lately arriv'd in the Province of Main should remain in those parts.

Afternoon

On the Petition of Jerathmeel Bowers, Esqr in behalf of one John Shardon, the Committee Reported ー Read and accepted.

Resolved, that Henry Bowers be allowed to receive of the Prison keeper In Taunton, one Person who hath been taken from the Navy under the Command of Admiral Graves ー he giving his Bond to the Sheriff of the County of Bristol to the Use of this Colony, in the penal Sum of One hundred Pounds; condition that in Case he shall not exchange the Prisoner whom he shall receive for the said John [Shardon], he will return the said Prisoner to the Prison in Taunton aforesaid within fourteen days from the time he shall receive the Prisoner. ー And the Keeper of said Prison is hereby directed to conform himself to this Order, provided the said Henry Bowers shall give Security as above directed.

A Petition from Josiah Nottage, Junr in behalf of himself and others, Marins, who were on board the Schooner Industry, on a Voyage from New Providence, bound to Boston, lately carr'd into Marblehead, setting forth, that they are deprived of the common Mode of obtaining their just demands, and praying Relief. Read ー and committed to Colo Oatis, Capt: Adams, and Mr Durfe.

A Petition of William Davis, praying a Permit for the Sloop Reliance, now at Dartmouth, to sail in Ballast, with Cash, for some of the French W [West-India] Islands, under the Restriction, for Powder.