Voted that Major Gains1 & Capt Blunt be a Committee to Collect to-gether and make Sale by Auction of all the Masts now in this State and belonging thereto, and Account for the Net proceeds thereof with the Treasurer of this State—2
Sent up by Mr Ames—
D, Nh-Ar, Journal of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1776–1778), p. 360.
1. George Gains.
2. On 20 May the House of Representatives voted to form a committee to “Consider of the Propriety of Collecting Taking Care of and Disposing of the Masts belonging to this State & to report what measures are best to be taken with them.” Ibid.
