ciples & practice of said Persons & of the extensive beneficial consequences that evidently resulted to the public from their apprehension & committment & your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray

Feby 6th 1783

Joseph Mclellan

Resolve to Tax County of Cumberland.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives Feb 7th 1783

on the Representation of the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Cumberland that the sum of three Hundred and Sixty pounds will be necessary for Defraying the Charges of said County for one year next Ensuing

Resolved that there be and hereby is granted a tax of three hundred and Sixty pounds to be apportioned and assessed on the Rateable Polls and Estates in said County and the Same be Colected and paid into the treasury thereof and applied for the use of said County agreeable to the Laws of this Commonwealth

Sent up for concurrence

In Senate Feby 7th 1783

Tristram Dalton Spk

Read & Concurred with Amendment at A

Sent down for Concurrence

at A insert, "by the Clerk of the peace for the County of Cumberland upon the several Towns within the same."

In the House of Representatives February 7th 1783

Read and concurred

Approv'd

Tristram Dalton Speaker.

John Hancock.

At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Cumberland begun and holden at Falmouth in said County on the last Tuesday of October A. D. 1782

Ordered that the Clerk transmit to the General Court the following

Estimate of the Sums necessary to be raised to defrey the Charges of said County the year ensuing — viz

For paying the Charges that may attend the holding said Court the present Term £80. Ditto next May Term £130. Ditto next October Term £80 Ditto for the Supream Judicial Court next June £30 For repairing the Goal £20 For laying out Roads £20 amounting in the whole to £360

Att

Sam Freeman Cler.

Allowance to Collectors of Excise.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In Senate Feby 6th 1783

Ordered that Aaron Wood & Caleb Davis Esq" with such as the Honble House may be a Committee to take into consideration and report the proper Allowance to be made to the Collectors of Excise in this Commonwealth

Sent down for Concurrence

S Adams Presid

In the House of Representatives Feb 7th 1783

Read and concurred and Cap' Wales M' Frazier & Dr Hall

are joined

Tristram Dalton Spk

Message of Governor.

Gentlemen of the Senate & Gentlemen of the House of Representatives

I have this moment receiv'd a Letter from Col° Lithgow by two Indians of the Penobscot Tribe, these Indians are

come to make application for Sundry Articles for the use of the Tribe. The Letter with a Commission given one of these Indians by Brig Gen' Lovell, I have directed the Secretary to lay before you I have given Orders that these Indians should be taken Care of this Night & have become responsible for their Expences-I cannot but recommend these Papers & the Case of these Indians to your Consideration, & your Determination Shall be communicated to them immediately upon my receiving it,

Council Chamber Boston 7th Feb' 1783

In Senate February 7th 1783

John Hancock

Read and thereupon Orderd that Jedidiah Preble Esq' with such as the Honble House shall join be a Committee to take this Message together with the papers accompanying the same into Consideration and make report what may be proper to be done thereon

Sent down for Concurrence

S Adams Presid

In the House of Representatives February 8th 1783

Read and concurred and Col° McCobb & Col° Grow are joined

Tristram Dalton Spk'

Petition Inhabts Town of Arundel.

To the honorable Senate; and the honorable House of Representatives in General Court assembled.

May it please your Honors.

We your Petitioners Inhabitants of the Town of Arundel beg Leave to represent our Situation to you and intreat your Attention to it. The Calamities of War have spread Difficulties and Scattered various Distresses thro' the County in

general, but more especially in several Towns in the eastern part of it situated on the Sea Coast which have been deprived of the Profits of Navigation for several Years past in a very considerable Degree. The Scarcity of Provisions by the Obstruction of Navigation and the Loss of our Vessells on one Side and the Severity of the Drought last Summer on the other have made it so extremely difficult to procure them by any Means that many of our Poor People have been reduced to very grievous Straits, and have suffered very much for the Want of them, not having wherewith to pay their Proportion of the public Taxes and provide the Necessaries of Life for their Families.

The very considerable Numbers of Men at various Times gone from us into various Parts of the World some of which have perished at Sea, others in the public Service on the Land have died and left Families in the Depth of Wretchedness in continual Want of the Necessaries of Life and unable to procure any of them; many more have been and are yet in Captivity; besides those who are already in the continental Army, by which Means our Men who are able to go into the Army are reduced to a very small Number scarcely sufficient for our own defence from the Ravages of the Enemy to which we have been and are continually exposed; so that it is extremely Difficult to procure Men among us at any Rate; and impossible without hiring them at a very extravagant Price.

These are some of the many Difficulties and Distresses the Inhabitants of this County and we in this Town in particular have labored under for some time past, and are yet heavy upon us. And for these Reasons we have been deficient in procuring our Quota of the three Months Men for the Service of the Army, and not for Want of a zealous Attachment to the Interests of our Country.

Wherefore we the Selectmen of the Town of Arundel in behalf of said Town do humbly and earnestly intreat the

General Assembly to take our Situation with the grievous Burdens and Distresses we labor under into Consideration, and lay not upon us the Penalty we are liable to by not sending our Proportion of the three months Men when it has not been in our Power to raise them by hiring or any other Way, while sinking under so many grievous Burdens.

That the General Assembly may be directed into the most wise and Salutary Measures is the earnest Wish of your Petitioners.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To the honorable the Senate & the honorable the House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston Feb 1783

Simeon Mayo most respectfully sheweth

That in the Year 1774 being indebted on Bond to Francis Waldo late of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, now an Absentee, in the Sum of One thousand Pounds L. M. as a collateral Security for the Payment of that Sum, he by Deed, mortgaged to said Waldo half an Acre of Land with a dwelling House, two Stores & a large Distill House thereon, of the Value of twenty five hundred Pounds, That said Waldo on with drawing himself within the Enemies Lines carried with him said Bond & Mortgage, which still remain with him undischarged & uncancelled: That in the Year 1775 in the Conflagration of that unfortunate Town, all the Buildings without Exception mortgaged as aforesaid were totally destroyed, &