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money be appropriated for erecting and working a powder
mill on the account of this Province; and that the said two
sums of one thousand pounds each, be under the management
of the Council of Safety.
Resolved, That the Committee of Observation in each
County appoint one or more person, or persons in their
respective County, to receive all sums of money, which shall
be voluntarily given to be applied towards the arming and
defending this Province, or towards erecting Manufactories of
any kind, or for the immediate relief of such of the inhabitants
of this Province, as are or may become necessitous, from the
present general Calamities; which persons shall give Receipts
for the money by them respectively received, and keep and
return accounts thereof to the Treasurer of their respective
Shore, specifying and distinguishing from whom the same shall
have been received, and if any, what part thereof shall have
been given for either of the said purposes, particularly. And
the said money shall be paid to the said Treasurer, and may
be applied and laid out by the Council of Safety or that part
of it residing on each Shore respectively for the purposes
before mentioned, having regard in the application, to the
intention of the Donors, and promoting the subsistence of the
necessitous, rather by erecting Manufactories, and the Employ-
ment of such as labour therein, or in work of any kind, than
by immediate Gifts, it being the opinion of this Convention,
that such Charities may be rendered much more extensively
beneficial, by having the same placed under a general direc-
tion.
Resolved, That the Council of Safety contract for, purchase
and provide 5000 stand of Arms, including those ordered and
contracted for by this Convention, giving a preference as far
as they can to those manufactured in the Country, and also
purchase and provide nine small brass field pieces, and
carriages therefor.
And that the Council of Safety may also on proper secu-
rity, and terms they approve of, advance a Sum not exceeding
one thousand pounds common money, for erecting and carry-
ing on one or more Salt-Works in this Province.
Resolved, That the Committee of Observation in each
County, as soon as may be, transmit to the Branch of the
Council of Safety for their respective Shore, a particular
account of all arms and Ammunition purchased in their
County pursuant to the Resolves of the Convention in Decem-
ber last, and of all sums of money subscribed and actually paid
in or contributed, and by whom, for the purchase of the said
Arms and Ammunition. And that each Branch of the Council
of Safety, order the Treasurer of their Shore, to pay to such
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