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moreover George Ross, Jacob Kriig, George Moon and 

 Adam Reigart, for the borough of Lancaster: Henry 

 Eckert and Michael Ley for Heidleberg township; and 

 Gabriel Davis for Bart township. 



A new return of members elected for Paxtang town- 

 ship being produced to the committee, certifying that Jo- 

 seph Sherer, William Brown and John Harris were duly 

 chosen to serve as members of the committee for the said 

 townships, the said return is approved of, and they took 

 their seats accordingly. 



A letter from the committee of safety to the late com- 

 mittee of this county, dated October 7th, 1775, respecting 

 some provincial muskets supposed to be in the hands of 

 the military associators and others in this county, beino- 

 produced and read : 



Resolved, That William Atlee, Alexander Lowry and 

 Sebastian Graff be a committee for preparing the draft of 

 an answer to the said letter, and that they report the same 

 to this committee in the afternoon. 



Resolved, Unanimously, that this committee will use 

 their endeavors to carry into immediate execution the 

 resolves of the honorable House of Assembly respecting 

 the six hundred stand of arms and other military accou-. 

 trements to be furnished by the county of Lancaster. 



The question being put whether the gun-smiths residing 

 in the borough of Lancaster should not be immediately 

 sent for to give their reasons to this committee, why they 

 have not set about making the arms directed by the hon- 

 orable House of Assembly to be made in the county of 

 Lancaster, agreeable to the application of the commis- 

 sioners and assessors of the said county. The same was 

 unanimously carried in the affirmative, and the gim- 

 smiths were sent for accordingly. 



A petition signed by Henry Zericher being presented 



