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duced to the committee, certifying that Joseph Sherer, William Brown 

 and John Harris were duly chosen to serve as members of the Committee 

 for the said township, the said return is approved of, and they took 

 their seats accordingly. 



A letter from the Committee of Safety to the late Committee 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, being produced and read: 



Eesolved, That William Atlee, Alexander Lo wry 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- 



Eesolved, Unanimously, that this committee will use their endeavors 

 to carry into immediate execution the resolves of the honourable House 

 of Assembly respecting the six hundred stand of arms and other military 

 accoutrements to be furnished by the county of Lancaster. 



The question being put whether the gun-smiths residing in the bor- 

 ough of Lancaster should not be immediately sent for to give their rea- 

 sons to this Committee, why they have not set about making the arms 

 directed by the honourable House of Assembly to be made in the county 

 of Lancaster, agreeable to the application of the Commissioners and Asses- 

 sors of the said county, the same was unanimously carried in the affirma- 

 tive, and the gun-smiths were sent for accordingly. 



A petition signed by Henry Zericher being presented to the Committee, 

 upon inquiry into the facts therein contained, it is ordered by this Com- 

 mittee, (three townships dissenting) that the said Henry Zericher be al- 

 lowed five pounds of powder, and no more, out of the public magazine, 

 for the purposes expressed in the petition, he paying for the same into 

 the county treasury at the rate of four shillings per pound. 



The sub-committee appointed to essay the draft of an answer to the 

 letter of the Committee of Safety respecting the provincial muskets, do 

 now report to this Committee, the draft of the answer which they had 

 prepared, in these words, to wit : 



Lancaster, November 9th, 1775. 



Gentlemen : Your letter of the 7th day of October last, directed to 

 the Committee of Lancaster county respecting the provincial muskets, 

 in the hands of the military associators and others in this county, has 

 been laid before this Committee and taken into consideration. 



We find that the gentlemen who were the Committee of Correspon- 

 dence, appointed by the late County Committee, had upon the receipt of 

 your letter, published and dispersed hand-bills throughout the county 

 requiring the persons possessed of such muskets to bring them in at this 

 time. As none are brought in, we beg leave to suggest to you some 

 facts, relative to those arms, and wait your further directions. 



