Proceedings of the Bucks County Committee of Safety
January 21, 1776

IN COMMITTEE, January 21, 1776.

The Committee of Safety of this Province have lately published a process or making Saltpetre [sic], with a view to induce inhabitants of this Colony to set about the work; but, as no description, however exact, can so fully answer the purpose of instruction as an actual exhibition of the process, this Committee, at the request of the Committee of Safety, hath appointed James WALLACE, Andrew KICHLIEN, and Joseph FENTON, Jun., to attend the Saltpetre Works in Philadelphia, so as to obtain a competent knowledge of the method practiced at the Saltpetre Works there, that they may be qualified to exhibit the process to such persons as are desirous of being useful to their country, by entering into the manufacture of that useful and necessary commodity; and James WALLACE, is, also, appointed to receive all the Saltpetre that shall be made in this county, who will be furnished with Powder, to pay, in that article, one-fourth part the value of the Saltpetre, and the rest of the price will be punctually paid in cash by Mr. WALLACE.

By order of the Committee:

Joseph HART, Chairman.