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Voted, That Mr. David Trumbull be directed to procure and send for- ward to Boston twenty ox or horse teams with carts or sleds to bring such cloathing as Col. Joseph Trumbull has to send to this State and to be delivered in such places as he shall direct ; and in case he shall not have sufficient to load said teams, the rest to be loaded with salt in the hands of Mr. Sam Elliot jun".
A permit was given to George West of Tisbury, to exchange a quantity of salt, rum, wool &c. for country produce and the same transport to the State of Massachusetts Bay.
A like permit was given to
Cleaveland of the same place.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY DECEMBER 11TH, 1777. Present : His Honor the Governor. Jabez Huntington, Wm. Hillhouse,
Dan" Sherman,
Benj. Payne, Esqrs.
Benj. Huntington,
A letter was prepared and sent by Mr. David Austin to New Haven in answer to some difficulty arisen there with regard to the people from Nan- tucket with goods for barter in this State.
Letters were prepared and sent to Boston to Col. Jos. Trumbull, instruct- ing him to take continental cloathing from Messrs. Otis & Andrews, commis- saries of clothing there, sufficient to cloath four thousand men from this State, in order to procure them to be made up as soon as possible and forwarded.
Voted, That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby desired to grant licence to Mr. Caleb Huntington of Norwich, to distill from rye the spirit called Geneva, to supply the inhabitants of this State as far as he can: provided he retail the same at a reasonable price, not exceeding fifteen shil- lings per gallon, during the pleasure of the Governor and Council of Safety.
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Upon the memorial of Abiather Camp of New Haven, who is by order of the General Assembly confined at Eastbury; praying to be removed. either to his farm at North Branford, his house at Wallingford, or to the town of Glassinbury, as per memorial dated this day: Resolved by this Board, that the said Abiather Camp hath liberty to remove from the place of his present confinement to his said house in Wallingford, there to remain within the limits of the society where said house stands, untill further orders from the General Assembly or this Board, under the regulation of his pres- ent confinement.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY DECEMBER 16TII, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Nath" Wales jr,
Wm. Hillhouse. Benj. Huntington, Esqrs
Advised, That his Excellency the Governor procure three hundred copies of the Articles of Confederation lately received from Congress, and order that the printer transmit one such copy to [the] selectmen of each town in this State as soon as possible, and the remainder to the General Assembly at their adjourn'd session at Hartford on the Sth day of January next .*
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY DECEMBER 22D, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor.
Jz. Huntington, Nath1 Wales jun",
Wm. Williams, Benj. Huntington, Esqrs
Wm. Hillhouse,
Voted, To draw on John Calder of Hartford for fifty bushells of the salt that was imported in the vessell commanded by Capt. Stillman, to be delivered to the managers of the furnace at Salisbury, taking receipt.
Order de to Mr. Henshaw Decr 224, 1777.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY DECEMBER 27TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Nath' Wales jun",
Wm. Williams,
Benj. Huntington, EsqTs.
Wm. Hillhouse.
Voted, That Capt. John Deshon be and he is hereby instructed to give order to transport to this State 200 bushels of the State's salt at Bedford by such conveyance by water as he judges most expedient, and also send to the Governor an account of what salt is on hand in Bedford belonging to the State.
Voted, That Nath' Shaw jun', Esq", be permitted to purchase the twenty nine-pounders belonging to this State now in Norwich, he also paying and saving this State harmless from all cost of transportation, freight, wharfage and other expences arising on said cannon since taken from the foundery at Salisbury.
* Green's bill for the work is in Rev. War, x, 245. The copy in our archives, id. 85, is one of those printed at Lancaster, by Francis Bailey.
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Resolved, That the selectmen of Glassenbury be directed to supply the families of Serjeant Peter Peas, Samuel Dealing, William Smothirst and Benjamin Tucker, who are inhabitants of said town and soldiers inlisted into the continental army in a battalion under command of Col. Samuel Brewer of the State of the Massachusets Bay, with necessaries in the same manner as is by law provided for the families of soldiers inlisted into said army belonging to and in the service of this State, and that the extra expences thereof be born by this State and charged to the State of the Massachusetts Bay, and that notice thereof be given to the Honble Council or Assembly of said State, and if they should disallow the payment of such extra expence that they be requested to signify the same to his Excellency Governor Trumbull and give order for the release and discharge of said Peas, Dealing, Smothirst and Tucker, in order that they may be inlisted into one of the battalions of this State in continental service.
Voted, To give Mr. James Day, Lt. of marines of the ship Oliver Crom- well, an order on the Pay-Table for £120 0 0. for the purpose of recruiting men for service on board said ship: He to be accountable.
Order dd to Mr. Day Dec" 27th, 1777.
His Excellency the Governor laid before the Board a letter of the 23ª inst. from his Honor the Governor and Council of War of the State of Rhode Island, setting forth the great danger the town of Providence is in from the ships of war in the harbor of New Port and the army of the enemy there, and that they have good intelligence that a body of 750 men are prepared and about to embark with design, as supposed, to burn the said town of Providence and destroy the frigates lying unarmed there, and that term of the troops now there will expire the 1st of January next, and earnestly pres- sing for the aid which they alledge is stipulated by this State for their defence and which they have ever stood in need of, but at no time so much as the present &c., as per letter on file.
This Board, taking into consideration the aforesaid request and the cir- cumstances of the case, are of opinion and do resolve, that five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith detached from the 1st and 5th brigades of militia in this State, and proceed to Providence without delay, under the command of one colonel and one major: said 500 to consist of 5 companys of 100 men each, officers included, to be properly officered out of the militia officers by designation of the respective brigadiers, and that four hundred of said men be detached (according to law) from the 5th brigade under the command of Brig. Gen. Douglass, and the two field officers to be designated by him, and also the necessary officers of the respective companys; and that one hundred be detached as aforesaid from the Ist brigade under the con- mand of Brig. Gen. Eras. Wolcot, and the proper officers to be designated by him, and all to march properly armed and accoutred, under the command of said field officers, to said Providence, to be under the command of the Honble Maj. Gen1 Spencer or the commander in chief on that station, and to serve for the term of two months from and after their arriving at the place of destination, unless sooner discharged. And said officers and men to be intitled to the pay, wages, rations and encouragements by law allowed, and that the present circumstances of the case, on account of the dearness of the necessaries of life, be laid before the Hono. General Assembly at their approaching session and be recommended to their just and equitable consid- eration.
And adjourned without day.
N. B. The orders were sent to the brigadiers accordingly on the 29'h.
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AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT HOLDEN AT HARTFORD BY ADJOURNMENT ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF JANUARY, BEING THE EIGHTH DAY OF SAID MONTH, ANNO DOMINI 1778.
Present : His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esqr, Governor. The Honble Matthew Griswold, Esq", Deputy Governor. Jabez Hamlin, Esq", Jabez Huntington, Esq', William Pitkin, Esq', Roger Sherman, Esq',
Abraham Davenport, Esq',
Assistants.
Oliver Wolcott, Esq",
Samuel Huntington, Esq",
Richard Law, Esq", William Williams, Esq',
Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns are as follow, viz:
Colo. John Pitkin, Mr. Benja. Payne, for Hartford.
Gener Erastus Wolcott, Mr. Benoni Olcott, for East Windsor.
Capt. Ezekiel Williams, Colo. John Chester, for Weathersfield.
Capt. Benja. Talcott, for Bolton.
Doet" Neziah Bliss, Mr. Elijah Kellogg, for Hebron.
Colo. Noah Phelps, Capt. Amasa Mills, for Symsbury.
Mr. Titus Hosmer, Colo. Comfort Sage, for Midletown.
Mr. Abiel Ilolt, for Willington.
Colo. Isaac Lee, Mr. John Treadwell, for Farmington.
Capt. Isaac Pinney, Mr. Ebenezer Gay, for Stafford.
Colo. Samuel Chapman, Mr. Ichabod Griggs, for Tolland.
Colo. Henry Champion, Maj' Elias Worthington, for Colchester. Doct" Alexander Wolcott, Capt. Edward Griswold, for Windsor.
Capt. Nehemiah Brainerd, Mr. Ezra Brainerd, for Haddam.
Colo. Dyer Throop, Colo. Jabez Chapman, for East Haddam. Colo. Nathaniel Terry, Mr. Peter Reynolds, for Enfield.
Capt. Jonathan Wells, Mr. Ebenezer Plummer, for Glastonbury. Mr. Ebenez' White, Colo. John Penfield, for Chatham. Maj' Abiel Pease, for Somers.
Capt. Simeon Sheldon, Capt. Abraham Granger, for Suffield. Mr. Samuel Bishop jun', for New Haven.
Mr. Daniel Page, for Branford.
Mr. Eliphalet Hotchkiss, Capt. Thomas Clark, for Derby. Gener' James Wadsworth, Mr. Elnathan Camp, for Durham. Capt. Isaac Miles, Mr. Gideon Buckingham, for Milford. General Andrew Ward, Mr. John Burgiss, for Guilford. Mr. Joseph Hopkins, Capt. Ezra Brunson, for Waterbury.
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Mr. David Brooks, Colo. Street Hall, for Wallingford.
Maj' William Hillhouse, Mr. Winthrop Saltonstall, for New London. Capt. Elijah Backuss, Capt. Elisha Lathrop, for Norwich.
Mr. Hezekiah Lane, Mr. Daniel Redfield, for Killingworth. Capt. Samuel Shipman, Mr. William Lynde, for Saybrook. Capt. Jeremiah Halsey, Mr. David Adams, for Preston. Maj' Charles Phelps, Mr. Paul Wheeler, for Stonington.
Mr. John Lay 2ª, Capt. Samuel Ely, for Lyme.
Mr. Thomas Mumford, Colo. Nathan Gallup, for Groton.
Capt. Samuel Squire, Maj" Elijah Abel, for Fairfield. Capt. Caleb Baldwin, Mr. Henry Peck, for Newtown. Mr. John McKay, for Greenwich.
Mr. Samuel Cook Sylliman, for Norwalk.
Mr. Samuel Hungerford, Mr. Alex' Stewart, for New Fairfield. Capt. Silvanus Knapp, Capt. Isaac Lockwood, for Stanford. Capt. Daniel Judson, Capt. Abraham Brinsmade, for Stratford. Mr. Nathan Olmsted, for Ridgfield.
Maj' Eli Mygatt, for Danbury. Mr. Seth Sanford, for Redding.
Capt. Jabez Huntington, Mr. Nathaniel Wales, for Windham. Mr. David Payne, Mr. Eliashib Adams, for Canterbury.
Mr. Hezekiah Green, for Killingley.
Colo. Jeremiah Mason, Mr. Beriah Southworth, for Lebanon.
Mr. Constant Southworth, Mr. Edmund Freeman, for Mansfield. Colo. Samuel Mclellan, Capt. Nehemiah Lyon, for Woodstock.
Capt. Jedidiah Fay, Mr. Ezra Smith, for Ashford.
Capt. John Weld, for Pomfrett.
Capt. Ebenez" Kingsbury, Capt. Jeremiah Ripley, for Coventry. Capt. James Bradford, Mr. Joseph Shepard, for Plainfield.
Colo. James Gordon, Mr. Robert Hunter, for Voluntown. Maj Andrew Adams, Mr. Jedidiah Strong, for Litchfield. Mr. Uriel Holmes, for Hartland.
Mr. James Pardy, Mr. Joseph Lord, for Sharon.
Maj' Jethro Hatch, Capt. Joseph Carter, for Kent.
Colo. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Asaph Hall, for Goshen.
Capt. Samuel Forbs, Mr. Asahel Bebee, for Canaan.
Colo. Joshua Porter, Capt. Abiel Camp, for Salisbury. Capt. John Willson, Capt. Daniel Catlin, for Harwington. Mr. Abner Marshall, for Torrington.
Capt. Giles Pettibone, Mr. William Walter, for Norfolk.
Capt. Thomas Porter, Mr. Judah Kellogg, for Cornwall.
Colo. Benja. Hinman, for Woodbury.
Mr. Samuel Comstock, for New Milford.
Capt. Aaron Austin, Capt. Noah Kellogg, for New Hartford. Mr. Isaac Tripp, for Westmoreland.
Titus Hosmer, Esq', Speaker,
Benjamin Payne, Esq", Clerk, of the House of Representatives.
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An Act in Addition to an Act made and passed by this Assembly at their Session in August, 1777, entituled An Act in further Addition to a Law of this State entituled An Act for the Direction of Listers in their Office and Duty.
Whereas by said act the civil anthority and selectmen in the re- spective towns or other persons specially appointed by the town for that purpose, or the major part of them, shall be assessors, who together with the listers shall according to their best judgment assess all traders, and others mentioned in said act, for their faculties at the amount of their clear annual profits, and add the same to their list of polls and rateable estate at times appointed by law : but if any person shall think [him] oppressed or aggrieved by such assessment, no way or method for relief is by law provided, which may prove inconvenient:
Therefore, be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representa- tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any person shall make application to the assessors by whom he is assessed to reconsider such assessment they may, at the cost of such person, reconsider the case, and if on full hearing they shall find such person is overcharged they shall make proper abatement thereof.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person who shall have money at interest more than he pays interest for, or cattle or sheep let out on loan, shall neglect or refuse to put the same into his list, the listers shall add fourfold to the list of such person for every such neglect.
Be it further enacted, That the rates and taxes on the general list of estate for the year past, which have been laid or shall be laid on the polls of the officers and soldiers from this State engaged and serv- ing for three years or during the war in the continental army, bc abated ; and the civil authority and selectmen in the several towns are impowered and directed to abate the same accordingly.
And be it further enacted, That for the future the polls of such officers and soldiers be exempted from the list during their contin- nance in service.
An Act in further Addition to an Act entituled An Act in further Addition to the Law of this Colony entituled An Act for providing and regu- lating of Jurors in Civil Actions.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That for the future there shall be annually chosen and appointed twenty jury- men within and for the town of Fairfield; and that there shall be annually chosen and appointed eight jurymen in and for the town of Enfield, Suffield and Bolton, respectively, and six jurymen within and for the town of Norfolk, in the same manner as in and by said former act jurors are required to be chosen and appointed.
An Act enabling the Civil Authority and Selectmen in the several Towns within this State to appoint Barrack-Masters within said Towns.
Whereas it may frequently happen during the course of the pres- ent war, that the continental troops and militia within this State mav be ordered into the several towns in this State, either for winter
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quarters or for defence of such towns, whereby it may become neces- sary that some suitable person be appointed in the respective towns as a Barrack-Master, to provide barracks or houses fit and proper for the reception of such troops :
Therefore, be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representa- tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That whenever any corps of the continental forces or militia within this State shall be properly ordered into any town within this State, either to take up winter quarters or for the defence of such town, the civil authority and select men of such town, on application to them made by the commanding officer of such corps for barracks as afore- said, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to appoint some proper person in such town a barrack-master, to provide barracks or houses suitable for the reception of such troops, who shall immediately take up such house, houses or parts of houses, shops, stores or other buildings as may be necessary for the accommodation of such troops, taking the advice of the civil authority and selectmen of such town therein. And in case such buildings cannot be procured by such bar- rack-master with the consent and approbation of the owner or owners thereof, then it shall be the duty of such barrack-master to apply to any one assistant or justice of the peace within such town for a war- rant to impress such house, houses or other buildings for the purpose aforesaid, who is hereby authorized and directed to grant such warrant directed to some proper officer, commanding him to impress such buildings as aforesaid, and upon return made of such warrant to the authority who granted the same said authority is impowered and directed to tax all the cost that shall have arisen thereon.
This act to continue in force till the rising of this Assembly in May next, and no longer.
Whereas it is recommended by Congress to the respective States to cause subscriptions to be opened under the inspection of some suitable person or persons in each town for supplies for the war on loan-office certificates, specifying the names of the lenders and the sum they are willing to lend, and that copies of such subscription- papers shall from time to time be delivered to the respective com- missioners of the continental loan-offices and by them transmitted to Congress : provided that no certificate shall issue for less than two hundred dollars : Which recommendation is approved by this Assem- bly : and in order to carry the same into execution,
Resolved, That Colo. Hezekiah Wyllys in the town of Hartford, Capt. Aaron Bissell in the town of East Windsor, Joseph Webb in the town of Weathersfield, Elijah White in the town of Bolton, Neziah Bliss in the town of Hebron, Daniel Humphry in the town of Symsbury, Chauncey Whittlesey in the town of Midletown, Ebenezer Heath in the town of Willington, Samuel Smith in the town of Farmington, Capt. John Phelps in the town of Stafford, Eleazer Steel in the town of Tol-
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land, Jonathan Deming in the town of Colchester, Henry Allyn, Esqr, in the town of Windsor, Hezekiah Brainerd in the town of Had- dam, Silvanus Tinker in the town of East Haddam, Eliphalet Terry in the town of Enfield, William Wells, Esq. in the town of Glaston- bury, Jonathan Penfield in the town of Chatham, John Prentice in the town of Somers, Alexander King, Esq', in the town of Suffield, Samuel Bishop, Esq", in the town of New Haven, Samuel Barker, Esq', in the town of Branford, Joseph Pickett in the town of Derby, Elnathan Camp in the town of Durham, Gideon Buckingham, Esq", in the town of Milford, Samuel Brown, Esq", in the town of Guilford, Capt. Ezra Brownson in the town of Waterbury, Caleb Hall, Esq', in the town of Wallingford, Thomas Shaw in the town of New London, Rufus Lathrop, Esq', in the town of Norwich, Capt. Nathan Griswold in the town of Killingworth, Doctr Samuel Field in the town of Say- brook, Roger Sterry, Esq', in the town of Preston, Peleg Cheese- borough in the town of Stonington, William Noyes, Esq", in the town of Lyme, Charles Eldridge jun' in the town of Groton, Nathan Bulk- ley, Esq', in the town of Fairfield, Amos Mead, Esq", in the town of Greenwich, Caleb Baldwin, Esq", in the town of Newtown, Doct" Thaddeus Betts in the town of Norwalk, John Page in the town of New Fairfield, Samuel Hutton in the town of Stamford, John Brooks in the town of Stratford, Stephen Smith in the town of Ridgfield, Colo. Joseph Platt Cook in the town of Danbury, Lemuel Sanford, Esq', in the town of Redding, Samuel Gray, Esq', in the town of Windham, John Felch in the town of ('anterbury, Capt. Samuel Larned in the town of Killingley, John Clark, Esq", in the town of Lebanon, John Salter, Esq', in the town of Mansfield, Jedidiah Moss, Esq', in the town of Woodstock, Isaac Perkins in the town of Ashford, Colo. Ebenezer Williams in the town of Pomfret, Capt. Jeremiah Ripley in the town of Coventry, Elisha Perkins in the town of Plainfield, Colo. James Gordon in the town of Voluntown, Abner Sessions, Esqr. in the town of Union, Timothy Skinner in the town of Litchfield, Nehemiah Andruss, Esq', in the town of Hartland, Maj" Ebenezer Gay in the town of Sharon, Eliphalet Comstock in the town of Kent, Ephraim Starr in the town of Goshen, Abiel Fellows in the town of Canaan, Hezekiah Fitch in the town of Salisbury, Daniel Catlin, Esq', in the town of Harwington, Deacon John Whiting in the town of Torrington, Titus Ives in the town of Norfolk, Judah Kellogg in the town of Cornwall, Israel Stoddard in the town of Woodbury, Thomas Hayes in the town of New Milford, Joseph Merrells 2d in the town of New Hartford, Isaac Tripp in Westmoreland, be and they are hereby severally appointed, impowered and directed, to open subscriptions in the respective towns to which they belong, agreeable to and for the purpose recommended as aforesaid ; and that they begin the same as soon as may be, notifying the inhabitants, keeping an exact account and register of the names of the lenders and the sums by them re- spectively lent, and to transmit from time to time to the commissioner
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of the continental loan office in this State copies of each subscription paper, and also receive such sums of the lenders, lodge the same with said commissioner of loan office, for which they shall procure loan office certificates in favour of the lenders, and the same deliver over, for which they shall be allowed by this State one quarter per cent.
And be it further resolved, That the several persons herein appointed shall be supplied with printed copies of the several resolu- tions of Congress respecting the continental loan offices.
Whereas the General Assembly at their present session have appointed Samuel Bishop jun", Esq", of New Haven, to open subserip- tions for supplying the continental loan office in this State, receive the monies and lodge the same in said office: Upon his request to be re- leased therefrom,
Resolved by this Assembly, That said Samuel Bishop jun", Esq", be released and David Austin, Esq', of New Haven is hereby appointed in his stead.
Whereas it is important that the battalions raised by this State to serve in the continental army be speedily filled up, and the most just, equitable and expeditious manner to compleat the same will be for each town to raise the quota already assigned them by his Excellency the Governor and Council of Safety for filling up said battalions on the 12th day of April last,
Resolved by this Assembly, That said battalions be filled up by voluntary inlistment for the term of three years, during the war, or untill the first day of January next. That if a sufficient number can- not be inlisted by the 20th day of February next, that the residue shall be raised by a peremtory detachment of able-bodied effective men, liable by law to do military duty out of this State, from such towns as have not compleated their quota of men to serve in some of said battalions untill the first day of January next unless sooner dis- charged ; which number to be detached as aforesaid shall be appor- tioned out among the several companies of alarm list and militia who have not compleated their quota, by the field officers of the regiments to which said companies respectively belong, regard being had to the number of suitable and proper persons in each company who have not contributed their proportion towards filling up said battalions, in such manner as that perfeet justice may be done among said companies as near as possible according to their best judgment and discretion, and the commanding officers of said companies to observe the same in making said particular detachments so that equal justice may be done among the individuals of such companies ; and in case any persons shall happen to be injured by any such detachment, it shall be in the power of the commanding officer of the regiment to which such per- son belongs to hear and determine the same, and to give order for a new draught or not as occasion shall require. And any soldier who shall inlist to serve in said battalions untill the first day of January
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next shall receive as a bounty £5 6 8, and be intituled to the same wages and refreshments as the continental troops raised by this State receive. That if any captain or commanding officer of any company shall wilfully neglect to detach his quota of men according to this act, he shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty pounds for each man he shall neglect to detach of his quota, and also be cashiered ; and the colonel or commanding officer of such regiment shall order and direet some other proper officer in his regiment to make such detachment to fill up such quota wanting until the same be compleated : such fine to be collected by warrant from the brigadier in whose brigade such officer neglecting belongs, and to be disposed of for the purpose of filling up said battalions. That the commanding officers of companies shall make return of the names of the soldiers who shall inlist or be detached as aforesaid from their respective companies, distinguishing such as inlist for the several terms aforesaid or are detached, as also the names of all such soldiers as are now in the continental service with the town to which they belong, to the commanding officer of the regiment to which they belong, respectively, by the first day of March next, which commanding officers of regiments shall make return of the same to the commanding officers of the respective brigades to which they belong, by the tenth day of March, who shall make return thereof to his Excelleney the Governor, by the 20th day of March next. And it shall be the duty of the several recruiting officers in each brigade, to furnish themselves with the returns in their respect- ive brigades by applying therefor to their respective brigadiers or the commanding officer in each regiment, and to cause said soldiers so in- listed or detached to join the army as soon as his Excellency the Governor shall direet ; and such soldier shall have liberty to join any company in any battalion he shall choose that is not full. And if any soldier detached as aforesaid shall within ten days after such detach- ment voluntarily inlist, he shall receive the same bounty and encour- agement as those who first inlist. And in case the person so de- tached shall within ten days after procure an able-bodied effective man to inlist in his stead, the person so inlisting shall receive the same bounty and refreshment as aforesaid, and the person so procur- ing him to inlist shall thereupon be discharged. And all persons in- listed or detached as aforesaid and not duly discharged shall be con- sidered as soldiers duly engaged in the continental army and treated accordingly.
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