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28th OCTº 1783.
Present as above.
Resolved by this Board that Lynde Lord Esq" take an acco of the quality & quantity of the Powder belonging this State in Litchfield & sell the Same for the best Advantage of this State, & deposite the Avails thereof with the Treasurer taking duplicate receipts therefor & that he render his Account of his proceedings therein to the Comtee of Pay Table.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOV & COUNCIL OF SAFETY, HELD AT NEW HAVEN 28 OCTº 1783.
Present as above.
Whereas all the provisions, Cloathing & Materials of Various sorts for Cloathing collected in the County of Windham, or elsewhere for the Use of the Connecticut line in the Continental Army, and which remained undisposed off, at the conclusion of the War, were by this board ordered into the care of Nath1 Wales Esq" late of Windham, Deceased for him to collect, sell and dispose of, to the best advantage for this State, and to render Account thereof. And whereas the Said Nath1 Wales having collected a very considerable part of those Articles, many of which were undisposed of at the time of his death, And Other parts not yet collected, & now lying exposed to Spoil & loss-Whereupon it is Resolved that Mr Horatio Wales of Windham be & he is hereby Author- ised & impowered to collect all such provisions and Other Articles as aforesaid, which have not been collected by the late Nath1 Wales Esq" deceased in his life time, and them with all Such Articles as were col- lected and in the possession of the said Nath1 at the time of his death, sell and dispose of, for the best advantage of this State And in no case give Credit for more than six months, and that not without sufficient Surety, and his Account thereof render to the Committee of Pay Table as soon as may be-in the mean time to transmit to the pay Table an Account of all such Articles as remained in the possession of the said Nath1 at the Time of his Decease.
Copy given Mr Horatio Wales Nov 13th 1783.
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November 15th 1783
To Capt Sam1 Selden of Lyme Mr Sam1 Parmalee-Seabrook
Gentlemen
You will please to deliver to M' Wm Matson, whatever Quantity of Salt, belonging to this State, may be in your possession-taking Mr Matsons Receipt for therefor [sic] to Account for the same with the Committee of Pay Table at Hartford-which Receipts you will please to transmit to sd Committee as soon as possible-that they may be enabled to take the further necessary Measures respecting the Matter. I am J. T. Govr.
NB Copy given to M' Matson-who was recommended by Colo Cham- pion for this purpose.
[This entry concludes the Journal of the Council of Safety.]
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PUBLIC RECORDS
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT HOLDEN AT NEW HAVEN BY ADJOURNMENT ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY ANNO DOM" 1784.
Present His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull Esq" Governor. The Honorable Matthew Griswold Esq" Deputy Governor.
Abraham Davenport Esq"
Joseph Spencer Esq™
Oliver Wolcott Esqr
Samuel Huntington
Esq™
Assistants
Richard Law
Esqr
Oliver Elsworth
Esq"
Andrew Adams
Esq™
Benjamin Huntington
Esq"
Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns who attended the Assembly are as follow viz.
Colº Thomas Seymour, Colº George Pitkin, for Hartford Mr Benjamin Trumbull, Mr David Elliss, for Bolton Mr Ebenezer White, M' Chauncey Bulkley, for Chatham Capt Peter Bulkley, Colº Elias Worthington, for Colchester Capt Israel Spencer, Colº Dyer Throop, for East Haddam Gen1 Erastus Wolcott, Mª Joseph Allyn, for East Windsor Capt Daniel Perkins, Mr Joseph Kingsbury, for Enfield Mr John Treadwell, Mr Hezh Wadsworth, for Farmington Mª Gideon Hale, Mr Philip Selew, for Glastonbury Capt Cornelius Higgins, Capt Hezekiah Smith, for Haddam Mª Elihu Marvin, Colº Joel Jones, for Hebron Gen1 Comfort Sage, Mr Ebenez" Bacon, for Midletown Capt Reuben Sikes, Mª Zorah Kibbe, for Somers Capt Timothy Clark, Mr Jonathan Root, for Southington Mª Ebenezer Colborn, Mr Jesse Cady, for Stafford Capt Abraham Granger, Capt Ebenezer Harman, for Suffield Capt Daniel Humphry, Capt Hezh Holcomb, for Symsbury Colº Solomon Wells, Mr Eleazer Steel, for Tolland Capt John Robbins, Mª Stephen M Mitchell, for Weathersfield Mr Moses Holmes, Capt Seth Crocker, for Willington Capt Nath1 Loomiss, Mr Aaron Phelps 2ª, for Windsor Capt Henry Daggett, Capt Jesse Ford, for New Haven Mr Aaron Baldwin, Mr Jonah Clark, for Branford Mª Samuel Beach, Maj" Reuben Atwater, for Cheshire Capt Daniel Holbrook, Mr Sheldon Clark, for Derby Gen1 James Wadsworth, Mr Daniel Hall, for Durham Gen1 Andrew Ward, M' John Burgis, for Guilford
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Mª Stephen Gunn, Mr Gideon Buckingham, for Milford Colº Street Hall, Capt Oliver Stanley, for Wallingford Mª Joseph Hopkins, M' Eli Brunson, for Waterbury Capt John Deshon, Majr Wm Hilhouse, for New London Colº Christoph Leffingwell, Capt Elisha Lathrop, for Norwich Mr Ebenez" Ledyard, Mr Elisha Williams, for Groton Colº Aaron Eliott, Capt Aaron Kelcey, for Killingworth Mr Nath1 Matson, Capt Seth Ely, for Lyme Mr Robert Crary, Gen1 John Tyler, for Preston Colº Wm Worthington, Maj" William Hart, for Saybrook Colº Samuel Prentiss, Capt John Rand [a]ll, for Stonington Mª Jonathan Sturges, Capt Thomas Nash, for Fairfield Colº Joseph P Cook, M™ Sallee Pell, for Danbury Gen1 John Mead, Capt Jabez Fitch, for Greenwich Colº Neheh Beardsley, Doct James Potter, for New Fairfield Majr Caleb Baldwin, Capt Jabez Botsford, for Newtown Mª Samuel C Silliman, Capt Clap Raymond, for Norwalk Mª Lemuel Sanford, M' Stephen Betts, for Reading Colº Philip B Bradley, Capt David Olmsted, for Ridgfield Gen1 David Waterbury, Mr Charles Weed, for Stamford Capt Robert Fairchild, Maj" Agur Judson, for Stratford Mª Joseph Sheff, Colº Jedidiah Elderkin, for Windham Capt Simeon Smith, Mr Isaac Perkins, for Ashford Mr Daniel Frost, Mr David Payne, for Canterbury Maj" Elias Buell, Capt William Wilson, for Coventry Colo William Danielson, Capt Jason Phips, for Killingley Colº William Williams, Mr Elkanah Tisdale, for Lebanon Mr Constant Southworth, M' Nath1 Atwood, for Mansfield Gen1 John Douglas, Capt James Bradford, for Plainfield Capt Amasa Sessions, Capt Josiah Sabin, for Pomfret Capt Solomon Wales, , for Union Colº James Gordon, Mr Joseph Wiley, for Voluntown Mª Charles C Chandler, Capt Nehemiah Lyon, for Woodstock Mr Isaac Baldwin Jur, Capt Abraham Bradley, for Litchfield Colº Charles Burrall, Mª Timothy Hurlburt, for Canaan Mr Andrew Young, Capt Eldad Rogers, for Cornwall Mr Daniel Miles, Capt Elisha Sill, for Goshen Capt Thomas Giddings, Capt Israel Williams, for Hartland Capt George Catlin, Capt Josiah Phelps, for Harwington Mª Nath1 Berry, Mr Nathan Eliott, for Kent
Mr Amos Miller, M' Ebenezer Moody, for New Hartford Col° Samuel Canfield, Mr Daniel Everit, for New Milford Majr Giles Pettibone, Capt Ephraim Gitteau, for Norfolk Capt Joshua Stanton, Mª Lott Norton, for Salisbury Colº Ebenezer Gay, Mr Josiah Coleman, for Sharon Colº Epaphras Sheldon, Doctr Samuel Woodward, for Torrington Mª John Whittlesey, Capt Nathan Hycock, for Washington
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Capt Thomas Fenn, Capt Nath1 Barns, for Watertown
Capt Ozias Bronson, . ., for Winchester
Colo Increase Mosely, Mr Daniel Sherman, for Woodbury
William Williams Esqr Speaker Of the House of
Increase Mosely Esqr Clerk Representatives
An Act for the Regulation of Navigation.
Whereas this State as a free Sovereign and Independent State has an equal Right with all other Sovereign Powers, to the free and undis- turbed Navigation of the High Seas, and to participate equally with them in all the Immunities Priveleges Benefits and Advantages accruing thereby and resulting therefrom and to exercise a Concurrent Jurisdic- tion thereon, and to make such Laws and exercise such Powers con- sistent with the Laws of Nature and Nations as shall tend to regulate protect and defend the Subjects and Citizens of this State in the free enjoyment thereof.
Wherefore Be it Enacted by the Governor Council and Representa- tives in General Court Assembled and by the Authority of the Same, That the Governor of this State for the Time being shall be the Super- intendant of Marine and all Commissions, Letters of Marque and Repri- sal, Pasports Letters of Safe Conduct Flags of Truce Registers, and all other Papers and Documents whatsoever relative to the Marine Department that may Issue out under the Authority and agreeable to the Laws of this State shall be in his Name in the Stile of Governor and Superintendant of Marine for the State of Connecticut, and all Judges of Admiralty in this State shall be Commissioned by the Gov- ernor being first Nominated and appointed by the General Assembly ; and all Naval Officers shall be nominated appointed and Commissioned by the Governor for the Time being in such Districts and at such Posts as shall from Time to Time be Ordered and directed by Act of Assembly.
Provided nevertheless that said Naval Officers or any or either of them may at any Time be removed from their Offices by the General Assembly at their Will & Pleasure, And the Governor may likewise nominate appoint and Commissionate one or more Notary Publics in this State as the Commercial Interests thereof may render it necessary or Convenient.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that there shall be kept at each of the Ports of New London New Haven, Middle- town and Norwalk respectively One Naval Officer, who shall be nom- inated and deputed to said Office as aforesaid, and each Officer so appointed before he enters upon said Business shall become bound with Sufficient Sureties in a Recognizance of One thousand Pounds to the Treasurer of this State for the faithfull discharge of the Duties of said Office, to enter and clear Vessels and their Cargoes, and to do and Act therein in such way and manner and according to such Rules and Orders as to such their respective Offices do or shall appertain ;
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and for the faithfull and punctual Payment of all such Sum or Sums of Money into the Public Treasury, that he may receive for any Duty or Import laid or which shall be laid by Act of this State.
Provided nevertheless, That if any Naval Officer shall fail in punc- tual paying up all the Duties by him Collected, or shall be guilty of any misfeasance or negligence in Office, upon Complaint and proof thereof made to his Excellency the Governor it shall be the Duty of the Gov- ernor (ex Officio) immediately to dismiss said Officer from his Office and to appoint another in his room and Stead.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Naval Officers shall have and receive the several Fees and allowances as set and affixed in the Table of fees ; and it shall be the Duty of said Naval Officers respectively to affix up in their Offices in some public Place where it may be seen and read a true Copy of the Table of fees. And if any Officer aforesaid shall presume to ask demand or receive any more fees for any Services by them officially done, than is by Law allowed such Officer so transgressing upon Complaint and proof made thereof to his Excellency the Governor he shall be removed from said Office and another put in his room and Stead.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Vessels of the burthen of fifteen Tons and upwards, shall each take out a Register wherein shall be described the Name of the Vessell her Description Tonnage the Place where Built and the Time when Masters Name, with the Names of the Owners, which Owners must be Inhab- itants of the United States, and no Foreigner to be directly or indirectly concerned therein, the form of which Register shall as follows viz.
State of Connecticut
Port of
. . . maketh Oath that the . . . called the whereof is at present ... Master being a square Sterned Vessess [sic] of the burthen of ... Tons or thereabouts was ... at present Owner thereof, and that no Foreigner directly or Indirectly hath any Share or part or Interest therein. Port of . .. The Oath aforesaid was administered at the Naval Office for the Port of ... the ... Day of Anno Dom™ 178. . . and in the Year of Our Independence. By me The foregoing Recorded in the Naval Office aforesaid.
And every Vessell under the Dimentions aforesaid instead of a Register shall and may take out a Permit from the Custom House Signed by the Naval Officer of the Port in whose District said Vessell belongs which shall be sufficient for the purpose of enabling the Master or Owner thereof to Clear out Coast Wise. And all Vessels in this State shall make true entries and take out proper Clearances at the respective Ports of Entry and Clearance proper for that purpose, and observe and obey all such Customs, Rules Laws and Regulations as have or shall be made relative thereto, and whatever Vessell shall neglect or refuse to take out and furnish themselves with the proper Papers aforesaid upon Seizure and Information made to the Court proper to
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try the same shall be liable to Condemnation; One half to the Prose- cutors who shall prosecute the Same to effect, and the other half to the Use of the Public Treasury of this State.
An Act to promote the making of raw Silk within this State.
Whereas by the Experiments which have been made it is highly probable that the making of Raw Silk will be attended with much Advantage to the good People of this State ;
Therefore Be it Enacted by the Governor Council and Representa- tives in General Court Assembled and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the first Day of March Anno Dom 1784 to the first Day of March 1793, whoever shall plant One hundred thrifty Shrubs or Saplings of three or more Years growth of the white Mul- berry Tree on his or their Land at such Distances from each other as will be favourable for their growth and for Collecting their Leaves, shall receive at the end of every Year, and during the Term of three Years from and next after the Year in which said Saplings shall have been planted as aforesaid, ten shillings lawfull Money and so in propor- tion for every hundred of such Saplings planted as aforesaid upon Proof and Certificate thereof as hereafter directed that such Saplings were at the end of every three Years after they were so planted in a thrifty Condition, every such Certificate shall be given at the end of every of the three Years as aforesaid, and no Certificate shall be given for any number of such Saplings but for one or more entire hundred as the Case may be.
Be it further Enacted that whoever shall make any Raw Silk from Worms and Mulberry Trees of his own raising within this State by properly winding the Same from the Balls or Cocoons after the said first Day of March, and for fifteen Years next thereafter shall have and receive three pence lawfull Money for each Ounce of such dry Silk which he she or they shall make as aforesaid every of which Bounties given by this Act shall be paid out of some Tax which has or shall be granted for the Support of the Civil Government of this State.
Be it farther Enacted, That it shall be the Duty of any two Justices of Peace upon the Application of any Person or Persons Claiming any Bounty by this Act carefully to examine such Claim and upon Proof that the Same is well founded shall give a Certificate to Such Person or Persons Claiming as aforesaid living within their County, specifying on what Account such Bounty becomes due and shall include in such Certificate an Order on the Collector of that Town on [ sic] which such Claimant or Claimants live to pay such Bounty out of such Tax in his Hands for the Support of Civil Government as they shall direct, and every such Collector shall receive and pay such Order and shall deliver the Same over into the Hand of the Treasurer of this State who shall thereupon discharge such Collector to the amount of said Order on such Tax, and if such Collector shall not be able to pay such Order he shall Certify such Inability on the back thereof and in that Case the
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Treasurer of this State shall pay the same out of any Monies in his Hands for the support of Civil Government, And the Treasurer of this State shall keep a Seperate Account of all Monies paid by Virtue of this Act.
And be it further Enacted that if any Person or Persons shall wil- fully and knowingly procure more than one Order as aforesaid for any one Bounty to which he might be entituled by this Act with a View to defraud this State he shall upon legal Conviction thereof suffer the Same Pains and Penalties as if he had been legally Convicted of Forgery.
An Act for laying a Tax on Shipping for repairing and maintaining the Light House near the Port of New London.
Be it Enacted by the Governor Council and Representatives in Gen- eral Court Assembled and by the Authority of the Same, That from and after the tenth Day of Feby 1784 each and every Vessell (except such as are employed in the Fishery and during their Continuance therein ) which shall Clear out at any Port in this State or shall Harbour, and Anchor in the Port of New London shall be Subject to pay the fol- lowing Taxes viz each and every Ship One Pound ten Shillings each and every Square riggd Vessell carrying two Masts twelve Shillings, each and every Sloop and Schooner (Coasters excepted) six shillings, each Vessell used in the Coasting business of more than twenty Tons burthen three Shillings, and each Vessell used in the Coasting Business of less than twenty Tons burthen one shilling and sixpence. Which several Taxes or Duties becomeing due as aforesaid shall be paid to and Col- lected by the Naval Officers where any such Vessell shall Clear out or Harbour or Anchor as aforesaid, which Officers shall severally give Bonds to the Treasurer of this State with Surety faithfully to account for the Sums they shall receive by Virtue of this Act, And the Naval Officers shall pay over the Sums of Money they shall receive as afore- said according to the Direction of the General Assembly from Time to Time for the Convenience and accomodation of the Light House, And the Master of every Vessell which shall Harbour or Anchor in the Port of New London aforesaid who shall for the Space of twenty four Hours neglect or refuse to pay such Tax as is by Law required, such Master so neglecting shall forfeit and pay double the Sum of such Tax and all Costs to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information any Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding.
An Act for Incorporating a Part of the Town of New Haven.
Be it Enacted by the Governor Council and Representatives in Gen- eral Court Assembled and by the Authority of the Same That all Free- men of this State Inhabitants of said New Haven dwelling and Inhabit- ing within the following Bounds viz Beginning at the North East Cor- ner of the long Bridge so called in said New Haven and running on the North Side of said Bridge and the Highway so as to take in said Bridge
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and Highway to the North East Corner of the Neck Bridge, then across the Same on the North side of the Same to the North West Corner of said Bridge, then in a direct Line Westward to the Bridge across the West River commonly called Thompsons Bridge to the North East Corner of said Bridge, thence down the said West River on the East Bank thereof to the Mouth of said River, and from thence a Streight Line to the extreme Point of the Land commonly called five Mile Point on the East Side of New Haven Harbour at High Water Mark on said Point; thence Northward on the Shore on the Line of Highwater Mark up to the Point where the Waters of the little River and the Greater Waters being part of the East River fall into each other thence across the Mouth of said Little River to the East Shore of the East River, then up Said East River on the line of Highwater mark to the first mentioned Point at the North East Corner of the Long Bridge, be and the Same are hereby Ordained Constituted and declared to be from Time to Time and forever hereafter, One Body Corporate and Politic in Fact and in Name by the Name of the Mayor Aldermen Common Council and Freemen of the City of New Haven, and by that Name they and their Successors for ever shall and may have perpetual Succession and shall be Persons in Law capable of Suing and being Sued Pleading and being Impleaded in all Suits of what Nature soever, and also to purchase hold and Convey any Estate real or Per- sonal and may have a Common Seal, and may Change and alter the Same at Pleasure and shall be Freemen of said City.
And Whereas there are many Persons living within said Limits who by Law are Qualified to be Freemen of this State that have not taken the Oath Provided by Law to be taken by Freemen Be it Enacted that all such Persons living within said Limits who shall before the second Monday of February next procure the Major Part of the Select Men of the said Town of New Haven to Certify that they are Qualified to be admitted and made free of this State and shall after procuring such Certificate take before some Assistant of this State or Justice of Peace within and for the County of New Haven the Oaths provided by Law for Freemen shall to all the Purposes in this Act mentioned be Con- sidered as Freemen of this State and Freemen of the said City of New Haven.
And for the better Government of said City : Be it further Enacted That there shall be a Meeting of said City holden annually in June at such Time and Place as by the Bye Laws of said City shall be directed for the purposes of Chusing all the Annual Officers of said, And the Annual Officers of said City Chosen at such Meeting shall Continue in Office untill the expiration of the Month of June then next unless others shall be sooner Chosen and qualified in their Stead; And the said City in legal Meeting Assembled shall Chose a Mayor who shall hold his Office during the pleasure of the General Assembly ; and at their annual Meeting shall Chose four Alderman and a Common Council of not more than twenty, and two Sherifs out of the Freemen of said City,
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all which Officers and all other Officers of said City eligible by the Freemen thereof, (the Inspectors of Produce excepted) shall be Chosen by Ballot, and on each Ballot which is given in, shall be written the Name of the Person for whom the Same is given, and such Ballot shall be rolled up and in the Presence of the Mayor and Aldermen of said City, or such of them as are present at such Meeting put by the Person giving the same into a Box which said City shall provide for that pur- pose; which Box shall be a Close Box with a Hole of a convenient Size in the Lid thereof through which to put in the Ballot, And when the Freemen present at any City Meeting shall have had reasonable Time to give in their Ballot either by the Sheriff Of said City, or in the absence of both the Sheriffs, the Junior Alderman present in the presence of the Mayor and Alderman, or such of them as are present at such Meeting shall open the said Box, and the Mayor and Alderman or such of them as are present shall open sort and Count the Ballots, and the Person who shall have the Majority of the Ballots given in shall by the Sheriffs or in their absence by the Junior Alderman present be declared to be Elected And no Ballots shall be received after the Box shall have been opened. And said City in Legal Meeting assembled shall have Power to Levy Taxes on the Polls and Estate within the Limits of said City for such Purposes as said City shall think proper, and to Choose a Collector or Collectors to Collect such Tax, who shall having received a Warrant for that purpose signed by the Mayor or by one of the Aldermen of said City, have the same Power as Collectors of Town Taxes by Law have and shall be accountable to the Mayor and Aldermen of said City, with same Manner as Collectors of Town Taxes are by Law accountable to the Select Men, And in Case any Col- lector shall not perform the Trust Committed to him, on Complaint thereof made by the Alderman of said City to the Mayor thereof he shall Issue a Warrant under his Hand directed to either of the Sheriffs of said City to destrain the Sums or Rates neglected by such Collector to be Collected or paid out of the Estate of the Collector.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Sheriffs of said City shall severally within the Limits of said City have the same Powers and Authoritys and be liable to the same Suits or Penalties for neglect of Duty in any Case whatever to all Intents and Purposes, as Sherifs by Law now have and are, and the said City shall be liable to answer in Case of the Inability of said Sheriffs, or either of them for the Default of said Sheriffs in all Cases relative to their Office, And said Sheriffs, shall severally give Bond with Sureties in such manner as by the Bye Laws of said City shall be directed, for a faith- full discharge of the Duties of that Office before they shall be capable of Executing the Same, and in Case either of the Persons Chosen Sheriff shall not give Bond with Sureties according to the Bye Laws of said City the said City may proceed to Choose another Sheriff in his room, and the said City in legall Meeting Assembled shall Chuse a Treasurer for said City to continue in Office during the Pleasure of
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