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Collector cloathed with the same Powers and entituled to the same emoluments as if Chosen according to the Law of this State as per Memorial on File,
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that if said Jacob Riley should continue Sick and unable to Collect said Taxes or should soon Dye and no legal representative of said Jacob should appear to Collect said Taxes the Inhabitants of the Town of Weathersfield be and they are hereby Authorized and Impowered to make Choice of some suit- able Person to Collect said Taxes levied on the List given in, in August 1783, and said Collector shall have the same Powers and be entituled to the Same Emoluments as if Chosen at the Annual Town Meeting according to Law,
Provided that nothing in this Resolve shall be Construed to excuse said Town from their Liability for the neglect and failure of either of said Collectors.
Upon the Memorial of Mary Wooster and Thomas Wooster-James Wadsworth and Joseph Hopkins Esq" are reappointed a Committee with the same Powers Authorities and directions given them by the General Assembly in May 1782 and to make their Report to the General Assem- bly in October next to which Time said Memorial is hereby Continued .*
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Norfolk in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut Praying this Assembly to grant to them the said Inhabitants Liberty and Authority to tax them- selves in such Sum or Sums as they shall from Time to Time find necessary for making and mending their Highways and Chuse Col- lector or Collectors and Collect the Same and lay out and dispose of the Money when Collected for the purposes aforesaid &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Town of Norfolk have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby granted to the Town of Norfolk, to tax and Collect of themselves such Sum or Sums from Time to Time as they shall find necessary in the same way and manner as other Town Rates are Collected, and when Collected to be laid out and dis- posed of for repairing the Highways in said Town as said Town shall from Time to Time agree any Law to the contrary notwithstanding, and that this Grant continue in force during the Pleasure of the General Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Charles Joseph De Berard a Native of France now resident in New Haven in New Haven County, Shewing to this Assembly that Bartholomew Gueben late of said Hartford Deceased, made his last Will and Testament and therein appointed the Memorialist his Executor, That the Memorialist exhibited said Will to the Court of Probate for Hartford District by which the same was
* This investigation had to do with the conduct and financial accounts of David Wooster, Esq., deceased, former naval officer of the port of New Haven. Conn. State Recs., IV, 196-197.
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disapproved, and having moved for an Appeal thereon, through his ignorance of the Forms of Law in this State, failed of entering the Same with due legal formality untill the Term by Law allowed was expired Praying for Relief as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty be and the same is hereby granted to the Memorialist, at any Time before the last Tuesday of August next to enter his Appeal in said Case before said Court of Pro- bate he procuring sufficient Bail to prosecute the same as the Law directs, before the next Superior Court to be holden at Hartford in and for Hartford County, and to enter the Copies of said Appeal in the Files of said Superior Court and proceed thereon to final Tryal of said Cause, And that said Appeal so entered shall to all Intents and purposes be equally valid and legal to bring forward said Cause to a final determina- tion before said Superior Court as though the same had been entered within the Term by Law prescribed.
Upon the Memorial of Tabor Pratt of Saybrook Gamoliel Brockway and Gideon Brockway Jun" both of Lyme representing to this Assembly that the Ferry over Connecticut River from Saybrook to Lyme called Brockways Ferry is inconvenient for public accomodation, and a more suitable Ferry Place may be had at a Place about three Quarters of a Mile below said Brockways on the River at a Place known and called the Great Meadows in Saybrook, and the Sand Banks in Lyme-Praying there may be established a Ferry Place at said last mentioned Places unto said Memorialists &c as per Memorial-
Resolved that William Hilhouse William Noyes and Elijah Backus Esq's be and hereby are appointed a Committee to repair unto said Brockways Ferry on Connecticut River, and also to the place proposed by said Memorialists for a Ferry called the great Meadows in Say- brook and the Sand Banks in Lyme at the Expence of the Memorial- ists and view the Same and Report make of their respective Situation and conveniency for a Ferry with their Opinion thereof to the next General Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of the Select Men of the Town of Union Shew- ing to this Assembly that one Nathan Abbott, Collector of the State Tax on the List brought into this Assembly in October 1781 and March 1782 had moved out of this State and left said Tax altogether uncollected and unpaid, and that said Town at their Annual Town Meeting in December 1783, had Chosen one Abijah Session of said Town to Collect said Tax in the room and stead of said Abbott Praying to this Assembly to enable the said Abijah Sessions to Collect the said Taxes instead of said Abbott-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Abijah Sessions be enabled and full power is hereby given to the said Abijah Sessions to take the Warrants directed to the said Abbott given out on said List and Collect the Taxes therein mentioned to all intents as the said Abbott might have
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done had he officiated in said Office, and the Town of Union to remain liable in case of defect as if the former Collector had proceeded.
Upon the Memorial of William Pitkin Esq" Praying for the exclusive privelege of manufacturing Snuff in this State for a limited Time free from Assesments and Taxes &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Sole and exclusive Right and privelege of manufacturing all and every kind of Snuffs in this State be and the same is hereby granted to the said William Pitkin Esq" his Heirs and Assigns, for the Term of fourteen Years, from the rising of this Assembly, and that he and they be exempt for that Term from any Taxes or Assesment for or on account of said Business, or any Proffits that may thence arise.
Provided that he or they erect and establish a snuff Manufactory in this State within eighteen Months from the rising of this Assembly and continue the same and pursue said Business till said Term of fourteen Years shall be expired.
Upon the Memorial of John Treat of Milford in the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that sometime in the Year 1781 he received of the Treasurer of this State a States Note of £295 9 10 in leu of and in exchange for other Notes of Pryor Date Dated first of Febry 1781, And that sometime in the Month of May 1782 he delivered said Note to M' Solomon Baldwin in Order to transmit the Same to the Treasurer of this State and procure the Interest thereon, and that said Baldwin living in an exposed Situation lodged said Note with others at the House of Capt Josiah Buckingham in said Milford, Judging it a Place of greater safety than where he resided, and that in the Night next after the 17th of Novembr then next said House was plundered by a party of the Refugees from Long Island and among other Things said Note carried of as per Memorial on File,
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby Authorized and directed to issue to the Memorialist his Note of the same Tenor and Date of the one lost as aforesaid taking sufficient surety that the same shall be delivered up if said Lost Note shall be found.
Upon the Memorial of Christopher Manwaring Shewing to this Assembly, that he had in his Hands the Sum of about £59 0 0 State Bills of several Emissions previous to the Year 1780, And by Casualty was prevented from bringing them in agreable to Act of Assembly. Praying for relief &c, as per Memorial on File Dated 15th of May 1784-
Resolved by this Assembly, that upon the Memorialist delivering to the Treasurer said Bills the Treasurer is directed to pay and secure to the Memorialist the amount of said Bills in the same way and man- ner as if the same had been brought in seasonably.
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Upon the Memorial of Philip Burr Bradley of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly, that as Colonel of one of the Regiments of the Continental Army raised by this State he in the Year 1777 Received of Governor Trumbull the Sum of £252 3 9, in Bills of the United States and belonging to said States for the purpose of recruiting said Regiment and supplying the Same with fire Arms, which Money the Memorialist expended for that purpose and hath since lodged Vouchers, thereof with the Committee of Pay Table and by mistake took an Order drawn in his favour by said Committee, on the Treasurer of this State for said Sum, and on discovering said Mistake, hath applied to said Committee requesting them to take back said Order and give him a Certificate of his having lodged such Vouchers as aforesaid, that said Committee having Doubts of the propriety of such request refuse to Comply therewith, Praying for relief &c as per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that said Committee be and they are hereby Authorized and directed to receive back said Order and give the Memorialist a Certificate of his having lodged in the Pay Table Office a Voucher for said Sum of two hundred fifty two Pounds three shillings and nine pence and Credit the Memorialist with said Order as being returned.
Upon the Memorial of Langford Cartey of Colchester shewing to this Assembly that in the Month of March 1782 he was the proper owner of an Order drawn by the Committee of Pay Table on the Treasurer of this State in favour of Norwich Committee of Supplies for the Sum of &12 on the Tax of 2/6 On the pound, exclusive of that part, payable in State Bills, and that he delivered said Order into the Hands of Samuel Hazard of Stonington, to purchase Cattle for his Use, and that the Same fell into the Hands of a small Child and was destroyed as per Memorial on File-
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to draw an Order upon the Treasurer of this State payable out of the Tax of 2/6 to the Memorialist, for the same Sum contained in said former Order.
Upon the Memorial of the Select Men of New Milford Shewing to this Assembly that Partridge Thatcher of said New Milford Esq" is reduced to a State of distraction, That he is considerably involved in Debt and is possessed of a very large real Estate, much more than sufficient to discharge all his Debts, but has not any personal Estate except necessary Household Furniture and a number of Negroes, who have from their Infancy been always assured of their Freedom by the said Thatcher, to Commence at the Time of his Death that he is advanced in Life and has no Children, that his Design was to have paid his Debts by means of his real Estate which his Wife and Friends are now desirous to have done, and a Conservator of the Person and
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Estate of the said Thatcher appointed and that said Negroes be exempted from Sale &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Samuel Canfield of said New Mil- ford Esq" be and he is hereby appointed a Conservator of the person and Estate of the said Thatcher with full Powers and Authority to Sell and dispose of so much of his real Estate, as may be necessary for the purpose of discharging his Just Debts supporting himself and Family and other necessary and reasonable purposes for the Benefit of him the said Thatcher, and his Estate, and also to Settle all Accounts, insti- tute pursue or defend in any Suit or Action either in Law or equity, respecting the said Thatcher or his property and to do and transact any other Business that may be proper and reasonable for the general Benefit of the said Thatcher his Family and Estate, and to render his Account to and obey such Orders and directions as he may from Time to Time receive from the County Court in and for the County of Litchfield which Orders said Court, are hereby Authorized to give as Occasion may require and also to liquidate and Settle the Accounts of the said Con- servator, or to discharge him or appoint any other Person in his stead if found necessary or expedient; And that all the Negroes belonging to said Thatcher be and they are hereby exempted and freed from any kind of Sale or disposition whatsoever so long as the Estate of the said Thacher may be sufficient for the discharge of his Just Debts and Support of himself and Family.
Upon the Memorial of the Select Men of the Town of Norwalk Shewing that the Sheriff of the County of Fairfield has now in Hand an Execution to Collect a fine from said Select Men for the neglect of a certain Class in said Town for not raising a State Soldier AD 1781, which Class by Captivity and frequent Depredations of the Enemy were rendered unable to raise said State Soldiers and therefore Praying a Release from said fine, and that the said Sheriff may be directed to stop his said Execution,
Resolved by this Assembly that said Select Men be and hereby are released from said Fine and said Sheriff is hereby directed to stop said Execution the said Select Men paying Costs.
Upon the Memorial of Ebenezer Avery and Edward Latham of Groton Shewing that they own the Land on which Fort Griswold is Built Praying that this State would purchase so much of said Land as will be necessary for Public Use &c as per Memorial &c
Resolved by this Assembly that Ebenezer Ledyard Esq" and Colo Nathan Gallop be and they are hereby fully Authorized and Impowered in behalf of this State, to Report to the General Assembly to be Con- vened in October next what quantity of Land on which said Fort stands may be necessary for the Use of this State and for what Sum the Owner or Owners thereof will Sell the Same together with their Opinion what said Land is reasonably worth, And that the Owner or Owners of said
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Land be enjoined in the mean Time not to remove or Injure any of the property of this State being or situated on said Land, And the said Ebe- nezer Ledyard Esq" is hereby also appointed and Impowered to oversee and take Care of said Land and all the Buildings and property thereon and therein belonging or that may belong to this State untill the further Order of this Assembly, That the said Ebenezer Ledyard Esq" be directed as soon as it can be done to take an Account of the Buildings and all other Property annexed to or lying on said Land belonging to this State and make return thereof to the General Assembly in October next.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield Shewing to this Assembly that they were by the General Assembly at their Sessions in January last doomed and Ordered to be set in the List for the Last Year the Sum of £1580, and ordered the Treasurer to Issue his Warrants accordingly, and that they had no Representation in the Assembly nor any one to espouse their Cause when said Dooming was put on, and said Order Issued, and praying that the Listers of said Town may have Liberty to take back the Assesments returned to the Assembly in January last and make a new Assesment of such Per- sons as ought by Law to be Assessed, therefore
Resolved by this Assembly that the Listers of said Town of Litch- field have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted to said Listers to take back said Assesments and revise the Same and make such Additions and Alterations in the Same as shall be agreable to the Laws of this State and return the Same to the Secretary of this State by the first Day of July next and that said Memorial be continued untill October next.
Upon the Memorial of Joshua Elderkin upon which a Committee appointed to enquire after and examine the Facts therein Stated &c now Report That on the third of October 1781 said Elderkin purchased at vendue a certain Confiscated Estate lying in Lebanon containing about one hundred and forty Acres lately belonging to one Thomas Fanning of Long Island at the Price of twenty two pounds ten shillings per Acre amounting to £3155 12 6, to be paid in Bills of this State or Orders drawn by the Committee of Pay Table for such Bills that soon after the Purchase of said Estate by said Elderkin the Resolve of this Assembly directing the Treasurer not to receive said Orders untill liqui- dated and reduced to Specie value laid said Elderkin under a disadvan- tage, that said Elderkin at the Time of said purchase paid £961 15 2 in said Orders in part of said purchase on the Settlement of his Accts with the Comee of Pay table there is due to him the Sum of £463 13 51/4 in specie for his Services for this State, And that the specie value of said Confiscated Estate at the Time of said Purchase was £850 0 0 which with the Interest thereon amounts to the Sum of £986 LMoney &c as per Report which is accepted and approved-
And thereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of
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Pay Table Charge said Elderkin with the Sum of £463 13 514 being the Ballance due to him as per Settlement with said Committee as so much allowed and discounted in his favour toward Payment for said Farm, and that said Elderkin pay or Secure with Sufficient Surety to the Treasurer of this State, the further Sum of £ 105 16 103/4 LMoney pay- able in a reasonable Time with Interest which with the Payments by him made is the full value of said Farm, And that the Committee of Pay Table settle and receive such Security and transmit the same to the Treasurer taking his Receipt and draw on the Treasurer to deliver to said Elderkin the Bond executed by him & Roger Huntington for the residue of the Purchase Money of said Farm not paid at the Time of executing the Deed thereof to him.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Mumford Esq" Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1780 he sold a large quantity of Rum Pork & Beef to the States Commissary for the Use of the Army and at the Prices which Congress allowed the State for the Same for which he received Payment in Bills of Credit emitted by this State in the Year 1780 at their nominal value as being equal to Silver Money, That in the Summer of the Year 1781 he furnished Ralph Pomeroy Esq" then Deputy Quarter Master with Tent Cloth to a large Amount at hard Money Price for which he received the Treasurers Notes for Seventeen hundred pounds lawfull Money, which said Note and Bills, he hath now on hand That in the Year 1782 he purchased a Quantity of Pork and Beef the Property of this State to the value of three Thousand & five Hundred Pounds, all which he hath paid in hard Money and Morriss' Notes excepting a Ballance of about £660, Praying for Liberty to pay said Ballance in said Bills received by him as aforesaid or in Treasurers Notes at the Rates he received the same of the Public, and that the same may be settled accordingly as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly That the Memorialist have Liberty and the same is hereby Granted to him to pay the Ballance due from him for said Pork and Beef in Bills of this State received by him as afore- said or in Treasurers Notes now due for hard Money, and at the same Rate he received the said Bills and Notes of the Public, and Capt Jabez Perkins the Agent to this State is hereby directed to settle the Same with the Memorialist accordingly and the Committee of Pay Table and Treasurer are hereby directed to receive and allow for said Bills and Securities in the Settlement of Accounts with said Agent.
Upon the Memorial of Oliver Hanchett Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1778, he was appointed a Captain in Colo Enos' Regi- ment then raising for the defence of this State and received £300, in Continental Bills to pay the Bounties of his Company, that soon after he was of the number of the Officers who were discharged and on settlement of his Accounts with the Committee of Pay Table there appears to be a Ballance of £ 57 18 8 lawfull Money due from him to
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the State, that he has in his Possession Orders on the 2/6 Tax drawn by Ralph Pomeroy Esq D Q M for Rye at 4/6 and Indian Corn at 3/6 per Bushell Praying that the Committee of Pay Table be directed to Settle with and receive of the Memorialist said Orders in discharge of said Debt as per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and hereby are directed to receive of the Memorialist said Orders on the 2/6 Tax to the Amount of the Ballance due from the Memorialist in dis- charge of the Debt due from him as aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of Hozekiah Huntington of Windham Shew- ing to this Assembly that in Consequence of the encouragement by this State offered for the manufacturing of Fire Arms for defence in the late War, he engaged in said Business in the Year 1775, and pursued the same and finished and compleated three hundred and forty Stand of Arms which were inspected and approved by the Committee for that purpose appointed, whereby he was entituled to a Premium of five shillings for each of said Stand of Arms, that he has received a premium for sixty of said Guns only, that for the residue he took proper Certif- icates of the Committee appointed to Inspect the Same to enable him to draw the Premium therefor which by some Accident are lost Praying for relief &c This Assembly do appoint the Honble William Williams & Constant Southworth EsqTs and Capt Jeremiah Ripley a Committee at the expence of the Memorialist to examine the Facts and Accounts Stated in said Memorial and report make with their Opinion thereon to the next General Assembly .*
Upon the Memorial of Timothy Baldwin of Guilford in New Haven County Shewing to this Assembly that in July 1783 he had his dwelling House broken open and robbed of £479 12 1 in Orders taken in on Rates Praying for Relief &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby ordered and directed to discharge the Memorialist from the £258 19 1 in Orders that are missing taking Care to stop the same if they came into the Treasury.
Upon the Memorial of Eli Mygatt, John McLane and others Shew- ing to this Assembly that in the capacity of Select Men of the Town of Danbury they secured and Sold for the Benefit of this State a con- siderable Part of the Personal Estate of David Taylor late of said Danbury who had Joined the Enemy of the United States, and thereupon a Settlement of their Accounts with the Administrator on said Estate agreable to a Resolve of the General Assembly in May 1780, there remains in their Hands the Sum of £49 0 5 lawfull Money due to this State Praying for Liberty to pay the Same in Public Securities as per Memorial,
* See below, p. 467.
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Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialists have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted them to pay the aforesaid Sum of £49 0 5 LMoney in Certificates for Interest of Money loaned to this State and the Treasurer & Committee of Pay Table are directed to receive the same accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of General John Douglas Ebenezer Pemberton William Dixon and Elisha Perkins Esqrs Mr Joseph Eaton and Mr Sam- uel Fox and others Proprietors of the new School in Plainfield Shewing to this Assembly that they have at great expence erected three valuable Buildings in Plainfield in the County of Windham for the Use of said School and for the Promotion of Learning in its various Branches in said Plainfield-Praying that they may be established and made a Body Corporate and Politic and be known in Law as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Mr Ebenezer Pemberton Gen1 John Douglas Maj' Andrew Backus Elisha Perkins Esqr Mr William Robin- son Mr Samuel Fox Capt Joshua Dunlap M' Ebenezer Eaton and MI Hozekiah Spalding all of Plainfield and such other Persons as the Pro- prietors of said School shall elect not exceeding thirteen in the whole be and they are hereby appointed constituted and declared to be a Body Corporate and Politic by the Name of the Trustees of the Accademick School in Plainfield And by that Name they and their Successors in said Corporation shall forever be Persons known and capable in Law to acquire and receive by all lawfull Ways and Means and to hold Occupy and Possess all kinds of Estate both real and Personal and to dispose of the Same by Deed or other proper Conveyance for the Use of said School
Provided the Rents and Profits of such Estate shall not exceed £ 500 0 0 LMoney per Annum in the whole at any Time and said Corporation shall by the Name aforesaid be capable in Law of suing or being Sued and to Plead or to be Impleaded in any Court of Law or equity as a Body Corporate to all intents and Purposes and shall from Time to Time Oversee Conduct, Manage and direct the Affairs and Interest of said School, and make and establish all necessary Orders Laws and Regu- lations for the Government thereof and to alter the same at discretion,
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