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And it is thereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to execute a Note to the Memorialist for the said Sum of £380 9 11/2 payable in three Years and on Interest pay- able Annually untill the said Principal Sum shall be paid which Note shall bear Date the 20th of March 1783.
Upon the Memorial of Reuben Stone of Guilford Shewing to this Assembly that on the first Day of March 1782, Bille Stone of Guilford then a Soldier in the State Guards in said Guilford, was wounded by a Party of the Enemy who Landed at Guilford and was brought to the House of the Memorialist where he remained for the Term of eight Weeks and was provided with Board Nursing and Surgeons attendance in the whole amounting to five Pounds fifteen Shillings lawfull Money Praying for releif as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Authorized and directed to draw an Order on the Treasurer for the Sum of five Pounds fifteen shillings LMoney in favour of Reuben Stone and Charge the Same to this State.
* See above, p. 58.
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Upon the Memorial of the Town of Stafford by their Agents Shew- ing to this Assembly that the Town of Stafford in the Year 1781 were then called upon to raise six Soldiers for the Defence of the Western Frontiers of this State and that by reason of the Difficulty of the Times and the large number of Soldiers they then had in Service which then amounted in the whole to fifty seven which was then ten more than their Quotas by all requisitions then before made, and that by the failure of raising said six Men the Town of Stafford by a Resolve of the Honble General Assembly was subjected to pay as a Penalty to the State ninety Pounds Money for which said Penalty Execution was granted out and a Distress on the Inhabitants of said Stafford notwith- standing their having ten Soldiers more in Service than their equal Quota by which means the said Town of Stafford is greatly distressed and Praying for relief as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialists have Liberty and Liberty is hereby given to the Memorialists to pay said Execution in any State Securities that are now due and Payable.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Forbes Esq" Colº Henry Livingston and Nathan Hale Esq" in behalf of themselves and the rest of the Proprietors of the Iron Oar Bed in Salisbury in the County of Litchfield, Shewing to this Assembly that the Oar in said Bed is much wasted, and the increase thereof prevented by the Irregular Methods made use of by Individuals to raise the Oar who are not under the Controwl or direction of the Proprietors, and that Persons not Proprietors raise Oar with Impunity and without Controul, being Tenants in Common the mode of regulating the raising the Oar, and preventing Trespasses as also each Proprietor receiving his equal Proportion of the Oar is not practicable in the Ordinary Course of Law as per Memorial on File-
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Proprietors of the Oar Bed in Salisbury in the County of Litchfield and those who shall hereafter become Proprietors in said Bed of Oar be and hereby are Incorporated by the Name of the Proprietors of the Oar bed in Salisbury, with full Power and Authority at their Meeting to be holden at said Salisbury annually on the first TuesDay of April, with Power of Adjourning the same by the Major Part of the Voters then present to be computed as hereafter directed to adopt Ordain and make such Rules Regulations and By Laws as they shall Judge reasonable and Right for employing Miners to raise said Oar, and promote the Increase thereof to appoint a Committee or Agent to order direct and superintend the Same according to such Rules and Orders as he or they shall receive from the Proprietors in this said Annual Meeting, And that such Committee or Agent shall and hereby are vested with full Power and Authority in his or their Name for and in behalf of the Proprietors of said Oar bed to sue and prosecute to final Judgment and Execution any Person or Persons whether Proprietors or others, who shall without his or their consent dig or raise any Oar in said Bed con-
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trary to the Rules or Laws so adopted by said Proprietors or shall in any wise trespass upon the said Common Interest of the Proprietors the Avails whereof they or he shall hold for the Use and benefit of the Common Interest, and all Cost and expence attending the Same shall be by such Committee or Agent paid out of the Common Treasury of said Proprietors and that Debts contracted by any Person or Persons with said Committee or Agent whether Proprietors or others may be sued for and recovered in the manner and form aforesaid, as also that all Debts or Contracts made to and for the Use of said Proprietors by such Committee or Agent according to the Votes and Orders of the Proprietors shall and may be recovered against said Proprietors by any Person or Persons to whom the Same shall be due by an Action brought against such Committee or Agent who may pay the Same out of the Common Treasury, And said Proprietors or the Major Part at their Annual Meeting shall Chuse a Moderator and Clerk who shall record all such Rules Orders and By Laws as shall by them be made and Ordained, and the same shall be binding and obligatory on the whole,
And it is further Resolved that the Votes of the Proprietors in their Meetings aforesaid shall be counted or reckoned according to the Share or Interest he hath in the said Oar bed, And said Proprietors at their Meeting aforesaid by their Major Votes Computed as aforesaid be and hereby are Impowered to make and ordain all and every such Rules Ordinances and By Laws concerning their Common Interest and the Management of the same that they shall Judge necessary so as the same be not repugnant to the General Laws of this State.
And it is further Resolved that the first Meeting of the sª Proprietors shall be on the first Tuesday of Septembr 1784 for the purpose men- tioned in the foregoing Resolve which shall be warned by an Adver- tisement inserted in the Public News Papers by the said Samuel Forbs Esq" Colº Henry Livingston & Nathan Hale Esq" to continue in force during the Pleasure of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Peck, shewing to this Assembly that in January 1783, one Comfort Joy an Inhabitant in the State of Ver- mont was Convicted before the Honble Superior Court then held at Hartford by Adjournment for putting off Counterfeit Pay Table Orders, whereupon the said Joy was sentenced to pay thirty pounds as a fine and Cost, and he having no Estate was then Committed to Goal, and by his Importunity the Memorialist was induced to give his Bond for the same which in the whole amounted to about forty six Pounds, the said Joy then pretending that he had an Interest in Lands in Vermont State to secure the same, and the Memorialist then took Security from said Joy of said Lands which in fact was a pretention only whereby the Memorialist is now holden to pay said Fine and Cost out of his own Estate and praying for Releif as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty is hereby given to the Memorialist to pay and discharge
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said Bond by paying the Cost in hard Money and the fine as aforesaid in any Public Securities of this State which are now due and for specie value.
Upon the Memorial of Jedidiah and William Smith Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1782 they received of the Treasurer of this State four Treasurers Notes for their Services in the Continental Army two containing £13 7 812 each Nº 3105 & 3106 and one contain- ing £11 6 012 and the other £9 9 0 Nº 1906 & 1907 all payable in the Years 1787 & 1788, which said Notes being stolen out of the possession of the Memorialists and by them since cannot be obtained and praying to this Assembly for releif as per Memorial on File ---
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to Grant to the said Jedidiah Smith & William Smith four sev- eral Notes of the same Tenor and Date as the above mentioned they procuring and lodging with the Treasurer sufficient Bonds to Indemnify Provided the former should at any Time hereafter be exhibited.
Upon the Memorial of Capt Peter Perrit in behalf of himself Lieut Joseph Hull and the NonCommissioned Officers and Matrosses of his Company Shewing to this Assembly that they were taken Prisoners of War the 16th of Novemb" 1776 while in Continental Service and so continued till duely exchanged, that Your Memorialists received no Pay from the said 16th Day of Novemb" to the 7th Day of January AD 1777 and that the said Perrit and Hull have received no depreciation of their Pay from the said 16th Novemb" 1776 to the 22d Day of September 1778, and that by a particular resolution of Congress of the United States of the 6th Day of May 1784, the Memorialists are recommended to this State to be settled with for the depreciation of their pay according to the several Ranks from the 16th Day of Novembr 1776 to the 22ª Day of September 1778 and that the nonCommissioned Officers and Men be paid from the 16th Day of November 1776 to the 7th Day of January 1777 and that the same be Charged to the Account of the United States.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Settle and adjust the Accounts of the said Perrit, Hull and the nonCommissioned Officers and Matrosses of said Company from the said 16th Day of November 1776 to the 7th Day of January 1777 and also Liquidate and adjust the Accounts of the said Hull and Perrit for Depreciation of their Pay according to their respec- tive Ranks up to the 22ª Day of September AD 1778 agreeable to the recommendation of the Congress of the United States of the 6th Day of May 1784 and draw upon the Treasurer of this State for the respective Ballances found due to the Memorialists in pursuance of the Rules heretofore adopted for the Settling of the Accounts of the Line of the Army of this State and Charge the Same to the Account of the United States.
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Upon the Memorial of Abner Pryor of Windsor late a Captain in the fifth Connecticut Regiment, representing that in the Year 1777 he received three hundred pair of Shoes of Benjamin Payne Esq" to for- ward to said Army and gave his Receipt for the Same that he forwarded the Same to said Regiment, and when they arrived he was Absent on Duty and they were in his necessary absence delivered by Order of the commanding Officer of said Regiment distributed to the Soldiers then Barefoot and in distress without taking proper Vouchers &c Praying that he may not stand Accountable for said Shoes but that he may be Credited for said Shoes &c as per Memorial on File Dated the 8th Day of October 1783-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of the Pay Table Credit the said Abner in full for said Shoes and settle his Account accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of David Humphry Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1781, he was Charged with three Months Pay and sub- sistence as having been made to him by this State for which this State have Credit in their Settlement with the United States, whereas in fact the Memorialist on account of his appointment to attend his Excellency the Commander in Chief was absent from the Connecticut Line and never did receive more than two Months Pay and Subsistence Praying that said Mistake may be rectifyed &c As per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Liquidate and Settle the Account of the Memorialist agreeable to the directions which have been given them to Settle with the late Connecticut Line of the Army and draw Orders in the Treasurer for what they shall find due thereon.
This Assembly Grant to his Excellency Governor Griswold One Hundred and fifty Pounds for the first half Year Salary for the cur- rent Year.
This Assembly Grant to His Honor Lieut Governor Huntington the Sum of Fifty Pounds for the first half Year Salary the current Year.
This Assembly Grant to John Lawrence Esq" Treasurer the Sum of two hundred Pounds as and for his Salary for the Year past.
This Assembly Grants to George Wyllys Esq" Secretary the Sum of Twenty Pounds as and for his Salary the Year past and direct the Treasurer to pay the same accordingly.
Resolved by this Assembly that all Petitions in Error now depending before this Assembly be referred to the Supreme Court of Errors and said Court are Impowered to hear try and determine the Same, And all Petitions between Party and Party depending in this Assembly and the
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Protections and Injunctions thereon which came by Continuance to this Assembly be and they are hereby Continued to the General Assembly to be held in October next.
Upon the Memorial of John Wells of Glastonbury Shewing to this Assembly that by inevitable loss and Misfortunes he is reduced in Cir- cumstances so that he is Obliged to confine himself, in his own House for fear of Arrests and Imprisonment by his Creditors Praying that his Body might be exempted from Arrest or Imprisonment untill the rising of the General Assembly in October next to have an Opportunity to settle with his Creditors &c as per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Body of said John Wells be and it is hereby exempted from any and all Arrests on mesne process or Execution for Debt untill the rising of the General Assembly in October next and all Officers are to take Notice hereof and that the Consideration of said Memorial be and the same is hereby referred to the General Assembly in October next and that the Memorialist make no Sale of his Estate in the mean Time .*
This Assembly, was adjourned, (by usual Proclamation) until the Governor, or in his Absence The Lieutenant Governor, shall see Cause, to call it, to meet again.
Teste, GEORGE WYLLYS, Secret"
* See below, p. 478.
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF, CONNECTICUT HOLDEN AT NEW HAVEN IN SAID STATE ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF OCTOBER ANNO DOM"1 1784-
Present His Excellency Matthew Griswold Esqr Governor The Honorable Samuel Huntington Esq" Lieut Governor.
Jabez Hamlin Esq™
William Pitkin Esq"
Roger Sherman
Esq™
Joseph Spencer
Esq"
Richard Law
Esq™
William Williams
Esq™
Assistants.
Oliver Elswortlı
Esqr
Andrew Adams
Esq™
Benjamin Huntington
Esq™
Joseph Platt Cook
Esq™
Stephen Mix Mitchell Esq"
Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns who attended the Assembly are as follow viz-
Colº Thomas Seymour, Mr Nathan H Whiting, for Hartford Gen1 Samuel H Parsons, Gen Comfort Sage, for Midletown Mr Elisha Pitkin, Capt George Pitkin, for E Hartford Capt Daniel Humphry, Capt Jona Pettibone, for Symsbury Capt John Curtiss, Maj" Asa Bray, for Southington Mr Samuel Carver, Mª David Taylor Jun", for Bolton Colº Nath1 Terry, Mr Joseph Kingsbury, for Enfield Colº Solomon Wells, Capt Ichabod Hinkley, for Tolland Mr Ebenezer Colburn, Mr Jesse Cady, for Stafford Capt Cornelius Higgins, Capt Edmund Porter, for Haddam Mª Moses Holmes, Capt Joseph Crocker, for Willington Colº John Chester, Capt John Wright, for Weathersfield Mr John Treadwell, Colº Noadiah Hooker, for Farmington Colº Joel Jones, Mr Noziah Bliss, for Hebron Capt Abraham Granger, Mr Ebenezer Harman, for Suffield Mr Ebenezer White, Capt James Bill, for Chatham Gen1 Roger Newberry, Mr Aaron Phelps, for Windsor Mr Gideon Hale, M' Phillip Selew, for Glastonbury Mr Joseph Allyn, M' Matthew Hyde, for East Windsor Mr Joshua Pomeroy, Maj' Abiel Pease, for Somers Colº Dyer Throop, Colº Jabez Chapman, for East Hadam Mr Pierpoint Edwards, M' James Hilhouse, for New Haven Gen1 James Wadsworth, Capt Simeon Parsons, for Durham Colº Street Hall, Capt Samuel Street, for Wallingford Capt Thomas Clark, Capt Daniel Holbrook, for Derby
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Mr Joseph Hopkins, Capt John Wilton, for Waterbury Mr Samuel Beach, Mr John Peck, for Cheshire Mr John Burgis, Gen1 Andrew Ward, for Guilford Mr Gideon Buckingham, Mr Samuel Treat, for Milford Colº Edward Russell, Mr Jonah Clark, for Branford Mª Thomas Darling, M' Timothy Ball, for Woodbridge Maj" William Hilhouse, Mr Joshua Coit, for New London Capt Elisha Lathrop, Colº Christopher Leffingwell, for Norwich Maj" Charles Phelps, Capt William Williams, for Stonington Mr Hozekiah Lane, Capt Samuel Crane, for Killingworth Maj" William Hart, Colo John Ely, for Saybrook Mª Thomas Niles, Colº Nathan Gallop, for Groton Capt Peter Bulkley, Mr John Watrous, for Colchester Colº Samuel Mott, Capt Alexander Stewart, for Preston Mr William Noyes, Mª Ezra Selden, for Lyme Mr Jonathan Sturges, Mr Thaddeus Burr, for Fairfield Maj" Ezra Starr, Colº Eli Mygatt, for Danbury Colo Stephen St John, Mª Samuel C Syllyman, for Norwalk Mr Lemuel Sanford, M' William Herron, for Reading Maj" John Davenport, Mr Charles Weed, for Stamford Mr John Beach, Mr Henry Glover, for Newtown Colº Philip B Bradley, Capt David Olmstead, for Ridgfield Mr John Blackleach, Mr Elisha Mills, for Stratford Mr Stephen Barns, Colº Nehemiah Beardsley, for New Fairfield Colº Eliphalet Dyer, Colº Jedidiah Elderkin, for Windham Mr Eliashib Adams, Mr Gideon Wells, for Canterbury Mr Joseph Shipard, Capt Joshua Dunlap, for Plainfield Colº James Gordon, Capt Moses Campbell, for Volintown Mr Benjamin Chaplin, Mr Nathaniel Atwood, for Mansfield Capt Jason Phips, Mr Sampson Howe, for Killingley Capt Nehemiah Lyon, Mª Jedidiah Morse, for Woodstock Capt Solomon Wales, for Union
Mr Stephen Williams, Mr Edward Ruggles, for Pomfrett Mr Elkanah Tisdale, Colº Jeremiah Mason, for Lebanon Capt Simeon Smith, Mr Isaac' Perkins, for Ashford Colº Thomas Brown, Mª Caleb Stanley Ju, for Coventry Mª Isaac Baldwin Jur, Mr Ebenezer Marsh, for Litchfield Capt Lemuel Kingsbury, Mr Nathan Hale, for Canaan Colº Aaron Austin, Mr Josiah More, for New Hartford Mr John Whittlesey, Mr Daniel N Brinsmade, for Washington Majr Giles Pettibone, Mr Dudley Humphry, for Norfolk Colo Samuel Canfield, Mr Abel Hine, for New Milford Mª Daniel Miles, Capt Elisha Sill, for Goshen Capt Samuel Hecox, Maj" David Smith, for Watertown Colº John Sedgwick, Mr Andrew Youngs, for Cornwall Mr Nath1 Berry, Mr Nathan Eliott, for Kent
Majr Uriel Holmes, Capt Eleazer Ensign, for Hartland
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Mr John Canfield, Capt Simeon Smith, for Sharon Capt Josiah Phelps, M' Mark Prindle, for Harwington Colo Joshua Porter, M' Hezh Fitch, for Salisbury Colº Increase Mosely, M' Hozh Thompson, for Woodbury Mª Noah North, Capt Jabez Gillett, for Torrington
James Wadsworth Esq" Speaker Of the House of
James Hilhouse Esq™ Clerk Representatives
An Act for levying and collecting Duties on the Importation of certain Articles and for appropriating the same.
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 first Day of January next there shall be paid on the following Articles, imported or brought into this State by Land or Water not the Manufacture of any of the United States viz on the following Articles in additions to the Duties heretofore laid viz on all wrought Silk, Gauze Musslin Cambrick Lawn Chintz Lace and Linens a Duty of two per Cent ad valorem at the Time and Place of Importation said value to be ascer- tained and said Duty to be collected in the same manner and under the same Regulations forfeitures and Disabilities as are Provided in and by a Law of this State Entitled An Act for levying and Collecting a Duty on certain Articles of Goods Wares and Merchandize Imported into this State by Land or Water on each Beaver and Beaveret Hat six shillings, on each Castor Hat three shillings, on each Felt Hat one shilling ; on each pair of Mens or Womens Shoes one shilling, on each pair of Boots six shillings, on each pound of tanned Leather three Pence on each Saddle ten shillings, on all Cheese not the Manufacture of any of the United States four Pence per Pound on each Pound of Sugar other than brown Sugar whether the Produce or manufacture of the United States or not imported into this State threepence to be Collected in the same manner and under the same Regulations forfeitures Penalties and Disabilities as the Duties of two per Cent on the Articles before enumer- ated in this Act.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That a Duty of three pence per Gallon be laid and collected on all Wines, and on all Brandy Geneva, and other distilled spirituous Liquors except Rum, which shall be Imported into this State by Land or Water and a Duty of three Pence per Gallon on all Beer, not made in the United States to be Collected in the Same manner and under the same Regulations For- feitures and Penalties as the Duty on Rum by Virtue of a Law of this State Intitled An Act for laying and collecting Duties on the Importa- tion of Rum.
And be it further Enacted That the Monies arising on the Duties aforesaid be and they are hereby appropriated for Paying this States Quota of the Interest of the Debt of the United States agreeably to the Requisitions of Congress and the same may be paid in Money or Cer-
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tificates for said Interest to be Issued from the Loan Office in this State pursuant to a Resolution of Congress of the 28th of April 1784 .*
And be it further Enacted, That there shall be a further Duty of one penny per Gallon on all Rum Imported into this State in addition to the Duty of two Pence on the Gallon granted by the aforesaid Act, Entitled An Act for laying and Collecting Duties on the Importation of Rum, and shall be collected in the Same manner as in said Act is provided And that two thirds of both the said Duties on Rum may be paid in the aforesaid Certificates for Interest or lawfull Money and the other third shall be paid in Money and is hereby appropriated for the Support of Civil Government in this State, This Act to commence on the first Day of January next and be in force from and after that Time.
An Act in addition to an Act intitled an Act for encouraging and promot- ing the Commerce of this State.t
Be it Enacted by the Governor Council and Representatives in Gen- eral Court Assembled and by the Authority of the same, That all Bar- rells used for the Packing of Beef or Pork containing twenty eight Gallons and two hundred Weight and every Barrell used for packing of Fish and containing twenty eight Gallons shall be deemed to be Merchantable and of full Assize, any Law Usage or Custom to the con- trary notwithstanding. That all Barrelled or Salted Fish for Sale except such as are split shall be packed and put up edgewise; and whosoever shall Sell or Ship for Sale any such Barrelled or Salted Fish otherwise packed excepting as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay the the [sic] Sum of twelve shillings for every such Barrell of salted Fish and so in propor- tion when the Same are Salted or Packed in greater or lesser Casks to be recovered by any one who shall Sue for the same. That the dimensions of the several Sorts and kinds of Lumber for exportation hereafter mentioned shall be as follows viz, All White Oak Pipe Staves four feet eight Inches long and three Inches and a half in Width, White Oak Hogshead Staves three and half feet long and three and half Inches in Width, White Oak Barrell Staves two and half feet Long and three and half Inches wide, White Oak Hogshead Heading two and half feet long and six Inches Wide and all free from sap; all White Oak Barrell Staves to be used within this State, shall be two feet and four Inches long and three Inches and an half wide all Black and Red Oak Hogs- head Staves shall be three and half feet long and three and half Inches Wide, all French Sugar Hogshead Staves shall be four feet and seven Inches long, and three and half Inches wide, all Staves and heading shall be three Quarters of an Inch thick in the thinnest part. That all Cedar and Pine Shingles shall be one foot and six Inches long four Inches Wide and half an Inch in thickness at the Butt that no Pine Boards shall be deemed Merchantable unless the same are an Inch thick, And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall after the first Day of
* Under the terms of the resolution referred to, three quarters of the amount due from each state should be paid in hard money and the remainder in loan office certificates of interest due. Jour. Cont. Cong .. XXVI, 312-313.
t See above, p. 325.
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March next ship or take on Board any Vessell within this State any quantity or Parcell of the aforementioned sorts of Lumber for exporta- tion which are not of the dimentions and discription aforesaid the said Lumber so Shipped or taken on Board as aforesaid contrary to this Act or the value thereof shall be forfeited by the Person or Persons who Ships or takes the same on Board as aforesaid one half thereof to the Prosecutor and the other half to the Treasury of this State and the Same may be seized and proceeded with in the same Way and manner as is provided in One Statute of this State made for Levy- ing and Collecting a Duty on the exportation of Timber &c
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