CANAAN.—Mr. Asahel Bebee, Captain Samuel Forbes.

SHARON.—Major Ebenezer Gay, Mr. James Pardee.

NEW-MILFORD.—Major Samuel Canfield, Captain Sherman Boardman.

GPSHEN.—Colonel Ebenezer Norton, Captain Samuel Nash.

NEW-HARTFORD.—Major Abel Merrill, Mr. Zebulon Merrill.

CORNWALL.—Mr. Heman Swift, Captain Thomas Porter.

TORRINGTON.—Major Epaphras Sheldon, Mr. Noah Marshall.

HARWINTON.—Mr. Josiah Phelps, Mr. Mark Prindle.

WESTMORELAND.—Captain Zebulon Butler, Major Ezekiel Pierce.

William Williams, Esquire, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Richard Law, Esquire, Clerk.

An Act in further addition to an Act entitled an Act for forming and regulating the Militia, and for the encouragement of military skill, for the better defence of this Colony.

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Town of Westmoreland shall be one entire Regiment, distinguished and called by the name of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment, and shall be under the same rules and orders, and have the same powers, privileges, and advantages, as other Regiments of this Colony by law have.

An Act in further addition to an Act entitled An Act for forming and regulating the Militia, and for the encouragement of military skill, for the better defence of this Colony.

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the Towns of Middletown and Chatham shall be one entire Regiment, distinguished and called by the name of the Twenty-Third Regiment, and shall be under the same rules and orders, and have the same powers, privileges, and advantages as other Regiments of this Colony by law have.

An Act in addition to an Act made and passed at a General Assembly holden at HARTFORD, on the second WEDNESDAY of JANUARY, 1774, incorporating and constituting the Town of WESTMORELAND.

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the bounds of the Town of Westmoreland be, and they are hereby extended westward until they meet with the line lately settled with the Indians at Fort Stanwix, commonly called the Stanwix Line, bounding north and south on the north and south lines of this Colony; and the inhabitants on said tract of land annexed as aforesaid are hereby incorporated with said Town of Westmoreland, and the same is hereby annexed to the County of Litchfield, to be under the same regulations and restrictions as are in and by said Act incorporating said Town of Westmoreland provided.

Whereas a sum of Money is necessary for payment of incident charges of Government: Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That there be forthwith imprinted the sum of Fifty-Thousand Pounds, Bills of Credit on this Colony, equal to lawful money, of suitable denominations, as the Committee herein appointed shall direct, and of the same tenour with the late emission of Bills of Credit of this Colony, without interest, payable at or before the first day of June, Anno Domini 1778, dated the first day of June, 1775; and Jabez Hamlin, William Pitkin, George Wyllys, Elisha Williams, Benjamin Payne, Thomas Seymour, and Jesse Root, Esquires, or any three of them, are appointed a Committee for the purpose aforesaid, to take care said Bills be imprinted with all convenient speed, and to sign and deliver the same to the Treasurer of this Colony, taking his receipt therefor, and the said Committee shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of their trust; and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay out said Bills according to the order of Assembly.

And for providing an ample and sufficient Fund to call in, sink, and discharge the aforesaid sum to be emitted as aforesaid: Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a Tax of Seven-Pence on the Pound be, and is hereby granted and ordered to be levied on all the polls and rateable estate in this Colony, according to the list thereof, to be brought into this Assembly in October, 1776, with the additions; which Tax shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of this Colony by the first day of June, Anno Domini 1778; which Tax may be discharged by paying the Bills of this Colony of this emission, or lawful money. And the Treasurer of this Colony is hereby ordered and directed to send forth his warrants for collecting the same accordingly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Embargo laid by the General Assembly at their session in April last, be continued on the several articles mentioned in the Act of said Assembly laying said Embargo, until the first day of August next, and the same is continued by this Assembly; and his Honour the Governour is desired to issue his Proclamation accordingly: provided, nevertheless, that his Honour the Governour, by and with the advice of the Council, be, and is hereby empowered to discontinue such Embargo, in whole or in part, at any time when it may be judged proper and expedient.

Resolved by this Assembly, That there be provided ninety Marque or Officers’ Tents, and five hundred Tents for private Soldiers, and also Cloth for forty-eight marque tents and four hundred and sixty tents for private soldiers; one thousand and ninety-eight iron Pots that will contain about ten quarts each, unless a number of tin Kettles are already provided, in which case the number of pots be reduced to the number that will remain after deducting said kettles, but if the number of pots cannot be procured, then the defect to be supplied with tin kettles; and one thousand and ninety-eight Pails; two brass Kettles that will contain from eight to twelve gallons, for the use of each Company; two thousand and five hundred wooden Bowls, in the whole; four Frying Pans for the use of each Company; six thousand quart Rundlets; sixty Drums, and one hundred and twenty Fifes, all for the use of said Troops; six Standards, one for each Regiment, distinguished by their colour as follows, viz: for the first yellow, for the second blue, for the third scarlet, for the fourth crimson, for the fifth white, and for the sixth azure; a Medicine Chest and apparatus to the value not exceeding Forty Pounds, for each Regiment, under the direction of the respective Surgeons, with a capital set of Instruments for the use of the whole corps on each particular destination, and that whatever of medicine, apparatus, and instruments are left or not used, be returned for the use of the Colony; about seventy Books, each in quarto, consisting of one quire of paper, covered with cartridge paper; two reams of writing paper immediately; also ten reams of paper for making cartridges; and also one Cart or Wagon for each Company.

And it is further resolved by this Assembly, That the allowance of Provisions for said Troops be as follows, viz: three-quarters of a pound of Pork, or one pound of Beef, and also one pound of Bread or Flour, with three pints of Beans to each man per day, the beef to be fresh two days in the week; and also half a pint of Rice or a pint of Indian-Meal, and also six ounces of Butter; also three pints of Peas or Beans to each man per week; also one gill of Rum to each man upon fatigue per day, and not at any other time; Milk, Molasses, Candles, Soap, Vinegar, Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Tobacco, Onions in their season, and Vegetables be provided for said Troops, at the discretion of the General and Field Officers.

And it is further resolved by this Assembly, That One Shilling and Six Pence shall be paid to each of said men who shall supply themselves with three pounds of Ball, also Three Shillings for a pound of Powder, and Three Pence for half a dozen Flints; in case of failure such defect to be supplied by the Selectmen of each Town respectively out of the Town Stock, and in case of further failure the deficiency of three pounds of ball, one pound of powder, and six flints to each man, shall be supplied out of the stock of ammunition belonging to this Colony, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to order the same accordingly. Those Troops who march Eastward to be supplied out of the Colony stock at New-London, Norwich,