authority; and thereupon said authority shall draw an order on the Treasurer of this Colony, payable to such Captain or chief officer, who shall receive the money due them of the Treasurer, and pay the same to each non-commissioned officer and soldier as shall be due according to said Roll.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Jabez Hamlin, Matthew Talcott, and Titus Hosmer, Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed a Committee to provide such stores of Lead as they shall judge necessary for the use of this Colony; and that said Committee may be effectually able to execute their said trust, they are authorized and directed, on behalf of this Colony, to contract for, purchase, or take the Lead Ore that is or may be raised out of the Lead Mines in Middletown, and cause any and greater quantifies of Ore to be dug out of said mine, and by the best and most prudent ways and means they can, to procure said Ore to be refined and fitted for the use of this Colony, and to erect any furnace or building necessary for that purpose; and that said Committee have power and authority to take and receive out of the Colony Treasury from time to time, any sum or sums of money that shall be found necessary to enable them to procure said Lead, or purchase said Lead Ore, and smelt, refine, and separate the lead therefrom, not exceeding the sum of Four Hundred Pounds, lawful money, in the whole; and the Colony Treasurer is ordered to pay and advance the said sum of money to the said Committee, or their order, accordingly, always provided that the owner or owners of said mine or ore shall have reasonable allowance and be duly compensated for any loss, hurt, or damage, that he or they may or shall sustain or suffer by reason of the premises.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Commander-in-Chief for the time being, of the Forces raised in this Colony, at their respective destinations, be authorized and empowered, and they are hereby empowered to procure a suitable Armourer or Armourers to repair any Fire-Arms that may be damaged in the service, as occasion may call for, and lay the account thereof before the Committee of the Pay-Table, who are hereby directed to draw orders on the Treasurer for the payment thereof.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of the Pay-Table be directed to repair the Arms belonging to this Colony in the hands of the Treasurer, and deliver out as many of them as may be wanted, to the inhabitants enlisted for the special defence of this Colony, and have them appraised, and take proper receipts therefor.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Samuel Mott, Esquire, be and he is hereby appointed Engineer, forthwith to repair to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, to assist and act in said capacity, and to take rank as a Lieutenant-Colonel among the Troops raised for the defence of this Colony.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Thaddeus Burr, Esq., of Fairfield, and Charles Church Chandler, Esq., of Wood-stock, be a Committee to engage and employ, at the publick expense of this Colony, two News-Carriers to perform regular stages from Fairfield to Woodstock, and from Woodstock to Fairfield, passing through the Towns of Windham and Lebanon, in such manner that they severally arrive in Hartford every Saturday; and that they forward all proper intelligence to Fairfield and Woodstock, with all convenient speed; also, that Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of New-London, be a Committee to engage and employ two News-Carriers at the expense of the Colony, to perform regular stages from Woodstock to New-Haven, on the Fairfield stage, and from New-Haven to Woodstock, in such manner that they severally arrive in New-London every Saturday; and that they forward all proper intelligence each way every. Monday morning, with all convenient despatch; and that Thaddeus Burr, Esquire, of Fairfield, Charles Church Chandler, Esquire, of Wood-stock, and Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of New-London, be a. Committee to forward, at the publick expense of this Colony, all such extraordinary and important intelligence which shall be received from time to time at either place, as they shall judge proper and necessary; the aforesaid regulations to continue in force until the rising of the Assembly in October next, and no longer.

This Assembly do appoint the Honourable Matthew Griswold, Esquire, and the Honourable Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington, and Samuel Huntington, Esquires, William Williams, Nathaniel Wales, Junior, Jedediah Elderkin, Joshua West, and Benjamin Huntington, Esquires, a Committee to assist his Honour the Governour when the Assembly is not sitting, to order and direct the marches and stations of the inhabitants enlisted and assembled for the special defence of the Colony, or any part or parts of them, as they shall judge necessary; and to give orders from time to time for furnishing and employing said inhabitants so enlisted, with every matter and thing that may be needful to render the defence of the Colony effectual.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Commissions ordered by the Special Assembly in April last, to the respective Officers appointed to enlist men for the defence of the Colony, shall be dated May 1, 1775, and the Secretary ordered to fill them up accordingly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Warrants to the Staff Officers, viz: Chaplain, Surgeon, and Surgeon’s Mates for each Regiment enlisted and formed for the special defence and safety of this Colony, shall be dated the 20th day of May, 1775, and his Honour the Governour is: directed to fill the same accordingly.

This Assembly grants to Major-General Wooster the sum of Four Pounds per month, to assist and enable him to provide a proper Secretary for the necessary service of such Department,

This Assembly grants to Brigadier Generals Spencer and Putnam, respectively, as they shall find necessary, the sum of Four Pounds per month, to assist and enable them to provide proper Secretaries for the necessary service of their respective Departments.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Commissaries appointed by this Assembly for supplying the inhabitants raised for the defence of the Colony, shall be allowed one and a half per cent. commission on all supplies purchased and paid for by order of the Assembly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Jabez Hamlin and Jesse Root, Esquires, be added to, and they are hereby appointed of the Committee to sign the Bills of Publick Credit on this Colony, ordered to be emitted by the General Assembly holden at this place by special order of his. Honour the Governour, on the 26th day of April last, any three of said Committee to execute the trust aforesaid.

Resolved by this Assembly, That five hundred pounds of Powder be immediately borrowed by the Committee of the Pay-Table, from the Town stocks of the adjacent Towns, and put into the hands of Colonel James Easton, to be transported with the utmost expedition to Crown Point and Ticonderoga, to be there used for the present and immediate defence of those Posts, till the Resolves of the Continental Congress may be carried into execution; and that an order be drawn by the Committee of Pay-Table on the Colony Treasurer, in favour of said Colonel Easton, for Two Hundred Pounds, lawful money, to be improved by him in defraying the expenses of transporting said Powder and other necessary purposes, for the immediate support and security of said Fortresses, rendering his account therefor.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the pay of the Adjutants in the Forces assembled for the defence of this Colony shall be the sum of Six Pounds per month; and that such Adjutants shall sustain and receive pay for that office only; and it is further resolved that the pay of the First Lieutenants of the Colonels’ Companies in each Regiment, respectively, shall be Six Pounds per month.

This Assembly do appoint David Johnson, Junior, Second Lieutenant in the Second Company in the Fourth Regiment, to be enlisted and assembled for the special defence of this Colony, in the room of David Bissell, superseded.

This Assembly do appoint Major Jabez Thompson to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment of Militia in this Colony, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Gould, resigned.

Captain William Douglass, Major of the Second Regiment, in room of Major Thompson, promoted.

Gold Selleck Silliman, Esq., to be Colonel of the Fourth Regiment, in room of Colonel . . . . ., resigned.

Captain Ichabod Lewis to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth Regiment, in the room of Gold Selleck Silliman, Esq., promoted.