CRANSTON.—Captain Richard Searle, Mr. William Field.

HOPKINTON.—Captain Abel Tanner, Mr. Thomas Wells, the 3d.

JOHNSTON.—Mr. Emmor Olney, Mr. Ebenezer Sprague.

NORTH-PROVIDENCE.—Mr. Joseph Olney, Major Thomas Olney.

BARRINGTON.—Col. Nathan’l Martin, Mr. Thomas Allen.

The Honourable Metcalf Bowler, Esq., was chosen Speaker, and Josias Lyndon, Esq., Clerk of the Lower House.

The Company of Light-Infantry in the Town of Newport having made choice of the following Officers, and made return of them to the Governour and Council, to wit:

Jabez Champlin, Captain; Charles Spooner, First-Lieutenant; Philip Moss, Second-Lieutenant; Samuel Spooner, Ensign;

Upon consideration whereof,

It is Voted and Resolved by the Council, That the said Officers be, and they are hereby, approved.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the General Treasurer remove, with the Colony’s treasure, to the Town of Providence: and that, for the charge of his removing, together with the extraordinary trouble he is likely to have in doing the business of the said office during the present year, he be allowed the sum of ninety Pounds lawful money, including his annual salary.

Whereas, the Secretary hath removed the Colony’s Records and his office to the Town of Providence, and prayed this Assembly, in case the removal be approved, to order the expense thereof to be paid out of the General Treasury: on consideration whereof, It is Voted and Resolved, That the said removal of the Colony’s Records be, and it is hereby, approved; and that an account of the expense thereof be laid before this Assembly.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the Honourable Metcalf Bowler, Esq., be, and he is hereby, appointed to receive the Town of Portsmouth’s proportion of the Colony’s Arms, in the room of the Town-Treasurer, whose religious principles will not admit of his receiving the same.

It is Voted and Resolved, That Colonel James Mitchell Varnum, Colonel Daniel Hitchcock, and Colonel John Mathewson, be, and they are hereby, appointed a Committee, to prepare a Bill for the regulation of the Army ordered to be raised for the defence of the Colony; that they also prepare the form of a Commission for the Officers of the said Army; and that they lay the same before this Assembly.

It is Voted and Resolved, That each of the gentlemen appointed Delegates to represent this Colony in the Continental Congress, to be holden in the City of Philadelphia on the tenth instant, draw the sum of sixty Pounds lawful money out of the General Treasury, to bear their expenses.

An Act for embodying, supplying and paying, the Army of Observation, ordered to be raised for the defence of the Colony.

Be it enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority of the same it is enacted, That the fifteen hundred men ordered to be raised by this Colony be formed into one Brigade, under the command of a Brigadier-General, and consist of three Regiments, each of which shall be commanded by one Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, and one Major; that there be one Adjutant of Brigade, or Adjutant-Major, for such purposes as appertain to that office; that there be one Adjutant, one Surgeon, one Surgeon’s Mate, and one Quartermaster to each Regiment; that each Regiment consist of eight Companies; each Field Officer’s Company to be commanded, under such Field Officer, by one Captain-Lieutenant, one Lieutenant, and one Ensign; and each of the other Companies by one Captain, one Lieutenant, and one Ensign; and that one of the Companies be a Train of Artillery, and have the use of the Colony’s field-pieces.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each Regiment be placed in the said Brigade upon the flanks and in the centre by rotation, so that a perfect equality in rank be preserved. And that a similar equality be preserved among the Field Officers of the different Regiments, by the Brigadier-General, in all the duties of a campaign.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each able-bodied effective man, who shall enlist into the service, and find himself a Small-Arm, Bayonet, and other Accoutrements, shall be allowed and paid forty Shillings as a bounty; and each able-bodied effective man, not finding himself a Small-Arm, Bayonet, and other Accoutrements, shall receive twenty-four Shillings as a bounty.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each Officer and Soldier shall receive the following monthly wages, while in the service, to wit; each Colonel fifteen Pounds, each Lieutenant-Colonel twelve Pounds, each Major ten Pounds, the Adjutant of Brigade, or Adjutant-Major, nine Pounds, each Captain and Captain Lieutenant six Pounds, each Lieutenant four Pounds, each Ensign three Pounds, each Adjutant of a Regiment five Pounds ten Shillings, each Surgeon seven Pounds ten Shillings, each Surgeon’s Mate four Pounds, each Quartermaster three Pounds, each Sergeant two Pounds eight Shillings, each Corporal two Pounds four Shillings, each Drummer and Fifer two Pounds four Shillings, and each private man forty Shillings.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each Field-Officer be allowed ten Shillings per week, and each other Officer and Soldier six Shillings per week, for billet, while in this Colony after enlistment, and before the Regiments are embodied. And each Soldier shall also have a Blanket and Knapsack given him by the Colony.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each Officer and Soldier be paid his wages, and the weekly billet that shall be due, as soon as may be; and that one month’s wages be paid in advance before the Troops march out of the Colony.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each Soldier be enlisted by signing the following Enlistment, to wit: I, the subscriber, hereby solemnly engage and enlist myself as a Soldier in His Majesty’s service, and in the pay of the Colony of Rhode-Island, for the preservation of the liberties of America, from the day of my enlistment, to the last day of December next, unless the service admit of a discharge sooner, which shall be at the discretion of the General Assembly; and I hereby promise to submit myself to all the orders and regulations of the Army, and faithfully to observe and obey all such orders as I shall receive from time to time from my officers.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no officer or soldier be arrested, prosecuted, or detained in jail, for any debt whatsoever less than fifteen Pounds lawful money, due to one creditor; and that every apprentice who shall enlist into the said Army shall be entitled to the whole of the bounty, and one half of his wages; his master receiving the other half.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for supplying the Troops with Arms, Provisions, &c., five hundred barrels of Flour, three hundred barrels of Pork, one hundred barrels of Beef, fifteen hundred Blankets and Knapsacks, and fifteen hundred Small-Arms and Bayonets, with suitable Accoutrements, be immediately procured on the Colony’s account.

And that the said Troops may be supplied with clothing and other necessaries, It is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a Commissary be appointed, who shall go sutler to the Troops, and have one and a half per cent upon all the business he shall transact. And such Commissary is hereby directed and required to deliver unto the soldiers such things as the Colony shall send for the use of the Regiments at the prime cost, including all charges that may accrue thereon; provided that the said officer deliver nothing to any soldier without an order from the Captain or Commanding Officer of the company for the time being to which such soldier belongs. And the officers are hereby restricted and forbid drawing any order or orders on the Commissary, exceeding the monthly wages due to the soldier that applies for the same.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whoever shall be appointed Commissary and Sutler, shall give security to the General Treasurer, in the penal sum of two thousand Pounds, for the faithful performance of his duty; and shall not carry with him, on his own account, any necessaries of the same kind with those that