In the Train of Artillery.

This Assembly do Vote and Resolve, That an embargo be set on all Provisions going out of this Colony, excepting what shall be necessary for victualling vessels sailing out of this Colony, and for the use of the Army; and that this Act be in force immediately.

It is Voted and Resolved, That all business lying before this Assembly unfinished, be, and the same is hereby referred to the next session; that the Secretary publish the publick Acts and Orders made and passed at the last and present session, by beat of drum, in the Town of Providence, within ten days after the rising of this Assembly, and within thirty, send copies thereof to the Sheriff of each County in the Colony, by him to be transmitted to the several Town Clerks in the County; and that this Assembly be, and hereby is adjourned until the second Monday in June next, then to meet in East-Greenwich.

GOD save the KING.

Published according to order, on Wednesday, the 17th day of May, A. D. 1775, by

HENRY WARD, Secretary.

At the General Assembly of the Governour and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America, begun and holden, by adjournment, at East-Greenwich, within and for the said Colony, on the second Monday in June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and fifteenth of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth:

Present: The Honourable Nicholas Cooke, Esquire, Deputy-Governour; Samuel Dyre, Esq.; Simcon Potter, Esq.; Ambrose Page, Esq.; John Sayles, Junior, Esq.; John Jepson, Esq.; James Arnold, Junior, Esq.; Jonathan Randall, Esq.; Peter Phillips, Esq.; Joseph Hazard, Esq.; Thomas Church, Esq.; Assistants. The Secretary.

Deputies from the several Towns.

The Honourable Metcalf Bowler, Esquire, Speaker.

NEWPORT.—Mr. John Wanton, (son of Gideon,) George Hazard, Esq., Mr. John Tanner, Mr. Joseph Anthony.

PROVIDENCE.—Mr. John Jenckes, Mr. John Smith, Col. John Mathewson,

PORTSMOUTH.—Mr. Job Durfee.

WARWICK.— William Greene, Esq., Mr. Jacob Greene, Captain Thomas Holden, Lieut. Col. John Low.

WESTERLY.—Joshua Babcock, Esq., Mr. James Rhodes.

NEW-SHOREHAM.—Mr. John Sands.

NORTH-KINGSTOWN.—John Northup, Esquire, Sylvester Gardner, Esquire.

SOUTH-KINGSTOWN.—John Potter, Esq., Carder Hazard, Esq.

EAST-GREENWICH.—Mr. Job Gardner, Mr. Allen Johnson.

JAMESTOWN.—Capt. Edward Hull, Capt. Samuel Carr.

SMITHFIELD.—Daniel Mowry, Jun., Esq., Stephen Whipple, Esq.

SCITUATE.—Rufus Hopkins, Esq.

GLOUCESTER.—Silas Williams, Esq., Mr. Daniel Owen.

CHARLESTOWN.—Joseph Hoxsie, Esq., Mr. Samuel Kin-yon.

WEST-GREENWICH.—William Nichols, Esquire, Thomas Gorton, Esq.

COVENTRY.—Nathaniel Greene, Jun., Esq.

EXETER.—George Pierce, Esq., Jeffery Willcox, Esq.

MIDDLETOWN.—Mr. James Potter.

BRISTOL.—Major-General William Bradford, Benjamin Bosworth, Esq.

TIVERTON.—John Cooke, Esq.

LITTLE-COMPTON.—Captain Thomas Brownell, William Richmond, Esq.

WARREN.—Mr. Cromel Child, Martin Luther, Esq.

CUMBERLAND.—John Dexter, Jeremiah Whipple, Esq’rs.

RICHMOND.—George Webb, Esq., Captain Richard Bailey, Junior.

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.— Colonel Nathaniel Martin, Mr. Thomas Allen.

JOSIAS LYNDON, Esq., Clerk of the Lower House.

This Assembly, at the session held at Providence on the first Wednesday in May last, having passed an Act prohibiting his Honour the Deputy-Governour, and the Assistants, from administering the oath of office to the Honourable Joseph Wanton, Esq., who was elected Governour of this Colony for the present year, and declaring all acts by him done, in the pretended capacity of Governour, null and void, until he shall be engaged in open General Assembly, and with the consent of the General Assembly, &c. And the said Joseph Wanton having appeared before this Assembly, and demanded that the oath of office be administered to him, and this General Assembly having taken the same into consideration, do vote and resolve, and it is voted and resolved, that the said Joseph Wanton hath not given satisfaction to this Assembly; that the said recited Act, passed at the last session, continue and be in force until the rising of the General Assembly at the next session, and that this Act be immediately published, by inserting a copy thereof in the Newport Mercury and Providence Gazette.

It is Voted and Resolved, That his Honour the Deputy-Governour be, and he is hereby requested to write to James Wallace, Esq., commander of His Majesty’s Ship Rose, now in the harbour of Newport, and demand of him the reason of his conduct towards the inhabitants of this Colony, in stopping and detaining their vessels, and also to demand of him the packets which he detains.

Whereas Mr. John Carter exhibited unto this Assembly an account, by him charged against the Colony, for printing fifty-eight thousand lawful Money Bills, sixteen hundred Enlistments for the Army of Observation, the Proceedings of this Assembly at the sessions in April and May last, &c. And the said account being duly examined, it is Voted and Resolved, That the same be and hereby is allowed, and that fifty-nine Pounds thirteen Shillings and five Pence, lawful money, being the amount thereof, be paid the said John Carter out of the general Treasury.

It is Voted and Resolved, That no Soldier belonging to the Army of Observation, raised by this Colony, be allowed to take up of the Commissary any more than one third part of his monthly wages for his own use; and that whatever more the Commissary shall supply or pay to the Soldiers, shall be at his own risk.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the allowance to the Soldiers in camp be as followeth, to wit: one pound of bread, one pound of beef or pork, a half-penny for vegetables, half a gill of rice, one pint of milk, and one quart of beer per day, and one pint of molasses per week. That once a week, instead of meat, they have a pound of fish, an ounce of butter, and half a pint of vinegar: That if they have no milk they be allowed a gill and a half of rice per day: That if the half-penny per day for vegetables be not sufficient, the Brigadier-General be empowered to increase the same to a sufficient allowance, and that the Commissary furnish them with the same quantity of soap as is allowed by the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay to their Troops.

It is Voted and Resolved, That the following Rules and Orders for regulating the Army of Observation raised by this Colony, be and they are hereby approved, and that the Secretary procure the same to be printed, and supply the Brigadier-General, each Field Officer, the Commissary, and each Commissioned Officer, with a copy thereof.

Whereas, the lust of power, which of old oppressed, persecuted, and exiled our pious and virtuous ancestors from