Resolved by this Assembly, That Colonel Oliver Wol-cott, and Andrew Adams. Esq., be a Committee to settle and adjust accounts with the said Daniel Sherman and Benjamin Stiles, Esquires, of their doings in the premises, and receive of them whatever sum or part of said five hundred Pounds may be left in their hands, not disposed of for the use aforesaid; and said former Committee are directed to render their account and payment, as aforesaid, to the present Committee, who are to make report to the next General Assembly, of their doings in the premises.

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour be desired to write to the Continental Congress, and state the several matters relative to the Prisoners of War who now are or hereafter shall be brought into this Colony, and request the direction of said Congress in what manner the Officers and Soldiers who are Prisoners as aforesaid shall be provided for and supported, and how and in what man¬ner the expense incurred thereby shall be defrayed; and that his Honour transmit, therewith, a copy of General Washington’s Letter to the Committee of Inspection at Hartford, respecting Major French and his companions; also, said French’s request, contained in his Billet to Mr. Payne, and Captain William Delaplace’s Memorial, preferred to this Assembly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Accounts exhibited to this Assembly, for allowance, by John Boles, Jun., and John Boles, 3d, both of New-London, for sundry articles supplied to Officers and Soldiers raised in this Colony, be referred to the Committee of Pay Table, who are directed to examine and adjust said Accounts, and to draw on the Treasurer for what they shall allow therein, and charge the same to the respective Officers at whose request the said articles were had, as appears by said Accounts, to be adjusted, upon settlement, between said Committee of Pay Table and said Officers; which said Accounts said Committee of Pay Table are directed to receive and keep for that purpose.

This Assembly do appoint Jonathan Fitch, Esq., to be Colonel of the Second Regiment of Militia in this Colony, in the room of Colonel Leveret Hubbard, resigned.

Major William Danielson to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eleventh, Regiment in this Colony, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Putnam, promoted.

Captain Samuel McClellan to be Major of the Eleventh Regiment in this Colony, in the room of Major Danielson, promoted.

Joseph Hopkins, Esq., and Captain Samuel Fords are appointed a Committee to repair to the Lead Mines in New-Canaan, and examine into the quality, state, and circumstances thereof, and report the same to this Assembly at their next session.

On information of the state, circumstances, and doings, of the West Military Company or Trainband, in the Society of Northbury, in the Town of Haterbury,

Resolved by this Assembly, That said Company or Trainband be, and the same is hereby dissolved; and that all persons living within the limits of the same, who by law are obliged to perform military duty, be annexed to the remaining Companies or Trainbands in said Society, in manner following, viz: All such persons who now do or hereafter shall dwell in said Society, southward and westward of a line beginning at the north end of the dwelling-house of David Smith, in said Society, then running westward, as the Highway runs, over Naugatuck River, to a place ( Twich-Grass Brook ) near the south side of Captain David Blakesley’s house, then running up said Brook till it comes to Litchfield line, and not belonging to the Company or Trainband under the command of Captain Jesse Curtiss, shall be annexed to the Company or Trainband now under the command of Captain Nathaniel Barns; and that all persons who now do or shall hereafter dwell in said Society, northward and eastward of the line aforesaid, and not included in the original limits of the said Company or Trainband, under the command of said Captain Barns, be and are annexed to the Company or Trainband now under the command of Captain Jesse Curtiss; always provided, that nothing in this Resolve shall be construed to prevent any person from enlisting into the Company or Trainband under the command of said Captain Curtiss, as by law is already provided.

Whereas this Assembly are informed that Benjamin Stiles, of Woodbury, hath publickly and contemptuously uttered and spoken many things against the qualifications of the three Delegates of the Colony of Connecticut, now belonging to the Continental Congress, with respect to their abilities, intelligence, and uprightness, and also against the measures that have been adopted by the Continent for the relief and security of the valuable rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the Continent of America, by means whereof he, the said Benjamin Stiles, has openly showed his inimical temper of mind and unfriendly disposition against the measures taken and pursued for a union of defence in the American cause, as per information on file:

It is therefore Resolved by this Assembly, That the said Benjamin Stiles be cited to appear before the General Assembly of this Colony, at their next session, to answer to the matters alleged against him, the said Benjamin Stiles; and the Secretary is hereby directed to cause him to be served with a citation for that purpose, and also with a copy of the information exhibited to this Assembly against him, and that the several Witnesses named in said information be by the Secretary summoned to appear before the General Assembly, at their next session, to testify in the premises.

Whereas this Assembly are informed that John R. Marshall, of Woodbury, Missionary, hath publickly and contemptuously uttered and spoken many things against the doings of the General Assembly of this Colony, and in derision and contempt of the same, relating to the measures and plans of procedure that have been adopted and come into by this Assembly, for the defence and security of the valuable rights and privileges of the inhabitants of said Colony; and that the said John R. Marshall hath, by means thereof, evidently showed therein his inimical temper and unfriendly disposition against the measures, modes, and plans that are adopted for the defence of the American cause, as per information on file: it is thereupon

Resolved by this Assembly, That the said John R. Marshall be cited to appear before the General Assembly of this Colony, at their next session, to answer to the matters alleged against him, the said John; and the Secretary is hereby directed to cause him to be served with a citation for that purpose, and also with a copy of said information exhibited to this Assembly against him, and that the several Witnesses named in the information be by the Secretary summoned to appear before the General Assembly, at their next session, to testify in the premises.

Upon the Memorial of the Second Company of Governour’s Guards, praying this Assembly to authorize said Company annually to elect their Non-Commissioned Officers, &c.,

Resolved by this Assembly, That said Company be authorized, and they are hereby authorized and empowered annually to elect their Non-Commissioned Officers: provided, nevertheless, that those Non-Commissioned Officers who may or shall be superseded at such annual election, shall be obliged to return into the ranks, and act as common soldiers in said Company only.

Upon the Memorial of John McCall and others, of Nor-wich, in the County of New-London, showing to this Assembly that they have associated in a military Company, under certain articles to said Memorial annexed, praying that they may be constituted a military Company, under the directions of the Field Officers of the Twentieth Regiment, &c.,

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Memorialists be, and they are hereby constituted a distinct military Company, by the name of the Veteran Guards, with liberty, by voluntary enlistment from time to time, to complete their number of sixty men, including officers: provided, that no other military Company, or Troop of Horse, shall be by such enlistment reduced below the number by law allowed to such Companies, with full power to choose a Captain, one Lieutenant, and an Ensign, and such other officers as shall be necessary, and to furnish themselves with such Arms, Ammunition, and implements of war, as said Company shall agree upon by the major vote of said Company, who shall be present, upon legal warning, to act thereon, and shall do as much military duty as other military Companies are by law obliged to do, and shall be subject to such further