It is Resolved, That a Committee, or Board, of two persons, be appointed, who shall and may, in the recess of Convention, cause a set of books to be opened, and proper accounts to be raised, entered, and made up, of the expenditure, loan, or other disposition of all publick moneys, by or under the authority of Convention; and for that purpose, that the said Committee, or Board, be empowered to appoint and employ a skilful accountant. Each of the said two persons to be allowed fourteen Shillings for every day he shall be employed in the service aforesaid; and the said accountant to be allowed and paid such reasonable reward as the said Committee, or Board, shall agree for with him.

Mr. Ringgold and Mr. Richardson were elected by ballot to compose the said Board.

It is declared that the Captain of the Company of Light Infantry, having an elder commission, is entitled to and hath precedence of any Captain having a commission of a later date.

The Convention having, on motion, considered the situation of the officers and privates of Captains Barnes and Elliott’s Companies of Militia, in Kent Island, do

Resolve, That the said Companies be not hereafter obliged to join in Battalion off the said Island, unless when the publick service may require that they should march to some other part of this Province, anything in the proceedings of the last Convention, or the Committee of Observation for Queen Anne’s County, notwithstanding.

Resolved, That the said two Companies meet and exercise together at such times and places, on the said Island, as the Field-Officers of the Battalion to which they belong shall appoint, not oftener than once in every week, nor seldomer than once in every two months, the day of their exercising together being accounted as the day of exercise for the week.

Resolved, That Captain George Noble Sweat’s Company of Militia in Queen Anne’s County, be added to the Twentieth Battalion of Militia of this Province.

On motion, Resolved, That all Petitions, Applications, and Reports to Convention this present session, and all Petitions, Applications, and Reports to Convention in their last session, whereon no final order hath been made, be referred for consideration to the next session of Convention.

On motion, Resolved, That nine persons, (five of whom residing on the Western, and four on the Eastern-Shore,) be elected by ballot a Council of Safety, and be and continue such until the end of the next session of Convention;and that until that time they, or any four or more of them, having taken the oath prescribed to be taken by the Council of Safety, by a resolution of the last session of Convention, shall have and exercise the like and same powers as the present Council of Safety had or might exercise under the resolutions of the last session of Convention, from the time of their appointment until the end of this session.

The ballots being accordingly taken, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Charles Carroll, Barrister, John Hall, Benjamin Rumsey, and George Plater, Esquires, of the Western-Shore, and James Tilghman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Bedingfield Hands, and William Hayward, Esquires, of the Eastern-Shore, appeared to be and were declared duly elected.

Resolved, That each Member of the Council of Safety be allowed and paid fourteen Shillings, common money, out of the Treasury of this Province, for every day such Member shall sit, or be absent from home on publick business.

The Journal of Accounts was read and assented to.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay the several sums allowed in the same.

Ordered, That James Holly day and Jeremiah Townley Chase, Esquires, revise the Journal of the Proceedings of this Convention.

The Convention adjourns till the first Monday in August next, to sit at this place; but the Council of Safety may convene the Convention at any other time or place, if they shall judge it necessary.

Signed by order of the Convention,

GABRIEL, DUVALL, Clerk.

CONNECTICUT ASSEMBLY.

At a General Assembly of the Governour and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America, holden at Hartford, in said Colony, on the second Thursday of May, (being the ninth day of said month,) and continued, by several adjournments, until the eighth day of June following, Anno Domini 1776—Present:

The Hon. Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour.

The Hon. Matthew Griswold, Esq., Deputy Governour.

Jabez Hamlin, Esq., Elisha Sheldon, Esq., Eliphalet Dyer, Esq., Jabez Huntington, Esq., William Pitkm, Esq., Abraham Davenport, Esq.,

Assistants.

Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns are as follows, viz:

FOR HARTFORD.—Colonel John Pitkin, Colonel Thomas Seymour.

FOR WINDSOR.—Captain Josiah Bissel, Captain Henry Allyn.

FOR SYMSBURT.—Captain Judah Holcomb, Mr. Benjamin Farnham.

FOR EAST-WINDSOR.—Colonel Erastus Wolcott, Mr. Benoni Olcott.

FOR HADDAM.—Captain Joseph Brooks, Mr. Phinehas Braynerd.

FOR FARMINGTON.—Captain Selah Hart, Colonel Fisher Gay.

FOR SOMERS.—Mr. Reuben Sikes, Captain Abiel Pease.

FOR STAFFORD.—Colonel Stephen Moulton, Captain John Davis.

FOR TOLLAND.—Colonel Samuel Chapman, Captain Solomon Wells.

FOR GLASTENBURY.—Mr. Ebenezer Plummer, Mr. Elijah Hollister.

FOR EAST-HADDAM.—Mr. Daniel Brainard, Mr. Jabez Chapman.

FOR COLCHESTER.—Mr. Daniel Foot, Captain Peter Bulk-ley.

FOR WILLINGTON.—Major Elijah Fcnton, Captain Timothy Pearl.

FOR ENFIELD.—Major Nathaniel Terry, Mr. Nathaniel Chapin.

FOR BOLTON.—Mr. Benjamin TrumbuU, Mr. Seth King.

FOR MIDDLETOWN.—Mr. Titus Hosmer, Colonel Comfort Sage.

FOR WEATHERSFIELD.—Major John Chester, Colonel Thomas Belden.

FOR HEBRON.—Captain Obadiah Hosford, Mr. Neziah Bliss.

FOR SUFFIELD.—Captain John Harman, Captain Abraham-Granger.

FOR CHATHAM.—Mr. Ebenezer White, Major John Pen-field.

FOR NEW-HAVEN.—Mr. Samuel Bishop, Jun., Colonel Jonathan Fitch.

FOR WALLINGFORD.—Mr. Samuel Beach, Mr. Oliver Stanly.

FOR GDILFORD.—Colonel Andrew Ward, Jun., Mr. John Burgess.

FOR DERBY.—Captain John Holbrook, Mr. Eliphalet Hotchkiss.

FOR WATERBURY.—Mr. Joseph Hopkins, Captain Ezra Brownson.

FOR MILFORD.—Mr. Ephraim Strong, Captain Isaac Miles.

FOR BRANFORD.—Captain Edward Russell, Major William Douglass.

FOR DURHAM.—Colonel Elihu Chauncey, Colonel James Wadsivorth.

FOR NEW-LONDON.—Richard Law, Esq., Mr. William Hillhouse.

FOR NORWICH.—Mr. Benjamin Huntington, Mr. Rvfus Lathrop.

FOR LYME.—Major Samuel Selden, Mr. Marshfield Parsons.