FOR KILLINGWORTH.—Mr. Stephen Wilcox, Mr. Hezekiah Lane.
FOR GROTON.—Captain William Ledyard, Captain Benadam Gallop.
FOR STONINGTON.—Mr. John Dean, Major Charles Fhelps.
FOR SAYBROOK.—Captain Samuel Shipman, Colonel William Worthington.
FOR PRESTON.—Captain Jeremiah Halsey, Mr. Samuel Tyler.
FOR FAIRFIELD.—Mr. Samuel Squier, Mr. Thaddeus Burr.
FOR NORWALK.—Colonel Thomas Fitch, Mr. Thaddeus Betts.
FOR RIDGEFIELD.—Mr. Samuel Olmstcad, Colonel Philip Burr Bradley.
FOR STAMFORD.—Colonel David Watrhury, Mr. Benjamin Weed.
FOR STRATFORD.—Captain Robert Fairchild, Colonel Ichabod Lewis.
FOR NEW-FAIRFIELD.—Mr. Ephraim Hulbel, Captain Neemiah Beardsley.
FOR GREENWICH.—Colonel John Mead, Dr. Amos Mead.
FOR DANBURY.—Colonel Joseph Hall Cook, Captain Daniel Taylor.
FOR REDDING.—Mr. Hezekiah Sanford, Mr. Seth Sanford.
FOR WINDHAM.—Colonel Jedediah Elderkin, Mr. Samuel Webb.
FOR LEBANON.—Colonel William Williams, Captain Jeremiah Mason.
FOR MANSFIELD.—Colonel Experience Storrs, Captain Amariah Williams.
FOR CANTERBURY.—Mr. David Payne, Mr. John Harmeck.
FOR POMFRET.—Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. Nathan Frink.
FOR ASHFORD.—Captain Benjamin Sumner, Mr. Ezra Smith.
FOR VOLUNTOWN.— Captain John Gordon, Mr. Ezra Crary.
FOR WOODSTOCK.—Captain Elisha Child, Mr. William Skinner.
FOR PLAINFIELD.—Captain Andrew Backus, Mr. Joshua Dunlap.
FOR KILLINGLY.—Captain Stephen Crosby, Mr. Daniel Watrous.
FOR COVENTRY.—Mr. Ebenezer Kingsbury, Mr. Ephraim Root.
FOR LITCHFIELD.—Mr. Jedediah Strong, Mr. Abraham Bradley.
FOR WOODBTJRY.—Mr. Daniel Sherman, Captain Increase Moseley.
FOR SHARON.—Mr. John Canfield, Captain Caleb Jewet.
FOR TORRINGTON.—Mr. Ephraim Bancroft, Captain Shubael Griswold.
FOR SALISBURY.—Captain Abiel Camp, Colonel Joshua Porter.
FOR CORNWALL.—Mr. Edward Rogers, Mr. John Pearce.
FOR NEW-HARTFORD.—Captain Matthew Gillet, Captain Isaac Kellog.
FOR GOSHEN.—Col. Ebenezer Norton, Mr. Asaph Hall.
FOR KENT.—Captain Jethro Hatch, Capt. Moses Averill.
FOR WESTMORELAND.—Mr. John Jenkins, Captain Solomon Strong.
FOR CANAAN.—Captain John Ensign, Capt. John Watson.
FOR NEW-MILFORD.—Major Samuel Canfield, Captain Sherman Boardman.
FOR HARWINTON.—Captain John Willson, Mr. Josiah Phelps.

Erastus Wolcott, Esq., Speaker of the House of Representatives; Titus Hosmer, Esq., Clerk.

This day being appointed, by the Royal Charter and the laws of this Colony, for the election of the publick Officers of the Colony, viz: Governour, Deputy Governour, Assistants, Treasurer, and Secretary, proclamation was made in manner accustomed, and then the votes of the Freemen were given in to the persons appointed by the Assembly to receive, sort, and count them, and to declare the names of such persons as shall be chosen to any of the forementioned offices, according to law; which persons, so appointed, were Jabez Harnlin, Elisha Sheldon, Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington, Abraham Davenport, Esquires, Colonel Thomas Seymour, Major John Chester, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Colonel Andrew Ward, Jun., Mr. William Hillhouse, Mr. Rufns Lathrop, Colonel Thomas Fitch, Dr. Thaddeus Betts, Mr. Samuel Webb, Mr. Ebenezer Kingsbury, Colonel Joshua Porter, Mr. John Canfield; who were all sworn to a faitliful discharge of that trust.

And the votes of the Freemen being brought in, sorted, and counted,

The Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., is chosen Governour of this Colony for the year ensuing;

The Honourable Matthew Griswold, Esq., is chosen Deputy Governour of this Colony for the year ensuing;

Jabez Hamlin, Elisha Sheldon, Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington, William Pitkin, Roger Sherman, Abraham Davenport, Joseph Spencer, Oliver Wolcott, Samuel Huntington, Richard Law, and William Williams, Esquires, were chosen Assistants for the year ensuing;

John Lawrence, Esq., is chosen Treasurer of this Colony for the year ensuing:

George Wyllys, Esq., is chosen Secretary of this Colony for the year ensuing.

An Act for establishing Naval Officers in this Colony.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be kept at the Port of New-London, one Naval Officer; at the Port of New-Haven, one other Naval Officer; at the Port of Middletown, one other Naval Officer; and at the Port of Norwalk, one other Naval Officer; and that the Governour, for the time being, depute some proper person, at each of said Ports, as Naval Officers; and take bond, with sufficient surety, in the sum of one thousand Pounds, for the faithful discharge of their duty therein, to enter and clear out Vessels and their cargoes; and to do and act therein’ in such way and manner, and according to such rules as te their offices aforesaid respectively appertain.

Whereas, it is recommended by the honourable Continental Congress to the several Legislatures in the United Colonies, as soon as possible to erect Courts of Justice, or give jurisdiction to the Courts now in being, for the purpose of determining concerning captures, Sic, and to provide that all trials in such case be had by a Jury, under such qualifications as to the respective Legislatures shall seem expedient:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, arid by the authority of the same, That the respective County Courts in this Colony be, and they are hereby, authorized, empowered, constituted, and appointed to try, judge, and determine, by Jury or otherwise, as in other cases, concerning all captures that have or shall be taken and brought into said respective Counties; and that the civil law, the laws of nations, and the resolutions of Congress, be the rule of their adjudications, determinations, and proceedings therein; and said respective County Courts are hereby authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint such proper officers under them as they shall find necessary and expedient for the purposes aforesaid.

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That appeals be allowed to the Continental Congress, under the restrictions and agreeable to the directions and resolves of said Congress; and that the fees for said Court, and the respective officers thereof, be reasonable, and such as are customary in the neighbouring Colonies, or may be established by said Congress; and the Judge of said respective County Courts is hereby authorized to call said Court for said purpose, at any place within the respective Counties as shall bo most convenient and expedient.

An Act for repealing an Act of this Colony, entitled “An Act against High Treason.”

Be it enacted by the, Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the aforesaid act, and every part and paragraph thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed and rnade null and void.