“JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq., Governour of the Colony of CONNECTICUT:

“To .  .  .  .  .  .  ., Greeting:

“I do hereby authorize and empower you, by beat of drum or otherwise, to raise .  .  .  . by inlistments, a Company of able-bodied, effective volunteers, to consist of ninety men, including officers, for the defence of this and the other United Colonies, during the term of one or two years after the 14th day of May instant; and the Colonels of the respective Regiments of Militia, and the several officers thereof, are required to afford you all proper aid and assistance; and the Captains in the several Regiments are hereby required to muster their respective Companies when requested thereunto by you, for the purpose aforesaid.

“Given under my hand this .  .  .  . day of May, 1776.

“In the Lower House, the above draft is accepted and approved.

“ Concurred in the Upper House.

“I .  .  .  .  . of .  .  .  .  . do acknowledge to have voluntarily inlisted myself a soldier to serve in a Regiment of Foot, raised by the Colony of Connecticut, for the defence of the United Colonies, to be commanded by .  .  .  .  .  ., during the term of .  .  .  . year, from and after the 14th day of May, 1776, according to directions of Congress.

“As witness my hand, the .  .  .  .  . day of .  .  .  ., in the year of our Lord 1776.

“In the Lower House, the above draft is accepted and approved of.

“ Concurred in the Upper House.

Whereas, in the Act passed in the present session of this Assembly for the raising of two Regiments, it is provided, that each Regiment shall consist of eight Companies, &c.: upon reconsideration,

It is Resolved, That the Regiment to be stationed at New-London, and places adjacent upon the sea-coast, shall consist of and be augmented to nine Companies, with the same number of officers that the other Companies are to have.

Resolved by this Assembly, That if any of the soldiers of the Continental Regiment to be raised by order of this Assembly, shall not be able seasonably to supply themselves upon the Continental encouragement, and cannot be supplied by Colony Arms, such number as shall be wanting shall be forthwith purchased by the Selectmen of the respective towns, or any of them, to supply the deficiency, who shall deliver such arms to the Captain of the Company to which such person for whose use they are obtained shall belong, taking his receipt; and the said Selectmen exhibit the account of the cost of such arms to the Committee of the Pay-Table, who shall draw on the Treasurer for the amount of their accounts of the cost of purchasing such arms; and if a sufficient supply cannot be obtained in that way, the number wanting to make good such deficiency shall be impressed from householders, or others, not in the Militia roll; and proper warrants shall be given for that purpose, by any of the civil authority; and the owner and owners of such impressed arms may demand a receipt of the officer who shall impress and receive the same, and shall be paid the sum of five shillings for the use of each gun so impressed; and in case of loss, the owner shall be paid the value thereof, deducting the said sum of five shillings; and all arms used in said Regiment shall be appraised by two judicious persons, to be appointed and sworn by the next Assistant or Justice of the Peace.

And it is further resolved, That the Captain, or chief officer of each Company in said Regiment, shall take a particular account of all the arms used in his Company, distinguishing such as soldiers provide for themselves, such as belong to the Colony, such as shall be purchased, and such as shall be impressed as aforesaid; and shall transmit the same, with the prices annexed, to the Committee of Pay-Table. And his Honour the Governour is hereby authorized and desired to appoint a proper person or persons to muster said Companies.

Whereas this Assembly have ordered three Regiments to be raised and equipped for the defence of this Colony, and for the purposes expressed in their acts, and some of the officers appointed to command the same may fail to accept the trust, or, by death or otherwise, vacancies may happen:

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour be desired, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint any officer or officers, to fill up any vacancy that shall happen as aforesaid, and to commissionate them accordingly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour and Council of Safety be, and they are hereby authorized, to take care and give orders and directions for selecting out and regulating a proper number of officers and men from the Regiment raised, and now ordered to be raised and stationed at New-London and the sea-coasts, or to appoint other officers as they may find necessary, to be employed and exercised as Matrosses or Artillerymen, for managing the cannon at the Fortifications erected or erecting there, and for the proper duty and services of that department, and to give such orders as shall be proper and necessary to have such establishment made and carried into execution.

Whereas the Companies raised by his Honour the Governour and Council of Safety, and stationed at New-London, New-Haven, Groton, and Stonington, are put upon the Continental plan of pay and provisions, and it having been resolved by this Assembly to augment them to a full Regiment, and that the Regiments now ordered to be raised for the defence of this Colony be upon the regulations established by this Assembly in April, 1775, and it being inconvenient that the Companies in said Regiments should be upon different footings,

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour and Committee of Safety be desired and directed, by all proper ways to endeavour to bring said Companies upon the present Colony plan and Regulations, by directing new inlistments, or other proper methods, to continue the officers by his Honour before appointed to command them, or appoint others as occasion shall require or they shall judge necessary; and as soon as their places can be supplied, and it shall be judged safe by his Honour and said Committee, they are to discharge said Companies, or such numbers of the men as shall not engage upon the present Colony plan, and procure their places to be filled, and said Companies completed as soon as may be.

Whereas the exigencies of Government render it necessary that a further sum of Money, or Bills of Credit, be emitted,

Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in the General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That there be forthwith imprinted the sum of sixty thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit on this Colony, equal to lawful money, of suitable denominations, from one Shilling to forty Shillings; ten thousand Pounds of which shall be of the denomination of six Shillings and under, and of the same tenor with the late emissions of the. Bills of Credit of this Colony, without interest, payable at or before the 1st day of January, 1781, dated the 7th of June, 1776. And Jabez Hamlin, William Pitkin, George Wyllys, Elisha Williams, Benjamin Payne, Thomas Seymour, and Jesse Root, Esquires, or any three of them, are appointed a Committee for the purpose aforesaid, to take care said Bills are imprinted with all convenient speed, and to sign and deliver the same to the Treasurer of this Colony, taking his receipt therefor; and either one of the said Committee signing of the denomination of six Shillings and under, shall be sufficient, and any two signing the other Bills shall be also sufficient; and said Committee shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of their trust; and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay out said Bills according to the orders of this Assembly. And for providing an ample and sufficient fund to call in, sink, and discharge, the aforesaid sum to be emitted as aforesaid,

Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a tax of eight Pence on the Pound be, and is hereby granted and ordered to be levied on all the Polls and rateable Estate; in this Colony, according to the list thereof to be brought into this Assembly in October, 1778, with the additions; which tax shall be collected and paid into the Colony Treasury by the last day of December, 1780; which tax may be discharged by paying any of the Bills issued by order of this Assembly, Continental Bills, or lawful money; and the Treasurer of this Colony is hereby ordered and directed to send out his warrants for collecting said tax accordingly.