speedily to make such agreement, said Committee are authorized and empowered, by writing under their hands, to authorize and empower the said Thomas Bidwell, or his servants, to enter upon such lands or estate, and dig, take, and use such Ore of Sulphur therein found, he allowing and paying such rent for the same as said Committee shall judge just and reasonable; and such writing shall be taken and deemed as sufficient in law to enable the said Tliomas Bidwell to use and improve such Ores, or mines of Sulphur Ore, for and during the term therein mentioned, as a lease, in writing, under their hands, of the owner or owners of such estate, would be.

Whereas the General Assembly, holden at Hartford in May last, did appoint Colonel Joshua Porter to procure twenty Iron Pots and Receivers, for the use of Thomas Bidwell, to be used for the purpose of manufacturing Sulphur for the benefit of this Colony, and said Porter being unable to attend to said business:

Resolved by this Assembly, That Major Nathaniel Terry be, and he is, appointed instead of said Colonel Porter, to procure said Pots and Receivers, for the purpose aforesaid, and deliver the same to said Thomas Bidwell.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Joseph Hopkins, Esq., Mr. Isaac Doolittle, Captain Elisha Childs, Colonel Samuel Chapman, and Captain Henry Allyn, be a Committee, severally or in conjunction, to search after Lead Mines in this Colony, and inform his Honour the Governour of any discovery they shall make, that he may state the same to the President of the honourable Continental Congress.

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That there be forthwith imprinted the sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds, Bills of Credit on this Colony, equal to lawful money, of suitable denominations, from six Pence, lawful money, to forty Shillings, inclusive, and of the same tenor with the late impressions of Bills of Credit of this Colony, without interest, payable at or before the 1st day of January, 1782, dated the 19th day of June, 1776; and Jabez Hamlin, William Pitkin, George Wyllys, Elishe, 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 said Committee signing the said Bills of the denomination of six Shillings and under, and any two signing the other Bills, shall be 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 seven 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 in to this Assembly in October, 1779, with the additions; which tax shall be collected and paid in to the Colony Treasury by the last day of December, 1781; which tax may be discharged by paying any of the Bills emitted by order of this Assembly, or 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.

Upon the Report of the Committee appointed to confer on the differing Votes of the Houses on the Memorial of the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Norwich, concerning the Brig Nancy and her Cargo, brought into Norwich in July last, reporting to this Assembly that the said brig and cargo were the property of one Joshua Winslow, late of Boston, deceased; that the said Joshua was, at the time of his death, a person reputed to be an enemy to this country; that the property of said brig and cargo, on the death of said Joshua, vested in his widow and children, as heirs at law; that the said widow, Hannah Winslow, also has the character of an enemy to this country; that the said brig came into Stonington about the beginning of July last, when she was secured by order of some gentlemen in Norwich, who sent Captain Robert Niles, and he took some others with him, and brought her to Norwich, to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy then in Boston; that Captain Niles was not then in the service of this Colony; that said brig was laid up in Norwich, and her cargo secured there on the 18th day of July last by the Committee of Correspondence and Inspection in Norwich, where the same are still kept; that Messrs. Israel Dodge and Company, of Salem, having a considerable demand on the estate of said deceased, brought their action for the same in the County Court of New-London, against the administrators of said estate, and served their writ by leaving copies thereof with the persons who have said molasses in possession, and said suit is yet depending in the law, and the administrators are supposed to be gone with the enemy from Boston to Halifax; that said brig is lying at the wharf, and cannot be kept out of a perishing condition, and that the molasses is an article greatly wanted by the inhabitants in this Colony, and is in a perishing condition.

Which Report being accepted and approved as on file.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of Inspection of the Town of Norwich be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, by themselves or such person or persons as they shall appoint, to sell and dispose of the said Brig Nancy and her Appurtenances and Cargo, at the just value thereof, to the best advantage; said Molasses to be sold to householders, or such persons as will dispose thereof to householders, at a reasonable price. Said Committee of Inspection to render an account of sales of said Brig and Appurtenances and Cargo to this Assembly, and deposite the avails thereof in the Colony Treasury, there to be kept, ready to be responded so much thereof to said Dodge and Company as they shall recover for debt and costs on their demand aforesaid, and the remainder to such persons as shall show to this Assembly their just claim or title to the same.

Whereas information hath been made to this Assembly by Amos Barns, Daniel Hill, and James Stoddard, three of the Committee of Inspection in Farmington, that Thomas Brooks, of said Farmington, a Lieutenant of the Nineteenth Company in the Fifteenth Regiment, hath openly professed before said Committee that he could not satisfy himself that the Colonies could be justified in their present measures, and that he could not join with them against Great Britain, or against the King, and that he is unfit to sustain any military office:

Resolved by this Assembly, That Colonel John Pitkin and Colonel Thomas Belden be a Committee to call said Brooks before them, and examine into the matters alleged in said complaint or information, and report make of what they shall find, with their opinion thereon, to this or the next General Assembly, and that in the mean time he be, and is hereby, suspended from the exercise of his office of Lieutenant of the Company aforesaid.

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour be, and he is hereby authorized, and desired to employ a suitable person to ride post from this Colony to Albany, and to any further or more northern place or stage as shall be necessary and his Honour shall direct, to carry and bring letters and intelligence for the year ensuing, or until this Assembly or his Honour and the Committee of Safety shall otherwise order.

This Assembly do appoint Gold Selleck Silliman, Esq., to be Colonel of the Regiment of Horse in this Colony, as established by this Assembly in May last.

Thomas Seymour, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

Captain William Hart to be Major of the First Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

William Hillhouse, Esq., to be Major of the Second Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

Daniel Starr to be Major of the Third Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

Captain Ebenezer Backus to be Major of the Fourth Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

Captain Elisha Sheldon, of Salisbury, to be Major of the Fifth Regiment of Horse, established as aforesaid.

Upon the Memorial of William Brattle, of Pittsfield, in the County of Berkshire and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, showing to this Assembly that, in November last past, he purchased two hogsheads of Rum and two barrels of