Capt. James Morgan, Capt. Benjan Brewster, Mr. William Clarke, Mr. Samuel Buel, justice of peace.

Justices of the Peace and Quorum appointed in the countie of Fairfield: Capt. John Wakeman, Capt. Mathew Sherwood, Capt. James Olmstid, Capt. James Judson, Capt. John Minor, Capt. Jonath. Sellick, Mr. Jno Sherman. Justices of the Peace appointed in the countie of Fairfield: Deacon Sam" Hayt, Mr. James Beebe, Mr. Sam" Peck, Mr. Ebenez Mead.

Eleazar Kimberly, Esqr, is appointed to be Judge of the Countie Court and Court of Probates in the countie of Hartford.

Peter Burr, Esq', is appointed Judge of the Countie Court in the countie of Fairfield. The Honb Deputy Governour is appointed to be Judge of the Court of Probates in Fairfield countie.

Capt. Dan" Wetherel is appointed Judge of the Countie Court and Court of Probates in the countie of Newlondon.

John Allin, Esqr, is by this Assembly appointed Judge of the Countie Court and Court of Probates in the countie of Newhaven.

This Assembly grants libertie to the trainband in the town of Lebanon to proceed to a new choice of officers, viz: Captain, Lieutenant, and Ensign.

This Assembly, upon the desire and motion of Lt. Sam" Howard, being under great indisposition of body and thereby rendered uncapable of service in the post of Lieutenant, do grant him libertie to lay down his commission.

Auditors appointed by this Assembly are, Mr. John Eliott for Hartford, Mr. John Alling for Newhaven, Mr. Richard Cristophers for Newlondon, Mr. Elisha Holly for Fairfield.

Allowed to Saybrook men for cost of attendance at this Assembly upon the citation of the inhabitants of Haddum, one pound fourteen shillings and six pence.

actions depend

Ordered and enacted by this Court and the authoritie thereof, That all such actions as are or may be depending by review or appeal at the court of assistants at Newhaven, Act concerning which before the sessions of this Assembly was ing by review [44] by || law to be holden on the first Thursday in the court of in October next, shall be brought and entred at the court of assistants at Newhaven, which, by a law made in the present sessions, is appointed to be held on Tuesday before the aforesaid first Thursday in October; and all persons concerned therein are required to take notice thereof and conform themselves.

assistants in

Newhaven.

Eleazar Kimberly, Esq, is by this Assembly appointed Judge of the Countie Court and Court of Probates in the countie of Hartford.

This Assembly, upon the petition of Jacob Root and the rest of the inhabitants of the town of Hebron, do grant to them the priviledges of a town, that they may choose town officers and be enabled to raise money for civil and religious

uses."

Whereas it is found by experience that the late law, relating to fence reviewers, made in October, 1704, impowering fence viewers to impose fines for defective fence, as in the manuscripts, doth not answer the end designed, viz., securing the common fields:

It is therefore ordered and enacted by this Court, That the aforesaid law be repealed, and it is hereby made void. And Act concerning it is also ordered and enacted by this Court, that the whole of the laws for fence viewing, as they are standing in the print, in all and every part, is hereby revived, and shall be of full force, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

Ordered and enacted by this Court and the authority thereof, That the Treasurer shall send forth his warrants as well for the levying that part that belongs to the listers, upon the additions they make to the list, according to law, as that which belongs to the colony, and order the constables to pay the same to the listers, and make up accounts with the constables for it, as the rest of the rate.

The whole Record of the several Acts, Graunts and Orders of this Assembly, as they stand in the pages of this book next preceding, was read in the presence of both Houses, and ordered to be signed by the Secretary as compleat and perfect.

Elvarar Kimberly Jothy,

The remainder of the record of this session is in the handwriting of Governor Saltonstall; and from the close of this session to the close of the session in November, 1711, the record is in the handwriting of Caleb Stanly, jun.

[45] AT A COUNCIL HOLDEN AT HARTFORD, IN HER MAJESTIES COLONY OF CONNECTICUTT, MAY THE 19TH, 1708.

Major Edward Palmes, Esq', exhibited at this board an order from her Majestie in Council, bearing date the 29th day of April, annoque Dom., 1707, requiring the Governour, Council, Judges, and others, who usually grant letters of administration in the several Colonys of Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Rhoad Island, and New York, to grant the said Edward Palmes administration to his late wife Lucy, one of the daughters of John Winthrop, Esqr, deceased.

Her Majesties order was read in Council.

Ordered by the Honble the Governour and Council, that an attested copie of her Majesties said order be lodged in the office of record of the Council.

AT A COUNCIL HOLDEN AT HARTFORD, IN HER MAJESTIES COLONY OF CONNECTICUTT, MAY THE 28TH, 1708.

Ordered by the Honbl the Governour and Council, That Nathanael Stanly, Esqr, John Haynes, Esqr, and Eleazar Kimberly, Esqr, or any two of them, do view the records of the acts of the court of assistants, which have been lately drawn into the books of the records of that court by Caleb Stanly, jun', of Hartford, by the desire of the late Honbl Governour Winthrop, deceased, (and which Colonel Allyn, late secretary, neglected to do,) and sign an order to the treasurer of this colony to pay the said Caleb Stanly for his labour and pains therein, out of the colony treasury.

And also that the said gentlemen do consider the trouble and charge that Mr. Ichabod Wells, sheriff of the county of Hartford, hath been at, in order to the execution of Abigail Tompson the prisoner, and to sign an order to the treasurer to pay him a just satisfaction for the same out of the colony treasury.

And also that the same gentlemen do reckon and adjust the colonys accompts with Capt. Williamson, and sign an order to the treasurer to pay him what is due to him.

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[46] A GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOLDEN AT NEWHAVEN, IN HER MAJESTIES COLONY OF CONNECTICUTT IN NEW ENGLAND,

ON THE 14TH DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE SEVENTH
YEAR OF THE REIGN OF OUR SOVEREIGN LADY
ANNE, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITTAIN, &C.,
ANNOQUE DOм., 1708.

Present at this Assembly,

The Honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq', Governour. The Honourable Nathan Gold, Esqr, Deputy Governour.

Deputies or Representatives that were present and attended at this Assembly, were as hereafter followeth, viz:

Capt. Aaron Cook, Mr. Joseph Talcott, for Hartford.
Capt. Nathan Andrews, Mr. Abraham Bradly, for Newhaven.
Mr. Thomas Boles, Mr. James Rogers, for Newlondon.
Capt. John Wakeman, Mr. James Bennit, for Fairfield.
Capt. Robert Wells, Capt. Joshua Robins, for Wethersfield.
Capt. Richard Bushnel, Mr. Joseph Beckus, for Norwich.
Mr. William Maltbie, Mr. Edward Barker, for Branford.
Capt. John Minor, Mr. John Sherman, for Woodbury.
Capt. Samuell Hall, Capt. John Merriman, for Wallingford.
Capt. John Higly, Mr. Nath. Holcomb, for Simsbury.
Mr. Nathanael Lynde, Mr. William Parker, for Saybrook.
Capt. James Avery, Lieut. Samuel Fish, for Groton.
Mr. Timothy Stanly, Mr. John Hopkins, for Waterbury.
Mr. John Elliot, Major Mathew Allyn, for Windsor.
Mr. Daniel Brewster, Mr. Caleb Fobes, for Preston.
Capt. John Seward, Mr. James Hooker, for Guilford.
[47] Mr. Michael Tayntor, Mr. Nathanael Loomis, for Col-
chester.

Mr. James Beebee, Mr. Josiah Starr, for Danbury.
Mr. George Clarke, Mr. Benjamin Fenn, for Milford.
Mr. Joshua Ripley, Mr. Joseph Cary, for Windham.
Mr. Ephraim Minor, Mr. Samuel Stanton, for Stonington.
Mr. John Stanly, Mr. Jonathan Smith, for Farmington.
Capt. Nathanael White, Capt. John Hall, for Middleton.
Mr. Thomas Gutsell, for East Haven.

Mr. Stephen Bishop, Mr. Elisha Holly, for Stanford.
Mr. Thomas Marshall, Mr. Joseph Knap, for Greenwich.
Mr. Thomas Gates, for Haddam.

Capt. John Crane, Mr. John Griswold, for Killingworth.
Mr. John Fellows, Mr. Jacob Warren, for Plainfield.
Mr. William Clarke, Mr. John Sprague, for Lebanon.
Mr. John Betts, Mr. Joseph Platt, for Norwalk.

Mr. Thomas Bradford, Mr. Mathew Griswold, for Lyme. Capt. James Judson, Mr. Samuel Hawley, for Stratford. Mr. Thomas Kimberly, Lieut. Samuel Hale, for Glassenbury. Note that some of the said Deputies, viz: Jno Minor, Nath. Holcomb, Samuel Stanton, Thomas Marshall, Jacob Warren, were absent, and did not attend at this Court. John Elliott, Esqr, Speaker, Capt. Richard Bushnell, Clerk, By order of the Honourable the Governour, the gentlemen members of both Houses being met together, the Governour caused several letters to be read before them, that is to say,

of the House of Representatives.

A letter from the Right Honble the Lords of the Council of Trade, of the 7th of May, 1707, containing several queries to be answered, directed to the Governour and Company of this Colony.

A letter from Colonel Quarry, of the 20th of August last, (who stiles himself Surveyor General of her Majesties Customs in all the Provinces on the Continent of America,) relating to the naval officers and deputy collectors within this Colony, &c., with a copie (as he says) of a letter from the commissioners of her Majesties customs, at the custom house, London, of the 14th of February, 1705, relating to the said Quarry.

A letter from Mr. Secretary Addington of Boston, of the 26th of July last, relating to the line or boundary between this Colony and the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.

A letter from Mr. John Campbell of Boston, Postmaster, of the 4th instant, directed to the Governour and this Assembly, praying some allowance of money to be made him from this Colony, and proposing to settle a constant post between the towns of Hartford and Saybrook.

A letter or writing from Mr. Benjamin Lynde, of the 28th of July last, directed to the Governour, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the proprietors of the Narragansett country, asserting their claim to that part of the same lying within this Colony.

Which several letters being read, his honour the Governour recommended the consideration of them to this Assembly.