Whereupon, it is voted and resolved, that the said sum of £220 16s., be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, to the said John Cranston, for him to pay the said gunner and two. other men, their several parts thereof. God save the King. Proceedings of the General Assembly, held for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Newport, the 21st day of June, 1742. The Hon. Richard Ward, Governor. The Hon. William Greene, Deputy Governor. With the assistants and deputies from the several towns. Voted and resolved, that the sum of £15 be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, to Benjamin Ellery and Peter Bours, Esqs., being for their trouble in procuring and chartering the sloop Olive Branch, Aaron Sheffield, master, for purchasing the provisions and stores in said sloop, to accommodate the honorable commissioners from Nova Scotia. Whereas, Benjamin Ellery and Peter Bours, Esqs., Messrs. Joseph Whipple and Josias Lyndon, were appointed a committee to audit the accounts respecting the billeting of soldiers in the county of Newport, that were raised in this colony, to go against the Spaniards, and the charges accruing thereon, did report that they had examined the several accounts relating thereto, and found the whole of the amount of the said accounts exhibited by Col. John Gardner, to be £3070 18s. 4d. ; It is thereupon voted and resolved, that the said report be accepted (saving one article of £17 10s. for the board of Sergeant Welsh's wife, paid James Davis, which is rejected), the persons exhibiting said accounts, having received full satisfaction for the same. Whereas, Benjamin Ellery and Peter Bours, Esqs., Messrs. Joseph Whipple and Josias Lyndon were appointed a committee to audit the accounts respecting the billeting of soldiers in the county of Kings county, that were raised in this colony, to go on an expedition against the Spaniards, and the charges accruing thereon, did report that they had examined the several accounts relating thereto, and found the whole of the amount of said accounts exhibited by Col. Joseph Stanton, to be £541 28. It is thereupon voted and resolved, that the said report be accepted, the persons exhibiting said accounts, having received full satisfaction for the same. Whereas, Benjamin Ellery and Peter Bours, Esqs., Messrs. Joseph Whipple and Josias Lyndon, were appointed a committee to audit the accounts of the charges arising on the transports hired by this government, to convey the soldiers to General Wentworth's camp on the island of Cuba, did report that they had examined the several accounts exhibited, and found the same amounted to £2,797 7s. 4d. ;— It is thereupon voted and resolved, that the said report be accepted, the persons exhibiting said accounts, having already received full satisfaction for the same. Whereas, the General Assembly have ordered a new impression of bills of public credit, for exchanging the late emission of bills of the new tenor, some of the which have been counterfeited, and persons appointed to exchange the same, and a great part of the new impression being now finished and ready for exchanging; It is therefore resolved, that all persons possessed of any of said bills of the late emission of the new tenor, be, and they are hereby directed to bring the same to be exchanged by the persons appointed for that purpose, by the 25th day of October next; and that after that time, the currency of said bills be stopped, if any remain out; and that the same be inserted. in the public prints, together with the names of the persons appointed to exchange the same. Voted, that James Honeyman, Jr. and Daniel Updike, Esqs., be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, the sum of £150, each, for their extraordinary services in the prosecution of sundry criminals for counterfeiting the bills of public credit, emitted by this colony. Upon the petition of Thomas Potter, Esq., sheriff of the county of Newport, craving an allowance for entertaining and looking after one Francisco Lorenzo (master of a Spanish privateer), brought into this colony by Capt. Benjamin Norton, in his privateer sloop, called the Revenge, and ordered into the custody of the said Thomas Potter, by His Honor, the Governor, on the 1st day of March last past;— Whereupon, it is voted and ordered, that the sum of fifty shillings per week, be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, to the said Thomas Potter, for his entertainment and care of the said Francisco Lorenzo, from the said 1st day of March last past, during his stay with the said Thomas Potter. Voted and resolved, that the sum of £30 be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, to Thomas Potter, Esq., sheriff of the county of Newport, for his time and expenses on the several examinations of sundry persons apprehended for coun. terfeiting the bills of public credit of this colony, and apprehending sundry persons concerned therein. Voted and resolved, that John Frye, Esq., be, and he is hereby chosen one of the trustees to the Indian sachem, in the room of his father, Thomas Frye, Esq., who desired to resign. This Assembly is adjourned till the second Monday in September next; but if there do not a sufficient number of mem. bers appear that day to constitute an Assembly, then the next day; and that every member that does not appear the first day, be fined ten shillings, unless he can make a reasonable excuse. God save the King. VOL. V. 7 Proceedings of the General Assembly, held for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Newport, the second Tuesday in September, 1742. The Hon. Richard Ward, Governor. The Hon. William Greene, Deputy Governor. With the assistants and deputies from the several towns. The following appropriations were made for bridges : For a bridge over Pacatuck river, on the road toward the White Plain, £50; for a bridge on Massacachuage river, in East Greenwich, £30; for repairing and fitting up the bridge over Moosup river, on the road leading from Providence to Connecticut, £50; for mending bridge in the town of Providence, £50; for repairing two bridges across Pawcatuck river, in Westerly, £50; for building a bridge over Pawtuxet river, on the road that leads from Coventry to Plainfield, Connecticut, £40. God save the King. Proceedings of the General Assembly, held for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Providence, the last Wednesday in October, 1742. The Hon. Richard Ward, Governor. The Hon. William Greene, Deputy Governor. With the assistants and deputies from the several towns. Whereas, it has been represented to this General Assembly, that Pawcatuck bridge is so much out of repair, as renders it dangerous to pass over, and it being in one of the greatest roads in this government, there is an absolute necessity of a speedy repair;— Whereupon, it is voted and resolved, that Messrs. Joshua Champlin and Silas Greenman, be, and they are hereby appointed a committee to repair the one-half of said Pawcatuck bridge, at the charge of this colony, as soon as conveniently may be. Voted and resolved, that Peter Bours, Esq., be, and he is hereby appointed to procure passages for the Spanish prisoners (who were officers), brought into this colony; and send them away at the charge of said colony, upon the best terms he can. Voted and resolved, that Col. Daniel Updike, being one of the grand committee of this colony, William Arnold and David Comstock, Esqs., justices of the peace, be, and they are hereby appointed and directed to attend the trial of such persons as are to be tried for counterfeiting the bills of public credit of said colony, at the next court of assize, to be held in the county of Essex, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay; and that the secretary deliver what counterfeit bills he has in his hands to said Col. Updike, to be carried with him to said court. Whereas, Col. John Cranston (as captain of Fort George), did present to this General Assembly, an account of the service, and allowance of board wages to the gunner and eleven other men (besides Valentine Downing), from the 5th day of May last past, to the 5th day of November, ensuing, and for wood laid in for the use of the soldiers in the ensuing winter, amounting in the whole to, £606 16s., craving an allowance thereof; Whereupon, it was voted and resolved, that the said sum of £606 168., be allowed and paid out of the general treasury, to the said John Cranston. Whereas, Messrs. Stephen Hopkins, James Aldrich, Jeoffry Hassard, John Smith and Robert Hall, were, by the General Assembly of this colony, at their session, held by adjournment, on the second Tuesday in September, last past, appointed a committee, they, or any three of them, to inspect into the cir |