ling for each warrant; and that each Constable be liable and responsible to the Treasurer to make good the sums in the rate bills sent him, or liable by the Treasurer to be recovered by an action: any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The Honorable Governor shall have the privilege to take such assistance as he shall think fit to perform what hath been proposed about drawing the body of laws into a form, and all other things relating to the Assembly's Acts, proper for printing; and to order some persons to agree for the printing the same. And what shall be so done by the Honorable Governor and his order therein, there shall be payment made for the same to the persons that are at the charge and trouble, out of the Generall Treasury.

Voted, and be it further enacted by this Assembly and the authority of the same, That part of an Act made in Generall Assembly in June last past, concerning the commissioned of ficers in each town in the Collony to be chosen by the freeholders is repealed; and that the former Acts for the soldiers to choose their commissioned officers is again restored and renewed; any Act or Acts, clause or clauses, to the contrary in any wise notwitstanding.

Voted, and be it further enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, That for the future, each town within this Collony shall pay their respective Deputies or Representatives chosen by each town within this Collony legally chosen and returned according to law; any law or laws to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Voted, That the Recorder send forth copies of these Acts to the severall towns within this Collony, within fourteen days after the dissolution of this Assembly; and to be allowed six shillings [in] money for each copy, under the Seal, to be paid out of the Generall Assembly.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Newport, the 3d day of July, 1706.

Coll. Samuel Cranston, Governor.

Mr. Walter Clarke, Deputy Governor.

ASSISTANTS.

DEPUTIES.

Be it enacted by the Honorable Governor and Councill and House of Representatives convened in Generall Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be a tax levied on the Collony, of the sum of £300, to be

levied and proportioned on each town in said Collony, according to the former Acts and orders, which said sum so proportioned, shall be paid in to the Generall Treasury, at or by the last of October next ensuing the date hereof, in money or such specie as by the Collony Acts is ordered and enacted to be paid to the Generall Treasurer in the last £1000 rate assessed on the Collony. And the persons chosen and empowered to proportion each town's part, shall proceed as they did in the £200 rate assessed on the Collony the 1st day of May last past.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said sum assessed, shall be taken out of the Generall Treasury by the Governor's order for and to the payment of the Collony debt, and defray the charges the Collony is obliged to defray.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That of the £400 ordered and enacted by the Generall Assembly in May last, for and towards the repairing the Fort on Fort Island, £200 of said sum, which is to be paid into the Generall Treasury at or upon the 1st day of August next, shall be by his Honor the Governor's order, taken to pay the Collony's charge on the present expedition that hath been in taking the French sloop, and paying to the keeping the prisoners, and other charges needfull and necessary to be done on any expedition for the safety and good of the Collony.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That £200 of the now present tax, of the said £300, shall be, and remain in the Generall Treasury, to answer for and to make good the £200 taken out by this Act, which was ordered for the use of the Fort, for which the £200 was ordered for the Collony's present use.

The Assembly being sensible of his Honor the Governor's extraordinary trouble in setting out the sloops in the last expedition, where they did good service for her Majesty and honor to the Collony:

The Assembly do order his Honor the Governor, five pounds money, to be paid out of the Generall Treasury, for a present gratuity.

Be it further enacted by this Assembly and the authority

thereof, That if the honored Governor shall have occasion, or find necessity to take up or improve any vessells for the Collo ny's service to send out in case of any invasion, that the said vessell or vessells so taken up as aforesaid, before any use be made of them, shall be appraized by two men; one to be chosen by the Governor, the other by the owner or owners of said vessells. And in case the said vessell or vessells should miscarry or receive damage, the just charge and damage shall be paid by the Collony.

And it is hereby enacted, That the Governor hath liberty granted him, that upon a sudden invasion within the precincts of this her Majesty's Collony, to press any vessell or vessells for the Collony's service, as aforesaid, with other necessaries as may be by his Honor the Governor judged needfull; and the cost and charge shall be paid by the Collony; provided he proceed according to this Act.

Report on the Boundary line between Kingstown and East Greenwich.

Whereas, we, the subscribers, being appointed by the Generall Assembly of this her Majesty's Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, sitting in the Collony House at Newport, the 1st day of May, 1706, to run the dividing line between the towns of Kingstown and Greenwich, according to an Act of the Generall Assembly, held at Warwick, the last Wednesday of October, 1705; and in obedience to said Act, we have run the line between the said towns of Kingstown and Greenwich, according to an attested copy of the originall plott of the township of East Greenwich. And in running said line, find no essentiall error in the line run by Capt'n James Carder formerly. And it is our opinion and judgment, that Kingstown ought to pay the charge of running said line, which amounteth to four pounds, and six shillings. And this we give as our return of said work.

Greenwich, the 31st day of May, 1706.

WILLIAM HOPKINS, Surveyor,
JOHN MUMFORD,

At the Generall Assembly, July 3, 1706, Mr. John Mumford, one of the Surveyors and subscribers hereunto, appeared in Court, and made oath to the truth of the above written return.

It is further enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, That this return above written is allowed of, and that record be made thereof as the dividing line between the said townships of Kingstown and Greenwich, without any reference to property or title of soil, only as to jurisdiction of township.

Voted, That the Acts of this Assembly be published forthwith, by beat of drum, at the Collony House, under the Seal of the Collony; and the Recorder send forth copies to each town. in the Collony, within twelve days after the dissolution of this Assembly, and to be allowed three shillings for each copy; to be paid out of the Generall Treasury; and the Assembly is dissolved.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Providence, the 30th day of October, 1706.

Both Houses called, and resolved into a Committee to re