deliver at or by the 10th of May, to the aforesaid Assistants, &c., who are hereby empowered and required on the penalty according to the late £800 rate, passed at Kingstown, the 20 day of August, 1698, after receipt thereof, forthwith to grant forth their warrants to the Constables of their respective towns, so that the same be had and fully gathered and paid into the Generall Treasury at or before the 15th day of June next ensuing. But in case the day or days be relapsed, and the same not fully gathered, that then the Assistant, &c., do notwithstanding the same, give forth their respective warrants for the full gathering the aforesaid rate, according to the late £300 levy, on the penalty contained in said Acts.

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the charges of entertaining the prisoners taken by Capt'n William Wanton, shall be paid out of her Majesty's tenths of said prizes. Always provided, that if the same be not allowed by her Majesty, that the same be repaid and borne by this her Majesty's Collony.

In answer to his Excellency, the Lord Cornberry, Governor and Commander in Chief of her Majesty's Province of New York, his demand of money, &c., this Assembly having seriously debated and considered the premises:

Do enact, That the Governor [and] Deputy Governor shall draw up the mind and sense of this Assembly relating to the same, which shall be signed by the Recorder in behalf of said Assembly, and sent to his Excellency, the Lord Cornberry, aforesaid. The chief head of what is to be drawn up and sent, is to signify the weakness of this her Majesty's Collony, and the great danger we lay under to be invaded by the common enemy, with the great charge the Collony is likely to be at in fortifying in pursuance to her Majesty's commands; and also to signify that we shall represent the matter to her Majes ty by our Agent, with hopes that when her Majesty is rightly informed of the state of this Collony, that the said imposition will be remitted.

It is further enacted by this Assembly, That the Governor shall have full power to order out of the Generall Treasury.

viz. out of the late £200 rate, or out of the £150, ordered by Assembly, for paying Collony debts, the sum of forty or fifty shillings in money, for the present repairing the Collony House.

Voted, That the Acts passed at this sessions of Assembly, shall be published by beat of drum in the town of Newport, forthwith, under the Seal of the Collony, and that the Recorder shall within ten days after the adjournment of this Assembly, send forth copies if possible, to each town in this Collony, under the Seal of said Collony, and to have eight shillings for each copy paid out of the Generall Treasury, forthwith; and upon the publication hereof, this Assembly is adjourned to the first Tuesday in Aprill next, to the Collony House, in Newport; except the Governor or Deputy Governor see cause to call it sooner.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Newport, the first Tuesday in April, 1703.

Major Samuel Cranston, Governor.

Weston Clarke, Recorder.

At a Generall Assembly, held at Newport, by adjournment from the 2d day of February, 1702, to the first Tuesday in April, 1702-3.

This Assembly taking into serious consideration the Acts made at the last sitting of this Assembly, for the sending an Agent for England, and for raising £600 on the inhabitants of this Collony, for to bear the charge of the same, and finding no occasion at present :

Therefore, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sending of an Agent, and raising of money for defraying said charge, is referred to the sitting of the Assembly in May next, after the Election.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Act for raising of £500 for the carrying on the fort, repairing the prison, and paying of the Collony's debts, which Act was made the last sessions of this Assembly, the 2d of February last, shall be of full force and virtue, as in said Act is set forth at large.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the future, all Deputies' wages within the respective towns within this Collony, shall be paid out of the Generall Treasury, and to be paid as formerly by the Generall Treasurer. And all the fines for Deputies not appearing and giving their due attendance when legally chosen and lawfully warned, shall be paid into the Generall Treasury, according to former Acts; and if any person or persons do neglect or refuse to pay said fine, as aforesaid, to take said fine according to former proscription, when Deputies were paid out of the Generall Treasury; any Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.

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And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person that kills a wolf or wolves, above half a year old, shall have paid him or them out of the Generall Treasury twenty shillings for each wolf so killed, for his pains; any or Acts, clause or clauses, to the contrary notwithstanding. Voted, Whereas, there is a complaint made to this Assembly, viz. by Samuell Davis, that there is no provision in our law made, or any way open how that the said Davis may come to be put into lawfull possession of his just right, which he the said Davis hath recovered by due course of law against Thomas Mallett, Sheriff, there being no officer appointed to execute or levy an execution in that behalf, the premises considered :

This Assembly do enact, and it is hereby enacted and declared by the authority of the same, That in this case, relating [to] Samuell Davis and the said Sheriff, and all other cases of this like nature, relating [to] the Sheriff, that execution shall

go forth from the Recorder to the Town Sergeant of the town of Newport, fully empowering and commanding him the said Sergeant, to execute every such writ, precept, warrant or execution, relating [to] the Sheriff, according to the true intent and meaning of the same; and to have the like allowance for the performance of this, his said office, as by law, and under the same penalty on defect, in such cases made and provided, where the Sheriff himself executes; any law, custom, or usage to the contrary hereof, notwithstanding.

Voted and enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, That Jonathan Marsh and John Carr, ferrymen between Cononicutt and Rhode Island, you, or either of you, are by virtue of this Act, to carry all Magistrates, Deputies and members of the Generall Court, over said ferry, and charge it to account, that it may be deducted out of what you are to pay yearly for the ferry.

Be it enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, That the Acts passed at this sitting of the Assembly, be published within ten days after the dissolution of this Assembly in the town of Newport; and that the Recorder send forth copies thereof, under the Seal of the Collony, to the several towns by the 1st of May next, and to have two shillings for each copy, paid out of the Generall Treasury.

The Assembly dissolved.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Newport, May the 4th, 1703.

Major Samuel Cranston, Governor.
Mr. Walter Clarke, Deputy Governor.

ASSISTANTS.

DEPUTIES.