present year; and for the future, they to observe the Generall Assembly's Acts annually for their choice.

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there be an address to her Royall Majesty, supplicating her Majesty that she would be pleased of her great clemency to give and grant the tenths of the four prizes taken from her Majesty's enemies, the French and Spanish vessells subjects, under the French and Spanish Kings, as was lately brought into this port of Newport, now in the hands of the Governor, to be improved upon the fortification in this her Majesty's government, with other things of necessity to be spread before her Majesty.

And the persons that are hereby appointed to draw up the aforesaid address, is his Honor, the Governor, and the Deputy Governor, and the worshipfull Jonathan Sprague, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Be it further enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the autho rity aforesaid, That all the monies out-standing of the two hundred pounds levy, and the three hundred pounds levy, and the five hundred pounds levy, shall be forthwith gathered and brought into the Generall Treasury, with all convenient speed.

And be it further enacted, That Major Nathaniell Coddington, Capt'n James Barker and Mr. John Hull, are chosen and appointed to audit the late Generall Treasurer's accounts.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Capt'n John Rogers, Mr. Jonathan Sprague, Mr. John Anthony, Mr. Rich. Greene, and Capt. John Eldridge, they or the major part of them, shall be an audit to audit the Collony's debts. And they shall meet on the second Tuesday in July next, at the house of Mr. Thomas Mallett, in Newport; and to adjourn from time to time until they complete the same. And that they shall have three shillings per day for their service for the same, which shall be paid out of the Generall Treasury.

Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Rhode Island, with the rest of the Islands within the said Collony, shall be a county, by the name of Rhode Island County; and that Newport be the shire town. And that there be

two inferior Courts of Common Pleas appointed each year; and that Major Nathaniell Coddington, Capt'n Joseph Sheffield and Mr. Jonathan Sprague, are appointed a Committee to draw up the method and proceedings of said Courts of Common Pleas; with the times and places of their meeting for the abovesaid Counties of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; and to make return thereof to the next Assembly for their approbation and confirmation.

And be it further enacted, That the Acts of this Assembly shall be forthwith published by beat of drum; and that the said Acts be copied, and copies thereof sent to each town in the Collony within twenty days after the dissolution of this Assembly, by the Recorder; and he to have six shillings for each copy paid out of the Generall Treasury; and that upon publication of said Acts, this Assembly is dissolved, and accordingly is dissolved.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at Warwick, the 27th day of October, 1703.

Major Samuell Cranston, Governor.

Mr. Benjamin Barton, chosen Speaker.
Mr. Samuell Wickham, chosen Clerk.

Voted, There being a debate in the Assembly whether Christopher Allen was qualified to sit as a Deputy for Kingstown, and both Houses being resolved into a Committee for the debate in the premises, and it was put to vote, and the vote was that he was qualified, and [he was] admitted a Deputy for said town.

Voted, Whereas there was an Act passed in a Generall Assembly of her Majesty's Collony of Rhode Island and Provi

dence Plantations, sitting at Newport, upon adjournment, the 22d of June, 1703, that the line agreed upon between the Commissioners of this Collony, and the Commissioners of the Collony of Connecticut, on the 12th of May, 1703, should be run and bounded according to said agreement, by the 1st of this instant October, by Capt'n James Carder of Warwick, and Mr. John Mumford, of Newport, which has been omitted; and this Assembly having considered the premises being of so great an account:

Have enacted, and by this Assembly and the authority thereof it is hereby enacted, That the line between this her Majesty's Collony of Rhode Island, &c., and her Majesty's Col lony of Connecticut, according to agreement, as aforesaid, be run out and stated by Capt'n James Carder, of Warwick, Major William Hopkins, of Providence, and Mr. John Mumford, of Newport, or any two of them; and to begin said work on the 7th day of December next, and so to proceed till finished; and to take such assistance as they shall think fit, to perform the premises. And the whole charge thereof to be paid out of the Generall Treasury of this Collony; and to make a return by a draft of said division line under their hands, or the major part of them, to the Governor of this Collony, in order [that] may be placed in the publick Records of the Collony; any Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Voted, Whereas at a town meeting of the freemen of the town of Kingstown, in this Collony, held in said said town, the 12th day of July, 1703, to choose men to lay out highways or roads in said town, and according thereunto the freemen of said town made choice of twelve men, to wit: Henry Tibbitts, William Knowles, Lodowick Updike, Thomas Eldridge, James Newton, John Smith, Christopher Allen, Jos. Case, Benjamin Greene, Andrew Willett, Henry Gardiner, and Baziah Browne, which said persons were engaged and fully empowered to lay out a highway, country road, or roads, in the most convenient place or places, where her Majesty's subjects may pass and re. pass conveniently; and what the major part of the twelve persons shall do in the premises, should stand good and authen

tick, as and in obedience to said Act the said persons or the major part thereof have laid out the country road, and marked the same out, as appears by a return under their hands, returned to the freemen of said town and accepted, and have presented the said return to this Assembly for their approbation and confirmation therein.

This Assembly having perused said return:

Enact, and it is hereby enacted, That the road or highway, as it is bounded and laid out by the persons aforesaid, or the major part of them, according to said return, is established, confirmed, and by this Assembly allowed the publick road or highway, for ever through said town, for all her Majesty's liege subjects and people to pass and repass as their lawfull occasions shall admit therein.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the return made in writing under the hands of the persons aforementioned, shall be committed to the publick Records of this Collony; any Act or Acts, to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

Whereas, James Bick, of the town of Providence, appealed to this Assembly from a Court of Trialls in September last, against a judgment of Court given against him in favor of Jonathan Sprague, and the matter being debated before both Houses being resolved into a Committee, for the hearing and determining the matter in controversy, and the Assembly having considered and debated upon the plea on both sides, and finding a paragraph in the will of John Sprague, deceased, wherein he left to his. three brothers, to wit: Anthony, Samuell, and William Sprague, to issue, as we judge, the matter wherein the action arose between the said Jonathan and said Bick, who married the widow of said John Sprague:

Therefore, it is the judgment of this Assembly, that the said James Bick, shall by the next sitting of the Assembly, bring under the hands of the said three brothers, Anthony, Samuell and William Sprague, or any two of them, their result on the paragraph of their brother John's will, what shall be allowed their brother Jonathan Sprague, for what he did on

his brother John's land at Mendon; and what shall be so obtained of them to be sealed up and attested by a Justice of the Peace, and delivered to the Assembly as aforesaid, that then the matter be fully issued according to said appeal, and execution shall be stopped till the Assembly's determination.

Voted, That the Acts of this Assembly be published in the town of Newport, ten days after the dissolution of this Assembly; and that the Recorder send forth copies of this Assembly's Acts under the Seal of the Collony, to each town, within twenty days, and to be paid out of the Generall Treasury for each copy six shillings; and upon passing this vote, the Assembly is dissolved.

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

Samuell Cranston, Governor.

Mr. Benjamin Barton, Speaker.
Mr. Simon Smith, Clerk.

At a Generall Assembly of her Majesty's Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, convened by the Governor's warrant, to sit in the town of Newport, the 4th day of January, 1703-4.

Voted, An Act to prevent all persons whatsoever from buying

or bringing any of the Eastern Indians into this Collony, they being enemies to her Majesty and her Majesty's interest, throughout this country.

Whereas, this Assembly is informed that some persons for lucre of gain have brought into this Collony some of the Eastern Indians, that were lately taken in her Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts, which may prove of very evill conse