selves, then by order from the Governor to the Major on the Island, and Major on the main land, in this Collony, they the said Majors shall cause so many men to be impressed out of their respective Companies as will make up the complement aforesaid.

And for the encouragment of such as may be inclined to list themselves vollunteers as aforesaid, they shall be allowed and paid out of the Generall Treasury during the time they shall be in actuall service, viz.: the Captain, four shillings per day; the Lieutenant, three shillings per day; the Clerk and Sergeants two shillings per day; and all common soldiers that will accouter or provide themselves with arms and ammunition according to order, one shilling, sixpence per day; and such as shall be supplied by the Collony, one shilling per day; and shall be quit of all other service in this Collony, saving what shall be required under the command of their Captain in the Collony's service.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the aforesaid quota of forty-eight men shall be by the Govern or's order raised with all expedition, and put in such posture and method that they may be ready to march upon any occa sion, in a day's warning or notice. And it shall be in the au thority of the Governor, to order or send the said quota of men or any part of said quota, to any part of the Collony, or to the assistance of our neighboring governments, as necessity may require.

And in order for the subsistence, treatment and disposition of such forces as shall be sent to the assistance of each govern ment, and in particular between this Collony and the Province of the Massachusetts, we do appoint Major John Dexter, Major Nathaniell Coddington, and Capt'n Joseph Sheffield, or any two of them, Commissioners, to treat with Commissioners appointed by the Province of the Massachusetts with full power and authority to agree and settle the same according to their commissions and instructions; and that notice thereof be given forthwith to the authority of said Province of the Massachusetts, hereof requesting them to nominate and appoint the like

number of Commissioners with like power; and also to appoint the time and place of their meeting with what expedition may be, to settle the same as near the division of each government as may be thought most convenient.

And it is ordered, That the Commissioners appointed by this Assembly, shall be paid out of the Generall Treasury their reasonable charge during the time of their being on said service.

And be it further enacted by this Assembly, That in case our Honored Governor shall have occasion for arms or other stores of war, for the accoutering or supplying the aforesaid quota of men, or any part thereof, that he hath hereby authority granted him to seize and take, or cause to be seized and taken from any of the inhabitants of this Collony such spare arms or other stores of war as may or can be found for the service aforesaid, so as the persons from whom such arms, &c., shall be taken, be not left destitute of their own supply. And that what shall be so seized or taken, to be appraized or vallued by two indifferent men appointed by the Governor, so as the same may be returned again with use, or paid for by the Collony, according to the appraizement.

This Assembly do recommend Lieut. Jonathan Turner, of Kingstown, to the Governor's consideration, and that he may have the first tender of a commission to be Captain of said quota. An Act against killing of deer.

Whereas this Assembly hath been informed that great quantities of deer hath been destroyed in this Collony out of season, either for skins or flesh, which is a great destruction of the creatures, without profit, and may prove much to the damage of this Collony for the future, and not only to this Collony, but to the whole country, if not prevented:

Be it therefore enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, and it is hereby enacted, That no person or persons within this Collony, either English or Indians, shall kill either deer or fawn within the bounds of this Collony, from the 1st of January untill the last of June; and so successively in said months for every ensuing year, shall forfeit for every deer or fawn so killed within said months, the sum of twenty shil

lings money, to be levied by distraint, as in actions of trespass; the one half to the informer, the other half to the use of the town where such deer or fawn shall be killed. And this Act to stand in full force in the law; any Act or Acts, clause or clauses, in the law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Committee to audit accounts.

Voted, That the same persons who were chosen at the sessions of this Assembly, at Providence, for an audit, are continued, who are to meet the last Monday in March next, at Newport, at the Collony House, to audit and inspect into the Collony's debts and credits, who have power, if need be, to adjourn from time to time untill the work be completed; and they, or the major part of them, to finish said work and make return thereof to the Generall Assembly in May next. An Act for raising and assessing a tax or rate upon this Collony of £500 for the defraying the Collony's debts.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Councill and House of Rep resentatives in Generall Assembly convened, and it is hereby enacted, That a tax or rate be raised upon this Collony of £500 current money of New England, or pay in like species as the last £700 rate, and to be gathered in to the Generall Treasury of this Collony, after the same manner according to the £700 rate was, by the last of May next. And the rate makers of each town to proportion the rates on the severall towns by the 20th of March next ensuing; and the Town Clerk of each town to send copies thereof to the Generall Treasurer by the last of March next, who shall follow the Collony's Acts in sending forth his warrant in ten days' time after, to the Constables of each town, to gather in said rates of each town, deliver it into the Generall Treasury, at or before the last of May next, in money, or such merchantable pay, at the prices as the last £700 rate was, aforesaid.

Voted, Whereas our Honored Governor, Samuell Cranston, Esq'r, stands engaged in behalf of the Collony to the Lord High Admiral, for a sum of money :

It is enacted by the authority aforesaid, That our Honored

shall be supplied out of the said rate or sum of £500, to pay said debt of the Collony's, and what is remaining to be for the Collony's use.

And it is further enacted by this Assembly and the authority thereof, and it is hereby enacted, That whereas Joseph Latham and John Scott stand bound by obligation to build a jail in the town of Providence, in as good manner as that was that was burnt; and whereas, the condition of said obligation was, that if this Assembly did not allow that they should build the jail, that then the said Latham and Scott were to pay thirtythree pounds:

And therefore it is enacted, That the said Latham and Scott shall not build said jail, but pay the thirty three pounds into the Generall Treasury; thirty pounds thereof, shall be improved on the Collony's behalf for the building her Majesty's jail at Providence, and the other three pounds to pay the officers of said town's charge of transportation to Newport.

Voted, That the Acts of this Assembly since the first sessions thereof, be published under the Seal of the Collony, in the town of Newport, within ten days after the dissolution of this Assembly, and copies thereof sent to each town, under the Seal of the Collony, on or before the 10th day of March next; and the Recorder to have for each copy to be paid out of the Generall Treasury of this Collony, ten shillings in money per

copy.

Proceedings of the Generall Assembly held for the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at Newport, the 1st of May, 1705.

Capt'n John Rogers, chosen Speaker. Capt'n Edward Carr, chosen Clerk.