STATE OF VERMONT. IN COUNCIL, Windsor 12 March 1778. This Council do recommend to the Several Gentlemen appointed by the freemen of the Several Towns within this State to represent them in General Assembly, to Assemble at the Town house in this place immediately & to form a house of Assembly by choosing a Speaker & Clerk, and make Report of your proceedings hereon as soon as may be to this Council. By order of Council, THOS. CHITTENDEN, P. STATE OF VERMONT. IN COUNCIL, Windsor 12 March 1778. To John Benjamin, Gentleman: Whereas a number of the Inhabitants of this State are now met Together in this place, appointed by the freemen of the Several Towns within the Same in order to form a house of Assembly; And Whereas it is found Necessary that some person be appointed to act in the Capacity of a Sheriff, you are therefore hereby appointed, authorized and impowered in the Capacity of Sheriff during the Session of this present Assembly (unless sooner discharged,) and to Subject yourself to such rules and orders as you shall from time to Time [receive] from this or a future Council of this State, for which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant. By order of Council, THOS CHITTENDEN, Prt. Attest, JOSEPH FAY, Sec'y. [End of the record of the Council of Safety.] course added at a later date, as the action of the General Assembly was on the 20th of March following, when a surgeon was also appointed. The votes of the Assembly, Friday, March 20, 1778, were as follows: Voted, to provide a surgeon for Captains Allen and Clark's companies. Voted, that Doct. Jacob Ruback be the surgeon for the purpose aforesaid. Voted, that those men that enlisted under Captains Allen and Clark should have ten dollars as a bounty, in lieu of double rations.-See Ms. Journal of the General Assembly, March 20, 1778; also Slade's State Papers, p. 262. The fact may as well be stated here that the journals of the three sessions of 1778 are in Slade, but those of the sessions of 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783 are in manuscript only, having never been printed. |