VERMONT STATE PAPERS; BEING A COLLECTION OF RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS, CONNECTED WITH THE ASSUMPTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT ; TOGETHER WITH THE Journal of the Council of Safety, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION, L. S. DISTRICT OF VERMONT, TO WIT. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the third day of February, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM SLADE, Junior, of the said district, Esquire, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:-"Vermont State Papers; heing a collection of records and documents counected with the assumption and establishment of government by the people of Vermont; together with the journal of the Council of Safety, the first Constitution, the early journals of the General Assembly, and the laws from the year 1779, to 1786, inclusive To which are added the proceedings of the first and second Councils of Censors. Compiled and published by WILLIAM SLADE, Jun. Secretary of State." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." JESSE GOVE, A true copy of record, examined and sealed by J. GOVE, Clerk. CONTENTS. Documents relating to the controversy with New-York and New- Journal of the Council of Safety, Extracts from the early journal of the Governor and Council, 8 Resolutions of the first Council of Censors, Constitution, as revised by the first Council of Censors, Address of the first Council of Censors, to the freemen, Proceedings of the second Council of Censors, |