Committee for settling and paying accounts of expenses incurred by raising Troops

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Resolved by this Assembly, That William Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Oliver Ellsworth, and Ezekiel Williams, Esquires, or any three of them, be a Committee with full power, and they, or any three of them, are hereby fully empowered to examine, liquidate, adjust, settle, and give needful orders for the payment of the several accounts of the expenses that have, or may be incurred, relative to assembling, equipping, supplying, encouraging, or paying wages to such of the inhabitants as may enlist for the defence of this Colony for the current year; said Committee to proceed therein according to such order, rules, and directions, as shall from time to time be given by this Assembly for that purpose.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of Pay-Table be and they are hereby directed and empowered to take Bonds, with sufficient sureties, payable to the Governour and Company of this Colony, of every Commissary appointed, to provide Stores and Provisions for the Troops now raising for the defence of the Colony; and in such Bond every Commissary shall be obliged, faithfully and justly, to dispose of the money he shall receive for the purpose aforesaid, and to account with the Committee of Pay-Table for the same.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the chief Officers and Captains of the several Companies to be enlisted, shall be the Paymasters to their respective Companies, and that the Committee of the Pay-Table be and they are hereby directed and empowered to take Bonds, with sufficient sureties, payable to the Governour and Company of this Colony, of every Captain or other person who shall undertake to act as Paymaster to any one of said Companies now to be enlisted; and in such Bond, every Paymaster shall be obligated faithfully and justly to dispose of the money he shall receive for the purpose aforesaid, and to account to the Committee of the Pay-Table for the same; and such Paymaster shall be allowed one and a half per cent˙ for said service.