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Part of an A& passed by the General Assembly
of the State of Vermont, at their Session at
Windsor, April A. D. 1781. intitled an Ad for
the Purpose of emitting a Sum of Money and
. directing the Redemption of the fame.
" A N ° whereas the land is the great object of the pre
-1& sent -war, and receives the most solid protection of any es
tate, a very large part of -which has hitherto paid no part of the
great cost arisen in defending it, whilst the blood and treasure of
the inhabitants of the State has been /pent to protect it, who ma
ny of them owned but a very small part thereof:
THEREFORE, for the redemption of the remaining part of
said bills and lodging a fan of money in the treasury,
Beit enabled by toe authority aforefaid, That there be, and
there is hereby granted and laid, a tax of ten shillings on
each hundred acres of land within this State, which will
now admit of fcttl:ment on account of the war, except
public rights, and the college lands ; which tax shall be paid
into the treasury of this State in silver, at the rate of fix
shillings per Spanish milled dollar, or Gold equivalent, or
in said bills.
And the publication efthis part of this A& in the Ver
mont Gazette, the New-Hampshire Gazette,one of the Bos
ton news-paper, the Connecticut Courant and the Massachu
setts Spy, three weeks successively, as soon as may be, and
the Treasurer calling on the Land-holders to pay their tax,
agreable to this ad, in ;±e said news-papers, once in tile
month of November next, and once in the month of Decem
ber next, shall be fuhicient notification to all perlons con
cerned.
^nd whereas difficulties might arise in collecting said tax in
any one mode : Which to prevent,
It is ena&ed by the Authority aforefaid, That the following
be the mode for collecting the said tax for the towns ofPow
nal, Bennington, Shaftfbury; Arlington, Manchcfter,Dorfct,
Ruport, Danby, Tinmouth, Clarenden, Pollet, Wells, Poult
ney, Rutland, Guilford, Halifax, Brattleborough, Marlbo
borough, Townshend, Dummerfton, Newfane, Putney,
Westminster, Rockingham, Windsor, Hertford, Woodstock,
Hartford, Pomfret, Thetford, Stratford, Newbury, Rygate,
Alfted, Acworth, Charleston, Cornish, Claremont, Chef
terfield, Croyden, Gilfom, New-Grantham, Keen, Dresden,
Lemfter, Marlow, Newport, Plainfield, Richmond, Sw-an
fey, Surry, Unity, Walpole, Weftmoreland, Winchester,
Canaan, Grafton, Haverhill, Hanover, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lyme, Orford, Piermont, Enfield, Romney, and any other
towns that are organized and choose it, that the firft Con
stable chosen for the year 1781, in each refpe&ive town,
shall be, and they are hereby empowered (on receiving a
Warrant therefor from the Treasurer) to colled said tax in
, the refpedive towns, of the several land-owners; and they
are hereby empowered to levy on the goods and chattels of
the said land-owners for the payment of the fame,agreeable
to the law diredingthe levying and serving executions; ex
cept, that when the Constable shall have occasion to fell
lands, for payment of said tax, such land shall be fold at
vendue ; and the time of payment of such tax to the Con
stable, shall be on or before the firlt day of January next;
and the time for his fettling with the Treasurer, shall be on
or before the firft day of April following.
And a copy of the Constable's warrant, with his doings
thereon, in refped to the particular land fold for the pay
ment of said tax, agreeable to this a& attefled by the Con
stable, and recorded in the Town-Clerk's Office, shall be a
good title, to the exclusion of all other claims, to the pur
chafer offaid land.
Provided always, Where any lands lie in common or un
divided, and a part of the proprietors or owners of such
common or undivided land, shall pay their proportion of the
tax of such common or undivided land, and if the Constable
shall have occasion to fell land for railing the remaining
part as the tax of such common or undivided lands, he shall
cause to be recorded in the Town-Clerk's Office the names
and proportions of the persons who have paid their tax, who
shall not be curtailed, but be as fairly entitled to the propor
tion they pay for, as they were before ; and the Constable
shall be allowed one pound out of each hundred pounds he
collets and pays into the Treasury, and shall be entitled to
the fame fees from the persons whose taxes he receives after
the firft of January next, as he is in case of levying andferv
ing executions And left any doubt may arise onchathead,
it is hereby declared, That in case of the State Tax, the
towns are to^be responsible for the ability and faitldulnefs of
their Constables.
Be it farther enable; by the authority aforefaid, That the
mode for collecting said tax for the other towns, as also for
any of the aforefaid towns which may negled paring intheir
tax by the firft day.of April, 1-82, shall be as follows, viz.
It shall be lawful for the proprietors of owners efthe land of
any town, to meet where it shall be most convenient for
them, in one o^mmc meetings (any law; nfagc, or cuflam
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to the contrary norwichflandirig) and choose colle^ors to
Collect such tax of the proprietors or land owners of the re
fpedive towns which they are chosen for.— Provided always.
That the said Coßedorj be not Empowered to fell land.—
And the land owner who does by himfelf, or such Collector,
pay his proportion offaid tari to the Treasurer of this State,
by the firft day of April next, shall be difeharged therefrom.
And in case an, part of the tax shall remain un paid at that
time, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer co issue his war
rant to the Sheriff of the county, or his Deputy, commanding
him to fell at vendue unimproved land in such town to the
amount thereof, and a Sufficiency to pay all attending,
charges, belonging to any such persons, who have not paid
theirtax....< . , : .
Provided, That when undivided land is fold, which must
always be the Case (if there be any such that is valuable)
that the persons paying their proportion of said tax to the
Treasurer (before the warrant be issued) shall not be cur
tailed, but be as fairly intitled to the proportion they pay for
as they were before : And a copy of the Sheriff's warrant,
with his doings thereon, in refpe& to the particular land fol^
for the payment of said tax, agreeable to this ad, attested by
such Sheriff, recorded in the County-Clerk's Office, shall be
a good title (to the exclusion of all other claims) to the
purchaser.
Provided always, That jt shall be the duty of the Sheriff or
Constable to advertise the sale of any lands to be fold for the
payment of such tax, three weeks successively, in the Ver
mont Gazette, at least five days before such sale, and post
an advertisement thereof in the town where such land lies,
if inhabited—if not inhabited, in the next inhabited town,
atleaft twenty days before such sale.
And left injustice be done to any person, by having more
of his land fold than enough to amount to his rate or pro
portion of the tax.
Be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid. That if any
person shall have more of his land fold than his proportion,
ne shall have a right of a&ion and recovery a^ainft the per
son or persons who are delinquents with him, either in
whole or in part, for their proportion, according to their
interest, efthe value of the land so fold, according to the
apprifal of indifferent men, at the time of such recovery.
Provided, Thatfuch adion be brought within the term of
one year from the sale of such land, and not after.
Provided always, That in case any person pays a land tax
ofland, fuppomig it to be his own, and it afterwards ap
pears on trial to belong to another person, he shall have a
right of action and recover, against the proper owner of
fucli land, for such sum as he shall pay for such land tax.
Provided also, - That whenever the Sheriff or Constable shall
fell more land than a fufficiency to pa, the tax ordered to be
collected, if by a Sheriff, the overplus shall be lodged in the
County-Treasury ; if by a Constable, the overplus shall be
lodged in the Town-Treasury, for the owner.
Be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That whoso
ever shall be guilty of altering or counterfeiting any of said
bill's, or shall be any ways concerned therein, by making in
struments for that purpose, or be any ways aiding or aflift
ing therein, and be thereof convicted, shall fuffer death, any
law, usage, or cuffom to the contrary notwithstanding.
^4 true Copy of Record,
Examined by JOSEPH FAY, Sec'ry.
An Act passed by the General Assembly of the
State of Vermont, at their Session, in Ben
nington, June, A. D. 1781, in Addition^
to an Act, intitled, An Aftfor A?e Purpefe of
emmitting a Sum of Money, and d.rePing the
Redemption of the fame.
nZHERF~4S, in the attfor the purpose of emitting a sum of
rv money, ana dire ffing the redemption of the fame, there is
a land tax laid oh all towns in this State, which will now admit
of settlement on account of the war ; and in said aft there is no
description of the identical towrit that are to pay the land tax : —
^nd as it is newfound necefary to name the particular towns.
7) E it enabled, and it is hereby enabled, by the Representatives
D of the freemen of the State of Vermont, in GeneTal^ffemb!,
met, arid by the authority of the fame, That the towns hereafter
named, be the towns thatshall pay said tax ; that is to fay,
Pownal, Stamford, alias New-Stamford, Reedfborough,
Bennington, Woodford, shaftfbury, Ghftenbuiy, Somerset,,
Ailingt: a Sunderland; Stracten, Manchester, B: uniley,tyin
hall, Londonderry, Ruport, Dorfet, Pollet, Danby, Harwich,
Wells, Tinmouth, Wallingford, Poultney, Clarenden, Rut
land, Killington, Little-Hofick, H< sack, Scorticook, Cam
bridge, that part of Saratoga that lies to the southward of Bat
ten-Kill, White-Creek Black-Creek, Shrewfbury, Sandgate,
Pittsford, Caftleton, Hinsdale, on both fdes of Connteaicutt-
River, Guilford, Halifax, Wilmington, Bratrfcbotough,
New-Fane, Marlborough, DtmmcHfon, ^ ardfaeugh,
Townsend, Putney, Athens, WHtminfter, Rockingham,
Tomlinfon, Springfield, Chester, Andover, Wethersfield,
Cavendish, Saltash, Ludlow, Windsor, Reddirg, Hartford,
Woodftack, Bridgwater, Stockbridge, Hertford, Pomfret,
Bernard, Norwich, Sharon, Royalton, Thetford, Strafford,
Tunbridge, Vershire, Farlee, Landgrove, Newbery, Corinth,
Reygate, Barnet, Lunenburgh, Guildhall, Maidftone, Mine
head, Brunswick, Jamaica, Lemmington, Averil, Lewis,
Wenlock, Ferdinand, Granby, Topsham, Peacham, Win
chester, Richmond, Chefterfield, Swanzey, Weftmoreiand,
Keene, Gilforn, Walpole, Alfted, Marlow, Surry, Charlef
town, Ackworth, temper, Unity, Claremont, Newport,
Savill, Cornish, Croydon, Plainfield, New-Grantham, Pro
teewitti, Lebanon, Enfield, Grafton, Dresden, Canaan,
Hanover, Cardigan, Lime, Dorchester, Cockermouth, Or
ford, Wentworth, Romney, Piermont, Warren, Haverhill,
Coventry; Bath ? ,Landaff, Lyman, Gunthwaic, Apthorp,
Dartmouth, Lancaster, Northumberland, Cockburn, Stuart
ton, Colebrook, Morrifton, Stratford, Shelburne, on the caff
fide of Connedicut^Riy cr.
^ true Copy of Record, :; * : • .c.^
Examinedby JOSEPH FAY, Sec'ry.
The following are Copies of some of the Letters,
found in the Packet from,England bound to
New-York, but taken on her passage and car^
ried into France...
(No. 81) Whitehall, 7th March,' 1781.
SI B, ..
SINCE my letters to you of the 7th February
Ihave received your dispatches, numbered
from. 113 to 117, inclusive, and laid them before
the King. ,
The revolt of the Pennsylvania line, and Jer
sey brigade, tho' not attended with all the good
consequences that might hare been expected,
are certainly Events of very great importance,
and must have very extensive effects, both in re
ducing Wafnihgton's present force, and prevent
ing its being recruited^ by new levies ; and as I
doubt not you wilj avail yourfelf of his weakness
and your own great feperiority; to fend a consi
derable force to the head of the Chefapeak, as
soon as the season will permit operations to be
carried on in that quarter, I flatter myfelf the
southern provinces will be recovered to his Ma
jelly's obedience before the long promised fuc
cours, none of which are yet failed, can arrive
from France, and Mr. Washington, unable to
draw fubfiftance for hi^ troops from the +efl fide
of Hudson's river, be compelled to cross it, and
take refuge in the eastern provinces, ' I am veiy
anxious to hear of Lord Cornwallis's progress
since Genera] Leslie joined him ; [have no doubt
his movements will be rapid and decisive, for
his Lordfllip appears to be fully impressed with
the abfolnte necessity of vigorous exertions in
the service of this country, in its present circum
stances; the success of General Arnold's enter
prize up James river, which the rebel news-pa
pers cofirm, must greatly facilitate his Lordflrip's
opperations, by cutting off Green's supplies, and
obliging the militia to return to take care of their
own property. Indeed, so very contemptible is
the rebel force now in all parts, and so vast is our
superiority every where, that no resistance on
their part is to be apprehended that can materi
ally obftruQ the progress of the Kings arms in
the speedy fappreHion of the rebellion, and it is a
pleasing, tho' at the fame time a mortifying re^
flexion, when the duration of the rebellion is
considered, which arises from the view of the re
turn of the provincial forces you have tranimit
ted, that the American levies in the King's ser
vice are mere in number than the whole of the
inlifted troops in the service of the Congress.
I am very glad to find you have commissioned
aboard of directors of the refugees, and I hope
the Admiral will have been able to spare them
fhipping.to carry on their opperations on the sea
ccafts of the New-England provinces. Many of
(No. 864.)