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WAR LEGISLATION. 355 ton company. The state clothier was ordered to return eighteen pairs stockings to Daniel Kinnicutt. In March Samuel Allen was made one of a committee of five to procure " two hundred pairs of linen stockings of good quality, not whitened, and ninety pairs linen breeches," for which the state allowed $8,000. In June Barrington was required to raise seven men for the Continental battalions, and Thomas Allin was appointed to pay the bounties to the soldiers. Captain Allin was also appointed to procure the quota of blankets from the town, and he was directed to purchase the said blankets at the most reasonable prices, " and not to give more than ^80 lawful money apiece for them of the best quality." Blankets were also paid for by certificates which were " receivable in pay- ment of the next state tax." In July Philip Traffern was again appointed captain. At the same session Barrington was called upon to furnish 800 pounds of beef and seventy bushels of grain for the Conti- nental army. The Committee to estimate the polls and ratable property of the state, made the following report for Barrington : "Ratable polls, 92; Slaves from 10 to 50 years, 6; Money and trading stock, ;^850, lis.; 0inces of plate, 148; Horses from six months, 56; Oxen, 48; Horned Cattle, 305 ; Sheep and goats, 649; Ratable value of all property, ;^29,9I5, 13s. Of the 634 men called for to assist Count de Rochambeau, Barrington was ordered to furnish seven, and Messrs. Samuel Allen, John Short, Viall Allen, Thomas Allin, and Nathaniel Smith were a Committee to receive recruits. The bounty paid each man on enlistment was ^.J, los., in bills of the state, or in gold or silver within six months. Paul Mumford was allowed ;^i,736, los., for services as a Justice of the Supreme Court. In September Paul Mumford was re-elected as second Justice of the Supreme Court. Philip Traffern's resignation as a captain in Col. Christo- pher Greene's Regiment was accepted, and he received his pay of £161, 4s.