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WAR LEGISLATION. 367 Companies in Thomas Potter's Regiment, and John Viall a lieutenant, "to serve for one month," Thomas Allin was chosen captain, Daniel Kinnicutt, lieu- tenant, and John Short ensign of the Barrington Company. In July Mr. Thomas Allin was chosen a Committee to procure two bushels of corn or rye from Barrington before 8th of November, "or one silver dollar in lieu of each bushel of corn or rye." In December the Assembly appointed a Committee of which Thomas Allin was a member, "to devise the best ways and means to supply the troops doing duty on the island of Rhode Island with their rations for the winter." The Committee reported later in the month, and the report was adopted. 1782. Thomas Allin was appointed in January, as one of a Com- mittee to apportion a ta.x of ;!{^i2,ooo for a state tax, ^6,000 for a continental tax and ;^6,000 in articles of produce. Paul Mumford was voted the sum of ^43 4s. 8d., for a slave enlisted in Col. Greene's Regiment, in 1778. A Committee reported Barrington deficient to the amount of 213 lbs. of beef, Warren 783, and Bristol 1,760, for the use of the army. The new valuation of Barrington was ;!{^30,720. Thomas Allin was chosen as a recruiting officer for sol- diers to enlist for three years, the bounty to be ;^ioo in specie. Mr. Thomas Allin was appointed to take the census for Barrington. He was also allowed J^Jl, 6s., iid.,on the pay- abstract of his regiment. In February Barrington was called on for its quota of 2Z yards of "good yard-wide, whitened tow-cloth and 4 pairs of good yarn stockings." At the May session Viall Allen and Samuel Allen were deputies to the Assembly. Elkanah Humphrey was allowed J[,%, 2S. for his interest in Cato Bannister, a negro slave, en- listed into the regiment of Col. Christopher Greene. Capt.