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May 3 : An act for paying and subsisting eight 

 complete companies of one hundred effective men 

 each, officers included, to assist, in conjunction with 

 the neighboring colonies, in erecting one or more 

 forts nigh Crown Point, within his majesty's domi- 

 nions ; for raising the sum of ten thousand pounds, 

 for and towards the said services, and for making 

 current bills of credit to the amount thereof, and other 

 the purposes therein mentioned. 



Sept. 11 : An act for raising the sum of eight thou- 

 sand pounds, to be contributed to the colony of Con- 

 necticut, towards the expense of a reinforcement of 

 two thousand effective men, now levying in the said 

 colony, for the army destined against Crown Point 

 under Major General Johnson ; and for emitting bills 

 of credit to the amount of the said sum of eight 

 thousand pounds, for making immediate payment. 



1756. — April 1 : An act for the payment of the debts due 

 from this colony, and for other purposes therein 

 mentioned. 



April 1 : An act for raising, paying and subsisting, 

 one thousand seven hundred and fifteen effective men, 

 officers included, to be employed, in conjunction with 

 the neighboring colonies, on an expedition for re- 

 ducing the French fort at Crown Point, and carrying 

 on an offensive war against the Indians who infest the 

 western frontiers of this colony, and other purposes 

 therein mentioned. 



July 9 : An act more effectually to suppress and 

 prevent the counterfeiting of the paper currency of 

 this colony. 



Dec. 1 : An act (continuing the act of Dec. 16, 

 1737). 



