An act for the better enabling the executors of Thomas Lloyd Esq., deceased, for selling of land for the payment of debts and portions settled by the said Thomas Lloyd and Patience his wife upon her children by her former husband Robert Story, deceased

An Act for the raising of one hundred and twenty effective Men, to be imployed by his Excellency for the re-inforcing and strengthening the Fronteers of the Province at Albany, over and above the present Number of Forces posted and imployed there for the safety of this and Neighbouring Provinces, to continue there for one whole year from the first of May next to the first of May in the year 1607. and for the raising the Sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Three Pounds, six Shillings and eight Pence, to be distributed by his Excellency, the Captain General, amongst the said Men, and the rest of the four Companies s•…•… over by his Majesty.

WHereas the Forces lately sent over by his most Excellent Majesty, at the humble Request and Desire of his Excellency, his Majesties Captain General, for the ease and safety of this Province, are since their arrival much weakened by Death, Desertion and Sickness, and the strength of the Fronteers at Albany thereby much lessened, to the great endanger∣ing of this and the adjacient Neighbouring Plantations that place having been, since the War, the only Barrier and place of Defence, whereby the said adjacent Plantations have been pres••rved from the Violence and Incur∣sions of the Enemy. And whereas it is ind••spensibly necessary that the said Fronteers should be re-inforced, and sufficiently strengthened for the future Safeguard of our said neighbouring adjacent Plantations, and the like Pre∣servation of this Province, The Representatives convened in General Assembly taking the same into their serious Consideration, by the special direction of his Excellency's Speech made to them at the opening of this Sessions of General Assembly, as a matter of great weight, and a Complyance thereunto as the best Return, and the most acceptable Service that his Majesties Subjects in this Province can make unto his most sacred Majesty, who in the mid••t of his Pressures, and the great and bloody War h••s sac••ed Person is engaged in, hath graciously condescended to remember the little handful of his People inhabiting in this his Majesties Province, do therefore with the deepest Sense, in most humble and most dutiful Acknowledgment of his Majesties most gracious Favour in sending Supplyes of Men, Artillary, and other Stores of War, for the ease and safety of his most Loyal Subjects inhabiting within his Majesties said Province, as well as in rendering an intire Obedience unto his Majesties Royal Command, communicate•• in General Assembly by his Excellency, his Majesties Captain General's Speech, as aforesaid, Humbly pray that it may be Enacted, And Be it therefore Enacted by his Excellency the Governour and Council, and Representatives convened in General Assembly, and by the Au∣thority of the same, That a Fund of Twenty five hundred ninety three Pounds, six Shillings and eight Pence, current Money of this Province, be laid assessed, raised and levyed upon all and every the Inhabitants, Residents, Sojourners and Free-holders of and in this Province, which together with the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, like current Money, raised formerly by virtue of an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act for the raising the Sum of

Seven Hundred Pounds, &c. makes in the whole the Sum of Two Thousand seven hundred ninety and three Pounds, six Shillings and eight Pence, to be imployed by his Excellency for the reinforcing and strengthening the Fron∣teers of this Province at Albany with one hundred and twenty effective men, over and above the present Number of Forces posted and imployed there for the safety of this and Neighbouring Provinces, and to remain and continue there for the said service, and to free the Inhabitants of the Province from Detachments, except in case of inevitable necessity, for the space and during the term of one whole year, to commence on the first day of May next en∣suing the publication hereof, and to end and terminate upon the first day of May then next following, which shall be in the year of our Lord 1697. which Number or Men are to be listed and formed in such ways, and after such manner as his Excellency the Captain General shall think fit, and the said Sum of 2793 l. 6 s. 8 d. to be imployed and distributed by his said Excellency the Captain General, amongst the said Number of 120 effective Men, to be posted and imployed for the re-inforcing and strengthening the Fronteers, as aforesaid, and the rest of the four Companies sent over by his Majesty, for the ease and safety of this Province, in such manner and Pro∣portion as to his Excellency in his discretion shall be thought convenient and needful. To be laid, assessed, raised and paid unto His Majesties Receiver General, for the time being, at the City of New-York, in two equal payments, the one moyety or equal half part of the said Sum of 2593 l. 6 s. 8 d. at or before the 29th Day of September next, and the other moyety or equal half part thereof, at or before the 25th of March then next following, which shall be in the year of our Lord 1697. according to the several and respective Quota's and Proportions following, that is to say,

For the City & County of New-York, Seven hundred ninety seven Pounds nine Shillings, being their Quota & Proportion of 2593 l. 6 s. 8 d. for the Uses aforesaid.

For the County of Westchester, One hundred forty two Pounds, twelve Shill••ngs and eight Penc••, being their Quota and Proportion, as aforesaid, for the U••es afo••esaid.

For the County of Richmond, Sixty four Pounds, sixteen Shillings and eight Pen•…•…, being their Quota & Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses afore-said.

Kings County, F••ur hundred fifty five Pounds, two Shillings & eight pence, being their Quota and Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses afore-said.

Queens County, Four hundred and seven Pounds, three Shillings, being their Quota and Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses aforesaid.

Suffolk County, Four hundred sixty six Pounds, sixteen Shillings, being their Quota and Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses aforesaid.

Ʋlster & Dutches County, Two hundred thirty three Pounds eight Shillings, being their Quota and Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses aforesaid.

And Orange County, Twenty five Pounds, eighteen Shillings and eight Pence, being their Quota & Proportion, as aforesaid, for the Uses aforesaid.

And for the assessing, levying and paying the aforesaid Sum of 2593 l. 6 s. 8 d. current Money aforesaid, Be it further Enacted by the Authority

aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of New-York, the Justices of the Peace, the Assessors and Collectors, for the time being, of all and every the respective Cities, Counties, Towns, Mannors, Liberties and Ju∣risdictions within this Province, are hereby required, impowered and autho∣rized to summons, assess, collect and pay the several sums of Money herein before mentioned, according to the Proportions before expressed, in such ways and means, and according to such manner, rule and direction, and under such Pains and Penalties as is contained, enjoyned, prescribed and directêd in an Act of General Assembly, passed in the sixth Year of his Ma∣jesties Reign, entituled, An Act for the raising and paying one hundred and seventy Men for the securing the Fronteers of this Province in the City and County of Albany: and all and every Article, Rule, Clause, Pains and Penalties mentioned in the aforesaid Act, for or concerning the summoning, assessing collecting and paying, or refusing and neglecting the Execution of their respective Duties therein required, shall be, abide & remain in full force and effect to all intents and purposes, ••as full and ample manner, for the due Execution of this Act, until the iabove-said Sum of 2593 l. 6 s. 8 d. be duely, fully and compleatly assessed, collected and paid, as above direct∣ed, as fully and in like manner as if the same were particularly and at large recited and set down in the Body of this Act, any thing contained therein to the contrary hereof in any wayes notwithstanding. And the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of New-York, and all and every the Justices, Assessors and Collectors of the respective Cities and Counties aforesaid, and all others herein concerned, are to take Notice hereof accordingly.