"THe Representatives convened in General Assembly, in humble acknowledgment of the great & prudent Care that his Excellency hath taken for the Security of the Fronteers of this Province at Albany, as well as that his Excellency may be the better enabled to secure the said Fronteers, by recruiting his Majesty's three Companies posted there, with a sufficient Number to compleat the said Companys, three Hundred effective Men, and for their encouragement to remain there from the first day of May next to the first day of May then next following, also during the said Time, to ease the Inhabitants of the said Province from any further Supplyes in Assembly, for that Service, as well as to free them from Detachments, unless in the case of inevitable Necessity, Do humbly pray that it may be Enacted, And be it therefore Enacted by his Excellency the Governour and Council, and Representatives conven'd in General Assembly, and by the Authority of the same, That the Sum of Three and Twenty Hundred Pounds current Money of this Province be laid, assessed, levyed and raised upon all and every the the Inhabitants, Residents, Sojourners and Freeholders of and in this Province, to be imployed by his Excellency in manner and form following, That is to say, The Sum of eighteen Hundred Pounds, part of the said Sum of three and twenty Hundred Pounds, for the..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.