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Resolved by this Assembly, That Thaddeus Burr, Esq., of Fairfield, and Charles Church Chandler, Esq., of Woodstock, at the publick expense of this Colony, be a Committee to engage and employ News-Carriers to perform regular stages from Fairfield to Woodstock, and from Woodstock to Fairfield, in such manner that they severally arrive in Hartford every Saturday, and that they forward all proper intelligence to Fairfield and Woodstock with all convenient speed; also that Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of New-London, be a Committee to engage and employ two News-Carriers, at the Colony' s expense, to perform regular

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stages from Woodstock to New-Haven on the Fairfield stage, and from New-Haven to Woodstock in such manner that they severally arrive in New-London every Saturday, and that they forward all proper intelligence each way every Monday morning with all convenient despatch; also that Thaddeus Burr, Esq., of Fairfield, and Charles Church Chandler, Esq., of Woodstock, and Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of New-London, be a Committee to forward at the publick expense of this Colony, all such extraordinary and important intelligence which shall be received at either place from time to time as they shall judge proper and necessary, the aforesaid regulations to continue in force until the rising of the Assembly in May next, and no longer.