TERMS OF ADMISSION.

For indigent patients of this state, two dollars per week, of one hundred dollars per year, if they remain so long in the Asylum.

For all others, two dollars and fifty cents per week for the first six months, and after that time two dollars per week.

Those who require extra accommodations, and those afflic ted with nervous diseases, will be received at reasonable prices, according to the accommodations required.

No patient will be received for a less term than three months. But if the patient should recover before the expiration of that term, the pay for the unexpired time will not be required. If the patient remain longer than three months, the subsequent payment will be required only for the time the patient remains.

No charge is made for damages in any case.

Application for the admission of patients must be made; by letter or otherwise, to Dr. Wm. H. Rockwell, or either of the trustees.

REPORT OF HENRY STEVENS ON REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS OF VERMONT UPON THE UNITED STATES.

To his Excellency CHARLES PAINE:

After receiving the appointment to investigate the facts, and ascertain whether this State has a just claim upon the Government of the United States, for expenses incurred during the Revolutionary War, I examined the journals of the Council of Safety from the 15th of August, A. D. 1777, to the 12th March, A. D. 1778. There being no printed journals of the General Assembly, or of the Council, or acts of the Legislature, to be found in the State department previous to the February session, A. D. 1784, I therefore examined the manuscript journals of the House and Council, and acts of Assembly, where the printed documents could not be found, up to and including the session of the General Assembly, A. D. 1794. This being accomplished, I commenced the examination of the books and manuscript papers in the State and Treasurer's departments, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the several reports of Auditors, PayTable Committee, and reports of committees on the part of the General Assembly, Commissary General, and Pay-Master General, could be found. I have not been able to find all the reports of the Pay-Table Committee, nor the annual report of the committee appointed from time to time to settle with the Treasurer. No documents can be found, connected with the Auditor's department, previous to A. D. 1808. The Commissary General's and Pay-Master General's books are not yet discovered. No records of the Surveyor General are in the State department. I then commenced the examination of the files in the Treasurer's department, separating the vouchers for military expenditures from others. Such vouchers as contained interesting historical facts I placed by themselves. I found the orders drawn on the Treasurer, by proper authority, for military services and expenditures, including sums directed to be paid by the House of Representatives, also by the Governor and Council and Board of War, to be equal to five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of interest and exclusive of property destroyed by the enemy.

Vermont being admitted into the Union March 4th, A. D. 1791, the General Assembly of this State, Nov. 3d, A. D. 1791, appointed Commissioners to ascertain the expenses of this State in the prosecution of the Revolutionary War. Hon. Isaac Tichenor, Gen. Ira Allen, and Benjamin Green, Esq., were appointed Commissiovers to collect and arrange all the amounts of the said expenditures, occasioned by the war. Gen. Ira Allen was appointed Secretary and Treasurer, 6th of January, A. D. 1776, by convention, and remained Treasurer until October session, A. D. 1786. It appears from the journals of the General Assembly, that no final settlement was made with said Gen. Allen, until the 25th of October, A. D. 1792. The settlement not being made is the probable cause of the Commissioners on the part of this State neglecting to make up the amount of the said expenditures. Therefore no accounts for Revolutionary expenditures were presented to Congress, December, A. D. 1792, agreeable to

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the act of Congress, passed 23d January, A. D. 1792, giving Vermont a right so to do. Congress therefore found it necessary, for the purpose of enabling the Commissioners on the part of the United States to complete a settlement between the several States and the United States, to pass a law, February 27th, A. D. 1793, repealing the second section of the law passed 23d January, A. D. 1792, giving Vermont a right to present her claim in December following. After thus examining the documents and files in the State and Treasurer's departments, also the report of the Board of Commissioners appointed to settle the accounts of the several States with the United States, I entertained serious doubts whether, after the vouchers being more carefully examined, the sum expended would amount to a sum sufficient to make Vermont a creditor State, had she presented her claim in December, A. D. 1792.

In making this examination, I discovered many well authenticated manuscript papers, which go to make up the doings of the various conventions of the people, as well as the doings of the Council of Safety, previous to the 15th of August, A. D. 1777, of which we have no record in our State department. I also discovered many copies of letters, written in Council of Safety, to officers commanding in the northern department, and to military officers in this State, which led me to believe that Vermont was entitled to the credit of performing more and greater military operations, in the northern department, than all the other military operations in this department put together.

After making these various discoveries, as far as practicable I endeavored to ascertain wherein we were deficient, in our State department, in proper and necessary documents, in order to make a complete history of the proceedings of the people in this State in their several conventions, and the proceedings of the various Councils of Safety, previous to the 12th March, A. D. 1778; which deficiencies were numerous,—yet, from various sources, I had good reason to believe these could be supplied. I therefore, after consulting with several distinguished gentlemen, as to what was best, under existing circumstances, concluded to collect and arrange all amounts of the expenditures occasioned by and on account of the Revolutionary War. I have nearly completed copying the pay rolls, and shall proceed in copying each voucher as fast as practicable, as well as doings of the General Assembly, Governor and Council, and Board of War, making appropriations for military services and expenditures. I have written to sixty town clerks, residing in towns which, by the law of this State, passed at Westminster, March 8th, A. D. 1780, were authorized to tax themselves for the purpose of carrying on the war, and for supplying a town stock of ammunition,-requesting each town clerk to copy all warnings and proceedings of his town connected with the same.

I considered it necessary to procure and arrange, as far as possible, the documentary history immediately connected with the military operations of this State during the Revolutionary War. I therefore, on the first day of June last, proceeded to Concord, N. H. At the Secretary of State's office I found the manuscript papers, before and during the war, well arranged, according to dates, and neatly bound into proper sized volumes. On making my business known, I was kindly received and every facility gratuitously tendered, by which means, in nine days I examined said manuscript papers, and completed an index of such documents as had an immediate reference to this State. I spent one day at Dunbarton, with Major Caleb Stark, grandson of General Stark, examining one bound volume

of manuscript letters, written and received by Gen. Stark during the war, particularly such letters as were written and received during the time he was on his way to Bennington, August, A. D. 1777, as well as during the time he had command in the northern department.

From Concord I proceeded to Boston. At the State department I found the documents well arranged, with an index to each volume. The Rev. Mr. Fett has for several years been employed in arranging and binding the manuscript papers in the State department. Mr. Fett kindly aided me in selecting the necessary documents in relation to the military operations in the northern department, so far as Vermont was concerned. At this office I completed an index of the documents in relation to taking Ticonderoga and St. Johns, amount of property taken, surrender of Ticonderoga, battles at Hubbardton and Bennington, surrender of Burgoyne, and all doings therewith connected. I called upon the Rev. Jared Sparks at Cambridge, who arranged and bound the letters addressed to General Washington, before and during the Revolutionary War. The Rev. gentleman had in his possession an index, giving the date, volume and page, and by whom written, of all the letters addressed to Gen. Washington, contained in one hundred and seventeen volumes. He kindly tendered me every aid and assistance in making such extracts from this index as was thought would be necessary in prosecuting my further inquiry. He informed me, that while he was in England making his researches for official documents and historical facts in relation to the American Revolution, he discovered in a private gentleman's library the original manuscript papers of letters received and answers sent by Gen. Haldemand, while he had the command in Canada. The public and private correspondence with gentlemen in the Grants, and other portions of this Government, are here to be found. I also called on the Hon. George Bancroft of Boston, the American historian, who kindly furnished me with many historical facts which he had discovered, in relation to the military operations of the northern department. From Boston I proceeded to Worcester, where I spent two days in examining files of newspapers, books and pamphlets, belonging to the American Historical and Antiquarian Society. I here found proceedings of several early conventions, held by the people in this State, published in the papers; also several communications, and one pamphlet, directed to be published by the Governor and Council of this State, A. D. 1779 and A. D. 1780.

At Hartford, Conn., I spent a few days examining the bound manuscript papers in the State department. I here procured a late publication, entitled "A historical collection from official records and files, of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution, with an appendix containing important letters and depositions, written during the war," compiled by Royal Hinman, Secretary of State. I also examined files of papers in the office of the Connecticut Historical Society, and noted many important historical facts.

From Hartford I proceeded to Washington, and on the 27th of June I made application to the Chief Clerk in the State department, the Secretary of State being absent. I was here permitted to make such examination of the manuscript documents as I considered necessary. I here found one hundred and seventeen volumes of letters addressed to General Washington; also many volumes of Washington's letters in answer. I commenced April, A. D. 1775, and turned over each leaf of each volume from that date up to and including A. D. 1782, noted such communications as in any

manner related to the New Hampshire Grants, the date, by whom written, and contents. I examined letters of Gov. Thomas Chittenden, Ethan Allen, Levi Allen, Moses Robinson, Roger Enos, Ira Alien, Stephen R. Bradley, Joseph Marsh, Peter Olcott, Timothy Beedle, President Ware, John Wheelock, Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gov. George Clinton, Gen. James Clinton, Gen. Garnsworth, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Gen. John Stark, Gen. Gates, Gen. Heath, Gen. Benedict Arnold, Gen. Montgomery, Gen. Sullivan, Col. Seth Warner, General Wooster, as well as many others, written to Gen. Washington and to Congress; also his answers in relation to the military operations and civil affairs in the northern department, including the New Hampshire Grants. I here found two volumes of printed and manuscript papers, marked "New Hampshire Grants, reports of committees and papers relative to, from A. D. 1776 to 1784." In these two volumes I find certified copies of the proceedings of all conventions of the people inhabiting the Grants, previous to the meeting of our first General Assembly, March, A. D. 1778, besides the proceedings of the Provincial Congress of New York and New Hampshire in relation to the Grants. I copied several important letters, written by the aforesaid general officers and gentlemen. Several of the letters, at the time they were written, were secret, confidential letters to and from Gen. Washington, with enclosures testifying as to the correspondence between the leading men in the Grants and the British commander in Canada; the condition of the Continental troops in the northern department; want of clothing, provis ions and ammunition; withdrawing the pick-axes, bars, shovels and spades from the Grants; inhabitants not being protected, going over to the British, or joining with the Grants; destruction of Fort Ann, Fort George, and Skeenesborough; taking of prisoners, scalping, burning of buildings and crops; arrangements completed by the Cabinet of Vermont with the British commander; conventions east of Hudson River; union with the Grants; number of British troops at Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Canada; eating up their provisions; their return to St. Johns; proceedings of the Legislature of New York, prohibiting the Commissary buying provisions for troops; would raise eight hundred militia, provided Congress would pay and victual them; threatening to withhold supplies, &c. From these official letters important facts are to be gathered from the commencement to the close of the Revolutionary War. I have succeeded in discovering all the pamphlets and handbills published by direction of the General Assembly, Governor and Council, during the war, in relation to the New Hampshire Grants being a free and independent State, and the controversy with New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay. These I have in my possession, with few exceptions. But very few of these letters, which I have referred to, have ever been published.

On my return, I spent a few days at the State department in Albany. The State of New York has recently published the proceedings of their Provincial Congress, with letters addressed to said Congress, in two large volumes. These I have procured. At Bennington, I made a thorough search for important documents, but few could be found; also at Shaftsbury, Arlington, Sunderland, Tinmouth, Williston, and Jericho, in hopes of finding original letters addressed to Gov. Chittenden during the war.

I was absent from my residence, in making what I considered to be necessary inquiries connected with this subject, ninety days. It may be thought that I have far exceeded my powers, or the design of the Legislature, in endeavoring to ascertain the amount of the expenditures on the