Description: ACTS and LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, PASSES AT THE GENERAL COURT, A.D. 1783. BOSTON:PRINTED BY ADAMS AND NOURSE,Printers to the Honorable the GENERAL COURT,M,DCC,LXXXIII.(1783) Disbound with even toning and small remains of old tape on spine and edge wear to last page. Somewhat trimmed, measureing 7 5/8” ” x 11 3/8”. Acts and Laws, Passed by the GENERAL COURT of Massachusetts: Begun and held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Twenty-Eighth Day of May, Anno Domini. 1783. 36 pages. Bound with: Acts and Laws, Passed by the GENERAL COURT of Massachusetts: Begun and held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Twenty-Eighth Day of May, Anno Domini, and from thence continued, by Adjournment, to Wednesday the Twenty-Fourth Day of September following, and then met. 1783. 12 pages (37-44). Note printer error misnumbered pages 45-48 as pages 41-44. Acts include:· An Act for granting Lottery for the rebuilding and repairing the public Bridges, and repairing the Highway in the Town of Winchendon, which lead to Charleston, in the State of New-Hampshire· An Act to execute “An Act to prevent the Return to this State of certain Persons therein named, and others, who have left this State, or either of the United States, and joined the Enemies thereof.”· An Act to provide for the Collection of Taxes in Cafes where the Constables or Collectors appointed for that Purpose have removed or may remove themselves out of the Commonwealth.· An Act determining at what Times and Places the Supreme Judicial Court, the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Court of Common Pleas, shall be held within and for the County of Berkshire· An Act laying Duties of Import and Excise on certain Goods, Wares and Merchandize therein described, and for repealing several Laws heretofore made for that Purpose· An Act for regulating Pilotage in several Port in this Commonwealth· An Act for granting the United States in Congress assembled, certain Imports and Duties upon foreign Goods imported into this State, and for the Purpose of paying the Principal and Interest of the Debt contracted in the Prosecution of the late War with Great-Britain· An Act making Provision for the Support and Maintenance of Light-Houses on the Sea-Coast of this Commonwealth· An Act to regulate the catching of Salmon, Shad and Alewives, and to remove and prevent Obstructions in Merrimack-River· An Act to prevent the Destruction of White-Pine Trees in this Commonwealth
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Topic: Political
Subject: Law & Government
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Year Printed: 1783
