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[Three extracts, numbered II-IV, of letters and an address by George Washington relative to half-pay and commutation of half-pay]
A Proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the sixth day of May next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston this twenty-seventh day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
A Proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of August current ... Given at the Council-chamber, this twelfth day of August ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven
A list of the addressers to the late Gov. Hutchinson. : Taken from the London gazetteer, and new daily advertiser, of Saturday September 24th. 1774. To the printer of the Gazetteer. The 8th of June last, a most servile, fallacious, and adulatory address was presented to Thomas Gage, Esq ; at Boston .
A message from the governor : Mr. Speaker and gentlemen, the requisition now announced shortly to be made on us, evinces the absolute necessity for your immediately ascertaining whether you have paid up your quotas to Congress hitherto, or what may remain due theron .
A proclamation : Whereas Congress have received information and complaints, "That violences have been done by American armed vessels to neutral nations ... they do hereby direct, enjoin and command, all captains, commanders and other officers and seamen, belonging to any American armed vessels, to ... pay a sacred regard to the rights of neutral powers ... Given in Congress at York, in the state of Pennsylvania, this ninth day of May, anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight
A proclamation : Whereas, by an act of the Congress ... there has been annexed to the said territory, all that tract of country lying east of Pearl River, west of the Perdido, and south of the thirty first degree of north latitude ... I do hereby erect the same into a county ... by the name of Mobile, and do further declare that the laws of the Mississippi Territory ... are in force within the said county .
A resolve prescribing the form of inlistment for those men belonging to this commonwealth, who shall inlist into the service of the United States, to continue in the service until the end of the present war with Britain .
Against separation of Maine from Massachusetts : an address to the people of Maine, by a numerous meeting from different parts of the county of Lincoln, of both political parties, held at Nobleborough, May 9, 1816
An Exact table, to bring old tenor into lawful money
An act establishing two additional terms of the Supreme Judicial Court, and dispensing with the attendance of all the justices at certain other terms
An act for raising six hundred men towards compleating the battalions of this state in the Continental Army
An act for the limitation of actions. : Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, by the representatives of the freemen of the state of Vermont in General Assembly met ... that no person shall be indicted ... for the breach of any penal law, or for other crime or misdemeanor, by reason whereof a forfeiture belongs to any public treasury, unless the indictment ... be made and exhibited within one year after the offence is or shall be committed. .
An act regulating the choice of a Council of Censors
An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United-States of America : Friends and Countrymen, three years have now passed .
An advertisement : Whereas the lands of Narrhaganset, and Niantick Countryes, and parts adjacent, are places very pleasant and fertile ... These are therefore to certifie & inform all Christian people, that are willing or may be desirous to settle themselves in a regular way of townships on the said lands, that they may please to apply themselves to the subscribers hereof in Boston .
An aggregate and valuation of exports of produce from the province of Georgia : with the number of vessels and tonnage employed therein, annually distinguished, from the year 1754 to 1773
An estimate of the average price in December 1778, of the different articles of cloathing allowed the soldiery by the act of Congress September 6th, 1777. .
An ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States, North-west of the River Ohio
An ordinance, for amending the ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful
Annapolis, May 23, 1769 : Sir, Yesterday there was a meeting of a considerable number of the principal inhabitants of this county, when the plan of an association was formed, a copy of whereof we inclose you, which is expected to be signed very generally by every degree of the people here. .
At a Council held at Boston Septemb. 8. 1670 : the Council ... do therefore appoint ... the two and twentieth of this instant September to be a day of publick humiliation .
At a Council held at Boston, March 10. 1668 [new style, 1669] : the governour and magistrates being assembled in Council ... do therefore commend ... the twenty fifth day of this instant to be kept a publick day of humiliation, and spent in fasting and prayer .
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of October, 1780 : an act for collecting and storing a quantity of provisions, for the use of the Continental Army and the forces raised for the defence of this state
At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1780 : Whereas a requisition has been made on this state by the honorable committee of Congress and by His Excellency General Washington ... Resolved ... that 2520 able-bodied effective men, of the militia of this state ... be formed into five regiments .
At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, A.D. 1779 : an act for providing for the families of the officers and soldiers belonging to the battalions of Continental troops raised by this state
At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, Anno Domini, 1780 : Whereas it is necessary that the two regiments ordered to be raised for the defence of this state, should be immediately compleated. Resolved ... that one hundred and ninety-two effective men be draughted from the senond [sic] brigade .
At a Great and General Court or Assembly for His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England : begun & held at Boston, upon Wednesday, May 26th. 1725
At a convention of committees for the county of Worcester, convened at the court-house in Worcester, January 27, 1775, the following resolves (among others) passed, viz. Whereas Isaac Jones of Weston ... has ... manifested a disposition inimical to the rights and priviledges of his countrymen. .
At a convention of delegates, held by adjournment at Exeter, November 3d, 1779 : for the important purpose of supporting the credit of the continental currency ... came to the following resolutions .
At a full meeting of the inhabitants of Anne-Arundel County : including the citizens of Annapolis, on Monday the 16th day of January, 1775. Charles Carroll, Esq ; barrister, chairman. Mr. Isaac M'Hard, clerk
At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, at Faneuil-Hall, May 14, 1782 : and continued by adjournment to the 22d of said May. Voted, that the selectmen be directed to publish in hand-bills the regulations ... in consequence of a report of the committee appointed to audit the town-treasurer's accompts ... Which regulations are as follows, viz
At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, 30th June, A.D. 1780 : Whereas the General Assembly in May last, resolved, that fifteen hundred men should be raised to join the Connecticut battalions in the Continental Army ... Therefore resolved, that only fifteen hundred and twenty able-bodied effective men, rank and file, be raised .
At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, on the 19th day of June A.D. 1781 : Whereas ... his Excellency the governor hath received from his Excellency General Washington, a very pressing and earnest requistion for eight hundred men ... Therefore resolved, by the governor and Council of Safety, that there be forthwith raised in this state, eight hundred able bodied effective men .
At the convention of the governour, Council, and representatives of the Massachusets Colony : ... It is ordered, that Thursday, the nineteenth day of this instant September; be observed as a day of humiliation, with fasting and prayer .
Boston in New England. August 9th. 1667 : the governour, deputy governour and sundry of the magistrates, being assembled, do judge meet to commend to their beloved brethren and neighbors the inhabitants of this colony this following proposal
Boston, April 18, 1785. : the minds of the people being greatly and justly agitated by the apparent intention of the government and the merchants of Great-Britain to deprive the industrious trader of every benefit of our commerce, by the entire monopoly of the same to themselves ... A numerous and respectable meeting of the merchants, traders, and others, convened at Faneuil-Hall, on Saturday the 16th inst. to consider the alarming state of our trade and navigation, the following votes were unanimously agreed to .
Boston, Aug. 3d, 1779. : Sir, As it is necessary for the committee appointed by the town to regulate the prices of labour and the wares of the different tradesmen, to know the rates at which such wares, &c. are now sold--You are requested by that committee to convene a number of the principal gentlemen in your way of business, and as soon as possible, to determine on on [sic] and report to said committee the present prices of your wares and labour. .
Boston, January 20, 1780 : the committee appointed by the great and General Court of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to state and settle the public accounts ... beg leave to inform you, that you stand indebted to said state .
Boston, June 22d, 1773 : Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston, conformable to that duty which they have hitherto endeavoured to discharge with fidelity, again address you with a very fortunate important discovery ; and cannot but express their grateful sentiments in having obtained the approbation of so large a majority of the towns in this colony .
Boston, October 16, 1783. : the House proceeded in the consideration of the bill for granting an impost to Congress .
Boston, September 26, 1777 : Last evening a gentleman arrived here from Providence, by whom we are favour'd with the following, fresh advices from the northern army
Boston, ss. : Whereas at a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, on Friday the 16th of May last, it was voted as the opinion of the town that if the inhabitants will give in to the assessors a just valuation of their estates, that so the same may be laid before the General Court, it may probably be a means of their obtaining relief as to paying so large a proportion of the publick taxes .
By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; captain general and governour in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation : ... that Friday the fourteenth day of April be observed and kept as a day of publick fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the twenty eighth day of March 1758 .
By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor, and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Friday the fifth day of April next, to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Portsmouth, the 14th day of March, 1765 .
By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor, and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Wednesday the twenty first day of this instant May, to observed and kept as a day of fasting and prayer ... Given at Portsmouth, at arms, this 6th day of May ... 1766
By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governour and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... a proclamation for a general fast : ... Friday the 20th day of April next to be observed and kept as a day of fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Portsmouth the 31st. day of March, 1764 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the ninth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the seventeenth day of March, 1767 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the nineteenth day of March 1763 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the third day of March 1768 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the sixth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the eighth day of March ... 1769
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twelfth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the fourteenth day of March, 1764 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast. : ... Thursday the twenty-fourth day of the present April ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the fifth day of April, 1766 .
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esquire, captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the eighteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the thirteenth day of March 1765 .
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the twenty fifth day of April instant (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eleventh day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty two .
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation, for a day of thanksgiving : ... Thursday the seventh day of December next ( the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eighth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty .
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, A proclamation for a day of thanksgiving : ... Thursday the eleventh day of December next (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eighth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty three .
By His Excellency John Langdon, Esq. president of the state of New-Hampshire, a proclamation for a day of public fasting and prayer throughout the state : ... Thursday the sixth day of April next, to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, this twenty-first day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six .
By His Excellency John Sullivan, Esquire, president of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation, for a general thanksgiving : ... Thursday the twenty-third of November next, to be observed as a day of public and solemn thanksgiving ... Given at the Council-chamber in Exeter, this twenty-sixth day of September ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-six .
By His Excellency John Taylor Gilman, Esquire, governor of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation : ... Thursday the second day of April next, to be observed as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Concord, this thirteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five .
By His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next, to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber at Portsmouth, this 15th day of March 1768 .
By His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor, and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation, for a general fast : ... Thursday, the sixth day of April next, be observed and kept as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut. A proclamation : Whereas it hath pleased a holy and righteous God ... to suffer this land to be visited with the calamities of a sore and distressing war ... Given under my hand at Lebanon in said state, the 5th day of August, A.D. 1779
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq; governor of the state of Connecticut. A proclamation : Whereas the requisitions of Congress upon this state ... requires the utmost care ... I have therefore thought fit ... to lay an embargo upon ... and strictly prohibit and forbid any and all persons to transport or carry out of this state by land or water, any butter, or cheese, turnips, potatoes, onions, or any other vegetables or roots ... Given under my hand, at Lebanon in said state, the 14th day of July, A. D. 1780
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut, in America, a declaration : In the beginning of the unhappy contest with the King, ministry, and Parliament of Great-Gritain ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber, at Hartford, the eighth day of March, anno Domini 1781 .
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut. A proclamation : Whereas the multitude of our iniquities have provoked the righteous governor of the universe ... I do therefore ... exhort all persons of every rank, carefully to abstain from oppression, injustice and every vice ... Given under my hand at the council chamber in Hartford, the 5th day of November ... 1777
By His Excellency Josiah Bartlett, Esq. governor and commander in chief of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the twenty-seventh day of March next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Exeter, the sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four .
By His Excellency Josiah Bartlett, Esq. president of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the fourth day of April next to be observed as a day of general fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Exeter, the ninth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three .
By His Excellency Josiah Bartlett, Esquire, president of the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer : ... Thursday the fifth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber, in Exeter, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-two .
By His Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esq. ... : I have therefore thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, strictly requiring and commanding all the good people of this state, to render strict obedience to the laws thereof ... Given under my hand ... this 20th day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven .
By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over HIs Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation. For a public fast : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of June, 1759 ... Given at Boston the ninth day of June, 1759 .
By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq ; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast. : ... Thursday the third day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the sixth day of March, 1760 .
By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq; captain-general and governor in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a public fast : ... Thursday the fifth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twelfth day of March, 1759 .
By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq ; captain-general and governour in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fourth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-fifth day of March, 1745. .
By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq ; captain-general and governour in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twentieth of March next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-seventh day of February 1755 .
By His Excellency William Shirley, esq ; captain-general and governour in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of June instant ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the eighth day of June 1744 .
By Winthrop Sargent, governor of the Mississippi Territory. : In obedience to the will of the general government ... it is incumbent on me to direct that, Messieurs Cato West [and five others] who have been returned as representatives duly elected, should convene ... Given near Natchez, September 10, 1800
By his excellency John Pickering, Esquire, president of the state of Newhampshire. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the second day of April next, to be observed as a day of general humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber at Exeter, the twenty-first day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine .
By his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire governor, captain general, and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : Agreeable to the foregoing recommendation of Congress, I have thought fit ... to appoint, and do hereby appoint the first Thursday of May next, to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber at Hartford ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine .
By his excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor, captain-general, and commander in chief, in and over the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : ... the thirteenth day of December next, to be set apart and religiously observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer ... Given under by hand in Lebanon, this twenty-second day of November ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one .
By his excellency Josiah Bartlett, esquire, President of the State of NewHampshire. A proclamation, for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer : ... Thursday the seventh day of April next ... Given at the Council-Chamber, in Concord, this seventh day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one .
By the Governor. An address and proclamation, to the inhabitants of Connecticut, one of the United States of America : Whereas there is an inseparable connection between true religion and happiness ... I have thought fit ... to issue a solemn address and proclamation, beseeching and enjoining all orders and denominations of people to a serious meditation, a diligent improvement, and to a chearful observance thereof. ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, the second day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-eight
By the Hon. Major General Arnold, commander in chief of the forces of the United States of American in the city of Philadelphia, &c., A proclamation : In order to protect the persons and property of the inhabitants of this city from insult and injury, to secure the public and private stores which the enemy may have left in the city and to prevent the disorder and confusion ... His Excellency George Washington, in compliance with the following resolution of Congress, has thought proper to establish military law in this city
By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut ... A proclamation : Whereas the honorable Continental Congress have resolved, that eight battalions of troops be raised within this state ... Given under my hand at Hartford, the 26th day of November ... 1776
By the Honorable Thomas Hutchinson, Esq ; lieutenant-governor and commander in chief in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusets-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fifth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the seventh day of March ... 1770
By the Honourable His Majesty's Council, for the province of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the thirtieth day of June instant ... Given at the Council-Chamber in Boston the seventeenth day of June, 1757 .
By the Honourable Major General Baron de Steuben, commanding the troops in the state of Virginia. : the Honourable the Congress of the United States having directed that the officers of the state of Virginia, on Continental establishment, should assemble together, that their line may be arranged under the new regulations of the 21st of November last: I do therefore hereby direct all Continental officers ... to repair to Chesterfield court-house ... Given under my hand, at Richmond, this 20th day of December ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty .
By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq ; lieutenant governour and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the nineteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the seventh day of March, 1753 .
By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq ; lieutenant-governour and commander in chief in and over His Majesty's provincce of the Massachusetts-Bay ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of this instant August ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the 13th day of August 1755 .
By the United States in Congress assembled. July 27, 1785. : Resolved, that the secretary of Congress apply to the executives of the several states, for thirteen copies of the legislative acts thereof, since the first of September, 1774 .
By the state of Maryland. A declaration : Whereas the General Assembly of Maryland hath heretofore resolved ... that the United States in Congress assembled should have full power to ascertain and fix the western limits of those states, that claim to the Mississippi or South Sea
Colony of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12, 1776. : In order to carry the underwritten resolve of the hon'ble Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males above twenty one years of age (lunaticks, idiots and Negroes excepted) to sign to the declaration on this paper ... M. Weare, chairman. .
Colony of Rhode Island. To the freemen and freeholders of the colony aforesaid : Gentlemen, You were pleased the last year ... to place me in the chief seat of government ... It hath however been my misfortune ... to have had a clamour raised, and industriously propagated, against me .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq. governour ... A proclamation for a day of publick fasting & prayer : ... Thursday, the sixth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber, in Boston, the tenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq. governour ... A proclamation for a general thanksgiving : ... Thursday, the fourteenth day of December next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the third day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor ... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Thursday the fifteenth day of May next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this twenty third day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, Governor ... A proclamation, for a day of fasting and prayer : ... Thursday, the fifteenth day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the thirteenth day of March ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governor ... A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday, the eleventh day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the fourth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governour ... A proclamation, for a day of fasting and prayer : ... Thursday, the seventh day of May next ... Given at Boston, the sixteenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governour ... A proclamation, for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer : ... Thursday the seventeenth day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the thirteenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Honor Thomas Cushing, Esq. lieutenant-governor ... A proclamation, for a public fast : ... Thursday the seventh day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the twenty-sixth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By the Governor. A proclamation for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday, the second day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, this twenty-eighth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 17, 1787. : Whereas it is necessary that a considerable sum of money should be immediately procured to defray the expences incurred by reason of the detachments lately made for the suppression of the unnatural rebellion now existing in the commonwealth ... Resolved, that the collectors of the public tax ... exert themselves to collect and pay into the treasury ... that part of the said tax which is to be paid in specie .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, March 24, 1786. : Whereas by a law, passed the 23d day of March, 1784, all collectors of public taxes, were directed to render an account of their collections, and the money by them paid into the public treasury ... Resolved, that the selectmen ... call on the collectors ... to render an account of their collections .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 18, 1785. : Whereas it is represented to this court, that sundry persons have fraudulently obtained ... securities of this government, for pay and wages due to the late soldiers of this state ... Resolved, that in all cases where the treasurer of this commonwealth, has been or shall be directed to issue new securities ... he shall immediately cause to be published the number, date and amount of the securities, and to whom payable, in order that the person who may have thus obtained the securities, may be dedected [sic]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 3, 1781 : On the petition of Cols. Putnam, Jackson, and Brooks, a committee from the army ... Resolved, that if any officer or soldier of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army ... shall purchase at public vendue any confiscated estates in this commonwealth, on his paying ... the debts due from said estate, he shall have liberty to pay the remainder in depreciation notes .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Thomas Ivers, Esq ; treasurer and receiver-general of the said commonwealth. : To the selectmen or assessors of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. In obedience to an act ... These are in the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, to will and require you forthwith to assess the sum ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the twelfth day of December ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two
Connecticut. By the governor, a proclamation : Whereas I am desired by Major-General Schuyler ... to issue a proclamation of pardon to all such deserters from the Continental Army in the northern department, as belong to, or reside in Connecticut, and shall return to their duty by a limited time ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, the 16th day of July ... 1776. .
Definitive treaty : Sunday evening arrived the Lord Hyde packet, in 40 days from Falmouth, with the definitive treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America, signed at Paris, the 3d day of September, 1783
Extract from an address to the people of the state of New York, on the subject of the Federal Constitution
Extract from the votes of the House of Representatives, April 25th, 1755
Fellow citizens, Remember the proceedings on last Monday morning at the coffee-house, and on Tuesday at the town-meeting. The liberty of the press and freedom of speech were then both violently attacked. Change both men and measures, or ruin inevitably awaits us. .
For the information of importers, retailers, and others. : Articles of impost and excise extracted from the two laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, which passed the General Court November 17, 1786, and took place the 1st of January 1787
For the information of the merchants : the committee having been notified by the secretary of state, that the agent of claims and appeals appointed by the president of the United States, is to embark immediately for London .
General orders for the Second Division of the Massachusetts' Militia. : ... Given under my hand in Newbury-port, this first day of December, Anno Domini, 1786. Jonathan Titcomb, major-general
Gentlemen, The selectmen, by the order of the town, have directed me to inclose the following address, to be communicated to the inhabitants of your town .
Good public roads, are the greatest utility even in countries, where from the sterility of the soil, they do not produce food for the support of inhabitants of it. How much more necessary then must it be in such a province as this, which produces so ample an export .
Head quarters, August 25, 1777 : Sir, A messenger is just arrived with the inclosed letters from General Arnold and Colonel Gansevoort .
His Excellency General Washington, having represented the necessity of having fifteen hundred men, in readiness to march upon the shortest notice ... Resolved ... that the two state regiments ... shall, by the first day of July next, if not filled ... by voluntary inlistment ... be compleated by peremptory detachment .
Im Congress den 29ten April 1778 : an die Officier und Soldaten in Diensten des Königs von Grossbrittanien, so keine Unterthanen des genanten Königs sind
Important intelligence. Providence, August 23, 1777 : the following was received in a hand-bill from Boston, after the publication of this day's Gazette. Boston (twelve o'clock) Friday, August 22. The following letter from the Hon. Major-General Lincoln, to the Honorable Council, is just received by express. Bennington, August 18, 1777
In Congress at Exeter, November 16th, 1775. : Voted, that the committees of safety or of correspondence, in each town or parish, in this colony, be desired to transmit to the Congress or Committee of Safety for this colony, the names and places of abode of all such persons as they suspect to be any ways enimical to this country .
In Congress, April 29, 1777. : Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states forthwith to order the sums advanced by them for recruiting the Continental battalions .
In Congress, August 16, 1779 : Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of the year 1778 .
In Congress, August 6, 1777 : The Committee of Treasury report, that they have conferred with the managers of the States Lottery, and find that a considerable number of tickets remain unsold ... the Committee recommend the drawing to be postponed till the sixth day of November next; and that a further quantity of tickets be transmitted to the several states ... Resolved, that Congress concur with this report, and direct the Board of Treasury to cause the same to be carried into effect
In Congress, June 28th, 1780. : Whereas Congress, on the eighteenth day of April last, resolved ... therefore resolved, that the principal of all loans, that have been made to these United States, shall finally be discharged, by paying the full current value of the bills when loaned .
In Congress, June 29, 1779. : As congresses are bound by every motive of policy and of public & private justice to maintain the credit of the paper money emitted by their authority on the faith of the United States .
In Congress, March 15, 1779 : Resolved, that all officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers ... commissioned and inlisted since the 16th of September, 1776 ... be considered as parts of the quotas of the several states to which they did or shall respectively belong when so commissioned or inlisted
In Congress, March 2, 1779. : the Board of War having represented, that application has been made to the board for arrearages of cloathing ... Resolved, that a proper person be forthwith appointed and commissioned, to settle and pay all accounts of arrearages of cloathing due to the troops of these states for the year 1777 .
In Congress, March 5, 1779. : Resolved, that the quarter-master general, commissary-general of purchases, and cloathier-general ... are hereby authorised and directed to pay all certificates .
In Congress, March 6, 1779. : Resolved, that Congress, or such person or persons as they appoint to hear and determine appeals from the courts of admiralty, have necessarily the power to examine as well into decisions on facts, as decisions on the law, and to decree finally thereon .
In Congress, Monday, 30th June, 1777. : Congress, agreeably to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the letters from Abraham Ten Broeck, Esq ; .
In Congress, Monday, June 12, 1775 : ... This Congress ... recommend, that Thursday, the twentieth day of July next, be observed by the inhabitants of all the English colonies on this continent, as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer .
In Congress, October 8, 1778. : Resolved, that all limitations of prices of gold and silver be taken off
In Council, May 4, 1781 : It is not beneath the dignity of a government .
In Council. Philadelphia, February 3d, 1779 : Present, His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq. president, Hon. George Bryan, Esq. ... This board having maturely considered the general tenor and course of the military command exercised by Major General Arnold, in this city and state .
In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774. : Resolved, that the following address be presented to the several ministers of the gospel in this province
In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774. : the operation of the cruel and iniquitous Boston-port-bill, that instrument of ministerial vengeance, having reduced our once happy capital ... It is therefore resolved, that it be recommended to our constituents the inhabitants of the other towns ... that they farther contribute liberally to alleviate the burden .
In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 15, 1775 : Whereas it has pleased the righteous Sovereign of the Universe, in just indignation against the sins of a people ... Resolved ... that Thursday the eleventh day of May next be set apart as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer .
In Provincial Congress, Exeter, June 6, 1775 : Whereas it has pleased the righteous Governor of the World to permit evil men, on both sides of the Atlantick, to ripen their plots against the liberties of America into violence ... Resolved ... that Thursday the twenty-second day of this instant, be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer .
In the House of Delegates, Thursday, the 25th of October, 1787. : Resolved unanimously, that the proceedings of the fœderal convention transmitted to the General Assembly through the medium of Congress, be submitted to a convention of the people for their full and free investigation, discussion, and decision. .
In the House of Representatives, January 27, 1757 : voted, that the arms and accoutrements belonging to this province, which were delivered for the late Crown Point expedition, and are in the possession of any persons ... be returned .
Laws and regulations of the Central Mining District : miners' meeting
Massachusets-Bay. By the governor. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fifteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the tenth day of March, 1773 .
Massachusets-Bay. By the governor. A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the seventh day of March ... 1774
Massachusets-Bay. By the lieutenant-governor and commander in chief. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the eighteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the seventh day of March, 1771 .
Message : gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives .
News-boy's budget. For the carrier of the Washington Republican
Office for Foreign Affairs, 13th May, 1785. : the Secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a letter of the 21st March last, from Richard Soderstrom, reports as his opinion, that no state is obliged by the laws of nations to receive or admit consuls from any foreign state ; and consequently every sovereign has a right to admit them on such terms and conditions only as he may think proper. ... All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay
Philadelphia, in Congress, June 12, 1775. A proclamation for a continental public fast : to be observed by the inhabitants of all the English colonies on this continent ... Thursday, the 20th day of July next .
Port of New-Orleans shut : by an express arrived this evening from New-Orleans we have received the following important intelligence .
Postscript, London
Proceedings of the convention, held at Portland, September 6, 1786
Proclamation. By Winthrop Sargent, governor of the Mississippi Territory. : Whereas it has been enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that so much of the ordinance ... providing for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio ... as relates to the organization of a General Assembly therein .
Province of New-Hampshire, by His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; ... A proclamation, for a general fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next, to be set apart and solemnly devoted as a day of general fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the tenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy four
Province of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor, and commander in chief ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Wednesday the fifteenth day of April be observed and kept as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the 5th day of April, ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven
Province of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday, the fifth day of April next, to be religiously and devoutly observed and kept as a day of publick fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the 19th day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy
Province of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; ... A proclamation, for a public fast : ... Thursday the second of April next, to be religiously and devoutly observed, and kept as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the thirteenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy two
Province of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq ; captain-general, governor, and commander in chief, in and over His Majesty's province of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday, the eighteenth day of April next, be kept as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the 23d day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy one
Province of New-Hampshire. By the governor. A proclamation, for a general fast : ... Thursday the 27th of April next, to be religiously and devoutly observ'd & kept as a day of public fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the 24th day of March ... 1775
Province of New-Hampshire. The message of His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq ; to the representatives convened by the King's writ to sit in General Assembly January the 3d. 1748. at the dissolution of the General Assembly, January 4th. 1752
Recommendations to the schoolmasters, by the committee appointed to carry into execution the system of public education, adopted by the town of Boston, the 15th of October 1789
Resolved ... that a list of the deficient numbers of recruits ... for filling up their respective quotas of the Continental Army ... be forthwith lodged in the secretary's office .
Resolved ... that the numbers hereafter annexed to the several towns, shall be the number or quota of men such town shall raise, to fill the regiment of state troops raised for the defence of the western frontiers. .
Resolved by this assembly, that a list of the deficiencies in the quota of recruits, to fill up the Connecticut line, in the Continental Army, be forthwith printed ... and that His Excellency the governor ... give all necessary orders ... for raising and compleating the troops of this state
Reverend Mr. [blank] Sir. It having pleased the great head of the church, so far to smile on the attempts expressed in the first circular letter .
Salem, June 17, 1774. Province of Massachusett's Bay : the following resoves [sic] passed the House of Representatives this day by a very great majority, and are now transmitted to the selectmen of the several towns and districts in this province. [blank] clerk
Second report of Ways and Means
Speech of the president of the United States, to both houses of Congress, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1790
State of Connecticut. At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, at Lebanon, July 26, 1781 : This board being officially informed and fully acquainted with the state and circumstances of the Connecticut line of the Continental Army .
State of Connecticut. By the captain-general : Whereas His Excellency General Washington has ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, in this state, the ninth day of October, A.D. 1779
State of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives. September 14, 1779. : Whereas it is indispensably necessary that a supply of blankets should be immediately procured for the service of the army: resolved, that the selectmen of each town ... are required to collect from the inhabitants of the town ... a number of blankets .
State of Massachusetts-Bay, in the House of Representatives, February 4, 1779 : On the petition of the officers ... in behalf of themselves and the soldiers under their command. Resolved, that the selectmen or committees ... are enjoined to supply the families of ... soldiers inlisted from their respective towns ... in manner directed by a resolve ... passed upon the 10th day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1779 : whereas upon examination, in consequence of a report of the committee for settling disputes between the towns in the several counties in this state respecting their quotas of men in the Continental Army, it appears that the committees in the counties of Plymouth, York, Hampshire, Berkshire and Lincoln .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 13, 1780 : Whereas it is indispensably necessary, in order for a settlement with the army, that the accounts for the supplies of the soldiers families should be made out by the selectmen and committees in the several towns and plantations within this state, and lodged in the secretary's office forthwith .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 14, 1780 : Whereas the Congress of the United States have called for an immediate supply of money in the public treasury, as indispensably necessary to enable them to prosecute their plans against the common enemy .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 29, 1779. : Whereas it is of great importance to remove every obstacle to the good peoples of this state lending their money for the public service: Resolved, that in every town in this state, whose center is more than ten miles distant from the town of Boston ... there be appointed ... a receiver of loans ... to receive such monies as shall be brought to him to be put into the public treasury of this state, or the Continental Loan Office .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Mar. 23, 1780 : Resolved, that Major-General Heath ... appoint such number of recruiting officers belonging to the line of this state ... to compleat this state's quota of the Continental Army .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5, 1777. : That the happiness of mankind depends very much on the form and constitution of government they live under ... We do resolve, that it be, and hereby is recommended to the several towns ... to send members to the General Assembly ... to form such a constitution of government, as they shall judge best calculated to promote the happiness of this state .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5th, 1780 : Resolved, that the selectmen ... transmit to the agents appointed ... the monthly average prices of beef, Indian corn, sheeps-wool, and sole leather .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 30th, 1779. : Whereas the time of inlistment of part of this state's quota of the confederated army of America is near expiring .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, September 22, 1777 : whereas by the latest advices from the northern army under the command of General Gates, it appears, that the army under the command of General Burgoyne have far advanced from water carriage, and by that means have rendered their retreat more difficult .
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty : an Act to Prevent and Punish Desertion, and for Apprehending and Securing Deserters from the Continental Army
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. : At a public town meeting, warned and held at the west chamber in the state house in Portsmouth, by adjournment, July 29th, 1779 .
State of New-Hampshire. A proclamation for a public fast : ... The Council and House of Representatives of the state of New Hampshire ... have appointed Thursday the twenty-second day of April current, to be observed and kept as a day of general fasting and prayer .
State of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency Meshech Weare, Esq. president of said state, a proclamation for a public fast : ... Thursday the fourteenth day of April next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Hampton-Falls, the 18th day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five .
State of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency the president of the state of New-Hampshire ... A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the fifteenth day of April next, to be observed as a day of general fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the twenty third day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety
State of New-Hampshire. By the Council and House of Representatives, a proclamation for a day of fasting and prayer : ... Thursday the sixteenth day of April next ... Dated at Exeter the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini. One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight .
State of New-Hampshire. By the Council and House of Representatives. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the seventh day of August next, to be observed as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Exeter July 19th, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven
State of New-Hampshire. By the Council and House of Representatives. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twenty-ninth day of April next, to be observed as a day of public humiliation, fasting, and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Exeter, the nineteenth day of March ... A.D. 1779
State of New-Hampshire. By the governor. A proclamation : ... Thursday the seventh day of April next, to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Exeter, this fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and three .
State of New-Hampshire. By the governor. A proclamation : ... Thursday, the seventeenth day of April next, to be observed as a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, this twenty-fifth day of February ... one thousand eight hundred and six .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 10th, 1779 : Ordered, that the following proclamation of the honorable Congress, for a general fast, be printed, and sent to the several worshipping assemblies in this state .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12th, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation be forthwith printed ... : A proclamation ... to call upon the several states to set apart the last Thursday in April next, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer ... Done by the United States in Congress assembled, this nineteenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 14, 1781 : Ordered, that the following proclamation be forthwith printed ... By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation ... that Thursday the third day of May next, may be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Done in Congress the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, April 14th, 1780 : Whereas the honorable Continental Congress have recommended that Wednesday the twenty-sixth instant be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer throughout the United-States: ordered, that the proclamation of the honorable Congress for observing the same be forthwith printed .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, Exeter, November 1, 1782 : Ordered, that the following proclamation for a general thanksgiving on the twenty-eighth day of November instant, received from the honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed .
State of New-Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, March 27th, 1778 : Ordered, that the following proclamation of the Hon'ble Continental Congress ... be printed ... : A proclamation for a general fast, throughout the United-States of America. In Congress, March 7th, 1778 ... to set apart Wednesday the 22d of April next, to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, April 5th, 1781 : Whereas the present situation of affairs in this state makes it necessary that a full and free representation of the inhabitants thereof should meet in convention for the sole purpose of forming and laying a permanent plan or system of government .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, February 17th, 1778. : Voted, that one suitable person be appointed in each regiment of militia in this state ... to procure and enlist ... men ... to serve as soldiers in the New-Hampshire regiments in the Continental Army .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, February 27th, 1783. : Whereas, by the various accounts from Europe, it is highly probable that a general peace among the belligerent powers will very soon take place ... Resolved, as the unanimous sense of the Council and House of Representatives for this state, that the present government be continued in its full force, till the tenth day of June 1784 .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, January 2d, 1778. : Resolved, that the several officers commanding regiments within this state, do forthwith see that the orders heretofore issued for raising the Continental battallions in this state, be immediately complied with .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, June 20th, 1783. : the committee on the recommendations of Congress, report as their opinion, that the following resolutions of Congress and consequent requisition of the General Court, be printed in hand bills and directed to the selectmen of the several towns, parishes and places within this state, viz. .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, March 3d, 1786. : Resolved, that the selectmen of the several towns, districts and parishes within this state, be and hereby are required to make a return of all the inhabitants within their respective districts to the secretary of this state .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, November 20th, 1781. : Resolved, that the several towns and places in this state be requested to make out their accounts for supplies to the families of such soldiers as are engaged in the Continental Army for during the war .
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives. December 28th, 1779. : Whereas it has been determined by the General-Assembly to adjust and pay off to the soldiers who have been enlisted into the Continental Army, the arreages due to them .
State of NewHampshire. By the governor. A proclamation : ... Thursday the nineteenth day of April next, to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the Council chamber in Exeter, this nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four .
State of North-Carolina. In Senate, December 11, 1817 : the committee to whom was referred the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, report, that they have had the same under consideration and do recommend to the two houses, the adoption of the following resolution .
State of Pennsylvania. In General Assembly, Tuesday, March 24th, 1789. A.M. : Resolved, That in the opinion of this House, alterations and amendments of the constitution of this state are immediately necessary
The Carrier of the Massachusetts-gazette and Boston weekly news-letter, humbly presents the following ode on the New-Year, to all his generous customers
The General Courts answer to Joseph Dudley Esqr. &c. : This was pas'd by the whole court, nemine non consentiente. Gentlemen, We have perused what you left with us ... impowring you for the governing of His Majesties subjects inhabiting this colony ... And therefore we think it highly concerns us to consider, whether such a commission be safe either for you or us. .
The character of His Excellency William Burnet, Esq : late governour of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, &c. Boston, Sept. 8. 1729
The committee appointed to re-examine and cast the votes returned for representatives to the Congress of the United States, beg leave to report-- .
The following is a copy of a bill, which was introduced and read in the honorable General Assembly of this state, at their sessions last week at Newport---the consideration of which is postponed to the next session. September 21, 1789. : an act for suspending the operation of two paragraphs of the act ... passed ... May, 1786, emitting bills of credit on loan to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds .
The gentlemen nominated by the votes of the freemen of this state to stand for election in May next, as sent to this Assembly, are as follows, viz. .
The gentlemen nominated by the votes of the freemen of this state, to stand for election in May next, for delegates in Congress of the United States of America, for the year 1783, as sent into the present Assembly, are as follow, viz. Samuel Huntington, Esq ; Oliver Elsworth, Esq ; Richard Law, Esq ; Jesse Root, Esq ; Oliver Wolcott, Esq ; Benjamin Huntington, Esq ; Jedediah Strong, Esq ; Eliphalet Dyer, Esq ; Stephen Mix Mitchel, Esq ; Pierpoint Edwards, Esq ; Roger Sherman, Esq ; Andrew Adams, Esq
The grand committee consisting of Mr. Howell, Mr. Foster ... : appointed to report a requisition on the states for the supplies of the present year, beg leave to lay before Congress, the following report
The speech of Joseph T-sd-le, Esq ; in the House of Representatives, June 1767 : against the bill then before the House, for preventing stage plays, and other theatrical entertainments
The speech of the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq ; His Majesty's lieut. governor and commander in chief of the colony of New-York, and the territories depending thereon in America, to the Council and the General Assembly of the said colony, on Friday January 13, 1775
To His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governor of the state of Massachusetts. : Being impressed upon the mind, being a beggar, under the divine operation of the spirit of God ... feeling in my mind to running to the rulers of the state, to do the will of my Heavenly Father, to say to the rulers, repeal your bloody laws, for they are offensive against God .
To the electors of the city and county of New-York. : This day commences the important election of a governor .
To the free electors of the fourth eastern district. : Gentlemen:--We take the liberty once more to address you on the subject of the approaching election of a Federal representative ; and it is with some little regret that we inform you that we have not yet effected a choice .
To the freeholders and gentlemen, of Baltimore County : Gentlemen, On Tuesday last we received by (express) a letter from the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia .
To the freemen of Pennsylvania. [two lines from Tacitus] : It is with the utmost astonishment and grief, I have received information of the contents of a bill now depending in the House of Assembly of this province for extending the excise. .
To the freemen of the state of Rhode-Island, &c. : Gentlemen, Well convinced that the supporters of the present opposition ... have circulated ... that the interest on the state and Continental securities have been paid on the nominal sums, and not on the real value ; I have procured a certificate from your general-treasurer, respecting the manner of paying interest on public securities .
To the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, and parts adjacent : Gentlemen, Whereas Mr. John Rhea, of this city, merchant, hath influenced a number of his friends .
To the public. : Fellow-citizens, Of all the extraordinary performances I ever beheld, the late hand-bill, signed by eight members of our House of Representatives, is the most extraordinary .
To the public. : Mr. Arthur Spencer, at present an inhabitant of Boston, formerly surgeon's mate of His Majesty's ship Glasgow, having behaved extremely ill on several occasions while he belonged to said ship, thought proper to make concessions in writing to the captain .
To the public. : the undersigned having observed in Green's Impartial observer, of the 1st inst. an anonymous publication, by a person styling himself "The friend of the people," .
To the publick. : In consequence of the unhappy disputes at present subsisting between Great-Britain and her colonies, many of the northern provinces have entered into resolutions on those matters, and an attempt has also been made to bring this province to enter into similar measures, which happily failed of success .
Treasury-Office, April 5th, 1779 : ordered, that the following resolutions of the board be published, printed in hand-bills, and sent to the several commissioners of the continental loan-offices, to be by them delivered to the treasurers appointed in the several states, to receive continental taxes, to the pay-master and deputy-pay-masters-general, and other officers authorized to receive bills of the emissions ordered to be taken out of circulation
Virginia. In the House of Delegates, January 13, 1786. : Resolved, that the damages on foreign bills of exchange, protested, ought to be the same in this state and the state of Maryland ... Resolved, that it is essential to the commerce and revenue of the state of Maryland, and of this state, that duties on imports or exports (if laid) should be the same in both states .
War Office. September 12th, 1785. : the Secretary of War reports, that it may be a subject worthy the attention of Congress, whether it would not be necessary to appoint some confidential person ... either resident with the Six Nations, or upon the frontiers nearest to them, to whom they might apply, as the intermediate person between them and Congress
War-Office, April, 25, 1785. : Sir, On the memorial of Captain Jesse Grant and Captain Jesse Cook, referred to me from Congress, I beg leave to report .
Whereas a number of battoe-men will be wanted to be employed in His Majesty's service the ensuing spring, and summer, in the county of Albany, under proper regulations ; I have thought fit to publish the following proposals, for the encouragement of such persons as are inclined to enter into that service .
Whereas it is now absolutely necessary that the whole ... of this state's quota of the Continental Army, should be immediately compleated: it is resolved, that the several towns ... comply ... by raising the full number of men .
Whereas it is of great consequence that provision be made for the defence and security of Rhode-Island ... resolved, that five hundred men be immediately raised in this commonwealth .
Whereas it is of the utmost importance that the quota of men required by a resolve of the 2d of December last, be speedily compleated ... therefore, resolved, that the assessors of every deficient town ... where the mode of classing has not been adopted, be, and they hereby are authorized and directed immediately upon the receipt hereof, to class their inhabitants .
Whereas the American Continental Congress have recommended another to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next, --we the provincial committee ... recommend it to the respective towns in this government to appoint deputies in their behalf to meet at Exeter on Wednesday the 25th day of January next for the choice of delegates to represent this province ... Nov. 30, 1774. By order of the committee
Whereas the several captains of the city companies lately embodied, have under their signature agreed to the following regulations .
Whereas the troops of the southern states will now be needed for the defence of that quarter, and by reason of the late advantages obtained by the enemy, we are compelled to call for a further supply of men, to fill up our battalions ... as well as a detachment of militia .
Williamsburg, August 20, 1776. : Sir, As we have great reason to believe that our enemies will make a vigorous attack on this commonwealth if they should not succeed in their attempts against New York .
Worcester news-paper---free and uninfluenced. : Proposals for circulating Thomas's Massachusetts spy in the town of Boston and its vicinity

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