RESOLVES
OF
THE GENERAL COURT
OF THE
Commontoealtl) of iHa^^'acl^u^ett^.
PASSED AT THE SEVERAL SESSIONS
OF THE
GENEBAZi COVBV,
tOMMENCING MAY 1819, AXD ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1834.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of I6th January, 1812.
BOSTON.
PRINTED BY TRUE AND GREENE, PRINTER TO THE STATE.
1824.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT
OF THE
Commontoealtj^ of 4Hla^.^aclju^ett^,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,^
WHICH COMMENCED ON THE TWENTY SIXTH OF MAY, AND ENDED
THE NINEFEENTH OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
AND NINETEEN.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th January, 1812.
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY RUSSELL & GARDNER, FOR BENJAMIN RUSSELL,
rWHTEn TO THE STATE.
1819.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
or THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS;
FOR THE POLITICAL YEAR 1819.. ..20.
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN BROOKS, ESQUIRE,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, ESQUIRE,
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
COUNCIL.
HON. BENJAMIN PICKMAN.
((
NAHUM MITCHELL,
" SAMUEL CROCKER,
S\MUEL P. P. FAY,
" JAMES BRIDGE,
« EZRA STARKWEATHER,
« SILAS HOLMAN,
'' RICHARD SULLIVAN,
" BARRETT POTTER.
ALDEN BRADFORD, ESQUIRE,
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
HONORABLE DANIEL SARGENT,
TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
SENATE.
HON. JOHN PHILLIPS,
PRESIDENT.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Hon. John Phillips, Hon. Artem»^s Ward,
Josiah Quiney, Andrew Ritchie,
Jonathan Hunewell, Benjamin Gorham.
COUNTY OF ESSEX.
Hon. Israel Bartlett^ Hon. Ralph H. French,
Leverett Saltoustall, Samuel Adams.
William B. Banister,
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
Hon, Joseph B. Varnum, Hon. Leonard M. Parker.
John Hart,
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH
Hon. Aaron Hobart, Hon. Ebenezer Gay.
COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE, DUKES' COUNTY
AND NANTUCKET.
Hon. Solomon Freeman.
COUNTY OF BRISTOL,
Hon. Jaines Howland, Hon. John M. Williams.
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
Hon. Caleb Hyde, Hon. Phineas Allen,
SENATE. 9
HAMPSHIRE, HAMPDEN AND FRANKLIN.
Hon. Eliha Hoyt, Hon. Thomas Longley,
Jonathan H. Lyman, Jonathan D wight, Jun.
LINCOLN, HANCOCK AND WASHINGTON.
Hon. James Campbell, Hon. William D.Williamson.
William King,
COUNTY OF KENNEBEC.
Hon. John Chandler.
COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
Hon. John Endicott, Hon. Benjamin Reynolds.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
Hon. Stephen P, Gardner, Hon. Samuel Eastman,
Aaron Tufts, Lewis Bigelow.
COUNTY OF YORK.
Hon. William Moody. Hon. Alexander Rice.
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND.
Hon. Mark Harris, Hon. James Irish.
OXFORD AND SOMERSET.
Hon. John Moor.
SAMUEL F. McCLEARY, Esq. Clerk.
JOHN FARRIE, Jun. Esq. Assistant Clerk.
llEV. JOHN G. PALFREY, Chaplain.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
HON. TIMOTHY BIGELOW9
SPEAKER.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Boston, William Sullivan,
Benjamin Russell,
Israel Thorndike,
Benjamin Whitman,
Charles Davis,
Joseph Coolidge, Junior,
Daniel Messinger,
Jonathan Whitney,
Barzillia Holmes,
Peter O. Thacher,
William Sturgis,
Josiah Marshall,
John French,
Jonathan Loring,
Joseph W. Revere,
Benjamin Smith,
Benjamin Rand,
Francis Basset,
John Cotton,
Enoch Silsby,
Peter C. Brooks,
George Bond,
James Perkins,
Bryant P. Tilden,
Nathan Hale,
Thomas Motley,
Samuel Dorr,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Joseph Levering,
Augustus Peabody,
John Knapp,
Joseph Sewall,
George W. Otis,
Henry Purkitt,
Phineas Upham,
Jonathan Phillips,
Samuel Appleton,
Thomas Jackson,
Edmund Winchester,
X
Hem&n Lincoln>
Francis Welch,
Thomas Parsons,
Joseph Austin,
Elijah Morse,
William Jackson,
Benjamin M. Watson.
Chelsea.
ESSEX.
Salem,
' Samuel Endicott,
John Forrester,
Benjamin Merrill,
Charles Saunders,
Joseph Eveleth,
EdAvard Lander,
Ipswichf
John Choate,
JSTewhunjy
Silas Little,
Moses Little,
Lynn,
Ezra Mudge,
Gloucester,
William W. Parrott,
Rowley,
Joshua Jewett,
Thomas Grage,
Salisbury,
Ephraim Morrill,
Wenham,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Manchester p
Haverhill^
Andover,
Marblfihead,
Topsjield,
Ameshuvyy
Beverly f
JBradford,
Boxford,
Methuen,
MiddletoU)
DanverSf
J\rewburyporty
Lynnjield,
Hamilton^
Saugus,
ParsonSf
Essex,
Charles White,
John Kneel and,
John Hooper,
Thomas Hoit, Junior,
Thomas Davis,
Robert Rantoul,
Jesse Kimball, Junior,
Moses Dorraan,
Benjamin Osgood,
David Fuller,
Nathan Felton,
Dennison Wallis,
Daniel Putnam,
Thomas Putnam,
Ebenezer Mosely,
Stephen Howard,
Abner Wood,
George Jenkins,
Edward S. Rand,
Stephen W, Marston,
Daniel Emery,
George Choate.
Charlestowrif
MIDDLESEX.
Timothy Thompson, Janior;
Philemon R. Russell,
Thomas Harris,
Richard Devens,
John H. Brown,
Peter Tufts,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wafertowrif
Levi Thaxter,
Medford,
Dudley Hall,
Timothy Bigelow,
Cambridge^
James P. Chaplin,
Richard H. Dana,
Concord,
Thomas Wheeler,
Sudburijf
Isaac Gibbs,
Woburrif
John Wade,
Reading,
Daniel Flint,
Edmund Parker,
Maiden,
Nathan Nichols,
Chelmsford,
Billerica,
Josiah Crosby,
Groton,
Luther Lawrence,
Marlborough,
Joel Cranston,
Dunstable,
Sherburne,
John Bnllard,
Stow and Boxborough^
Augustus Tower,
Newton,
Joseph Jackson, ^
Framingham,
John Trowbridge,
Dracut,
Weston,
George W. Smith,
Lexington,
Littleton,
Jonathan Manning,
Hopkinton,
Holliston,
Stoneham,
Westford,
Bedford,
Wilmington^
Townsend,
Aaron Warren,
Tewksbury^
Jesse Trull,
Acton,
Waltham,
Shirley,
Pepperell,
Nehemiah Jewett,
S
10 HOUSE OF BEPRESENTATIVEB.
Lincoln,
^ahby,
East Sudbury,
Micah M. Rutter,
JSTaticJc,
Tyngsboroughj
Burlington,
-
Carlisle,
Brighton,
Nathaniel Champney.
Wpst Cambridge,
Thomas Russell.
South Reading,
\
YORK.
TorJc,
Cotton Chase,
Elihu Bragdon,
Eittery,
Joshua T. Chase,
Mark Dennet,
Wells,
Nahum Morrill,
Joseph Gilinan,
Elijah Curtis,
Berwick,
T\ illiam llobbs,
Biddefordf
Samuel Merrill,
Reuben U. Greene^
Srundel,
Joseph Perkins,
Smith Bradbury,
Saco,
Ether Shepley,
George Scammon,
Benjamin Pike,
Lebanon,
Sanfoid,
Elisha Allen,
Buxton,
Joseph Woodman, Junior,
Samuel Merrill,
William Merrill,
Lyman,
John Low,
Shapleigh,
John Bui dwell,
Parsonfield,
Waterboroughf
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
11
Limwgtin,
JV'eicfieldf
Gamaliel E. Smith,
Corvishy
Alfred,
Elliot,
Jolin Hammond,
Hollis,
John Deiinet,
John Smith.
South Berwick,
HAMPSHIRE.
J\rorthampto7i^
Elijah H. Mills,
Ebenezer Hunt, Junior,
Oliver Warner,
Hadley,
Samuel Porter,
Hatfield,
JPelham,
Isaac Abererombie,
Southampton,
Asahel Chapman,
South Hadley,
Greenwich,
Laban Marcy,
Amherst,
Noah Webster,
Belchertown,
Philo Dickenson,
Ware,
Chesterfield,
Granby,
David Smith,
Worthington,
Jonathan Brewster,
Williamsburg,
Joseph Bodman,
JSTurwich,
Cummington,
Robert Dawes,
Westhampton,
Willard Smith, •
Goshen,
Middlefield,
Ebenezer Emmons,
Plainfield,
Cyrus Joy,
EasthamptoUf
Ahira Lyman.
Enfield*
-
13
HOUSE OF REPRESBNTATtVKS.
Plymouth,
Hingham,
Scituatef
Duxhurtj,
Marshfieldf
null,
Bridgewater,
Middleborough,
Mochester,
Plympton,
Pembroke,
JLbington,
Kingston,
Hanover,
Halifax,
Wareham,
Carver,
Taunton,
Rehoboth,
Dartmouth,
Swanzey,
Freetoivn,
dttleborough,
JSTorton,
Dighton,
Eastown,
Haynham,
Berkley,
Mansfieli,
PLYMOUTH.
William Jackson,
Josiah Uobbins,
William P. Ripley,
Charles Whiting,
Gideon Holbrook,
Jedediah Lincoln,
Charles Turner,
Elisha Phillips,
Daniel Howard,
Thomas Weston,
Charles J. Holmes,
Jonathan Parker, Junior,
John Thomas,
Robert Eells,
Nathaniel Morton.
BRISTOL.
William Reed,
David Perry,
Joseph Gifford?
Daniel Hale,
John Gilmore, Junior,
ApoUos Tobey,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 13
J\/*ew Bedford,
Westportf
Sumersetf
Troy,
Fairhaverif
Seekonk,
W ellington.
Barnstable,
Sandwich,
Varmouth,
Eastham,
Falmouth,
Harwich,
Truro,
Chatham,
Provincetown,
Wellfleet,
Dennis,
Orleans,
Bsrewster,
Edgartown,
Tisbury,
Chilmark,
JSTantucket,
Lancaster,
Mendon,
Lemuel Williams, Junior,
John Nye,
Benjamin Lincoln,
Cornelius Grinnell, Junior,
Sylvester Brownell,
Joseph E. Reed,
George W. Walker.
BARNSTABLE.
Naler Crocker,
Russell Freeman,
Harding Knowles,
Thomas Fish.
DUKES' COUNTY.
NANTUCKET.
Jonathan J. Barney.
WORCESTER.
Benjamin Wyman,
Daniel Thurber,
i4
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES,
Worcester^
Oxford,
Jjeicester,
liutlandf
Sutton,
JVestborou^h,
Brookfieldy
JJxbridge^
Southhorough,
Shrewsbury,
Lunenburghf
Dudley,
Harvard,
Grafton,
Upton,
Utardwick,
Bolton,
Sturbridge,
Hold en,
Leominster,
Western,
Douglas,
JSTew Braintree,
Spencer,
Petersham,
Charlton,
Templeton,
Athol,
Oakham,
Fitchbargh,
Winchendonf
PaxtoUp
Abraham Lincoln,
Abijah Davis,
Juhn King,
Jonas Sibley,
Simeon Draper,
Seth Field,
Samuel Read,
Daniel Carpenter,
Nathan Howe,
Ezra Wood,
Timothy Paige,
Silas Holman,
Ebenezer Estabrook,
Joel Crosby,
Bezaleel Lawrence,
Harvey Sessions,
Samuel Mixter, Junior,
Hutchins Hapgood,
Ephraim Willard,
Isaiali Rider,
Ephraim Stone,
HOUSE 0¥ REPRESENTATIVES.
15
Hoyalston,
Jiahburnhanif
JSTorth borough f
Kubbardston,
Westminster^
Princeton^
JSTorthbridge,
Barre,
Ward,
Milford,
Sterlin^f
Berlin,
Gardner f
Boylston,
JDana,
West BoyJston,
JVorth Brookfieldp
Milbury,
Phillipston^
Southbridge,
Scarborough,
^orth Yarmouth^
Falmouth,
Brunswick,
Harp.'iwellf
Windham,
Gorham,
Cape Elizabeth,
^ew Gloucester^
Stephen Corey,
James Keyes,
James White,
Edward Kendall^
Abijah Harding)
Esek Greene,
Samuel Sawyer,
James Wilder,
Amos Sawyer,
William Whitney,
Aaron White,
Joseph Hinds^
Caleb Burbank,
Joseph Knowlton,
Gershom Plimpton.
CUMBERLAND.
Benjamin Larrabee, Junior,
Benjamin Milliken, Junior,
Calvin Stoekbridge,
Peter Mc Knight,
Joseph McKeen,
Paul Raymond,
Josiah Chute,
Lathrop Lewis,
Joseph Adams,
Toppan Robie,
Isaac Gross,
i6
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Gray,
Standishf
Portland^
Fraeportf
Durvhanif
BridgtowU;^
Poland,
Otisfield,
Minot,
Pejepscotf
Baldwin,
Raymondf
Pownalf
Westhrook,
Harrison.
Georgetown f
JK'ew Castle,
Tf oolwichy
Wiscassety
Bowdoinham,
Topsham,
Boothbay,
Bristol,
Waldoborough,
Edgecombe,
George Latham^
John Spring,
Daniel Hasty,
Phinehas Varnuui;
Samuel Baker,
Robert Ilsley,
Katlian Kinsman,
Charles Fox,
Samuel Ayer,
Josiah Dunn,
GrinfiU Blake,
George Ricker,
Silas Estes,
Thomas Slemons.
LINCOLN.
Benjamin Emmons,
John R. Stinson,
Erastus F'oote,
Samuel E. Smith,
Ebenezer Herriek,
George Rogers,
William Chamberlain,
Benjamin Brown,
Jacob Ludwig, Junior,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
17
Warren,
Thomaston^
Bath,
Jesse Page,
John Ruggles,
Isaac Bernard,
Joseph F. Wingate,
Benjamin Ames,
John B. S wanton,
XJnion,
Nathaniel Bachelor,
BowdoiUf
John Hall,
Jonathan Puringtom
JVobleborough,
Albert Smith,
Cushing,
Camden,
Edward Killeran,
Nathaniel Martin,
Dresden,
Lewiston,
Litchjield,
David C. Burr,
William Robinson, 3d,
Lisbon,
St. George,
Elijah Hall,
Hope,
Palermo,
Thomas Eastman,
Montville,
Cyrus Davis,
Jefferson,
William Allen,
Friendship,
Whitefield,
David Crowell,
Putnam,
Mna,
Phipsburg,
Parker McCobb.
Wales,
BERKSHIRE.
Sheffield,
Jared Canfield,
Stockbridge,
Jared Curtis,
J\rew Marlborough,
Edward Stevens^
Egremont,
Joel Crippen,
Pittsfield,
Orren Goodrich^
3
18 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Great Barrington,
Sandisfieldy
Southfield,
Tyringham,
Lanesborough,
JV'eiii Ashford,
Williamatuwn, ''
Seckpff
Richmond,
Zipnox,
Windsor,
PerUf
Jllfordf
OHs,
West Stockhridge,
Hancock,
Washington,
Lee,
JldamSy
Mount Washington,
Dalton,
Cheshire,
Savoy,
Clarksburgh,
Hinsdale,
Florida,
Belfast,
Penobscot,
Sedgwick,
llesborough,
Deer Isle,
Reuben Bacon,
Samuel Merrill,
Joseph Sears,
Nelieraiah Talcott,
Daniel Noble,
Samuel Kellogg,
George Conant,
Asher Sedgwick,
Ephraim Baldwin,
Thomas Frissell,
Elijah Owen,
Gershom Bassett,
Isaac Brown,
Henry Marsh,
Ethan A. Rix.
HANCOCK.
Alfred Johnson, Junior,
John S. Kimball,
Charles Hutchius,
Pearl Spofford,
Hezekiah Rowell;
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
49
Blue Hillf
Trenton f
Sullivan f
Gouldsboroiighf
Mount Desert,
Vinalhaveny
Frankfortf
BucJcsport,
Prospect,
Castine,
JS^orthport,
JtCden,
Orland,
JEllsworth,
Lincolnville,
Surrey,
Bplmont,
Searsmont,
Brooks,
Buckstown.
Machias,
Steuben,
Columbia^
Addison,
Harrington f
Eastport,
Jonesborough,
Calais,
Lubec,
Hobinstown,
Cherryfield,
Ferry,
Reuben Doclge^
Joshua Hall,
Samuel M. Pond,
Samuel Upton,
John G. Deane,
Ephraim Fletcher.
WASHINGTON.
John Dickenson,
Jonathan Bartlett,
John Burgin.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monroe,
Mexico,
JJennysvUhf
Sivanville.
Dorchester,
Moxburyf
NORFOLK.
Weymouth,
Dedham,
Braintree,
Medfield and Dover,
Milton f
Wrentham,
DrooMine,
J^eedham,
Medway,
Bellingham,
JValpole,
Stoughton,
Sharon,
Cohassei,
Franklin,
Foxhorough,
Dover,
Quincy,
Randolph,
CantoUf
Hallowell,
James Humphries,
Sherman Leland,
Abijah Draper,
Lemuel Lebaron,
Paul Gore,
Isaac Davis^
William Ellis,
Daniel Adams,
John Ruggles, Junior,
Jairus Ware,
John Robinson,
John Bates,
Lewis Fisher,
Thomas Greenleaf,
Zenas French,
Samuel Capen.
KENNEBEC.
Benjamin Dearborn,
Samuel Moody,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
31
JVinthrop^
T'assalburoughf
WinsloWf
PUtstofif
Grcftie,
Jieadjleldf
Moumouthp
Sydney f
Mount Vernon f
Farmington,
JVew Sharon^
Clinton,
Fayette,
Belgrade}
Harlem,
viugUStUf
Wayne,
Leeds,
Chestermlle,
Vienna,
Waterville,
Gardiner,
Temple,
Wilton,
Rome,
Fairfax,
Unity,
Malta,
Dearborn,
Freedom^
Alexander Belcher,
Samuel Redington,
Joseph R. Abbot,
Thomas Goss,
Luther Robbins,
Edward Fuller,
Abraham Morrill,
Oilman Moody,
Amos Partridge,
John R. Robinson,
Nathan Cutler,
Joseph Fairbanks,
Nehemiah Smith,
Herbert Moore,
Samuel Titcomb,
Joseph Stewart,
Pitt Dillingham,
Robert Howard,
Joseph Lamson,
fetillman Howard,
Ebenezer Bacon,
Abraham Smith,
Jacob Davis,
Stephen Jewett,
John Tufts,
Jonathan Winslow,
Rufus Burnham,
William Hilton,
John Comings,
23
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Joy,
China,
Japeth C. Washburn.
OXFORD.
Fryehurgf
James W. Ripley,
Turner,
Philip Bradford,
Hebron,
Suckfield,
Paris,
Renjamin Chandler,
Jay,
James Starr, Junior,
Livermore,
Israel Washburn,
Sethel,
Moses Mason, Junior,
Waterford,
^Eber Rice,
Norway,
Hartford,
Daniel Hutchinson,
Sumner,
JRumford,
Peter C. Virgin,
Ztovellf
Brownjleld,
James Steele,
Mbany,
Biarfield,
East Andover,
Gilead,
JSTewry,
Denmark^
Elias Berry,
Porter,
Hiram,
Marshall Spring.
Woodstock,
Greenwood,
Sweeden,
Weld.
:
SOMERSET.
Canaan,
Fairfield,
William Bryant,
J^Torridgwockf
Josiah Spaulding,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Starks,
Cornville,
Anson,
Strong,
Avon,
J\rew Vineyardf
Harmony,
Industry,
Athens,
Madison,
Emden,
Mercer,
Palmyra,
Frepman,
JVew Portland^
Solon,
Bingham,
Phillips,
St. Albans,
Kingsfield,
Moscow,
JSTorth Hill,
Corinna,
llipley,
Bloomfield,
Deerfield,
^orthfield,
Sunderland,
Greenfield,
JSTew Salem,
Montague,
Colraine,
Shutesbury,
James Mantor,
James Davis,
Brooks Dascomb.
FRANKLIN.
Asa Stebbins,
Orland Ware,
Nathaniel Smith,
Solomon Sraead,
Varney Pearce,
Robert L. McClallen,
g4
HOUSE OF KEPRESENTATIVES.
BernardstoTif
Warwick,
Sshfield,
Charlemontf
Asahel Judd,
Conway,
Joel Parsons,
Shelburnef
William Wells,
Whately,
Leverett,
Back'avd,
Wendell,
^
Orange,
Josiah Cobb.
Mowe,
Heath,
Hawley,
Gill,
Ley den.
HAMPDEN.
Springfield,
Jacob Bliss,
Westfield,
Srimfield,
Stephen Pynchott,
Blandford,
Abner Gibbs,
Palmer,
Granville,
James Cooley,
Reuben Hills,
Monson,
Heodatus Dutton,
South Brimfield and Holland, Timothy Fenton,
Wilbraham,
Chester,
Southwick,
Gideon Stiles,
West Springfield,
Jonathan Smith,
Ludlow,
Montgomery,
Longmeadow,
Joseph W. Cooley,
Mussell,
Tolland,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
S^
PENOBSCOT.
Hampden,
Orrington,
Bangor f
OronOf
JHxmont,
Brewer,
Eddington,
C arm el,
Corinth,
Exeter,
Garland,
JK*ew Charlestoivn,
Foxcroft,
Sehec,
Herman,
Levant,
JVewport,
Sangerville,
Dexter,
Guilford,
Simeon Stetson,
Benjamin N curse,
William Emerson.
BENJAMIN POLLARD, Esq. Clerk.
HENRY CODMAN, Esq. Assistant Cleric.
Rev. WILLIAM JENKS, Chaplain.
JACOB KUHN, Messenger to the General Court.
JOHN VAUGHAN LOW, Assistant Jlessenger.
JOSEPH FRANCIS, Pai^e to the flmise.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
>VHICH commenced on WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-SIXTH OF MAY, AND ENDE'D
ON THE NINETEENTH OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
AND NINETEEN.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JUNE 1st, 1819.
The two Housps being in Convention, His Excellency the
Governor came in, accompanied by the Council^ and the
PubHc Officers of the State, and delivered the folloicing
SPEECH.
(jentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN assuming the several stations which have been as-
signed to us by the suffrages of our fellow citizens, we arc
led to recognize the goodness of Divine Providence, in con-
ferring on the people of this Commonwealth, the blessings
of peace and plenty, of general health, of good order, and
of a free government. Feeling, as I presume we all do,
a just sense of the importance of the trusts committed to
our care, and of the obligations we are under, to see, no€
only that the republic receive no detriment, but that its best
interests are promoted, we may safely engage in the dis-
charge of our respective duties.
S8 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
Our constitution is virtually and essentially in the hands,
and at the disposal of the people. This is not merely the
language of our con«ititution ; it is a doctrine that lies at the
foundation of republicanism. And the conservation of our
liberties, as defined in our great social compact, is intimately
connected with the intelligence and virtue of the people.
But mau is bi)rn neither wise nor good. Knowledge and
virtue result from instruction, and discipline and eft<»rt.
The senses of the human kind, early and eagerly seek their
appropriate objects of gratification. The passions, easily
excited in childhood and youth, are prone to, and grow
stronger with excessive indulgence ; while the powers of
reason, necessarily associated with experience, in their pro-
gress to maturity, are slow and late in being fully developed.
Hence the danger of habits being formed, injurious to so-
ciety, and destructive of individual happiness. Hence the
usefulness aud importance of early tuition ; and hence, like-
wise, the interest which the public has in providing means
for cultivating the minds, and forming the manners of youth.
Agreeably to these sentiments, the constitution enjoins it as
a duty on the Legislature and Magistrates, in all future
periods of the Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of
literature and the sciences, public schools and grammar
schools in the towns. Should the existing laws be found
insufficient to provide for the primary education of children,
especially of destitute orphans, and the children of the poor
and necessitous, prerequisite to their admission into gram-
mar schools, the deficiency has strong claims to the consid-
eration of the Legislature. Our venerated forefathers ren-
dered their memories imperishable by their care and solici-
tude in the cause of learning ; and experience, instead of
discrediting their literary institutions, has served to height-
en their value.
In casting our eyes across the atlantic, which for instruc-
tion may be admissible, we see exhibited in the most dis-
gusting forms, the deplorable effects of ignorance and yice.
Pauperism, in some of the European States, we are inform-
ed, has become so extensive and overwhelming, as to occa-
sion, in many corporations, an enormous and almost insup-
portable demand upon individual income, for the mainte-
nance of the poor. Crimes, in the same states, almost with-
out number; and of every grade of turpitude, are at the same
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 29
time disturbing the repose of private life, nenacing the pub-
lic peace, and mocking the most severe expressions of pub-
lic vengeance.
On the subject of punishment, however, most of the gov-
ernments in Christendom have come to a pause. I'he fre-
quent repetition of crimes, in defiance of the most appal-
ling and sanguinary punishments, has shaken a confidence
in their efficacy, which custom and prejudice had so long
and obstinately maintained. And the practicability of pre-
venting crimes, and reforming offenders by the force of ear-
ly education and the influence of moral and religious mo-
tives, is gaining credibility and advocates.
Although Massachusetts has been distinguished for her
zealous efforts to rear her children to habits of order, of
usefulness, and virtue, we have too much reason to regret
the existence of vice, and the perpetration of crime. But
on due examination, it will be generally found, that the
latter have been committed by those who were not natives ;
or, if natives, by such as had neglected, or been denied the
advantages of early training and instruction. It is believed,
that the idea of producing a virtuous and happy state of
society, by the influence of early education and discipline^
on the great body of the people, has never been so distinctly
conceived, nor urged with so much force and effect, as in
this country. But changes await us ; and we shall do well
to endeavor to catch a portion of that spirit of prudence
and foresight, for which our ancestors were distinguished,
by adapting the means of literary improvement to the state
of society, and detecting the bearings of present circum-
stances on the interests of future times. It is not unreason-
able to expect, that, among other caoses, an increase of our
population, of our commerce, and of large manufacturing
establishments, will, as in all other countries, multiply the
causes of moral deterioration. If there be just ground for
these apprehensions, additional measures of precaution
cannot be too speedily devised.
On this occasion, I would present to your notice the
great Penitentiary of the Commonwealth, at Charlestown.
I have been recently furnished with a summary, but very
satisfactory, report of the present condition of that institution.
It must be gratifying to you, as it has been to me, to re-
ceive assurances of the salutary effects of the act of Feb-
30 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
urary, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for clas-
sifyi'ng the convicts, and other purposes, on their temper
and behavior, liesides the prevalence of good order, the
expense of the institution has become less onerous to the
State. The mild treatment observed towards the unhap-
py convicts, in that prison, their wholesome sustenance,
the great attention paid to their health and cleanliness,
the means furnished to the younger part of them for being
taui^ht to read and write, and to all of them for religious
worship and moral instruction, seem to be well calcula-
ted to operate on ingenuous minds and lead them to per-
manent reformation. The report of the Directors will be
laid before you by the Secretary.
In the month of October last, the Board of Visitors of
the Massachusetts General Hospital, examined the condition
of the Hospital for the Insane, at Charlestown. And it
gives me great pleasure to be able to state, that an inspec-
tion of that establishment, afforded the visitors the most
entire satisfaction. The local situation and general ar-
rangements of it, appear to be perfectly adapted to the na-
ture, and the exigencies of such an institution. The manner
in which the two buildings designed for the accommodation
of the insane, one for males, and the other for females, are
constructed, is judiciously contrived, to ensure the safety
and comfort of the afflicted patients. And the concerns of
the establishment, generally, are so administered, as to fulfil
the benevolent intentions of the Legislature, in founding an
institution so interesting to humanity, in modes, the most
simple, economical and efficacious. It may be satisfactory
to you, gentlemen, to kown that the consulting and visiting
physicians, comprising some of the most eminent of the
profession, in the State, have examined the institution, and
given it their unqualified praise, as affording the best hopes
of alleviation and cure for the afflicted subjects of mental
disease. I cordially recommend the institution to your
fostering care ; and shall cheerfully concur with you in any
measures calculated to lighten the evils of suffering humanity,
or to promote the general prosperity and happiness of the
Commonwealth.
JOHN BROOKS.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it 'please your Excellency,
THE Senate of Massachusetts, assembled ia obedience
to the voice of the people and the eonstitiition, to perforin
its part in the oflRce of a free government, is bound first to
offer its acknowledgments to the author of all our privi-
leges. Under the impression of this sentiment, we recog-
nize our duty to devote all our powers to the good of the
community, in the enactment of such laws as shall be most
conducive to their security, liberty and happiness.
We concur with your Excellency, in acknowledging the
supreme authority of the people. The constitution was
formed for their benefit ; and the duty of legislators is
merely to perform their will. It is for them to determine
the character of their laws and institutions, and decide their
oWn political destiny. But it is a truth, not to be forgotten,
that political rights have little value, unless accompanied
by intelligence and virtue. These form the ornament and
defence of republican institutions; and legislators are obliged,
not merely to enact such ordinances as shall guard the
persons and property of their constitutents, but to foster and
preserve the institutions calculated to diffuse useful knowl-
edge and correct principles ; our schools, colleges and
churches.
The laws derive their force, not from the impulse of any
physical power. The Legislature of a republic is not sur-
rounded by arms. The judicary which commands universal
submission to its decisions, from the powerful, as well as
the weak, has no energy, but what is derived from the sense
of justice which resides in the breasts of the people. The
force of a republican government, the only one compatible
with freedom, is, therefore, a moral force. And, as the
laws have their origin in the will of the people, so they are
carried into execution, principally, by the sentiment known
to prevail in favor of virtue, order and good government.
A constitution which requires the support of an armed force,
32 ANSWER OF THE BENATE.
is either defective itself, or supposes debasement in a con-
siderable part of those subjeeied to it. It either does not
possess the confidence and attachment of the people, as the
security of their rights, or the people do not justly appre-
ciate those rights. It, therefore, becomes a free Common-
wealth, to recollect that, as they value their liberties and
immunities, public opinion, the source and guide of political
power, should be founded on public virtue and intelligence.
Impressed with these considerations, our ancestors made
early regulations for the establishment of schools in every
part of the Commonwealth, for the instruction of the poor^
as well as the affluent ; thus encouraging the humblest in-
dividual, with the conviction that he was an object of inter-
est to the communitj^, and teaching him that, as his faculties
bad been developed under the public care, it was his diity
to repay the service rendered him, by contributing to the
support of similar institutions. These means of informa-
tion, united with the public and universal observance of re-
ligious worship, so established by law, as not to encroach
on the rights of conscience, have formed the glory of Mas-
sachusetts and of New England. It was a liberal and en-
lightened policy, and did the greater honor to our ances-
tors, because it was not borrowed from the age in which
they lived, nor of former ages, but was suggested by
their patriotism and reflection. The long experience we
have had of the advantages of this system of education,
ought to protect it from any encroachment; particularly
when we consider, that it has received the commendation
of other States in the Union, and will, we trust, be adopted
in them all. Nor ought we to allow advantages so valua-
ble, to yield to the unfavorable influence apprehended from
the increase of our population, commerce and wealth, It
becomes the Legislature, therefore, to be vigilant, lest the
causes of moral deterioration, which have accompanied the
progress of refinement, and the establishment of large man-
ufactories in other countries^ should gain admission withiQ
this Commonwealth.
The depravity to which idleness and ignorance have, in
some foreign states, reduced a large portion of the lowest
classes of the people, evince the value of the principles
that have, in a great degree, preserved us from a like hu-
miliation. It is a source of satisfaction to learn that suc-
cessful efforts are there making? to diminish the mass of
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 33
pauperism and vice. Charity schools, founded on ne^y
and enlarged modes of instruction, have brought down the
elements of education within the reach of multitudes of men-
dicants ; and their operation has been so efficacious, as to
reclaim a neglected populace from the w aste of ignorance
and crime, and to lead to the manufactory and the field,
those who would otherwise become tenants of the prison.
Any improvement in our system of education, which may
extend its iniiuence still further, will meet with the appro-
bation of the Senate.
We are happy to learn from your Excellency, that, by
the ado[ttinn of new measures in the State Prison, its de-
sign in promoting the reformation of offenders is better ac-
complished. It is certainly worthy of the philanthropist
and statesman, to dispense, as far as possible, with the use
of severe and sanguinary laws. Experience has proved,
that it is not by the multiplication of capital punishments,
that crimes ave to be lessened ; but that, on the contrary,
the humanity of juries sometimes intcr]T(Jses to prevent the
conviction of offender;*, who would suffer too se\erely, and
if convicted, the feelings of the people revolt against the
frequent exposure of victims to public execution. ( ur
criminal code has never been cruel. But it will h& a tri-
umph of humanity, if the penitentiary system can be so im-
proved, as to accomplish more effectually than corporal
punishment, the prevention of crimes, and at the same time
promote the reformation of the guilty.
It is gratifying to the Senate, to be informed by your Ex-
cellency, of the completion of the Hospital for the Insane ;
and to learn, that this unhappy part of our race have, at
length, an asjlum, where humane and skilful guardians
and attendants devote themselves to their restoration to
tranquillity and reason. Its Trustees, together with the
visiting and consulting physicians, who have contributed so
much to the accomplishment of this charitable design, merit
the gratitude of the community. What has been reared
under their care, will not be abandoned by the guardians
of flie State. The same feelings of humanity r-nd regard
to the public good, which at first inspired the purpose of
establishing the General Hospital, will not allow the Le*
gislature to withhold its patronage, before the original de-
sign, conducted with skill and economy, shall be properly
eompleted,
5
ANSWER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
May it please your Excellency,
IN meeting your Excellency, on your reelection to
the oflRce of Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, and
uniting with the other branches of the government, in delibe-
rations on the means of promoting the public prosperity, the
Hjuse of Representatives most sincerely concur with your
Excellency in acknowledging the goodness of that Almighty
Being, from whom are primarily derived all the blessings
of peace, plenty, general health, good order, and freedom.
And it is with great satisfaction, that we see a gentleman,
whose patriotism and valor, in early life, contributed to
defend the rights, and establish the independence of his
country, called, by his fellow citizens, to preside over the
administration of the laws, in this Commonwealth ; and by
the influence of venerable years and mature experience,
recommending the cultivation of those virtues, and the
encouragement of those institutions, which are adapted to
give stability to republican government ; to secure the
rights, and elevate the character of freemen. Duly appre-
ciating the importance of the privileges which the people of
this Commonwealth enjoy, under the Constitution of the
State, and of the United States, we cannot be insensible to
the high responsibility resting on us, to exert our best
endeavors to guard the interests of the State, and to advance
the prosperity of its citizens.
We rejoice that the people of this Commonwealth have
Ijad the opportunity to form, and have now the happiness
to enjoy, a republican constitution of government. We
rejoice that man, doomed, in former ages, and in other
countries, to be the victim of conquest and vassalage, has,
in this part of the globe, resumed his natural rights, and
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 35
vindicated his claim to govern himself. We admire the
fortitude, the patience and the sufferings of our venerable
ancestors, who selected, settled and defended this seques-
tered continent, as a secure retreat from the evils of the
European world ; no less than we reverence the intelligence,
the virtue, and the piety, from which we have derived
institutions and systems of laws, probably more nearly
perfect than any which have before fallen to the lot of man.
But we perfectly accord in sentiment with your Excellency,
that Avithout intelligence and virtue in the people, from
whom springs all the legitimate government, there can be
no rational expectation that these invaluable privileges can
be long preserved ; and we feel that we should betray the
trust reposed in us by our constituents, if we should neglect
to cherish the principles, guard the rights, and improve the
institutions, civil, religious and literary, which we inherit
from our ancestors and from the founders of our con-
stitution.
In accordance with the opinion of your Excellency, the
House of Representatives number the early instruction and
discipline of youth, among the most efficacious means of
promoting the happiness and improving the condition of
society. Habits of early subordination, just views of moral
obligation, and reverence of the Supreme Being, have, in
our apprehension, the most powerful tendency to restrain
the progress of vice, and extend the dominion of virtue.^
It is obvious, from experience, no less than from the de-
claration of inspired truth, that the training of children in
the path of integrity and virtue, is the best method to se-
cure their future rectitude of conduct, their reputation,
their influence, and their usefulness. We hold it to be a
truth that ought to be impressed on the heart of every pa-
rent and guardian, and too important not to be repeated on
every suitable occasion, that the rudiments of the public
character of a nation or people, are unfolded in families
and seminaries of learning. Families, the elementary as-
sociations of man, which spring from the divine institution
of marriage, constitute the germs of all human society ; and
from the instructions and discipline of families and primary
schools, the minds of youth receive a direction, which, in
a great degree, gives to them their future character, as mem-
bers of a communily.
36 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
Under these impressions, the House of Representatives
hold it to be their indisjiensable duty, as it is their highest
interest, to encourage, every practicable measure that may
be suggested or devised, to carry into effect the requisitions
of the constitution, respecting the education of youth. To
form plans for diffusing literary and moral improvement
among the indigent classes of citizens, in connexion with
religious instruction, will be no less our pleasure, than it is
a duty which we owe to society. To draw, from the ob-
scure retreats of poverty, the miserable victims of ignorance
and vice ; to enlighten their minds ; to extirpate corrupt
principles ; to reform their evil habits ; and to raise them
from def)asement to the rank of intelligent, industrious, and
useful members of the community, will never cease to be
an object of deep solicitude, with a wise Legislature ; and
we trust that no opportunity will be neglected by the House
of Representatives, to lend their influence to any measure,
calculated to promote this object.
The increase of pauperism is an evil to be deeply re-
gretted. In this Commonwealth, where property is diffused
among all classes of people, and the means of subsistence
are not difficult to be obtained, this evil is probably less
alarming, than in Europe. Yet, in this State, the evil is
too obvious not to be perceived, and to awaken apprehen-
sions ; and the view, which your Excellency has presented
to us, of the pauperism of some European countries, in con-
nexion with ignorance and crimes, cannot fail to impress on
our minds the importance of attending to every scheme that
human wisdom can devise, to arrest its progress in this
Commonwealth. In regard to the most efficacious mode
of preventing crimes, by early instruction and discipline ;
forming the minds of youth to habits of moral order and
industry, we entirely coincide with your Excellency ; and
we shall not fail to improve every suggestion that may be
offered ; and promote every salutary measure that may be
devised, to prevent an accumulation of the evils which
spring from ignorance, indolence and vice.
The House of Representatives are highly gratified to
learn from your Kxcellency, that the great Penitentiary at
Charlestown, and the Hospital for the Insane, are in a
prosperous condition; and that both institutions justify the
expectation, that they will prove exteusively beneficial to
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 87
the community. And while we would express our full con-
fidence in the judicious arrangements and economical man-
agement of those to whom these institutions are intrusted,
we would manifest a readiness to give to them any aid,
which the demands of justice and humanity may require,
and which may not be incompatible with the resources of
the Commonwealth.
RESOLVES.
MAY AND JUNE, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN.
CHAP. I.
Resolve for repealing a Hesolve, 'providing for an addi-
tional JSTotary Public for Suffolk, May S9th, 1819.
Resolved, That a resolve, passed on the second day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifteen, providing for an additional Notary Public, in
Boston, in the County of Suffolk, be, and is hereby re-
pealed.
CHAP. II.
Resolve providing for the choice of an additional JSTotary
Public for Washington and Oxford Counties.
May 29th, 1819.
Resolved, That one additional Notary Public be ap-
pointed for the County of Washington, to reside atEastport;
and one for the County of Oxford, to reside at Fryeburg.
40 BEVERLY Jme %, 1819.
CHAP. III.
Resolve for payivg the Members of the Legislature,
Jane 1st, 1819.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Coiumonwealth, to each Member of the Council, Senate,
and House of Kepresenfatives, two dollars, for each and
every day's attendance, the present pcditical year ; and the
like sum of two dollars, for every ten miles travel from
their respective places of abode, to the place of the sitting
of the Legislature, at every session thereof. And be it fur-
ther resolved^ that there be paid to the President of the
Senate, and Speaker of the Bouse of Representatives,
each, two dollars per day, for each and every day's at-
tendance, in addition to their pay as Members.
CHAP. IV.
Resolve on the petition of the Overseers of the Poor, for
the town of Beverly, June 2d, 1819.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Overseers of the Poor of the town
of Beverly^ fifty dollars, in full, for a pension, which Is-
rael Morgan, of said Beverly, an insane person, is entitled
to receive from this Commonwealth, for one year, ending
the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, to be by them ap-
plied towards the support of said Morgan.
S. J, COURT ADJOURNED.-^Jwne 4, 1819. 41
CHAP. V.
Resolve on the petition of Solomon Choate and others^ to
view Sandy Bay Pier, June 3d, 1819.
On the petition of Solomon Choate, and others,
Rpsdlved^ For rea«ons set forth in their petition, that
Messrs. Howard, of Newburyport, Hooper, of Marblehead,
and Weston, of Middleborough, be a Committee, at the
expense of the petitioners, to view and examine the Fier,
at Sandy J5ay, in the town of Gloucester, and report
thereon.
CHAP. VI.
Resolve for adjourning the Supreme Judicial Courts at
Castiue,for the Counties of Hancock^ Washington and
Penoiscoty on account of the Small Pox.
June 4th, 1819.
Whereas considerable alarm has been excited in the vi-
cinity of Penobscot Bay, by reason of the small pox lately
breaking out and spreading in that quarter — Therefore,
Resolved^ That the term of the Supreme Judicial Court
of this Commonwealth, appointed by law, to be holden ai
Castine, in the County of Hancock, and for the Counties
of Hancock. Washington, and Penobscot, on the third
Tuesday of June, current, be, and the same is hereby post-
poned, and adjourned, to the second Monday of Septem-
ber next, being the thirteenth day of that month ; at that
time to be commenced and holden at said Castine, in lieu
of the said third Tuesday of June, current.
Resolved^ That all persons in any wise interested in any
business, matter, or thing, pertaining to the said Court, at
its June term, for the counties aforementioned, be altogether
excused from giving their attendance thereto, until the sec-
ond Monday of ^September, aforementioned ; on which lat-
ter day, all parties, jurors, officers, attornies, witnesses, and
other persons, in any way connected or concerned with the
business of said Court, for said counties, shall give their at-
6
4i3 GUSHING.— Jwne 8, 1819.
tendance, in the same way and manner as they would have
done, on the said third Tuesday of June^ current, if these,
resolves had not been passed.
Resolved, That all suits, actions, indictments, recogniz-
ances, matters and things, of whatever name or nature, in
any way returnable to, or pending in, said Court, for the
counties aforenamed, at said June term, or appertaining
thereto, be, and the same may and shall be entered, have
dav, be heard, proceeded upon to final judgment, sentence,
and execution, in the same way and manner, and to the
same extent and purpose, at the term hereby appointed to
commence on the said second Monday of September next^
as would have been allowable and legal, on the said third
Tuesday of June, current, if these resolves had not been
passed.
Resolved, That the adjourned or postponed term of said
Court, appointed hereby to be holden on the second Mon-
day of September next, be, and the same is hereby directed
to be holden and completed by any one of the Justices of
said Supreme Judicial Court, any law to the contrary not-
withstanding.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Commonwealth
cause to be printed, as soon as possible, and transmitted by
mail, copies of these resolves to the Judges of said Court,
and to the several Sheriffs and Clerks of said counties ; and
also furnish six copies thereof to each Member of the Gen-
eral Court, from those counties ; and likewise to be pub-
lished in the Columbian Centinel, the Daily Advertiser,
and the Boston Patriot and Daily Chronicle, all printed in
Boston.
CHAP. VII.
Resolve on tJie petition of the inhabitants of the town of
Cushing, June 8th, 1819.
On the petition of the town of Cushing, in the Connty of
Lincoln, stating that the doings of said town have, in some
respects, been illegal, viz. : That previous to the year one
SEBEC— Jitwe 8, 1819. 43
thousand eight hundred and eighteen, there never had been
any list of voters made out, for the choice of town officers ;
that the Moderators of the meetings of said town have not
heen chosen by written ballot ; and that the records of said
town have been kept in an illegal manner, in many respects ;
and praying that their several town meetings, and the do-
ings therein, prior to the date of said petition, may be ren-
dered valid ;
Resolved, That the several town meetings, held in said
town of Cushing, as aforesaid, be, and they are hereby
rendered good and valid ; and the proceedings had at the
meetings, aforesaid, be, and they are hereby fully ratified
and confirmed : Provided, hoicever, that this shall not affect
any cause, now pending before any Judicial Court.
CHAP. vni.
Resolve for an additional JVotary, in the County of CuiU'
berland. June 8th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be appointed an additional Notary
Public, in the County of Cumberland ; to reside in the town
of Brunswick.
CHAP. IX.
Resolve on the petition of William R, Lowney, in behalf of
the town of Sebec, in the County of Penobscot,
June 8th, 1819.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Secretary of the Commonwealth be, and he is hereby au-
thorized and directed to deliver to the inhabitants of said
Sebec, one bound volume of the Colony and Province
Laws; the ninth volume of Massachusetts Term Reports;
the three first volumes of the Statutes of th& Common-
4)4. SARAH CLEAVES.— JM«e 9, 1819.
wealth, and the Laws and Resolves of tlie General Court,
passed in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirteen
and fourteen, in lieu of those destroyed by the British, when
at Bangor.
CHAP. X.
Resolve authorizing Sarah Cleaves to convey Real Estate,
June 9th, 1819.
On the petition of Sarah Cleaves, of Biddefbrd, in the
County of York, widow. Administratrix on the estate of
Daniel Cleaves, late of said Biddeford, Esquire, deceased,
intestate, praying that she may be authorized and empow-
ered to make and execute good and sufficient deeds of
several farms, and tracts of land, to several persons, as
mentioned and described in said petition, according to the
several contracts entered into by said deceased, in his life
time ;
Resolved f That the said Sarah Cleaves, Administratrix,
as aforesaid, be, and she hereby is authorized and empow-
ered to make and execute good and sufficient deeds to the
several persons, herein named, of the several farms, and
lots of land, hereafter mentioned ; ^provided,, said persons
shall pay the several sums of money, and otherwise comply
with their said contracts, made by, and between them, re-
spectively, and said deceased ; viz. : to Joseph Wentworth,
a lot, or tract of land, in Limington, purchased of John L.
Hancock, by deed, dated the thirtieth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and five : to Thomas H.
Thompson, a lot of land, and buildings thereon, in Gorham,
purchased of Simeon Farnham, by deed, dated the eighth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six : to
William Lane, a farm, in Brownfield, purchased of said
Lane, by deed, dated the sixteenth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and four: to Moses Atkinson,
Junior, a small lot of land, with a dwelling house thereon,
purchased of John Palmer, by deed, dated the sixteenth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven :
INVESTMENT OF STOCK.— Jitwc 10, 1819. 45
to Samuel Davis, one half of two days, or one twelfth part
of a mill privilege, in Hollis, in common with Jonathan
I'ucker, set off on execution, in favor of Cleaveland Tuck-
er, against Timothy Tibbets, under date of July eighteenth,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
CHAP. XT.
Jtesolve permitting David Greenough to continue a Livery
Stable, within the town of Boston. June yth, 1819.
On the petition of David Greenough,
Tiesolved. For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Firewards of the town of Boston, be, and they hereby are
empowered to permit a livery stable to be continued on the
land, formerly the Old Province House land, near Marl,
borough Street, in said Boston ; provided^ the same be built,
and continued to be built with brick, and properly slated ;
and that said David Greenough, his heirs and assigns, be
permitted to continue the same, on such terms and condi-
tions, as the said Firewards, of said town, shall find to be
consistent with the safety of said town from fire, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding.
CHAP. XU.
Resolve empowering the Treasurer to invest Fifty TJiou-
sand Dollars in United States Stock, June 10th, 1819.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts be directed to invest fifty thousand dollars of
the money which is now in the hands of the said Treasurer,
in six, or seven per cent, stock of the United States, and
which of the two he may deem most for the interest of the
said Commonwealth, on the best terms he can ; and cause,
the same to be transferred at the Loan Office, and placed to
the credit of the said Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
4(6 BELMONT.~-Jitwe ii, 1819.
CHAP. XIII.
Resolve emjjoieering the Assessors of the South Parish in
Augusta, to call a Meeting in said Parish, ,
June lltb, 1819.
On the petition of John Potter and others, Assessors of
the South Parish in Augusta, in the County of Kennebec,
praying liberty to call a meeting of said parish, for the pur-
pose of choosing the necessary parish oflBcers, and raising
money, necessary for the exigeucies of said parish ;
Resolved, That John Potter, Lewis Hamiin, and Cyrus
Guild, Assessors of said South Parish in Augusta, in th«
County of Kennebec, for reasons set forth in their petition^
be, and are hereby authorized to call a meeting of the in-
habitants of said parish, qualified by law, to vote in parith
affairs, at any time in the month of July next, for the pur-
poses of choosing parish officers, and raising the monies
necessary for the exigencies of said parish ; any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
CHAP. XIV.
Resolve confirming the doings of the town of Belmont.
June 11th, 1819.
On the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Belmont,
in the County of Hancock, stating that doubts had arisen
as to the legality of the choice of town officers, and certain
other proceedings, in said town, and praying that their sev-
eral town meetings, and the doings therein, for the years of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and one
thousand eight hundred and sixteen, may be rendered valid ;
Resolved^ That the choice of the several town officers,
chosen at the second town meeting, in April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be de-
clared good and valid in law ; that the town meeting of
said town, on the first Monday of AprU, one thousand
DAVID M. DOYLE.— Jatie 11, 1819. 47
eight hundred and sixteen, be declared good and valid in
law ; and the assessment of taxes made by the Assessors,
chosen at the meeting last aforesaid, for the years one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifteen, and ene thousand eight
hundred and sixteen, is hereby declared good and valid in
law : Provided, however, that this shall not affect any case
now pending before any Judicial Court.
CHAP. XV.
Resolve on petition of David M, Doyle, June 11, 1819-
On the petition of David M. Doyle, Guardian to Sarah
Ann Frederickson, Mary Elizabeth Frederickson, Marga-
ret Caroline Frederickson, minors, under the age of four-
teen years, praying that he, the said Guardian, may be
authorized and empowered to take and receive the amount
pf property left them by Jacob Smith, late of Boston, in
the County of Suffolk, mariner, deceased, testate ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said David M. Doyle, Guardian of Sarah Ann Frederick-
son, Mary Elizabtttb Frederickson, and Margaret CarolinQ
Frederickson, minors, under the age of fourteen years, be,
and he hereby is authorized and empowered to ask, demand,
receive, sue for, and recover of, and from Timothy Clap, of
Maiden, in the County of Middlesex, yeoman. Administra-
tor of the estate of Jacob Smith, late of Eoston, mariner, de-
ceased, testate, all the amount of the legacy given to said
minors, in the last will and testament of the said Jacob
Smith, as expressed in the said last will and testament of
said Smith, annexed to said letters of administration, grant-
ed to said Timothy Clap. And the Judge of Probate of
the County of Middlesex is hereby authorized to approve
of, and allow said payment, in the settlement of said Ad-
Tiainis^rator's aocouiit, in the Probate Office, accordingly.
48 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.— Juwe 3, 1819.
CHAP. XVI.
Resolve confirming the doings of the town of Shirley.
June nth, 1819.
On the petition of the Selectmen of the town of Shirley,
alleging that the town officers of said town, for several
years past, have been duly sworn, before entering on the
duties of their offices, but no record thereof has ever been
jnade ; and praying that the records and doings of said
town may be made valid, so as to give to them the same legal
force and effect as they would have had, in case a record
thereof had been duly made ;
Resolved, therefore, For reasons set forth in said petition,
that the doings of said officers, and the records of said town^
be, and the same are hereby made valid ; and that they
have the same force and effect that the same would have
bad, in case a record of said officers being sworn, had been
duly made.
CHAP. XVII.
Governor's Message. June 26 ^ 1819.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I have to announce to you the death of Major General
Nathaniel Goodwin, since the last session q^ the Legisla-
ture, and the consequent vacancy of Major General, in the
fifth division of the militia.
J. BROOKS.
Council Chamber J June 2, 1819,
ESSEX LEOMINSTER.— June 11, 1819. 49
CHAP. XVIII.
Resolve confirming the doings of the town of Essex.
June 5th, 1819.
On the petition of the Selectmen of the town of Essex,
Resolved^ That for reasons set forth in said petition, the
doings of the inhabitants of said town, with respect to pay-
ing the expense incurred in obtaining an act of the incorpora-
tion of said town, are hereby made valid, in all respects :
And the Assessors of said town are hereby authorized to
assess the same accordingly, on the rateable polls and es-
tates of said town, and order the collection thereof, and
payments into tijeir treasury, in the same way and manner
other town taxes are assessed, collected and paid iu.
CHAP. XIX.
Resolve confirming the doings of the Assessors of the town
of Leominster. June 11th, 1819.
On the petition of the Selectmen of the town of Leomin-
stei", praying that the Assessors of said town of Leominster,
for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen, may be authorized and empowered to sign their
names to the lists of assessments, by them committed to
the Collector of taxes, for said year, and to aflBx a seal to
the warrants, by them signed and delivered to said Collec-
tor, for the collection of said taxes ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Assessors of said Leominster, for the year aforesaid, or the
major part of them, be, and hereby are authorized and em-
powered to sign said lists of assessment, and to affix a seal
to said warrant ; and said lists and warrants, when so sign-
ed and sealed, to be as good and valid in law, as if the same
had been done before they were committed to said Collee-
tor for collection.
||l L. GIMBEE.— STERLING — June IS, 1819.
CHAP. XX.
Resolve on petition of Lucy Gimbee. June 11th, 1819.
On the petition of Lucy Gimbee, alias Lucy Hector, one
of the Grafton Indians, so called, praying that the Trustee
of said Indians may be authorized to expend so much of her
estate, as may be found necessary for her support ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that Asa
Goodell, Trustee of the Grafton Indians, be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to pay out of the estate of
Lucy Gimbee, alias Lucy Hector, which is now in his
hands, so much as may be found necessary for her support.
CHAP. XXL
Resolve confirming the doings of the town of Sterling,
June 12th, 1819.
On the petition of the inhabitants of the towp of Sterling,
stating that the Clerk of said town had neglected to record
the oaths, administered to the officers of said town, and
that the Assessors omitted to sign the copies of the lists of
assessment, by them deposited with the Treasurer of said
town, and praying that said omissions and defects may be
remedied, and the doings rendered valid ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that tjie
doings of said officers be rendered good and valid in law,
notwithstanding the oaths administered to them, have not
been recorded ; and also, that the assessment made by said
Assessors, be confirmed, although the Assessors neglected
to sign the copies thereof, by them deposited with the
Treasurer of said town : Provided, nevertheless, that noth-
ing in this resolve shall in any way affect any action, now
pending in any Court of Judicature, having relation to said
omissions or defects.
SALLY WAVGU.— June IS, 1819. 51
CHAP. XXIL
Resolve in favor of Sally Waugh. June IStli, 1819.
On the petition of Sally Waugh, Administratrix of the
estate of James Waugh, Junior, late of N orridgewock, in
the County of Somerset, deceased, setting forth, that the
said James Waugh, Junior, in his life time, did agree with
William Sylvester, Junior, of Starks, in the county afore-
said, to convey to the said Sylvester, a certain lot of land,
described in said petition, being part of the estate of said
deceased, but died before a deed could be made and ex-
ecuted ; praying that she may be authorized to make a good
and valid deed of the same, to the said William Sylvester,
Junior ;
Resolved f For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Sally Waugh, as she is Administratrix of the estate of
the said James Waugh, Junior, deceased, be, and she is
hereby authorized and empowered to execute a good and
sufficient deed to the said William Sylvester, Junior, of
the said land, being part of the estate of the said deceased,
situated in said Starks, bounded as follows, to wit: Begin-
ning at the south-west angle made by the intersection of
the road, in the centre of the town of Starks ; thence south,
by the west side of the town road, sixty-six feet ; thence
west, thirty. six feet ; thence north, to the county road, six-
ty-six feet ; thence east, by the county road, thirty-six feet,
to the bounds first mentioned ; and such deed, so made and
executed, shall be good and valid in law, to convey all the
right and interest which the heirs at law, of the said James
Waugh, Junior, may have in the same, as if the said deed
had been executed by the said Waugh, in his life time,
pursuant to said agreement : Provided, nevertheless, that
previously to the delivery of said deed, the said Sylvester
shall pay unto the said Sally Waugh, Administratrix of
the estate of the said James Waugh, Junior, deceased, to
be accounted for by the said Sally, with the Judge of Pro-
bate for the said County of Somerset, the amount of the
purchase money, which was agreed upon, by and between
the said William Sylvester, Junior, and the said James
Waugh, Junior, in the life time of the said James Waugh,
Junior : Provided, also, that the said Sally first give bonds,
52 BOYLSTON ADAMS.— JziTie 16, 1819.
with sufficient surety, to the Judge of Probate of said coun-
ty, to account for, and pay over to the heirs of said James
Waugh, Junior, deceased, the full amount of the purchase
aforesaid, with legal interest thereon, when thereto law-
fully required.
CHAP. XXIII.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to borrow Money.
June 16th, 1819.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth he,
and he is hereby authorized and directed to borrow of any
of the banks in Boston, any sum not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars, that may, at any time within the present year,
be necessary for the payment of the ordinary demands
made on the treasury ; and that he pay any sum he may
borrow, as soon as money sufficient for the purpose, and not
otherwise appropriated, shall be received into the treasury.
CHAP. XXIV.
Resolve in favor of Boylston Mams, June l6th, 1819.
On the petition of Boylston Adams,
Resolved, For reasons therein set forth, that there be
allowed and paid to the said Boylston Adams, the sum of
sixty dollars, in full compensation for the injury done to
his horse, while used on military duty.
PHILLIPS.— BLANK FOKMS.— JwMe 16, 1819. 53
CHAP. XXV.
Resolve appropriating Fifteen Thousand Dollars for the
State Prison. June 16th, 1819.
On the petition of the Warden of the State Prison,
f'esolvpd, That there be paid out of the public treasury,
for the use of the State Prison, the sum of fifteen thousand
dollars, to be drawn from the treasury, by the Warden of
saifl prison, in such sums as the Directors shall, from time
to time, direct ; and his Excellency the Governor, with
advice of Council, is hereby requested to draw his warrants
on the Treasurer for said sums accordingly.
CHAP. XXVI.
Mesolve for reimbursing Eleven Dollars and Eighty-TJiree
CentSf to the town of Phillips. June l6th, 1819.
On the petition of Joseph Fairbank, for, and in behalf
of the town of Phillips, for the reasons set forth in said
petition,
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to the town of Phillips,
the sum of eleven dollars and eighty-three cents, in full,
for money said town paid into said treasury, through a mis-
take ; said town having been taxed twice, in the tax bill
for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
CHAP. XXVIL
Resolve for printing Blank Forms of Returns of Votes.
June I6th, 1819.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby required to cause to be printed, as occa-
5* " BAPTIST SOCIETY, ---June 17, 1819.
sion may require, a sufficient number of blank forms of
returns of votes for Representatives to the General Court
of this Commonwealth, as prescribed by law; and also
blank forms of returns of votes of the several towns in this
Commonwealth, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Sena-
tors, and Counsellors, and for Representatives in the Con-
gress of the United States, as prescribed in a resolve of the
liCgislature, passed on the fourteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seven; and shall, annually, transmit, with the laws and
resolves, at least one blank form of each kind, to the Clerk
of each town in this Commonwealth.
CHAP. XXVII.
Resolve confirming the doings of the Baptist Sbcietyy
in Freeport, June 17th, 1819.
On the petition of James Johnson and William True, a
Committee of the Calvinistic Baptist Society, in Freeport,
in the County of Cumberland, praying that the doings of
the said society, from the year one thousand eight hundred
and twelve, to the present year, inclusive, may be confirm-
ed and rendered valid ; the officers of the said society, not
having been sworn as the law directs ;
Resolvedy For reasons set forth in the said petition, that
the doings of said society in Freeport, from the year one
thousand eight hundred and twelve, to the present time,
be, and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, and
rendered as good and valid, as though said officers had
been sworn and qualified, according to law.
SANDY BAY PIER.— Jitne 16, 1819. 55
CHAP. XXVIIT.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to dispose of uncurrent
Bank Bills, in his possession. June 16, 1-819.
Whereas there is in the treasury of this Commonwealth,
a number of uncurrent bills, of the Berkshire, Northamp-
ton, and Farmer's Exchange Banlts, received by former
Treasurers, pursuant to resolves of the General Court, and
amounting to the sum of one thousand and fourteen dollars ;
Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to dispose of said bills, or any
part of them, in any way, and upon any terms, which to
him may seem most conducive to the interest of the Com-
monwealth, passing the proceeds thereof to the credit of
the Commonwealth, accordingly.
CHAP. XXIX.
Resolve granting a Toionship of Land to the Proprietors
of Sandy Bay Fier. June l6th, 1819.
On the petition of the proprietors of Sandy Bay Pier,
for reasons therein set forth,
Resolved, For the purpose of repairing and improving
the pier and bason at Sandy Bay, in the town of Glouces-
ter, that there is hereby granted to the proprietors of Sandy
Bay Pier Company, a township of land, six miles square,
to be laid out and assigned to them, by the Agents for the
sale of eastern lands, out of any unappropriated lands in
the District of Maine, with the usual reservations and re-
strictions, and excepting all the lands purchased of the In-
dians : Provided, however, that the said proprietors shall
cause the said township to be surveyed and located, and
the plan thereof to be returned into the Land OjSice, within
the term of three years.
56 RAYMOND SCHOOL FUND.— June 17, 1819.
CHAP. XXX.
Resolve confirming the doings of tJie town of JSTewry,
June 17th, 1819.
On the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Newry,
stating that the Moderator of the meeting in said town of
Newry, in April last, for the choice of town officers, and
the transaction of other town business, was chosen by hand
votes, and praying that the doings of said meeting may be
rendered valid and good, notwithstanding said irregularity ;
Resolved^ That the proceedings and transactions of said
meeting be. and they hereby are confirmed and rendered
valid, notwithstanding the irregularity above stated.
CHAP. XXXI.
Mesolve confirming the doings of the Trustees of the School
Fund, in the town of Raymond, June 17th, 1819.
On the petition of the Trustees of the School Fund, in
the town of Raymond, in the County of Cumberland, stat-
ing, that, through ignorance of the law, they held their first
meeting without making application to a Justice of the Peace
for a warrant, for that purpose, and proceeded to sell their
school lands, and have taken good security for the interest,
to be paid annually, and the principal is well secured by
mortgage of real estate ; that, in all their proceedings, they ^
have conducted with honesty and integrity, for the benefit
of said town ; and praying, that their proceedings may be
rendered valid in law — Therefore,
Resolved, That all the acts and doings of said Trustees
of the School Fund, in the town of Raymond, in the County
of Cumberland, aforesaid, be, and they are hereby con-
firmed and made good and valid in law, as though the first
meeting of said Trustees had been called by warrant from
a Justice of the Peace.
WOOLWICH.— S. FLAGG.— Jitne 17, 1819. 57
^' CHAP. XXXIII.
Resolve confirming the doings of the First Parish in
Woolwich, June 17th, 1819.
On the petition of the Committee of the inhabitants of
the First Parish in the town of Woolwich, in the County
of Lincoln, praying that the acts and doings of said inhab-
itants, at their parish meeting, holden on the nineteenth day
of May, last past, may be confirmed and rendered valid,
notwithstanding any supposed illegality or defect, either in
the time or manner of notifying, or holding said meeting ;
Resolved, For the reasons set forth in said petition, that
the acts and doings of the inhabitants of the First Parish, in
the town of Woolwich, in the County of Lincoln, at their
parish meeting, holden on the nineteenth day of May, last
past, shall be, and the same are hereby confirmed, and ren-
dered good and valid in law, any supposed illegality or de-
fect in the time or manner of notifying or holding said
meeting, to the contrary notwithstanding.
CHAP. XXXIV.
Resolve extending privileges to Samuel Flagg and others.
June 17, 1819.
Resolved, That the same rights and privileges as were
secured to Samuel Flagg, Catharine Drown, and others,
named in the resolves of February twentieth, one thousand
eight hundred and thirteen, and of January twenty-sixth,
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same
are hereby allowed and extended to them, or their legal
representatives, for the term of one year from the first day
of July next ; and the Commissioners of the Land OflBce
are hereby authorized and directed to govern themselves
accordingly.
5S MONMOUTH.— J. aOTT.— /ttwe 18, 1819.
CHAP. XXXV.
Mesolve on petition of Selectmen of Monmouth.
June 18, 1819.
On the petition of the Selectmen of Monmouth,
Mesolvedj That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of the Commonwealth, to the town of Monmouth,
the sum of sixteen dollars, to reimburse them for tbe pay-
ment of the like sum, for the support of John Edgecomb,
who was a sick soldier in Captain Moses Boynton's com-
pany of infantry, in the second regiment, first brigade, and
eighth division, which was called into the service of the
State, for its defence, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fourteen ;
Resolved, That whenever a proper voucher, for the pay-
ment of the same, shall have been left with the Adjutant
General, to be filed with the papers relating to the claims
of this Commonwealth against the United States, his Ex-
cellency the Governor be requested to draw his warrant on
the Treasurer, for the payment of the same, accordingly.
CHAP. XXXVI.
Resolve in favor of Joseph Gott, June 18th, 1819.
The Committee on Accounts, to whom was referred the
petition of Joseph Gott, ask leave to report the following
resolve, which is submitted.
E. HOYT, Per Order,
On the petition of said Joseph Gott, praying for allow-
ance for the support of Manuel Antonio, a Portuguese,
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Common-
wealth, to said Joseph Gott, the sum of fifty-four dollars
and ninety-three cents, in full for the support of said An-
tonio, from the fourth of November, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, to the twenty-fifth day of February^
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
STATE PRINTER, kc—June 18, 1819. 59
CHAP. XXXYII.
Resolve appointing Printer to the State. June 18th, 1819.
On the petition of Benjamin Russell, of Boston, in the
County of Suifolk, praying to be appointed, and employed,
as printer to the Greneral Court, the ensuing year,
Resolved, That the said Benjamin Russell be, and he
hereby is appointed the printer of this Commonwealth, for
one year, from the fourth day of June, instant, to be iFully
completed and ended, and until another State Printer shall
be appointed in his stead ; provided, he, the said Russell,
shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed,
the printing, in a faithful and workmanlike manner, on
good and suitable paper, and with all reasonable despatch,
and to the acceptance of the officers for whom the work
may be done.
Be it further resolved, That the compensation which
shall and may be allowed and made to the said Benjamin
Russell, for printing and materials, furnished as aforesaid,
shall be according to the usual rates of printing, established
among the printers and booksellers in Boston ; and the
Committee of Accounts shall settle the bills according to
those rules.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
Resolve to pay the Messenger to the General Court,
June 18, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed, and paid out of the
public treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, in full for his services, as
Messenger to the General Court, and for his care of the
State House, and all other services rendered by him, (ex-
cept those for which compensation is made, by a resolve,
passed October nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and
fourteen,) for the year commencing thirtieth day of May
last, one thousand dollars, payable quarter yearly ; and
his Excellency the Grovernor, with advice of Council, is
requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
60 MARRIAGE MADE VALID— Jwwe 18, 1819.
CHAP. XXXIX.
Resolve granting One Hundred Dollars, to Clarissa Gil-
bert. June 18th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the trea-
suvy of this Commonwealth, to Clarissa Gilbert, widow of
the late Charles Gilbert, who was killed, while on military
duty, in August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,
one hundred dollars, in addition to two hundred dollars, al-
ready paid, which sum shall be in full ; and the Governor,
with advice of Council, be requested to draw his warrant
accordingly.
CHAP. XL.
Resolve to pay the Committee for investigating the concerns
of the Agricultural Bankj at Pittsjield.
June 18th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Robert Rantoul, Esquire,
of Beverly, the sum of sixty- seven dollars ; to William W.
Parrot, Esquire, of Gloucester, the sum of sixty- seven dol-
lars ; and to the Honorable Daniel Noble, of Williams-
town, the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, in full
for their services and expenses, as a Committee for investi-
gating the transactions of the Agricultural Bank, at Pitts-
field.
CHAP. XLL
Resolve making valid the Marriage of James Cummings
and Susannah Willard, June 18, 1819.
On the petition of James Cummings and Susannah Cum-
mings, of Wilton, in the County of Kennebec, representing
COM. ON ACCOUNTS.— June 19, 1819. 61
that, in the month of July, A. D. one thousand eight hun-
deretl and seventeen, they were united in matrimony, having
a lawful right so to do, and their intentions thereof having
been legally published, by one John Foster, of said Wil-
ton, a Minister of the baptist order, ordained agreeably to
the rules of the baptist society, as a Minister at large ; and
representing also, that doubts have arisen, respecting the
validity of said marriage ; Therefore,
Resolved, That the marriage aforesaid, of the said James
Cnmmings and Susannah Cummings, formerly Susannah
Willard, solemnized in manner aforesaid, be, and the same
is hereby declared to be legal and valid, to all intents and
purposes ; and the issue of said marriage shall be, and the
same is hereby declared to be legitimate, to all intents and
purposes, as if the said marriage had been solemnized by a
person legally authorized for that purpose.
CHAP. XLII.
Resolve to fay Committee on Accounts, June 18, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid, to the Com-
mittee on Accounts, one dollar per day, over and above their
pay as Members, for the present session, to wit : Honorable
Elihu Hoyt, twenty-four days, twenty-four dollars ; Hon-
orable Stephen P. Gardner, twenty-four days, twenty-four
dollars ; Samuel Porter, Esquire, twenty-four days, twenty-
four dollars ; David Perry, Esquire, twenty -four days,
twenty-four dollars ; Joseph R. Abbot, Esquire, twenty-four
days, twenty-four dollars.
62 QUARTER MASTER GEN.— Jitwe 19, 1819.
CHAP. XLIII.
Resolve infavoi^ of the Qum'ter Master General.
June 19th, 1819.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred
the Quarter Master General's communication, relating to
the expenditures in his department, have attended to the
duties of their appointment, and find his account well
vouched and rightly cast ; and that he has expended, be-
tween the seventeenth of January, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighteen, and the twenty- eighth of February, one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, inclusive, the sum
of twenty-two thousand, five hundred and four dollars, and
eleven cents, including sixteen hundred and seventy dol-
lars, and eighty. two cents, for his salary, for one year, one
mouth, and eleven days, from January seventeenth, one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to February twenty-
ty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ; and
has received, the year past, by warrants on the treasury,
the sum of twenty tliousand, nine hundred and thirty dol-
lars and fifty cents ; leaving a balance due the Quarter
Master General, of fifteen hundred and seventy-three dol-
lars and sixty-one cents ; ask leave to report the following
resolves. All which is respectfully submitted, by
EBENEZER GAY.
Mesolvedf That Amasa Davis, Esquire, Quarter Master
General, be, and he hereby is discharged from the sum of
twenty thousand, nine hundred and thirty dollars and fifty
cents, being the amount he has received, by warrants on
the treasury.
Resolved, That the sum of fifteen hundred and seventy-
three dollars and sixty-one cents, be paid the said Amasa
Davis, from the treasury of this Commonwealth, as the bal-
ance of his account, for the year ending February twenty-
eighth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Resolved, That the sum of eight thousand dollars, be
paid the Quarter Master General, from the treasury of this
Commonwealth, to meet the expenses of his department,
the ensuing year ; for the application of which; the said
DEAF AND DUMB.—Jkne 19, 1819. 63
Quarter Master General is to be accountable : And his
Excellency the Governor is requested to issue his warrants
on the treasury, for the amount, in such sums, and at such
periods, as his Excellency, with the advice of Council,
may deem expedient for the public service.
CHAP. XLIV.
Hesolve respecting Deaf and Dumb, June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be author-
ized to give sixty days notice, by publishing in such news-
papers as he may think proper, that, upon the application
of the parent or guardian of any deaf and dumb person,
belonging to this Commonwealth, accompanied by a certifi-
cate from the Selectmen of the town where such parent or
guardian resides, of the inability of such parent or guar-
dian to defray the expense of board, and instruction of such
deaf and dumb person«, at the Asylum in Hartford, in the
state of Connecticut, then, that the said expense, or par^
thereof, shall be defrayed by this Commonwealth, in the
manner hereinafter mentioned.
Resolved, That there be annually appropriated, out of
the treasury of this Commonwealth, the sum of four thou-
sand dollars, towards the expenses of board and instruction
of such deaf and dumb persons at the asylum, aforesaid ;
not, however, exceeding for each individual, the sum of two
hundred dollars per annum, and for a term for each indi-
vidual, not exceeding four years, or for such less time as
the Governor and Council may judge expedient. And if a
greater number than twenty, and less than forty shall apply,
the aforesaid sum of four thousand dollars, shall be distri.
buted among them in equal proportions ; and, if a greater
number than forty shall apply, the persons to be entitled,
shall be designated by lot ; not, however, in any case, to
deprive any one of the benefit of this resolve, or change
his annual allowance, who shall have been once placed at
the said asylum.
Resolved, That if it shall appear, that the whole number
64i PAY OF CLERKS.— FUEL.— Juwe 19, 1819.
for whom application shall be made, cannot be received as
pupils in said Asylum, the persons to be placed there at the
expense of this Commonwealth, application having been
made as aforesaid, shall be designated by lot, under the
direction of the Grovernor.
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be author-
ized to draw his warrant upon the treasury, for such sum
or sums of money, as shall be necessary to pay the expenses
of such persons as may be placed in said asylum, by his
direction.
Resolved, That the foregoing resolves shall continue in
force six years, and no more.
CHAP. XLV.
Resolve to pay Clerks in the several Offices,
June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid, out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to the first Clerk in the
Treasurer's Office, also to the first Clerk in the Secretary's
Office, also to the first Clerk in the Adjutant General's Office,
fourteen hundred dollars each, in full compensation for their
services annually, from the first day of this current month
of June j and, likewise, to each of the other Clerks, in the
said Treasurer's, Secretary's, and Adjutant General's Offices,
and, also, to the Clerk in the Quarter Master General's
Office, three dollars and eighty four cents per day, for each
and every day they are respectively employed therein, from
the said first day of June, current.
CHAP. XLVL
Resolve for -purchasing Fuel. June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this
Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the General
, q. M. GEN.— DISTRIB. ACT.— Jwwe 19, 1819. Q5
Court, the sum of one thousand dollars, to enable him to
purchase fuel, and such other articles, as may be necessary
for the use of the General Court, together with the Gover-
nor and Council Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasurer's,
Adjutant General's, and Quarter Master General's OfRces,
and also for the Land Office ; he to be accountable for the
expenditure of the same.
CHAP. XLVII.
Hesolve authorizing the Qiiarter Master General to fur-
nish Companies ivith Drums and Fifes.
June 19th, 1819.
Whereas, it has been represented, that the drums and
fifes, in the keeping of sundry companies of the militia of
this Commonwealth, were captured by the enemy, during
the late war ; Therefore,
Resolved, That whenever it shall appear, to the satisCac-
tion of the Quarter Master General of this Commonwealth,
from the representation of the commanding officer of any
regiment of militia, or otherwise, that any company, under
liis command, lost their drum and fife, by capture of the en-
emy, during the late war, it shall be his duty, and he here-
by is authorized to deliver one drum and fife to the com-
manding officer of any such company, for the use of the
same.
CHAP. XLVIII.
Resolve for distributing copies of the Act for the Separation
of Maine from Massachusetts Proper,
June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Commonwealth be
directed to cause to be printed, two thousand copies of the
9
66 RUSSELL AND GARDNER.— JMwe 19, 1819.
report of the Committee on the subject of the Separation of
the DivStrict of Maine from Massachusetts Proper, and the
act which has passed the present session, in relation there-
to, and have the same forwarded, as soon as maybe, to the
Slicriffs of the several counties, in the District of Maine,
in the proportion following, viz. : The County of York shall
he entitled to receive three hundred and fifty copies ; the
County of Lincoln, three hundred and fifty ; the County of
Cumberland, three hundred and fifty ; the County of Han-
cock, two hundred and twenty; the County of Washington,
one hundred ; the County of Kennebec, two hundred and
fifty; the County of Somerset, one hundred and twenty; the
County of Oxford, one hundred and fifty ; the County of
Penobscot, one hundred and ten. And it shall be the duty
of the several Sheriffs of the counties aforesaid, respective-
ly, immediately on receipt thereof, to distribute the said
report and act, among the several towns and plantations,
within their respective counties, as near as may be, in pro-
portion to their population ; provided, every town and plan-
tation shall, at least, have one copy ; and it shall be the
duty of the Selectmen of the several towns, and the As-
sessors of the several plantations, in said District, at the
meetings, to be called on the fourth Monday of July next,
in pursuance of said act, to cause the same, together with
the said report, to be read at the opening of their respective
meetings, on the said day.
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to cause a
suitable blank form, for the return of votes, on the question
of separation, to be prepared, and to have the said form
printed, and distributed with the act and report, aforesaid.
CHAP. XLIX.
Resolve to pay Russell §* Gardner. June 19th, 1819.
The Committee on Accounts, on the representation of
Russell & Gardner, printers for Benjamin Russell, printer
to the State, report the following resolve.
E, HOYT, Per Order.
WARD LOCKE.— CLERKS; kc-^July 19, 1819. 67
Mesolved, That there be allowed and paid, out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to Russell & Gardner, the
sum of three thousand and thirty dollars, for printing for
Benjamin Russell, printer for the fetate, to this day.
CHAP. L.
Resolve to jiaij Ward Lode, Assistant to the Messenger of
the Governor and Council. June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid, from the
-treasury of this Commonwealth, unto Ward Lock, Assistant
to the Messenger of the Governor and Council, two dollars
and fifty cents, for each and every day he has been or may
be employed, in that capacity, during the present session of
the Council.
CHAP. LL
Resolve to pay the Clerics of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, June 19tli, 1819.
The Committee of both Houses, appointed to consider
and report what compensation shall be made to the Clerks
of the two Houses, the present political year, having at-
tended that business, ask leave to report, by a resolve.
J. HUNEWELL, Per Order,
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate,
and Clerk of the House of Representatives, each, the sum
of five hundred and forty dollars; and to the Assistiint
Clerk of the Senate, and Assistant Clerk of the House of
Representatives, each, the su^n of three hundred and sixty
dollars, in full for their services, the present political year.
One third part of the above sum, to be paid at the end of
68 THOMAS WALCUTT.— Jw^e 19, 1819.
the first session, and the remaining two thirds, at the end
of the last session of the Legislature ; and the Governor iS'
requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. LII.
Resolve to pay Thomas Walcutt. June 19th, 1819.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies, for the assistance of the
]V1 embers of the Legislature, seventy-five dollars, in full,
for his services, during the present session of the General
Court.
ROLL, No. 81 JUNE, 1819.
THE Committee on Accounts, having exam-
ined the several accounts, they now present,
Report, That there is now due to the corporations
and persons, hereafter mentioned, the sums set to
their names, respectively ; which, when allowed and
paid, will be in full discharge of the said accounts,
to the several dates therein mentioned ; which is
respectfully submitted.
E. HOYT, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Abington, for boarfl and clothing Thomas Sey-
mour, to 29th May, 1819, 33 50
Arundel, for board and funeral charges of Henry
Rolf, S6 00
Anson, for supplies for the family of William
James, to 5th March, 1819, 22 50
Atjgusta, for board, clothing, nursing and doctor-
ing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1819, 94 55
Attleborough, for support of Joseph Barnard, to
23d May, 1819, 35 55
Adams, for support of sundry paupers, to 13th
May, 1819, 184; 30
70 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Ashby, for support of Rebecca Wilkins, to ISth
February, 1819, 110 Ig
Ashburnham, for support of Sake Franklin, to 1st
March, 1819, 103 ly
Amherst, for support of sundry paupers, to 15th
May, 1819, 82 8S
Alfred, for support of sundry paupers, to 15th
June, 1819, 108 33
Bridgewater, for support of sundry paupers, to
4th June, 1819, 113 43
Brooksville, for support of widow Low, and six
children, and removing them out of the Com-
monwealth, 69 00
Boxborough, for board and clothing John McCoy,
to 33d April, 1819, 6/ SO
Blandford, for support of sundry paupers, to 30th
May, 1819, 69 87
Brookfield, for board and clothing Jonas Benter,
to 10th May, 1819, and board, nursing and doc-
toring Robert Campbell, to August, 1818, 71 54i
Beverly, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, 136 86
Brighton, for board, clothing and doctoring John
J. Baker, to 1st March, 1819, 94 30
Bethel, for board and clothing William Buck, to
18th May, 1819, 95 00
Baldwin, for board, clothing, doctoring and nurs-
ing Daniel Hickey, to 1st May, 1819, 37 96
Bath, for board, clothing, nursing and doctoring
sundry paupers, anrd funeral charges of Adam
Wolf, 31st May, 1819, 113 50
Bradford, for support of Joshua L. Alsans, and
Doctor's bill, to 1st June, 1819, 38 75
Belchertown, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to 38th May, 1819, 106 73
Bellingham, for board, clothing and doctoring Na-
than Freeman and wife, to 33d May, 1819, 133 85
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 71
Belfast, for board, clothiug, nursing and doctor-
ing William Blackstone, his wife, and four chil-
dren, and Keene West's family, and funeral
charges of said W. Blackstone, 1st June, 1819, 428 SS
Berwick, for support of Saviah Stackpole and
Lemuel Pierce, until the death of Pierce, and
removal of S. Stackpole, including funeral and
removing charges, 40 04
Boxford, for support of Mehitable Hall, to 3d
June, 1819, 120 00
Boston, for support and funeral charges of sundry
paupers, to 30th April, 1819, 8088 24
Chester, for support of sundry paupers, to 23d
May, 1819, 92 00
Carver, for board and clothing Martin Grady, to
1st January, 1819, 116 00
Carlisle, for board, clothing and nursing Robert
Barber, to 24th May, 1819, 26 22
Cape Elizabeth, for support of sundry paupers, to
20th May, 1819. 85 00
Charlemont, for board, clothing, nursing and doc-
toring John Walcott, in September and October
last, 14 50
Cheshire, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to 28d May, 1819, 185 32
Charlestown, Jgor board, clothing and doctoring
sundry paupers, to 3d June, 1819, 634 5S
Concord, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
including Doctor's bills and medicine, to 1st
June, 1819, 295 50
Canton, for support of James Amblard and family,
and funeral charges, 9th June, 1819, 204 41
Colerain, for board, clothing and nursing Richard
llines, and supplies for Lydia Cromack and
three children, to 21st May, 1819, 124 90
Conway, for board, and clothing, and nursing
Hannah McNeal, to 23d May 1819, 72 68
ysi PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Camden, for board, clothing, doctoring and nurs-
ing John Bloom and Richard Conway, to SSd
May, 1819, 54 26
Chelmsford, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
January, 1819, 118 80
Cumington, for board and clothing John Lamson,
to S5th May, 1819, 79 50
Cushiog, for board, clothing and nursing Mary
Henderson, to 36th May, 1819, 59 35
Chesterfield, for board and clothing Adam Ham-
ilton, Rachel Polly and Sarah Polly, to 1st
June, 1819, 69 55
Deerfield, for board and nursing Daniel Allis, to
19th May, 1819, 12 00
Dalton, for board, clothing and nursing Phebe
Veets, to 20th May, 1819, 31 62|
Durham, for board and clothing Samuel Demerit,
Asa Demerit and Jonathan Demerit, to 1st June^
1819, 217 20
Dartmouth, for board and clothing xVnn Carter, to
22d May, 1819, 94 27
Danvers, for support of sundry paupers, to 25th
May, 1819, 957 20
Enfield, for board and clothing Deborah Butter-
worth, to 25th May, 1819, 55 33
Elliot, for board and clothing Jacob Brewer and
Abigail Randall, to 1st June, 1819, 47 29
Edgarton, for board, clothing and nursing James
Peters, Anthony Chadwick, and Emanuel Sal-
vara, to 27th May, 1819, 217 45
Fairfax, for support of Mehitable Carter and
three children, to l6th January, 1819, 15 00
Greenfield, for support of John Rowland and
John Kip to their death, 99 72
Gloucester, for support and supplies of sundry
paupers, to 10th May, 1819, 643 60
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. ys
Guardians of Dudley Indians, for supplies for
said Indians, 176 6<i
Gill, for support of Nathaniel Nichols, William
Fisk and Sarah Lyons, including board,
clothing, nursing and doctoring, and funeral
charges of said Nichols, S9th May, 1819, 146 96
Grafton, for board, clothing, nursing and doc-
toring and funeral charges of Submit x'Vwan-
simug ; and Doctor's bill for Benjamin White, 43 05
Gorhara, for board and clothing Robert GilfiU-
ing, to 31st May, 1819, S7 43
Greenwich, for board, clothing, nursing and
doctoring Lot Lee and John P. Jones, to S5th
May, 1819, 121 Q5
Granville, for boarding and clothing Simon Hoff-
man ; boarding, clothing and doctoring and
funeral charges of George Taylor ; boarding,
clothing, nursing and doctoring Sally Stuart
and Henry Myers, to 1st June, 1819, 109 34
Great Barrington, for support of sundry paupers,
Srtli May, 1819, 119 05
Hancock, for support of Hannah Wynn, to 24th
May, 1819 ; and board, clothing, and funeral
charges of Rebecca Osborn, 114 00
Holland, for board and clothing Jonathan Hill, to
13th May, 1819, 26 76
Harlem, for board and clothing William Youlio,
to 10th May, 1819, 33 77
Hopkinton, for board, clothing, doctoring and
nursing Wd. Cook, to 1st June, 1819, 120 00
HoUis, for support of Joseph Temple, to 1st
May, 1819, 156 00
Hamilton, for board, clothing and medicine for
Alice Cook, to 5th April, 1819, 58 30
Hallow ell, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, S88 40
10
74* PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Haverhill, for board and clothing Maria Peasly,
Sarah Ann Peasly, and Franklin Peasly, to
2d January, 1819, 9^ S&
Harvard, for support of Edward Swain, 73 5i
Hardwick, for board and clothing Hannah Mor-
gan, to 1st June, 1819 ; and John P. Jones,
and funeral charges, 80 88
Hawley, for board, clothing, nursing and doc-
toring James Taylor and family, in 1818, 160 39
Hanover, for support of Mary Ann Tufts, to 15th
June, 1819, and ofWilliamAshmau till his death, 177 95
Jay, for board, clothing, nursiog and doctoring
Elizabeth Bell and Daniel Holland, to 19th
May, 1819, 41 20
Lenox, for support of sundry paupers, to 24th
May, 1819, 160 18
Leyden, for support of sundry paupers, to 2ist
May, 1819, 94 04
Littleton, for board, nursing and doctoring Prince
Brewster, to 1st March, 1819, SO 50
Lynn, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to
30th May, 1819, 308 00
Longmeadow, for support of sundry paupers, to
21st May, 1819, 78 16
Lanesborough, for support of sundry paupers, to
Slst May, 1819, 123 00
Lee, for support of sundry paupers, to 23d May,
1819, 198 24
Litchfield, for board and clothing Jerusha
Twombly, to 19th May, 1819, 62 00
Lincolnville, for board, clothing, doctoring and
nursing Alexander" White and Edward Oram,
to 27th May, 1819, 56 50
Leeds, for board and clothing Richard Creech,
and board, clothing, nursing and doctoring
N^icholas Tallier, to 24th May, 1819, 131 27
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 75
Middleborougli, for board, clothing and doctor-
ing sundry paupers, to 1st April, 1819, 75 01
Manchester, for boarding and clothing Abraham
Gloss, to 30th May, 1819, 39 00
Milton, for board and clothing Archibald Mc-
Donald, to 2d June, 1819, 67 60
Monson, for board, clothing, doctoring, nursing
and funeral charges of James Worthington, S5 95
Marblehead, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to Sd June, 1819, 113 39
Montgomery, for board, clothing and doctoring
Moses Conair, to 6th June, 18 i 9, 30 10
Monmouth, for board and clothing Peggy Mag-
ner, to 1st June, 1819, 18 64!
Medfield, for board, clothing and doctoring George
Turner, to S5th November, 1818, 67 00
Minot, for support of sundry paupers, to 15th
May, 1819, 160 76
Machias, for support of three Indian paupers, to
S8th May, 1819, 69 30
Northfield, for board and clothing Amos Riley, to
23d May, 1819, 26 06
Newbury, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, 718 73
Newburyport, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to 31st May, 1819, 559 61
North Yarmouth, for board, clothing, doctoring
and nursing George Young, and supplies for
Stephen Greely, to 25th May, 1819, 44^ 49
New Salem, for board, clothing, nursing and doc-
toring Philip Haven, to 3d April, 1819, 80 59
Nantucket, for support and funeral charges of Jo-
seph Wheaton, 32 12
New Bedford, for support of sundry pauperS; to
ist April, 1819, 573 8§
76 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Norwich, for supplies for Hath Sandford, to 1st
June, 1819, 3 00
Northampton, for support of sundry paupers, to
21st May, 1819, 138 77
Palmer, for support of William Mendon and
wife, to 22d May, 1819, 121 50
Phipsburgh, for boarding Jacob Wheeler, to 31st
May, 1819, 73 00
Pepperell, for support of Robert B. Minelien and
David Smith, to 21st May, 1819, 67 31
Pembroke, for boarding and clothing Eliza Jack,
to 18th April, 1819, * 15 33
Pittsfield, for board, clothing, nursing and doctor-
ing sundry paupers, to 1st June, 1819, 365 7^
Plymouth, for support of sundry paupers, to 31st
May, 1819, 393 94?
Palermo, for board and doctoring Rachel Chase,
to 1st June, 1819, 45 77
Portland, for support of sundry paupers, and fune-
ral charges of three, to 1st June, 1819, 1302 82|
Richmond, for support of sundry paupers, to 18th
May, 1819, ^^5 25
Rehoboth, for supplies for John Solomon and
family, and Rosanna Freeman and child, to
1st January, 1819, 124 60
Readfield, for board and clothing Edward Bur-
gess and Colin Cameron, to 22d May, 1819, 125 71
Randolph, for support of William Read, to 3d
June, 1819, 37 57
Roxbury, for support of sundry paupers, to 3d
June, 1819, 215 89
Rowley, for support of John Drew and Wd. Col-
lins, to 21st May, 1819, 106 51
Shrewsbury, for support of George Tilmore, to
41th May, 1819, 14 21
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 77
Southwick, for support of George Reed, to 1st
June, 1819, 67 20
Southbiidge, for boarding, clothing and doctoring
London Derry, to IStli May, 1819, 75 45
Saco, for support of Mrs. Dormore and four chil-
dren, to 15th May, 1819, and funeral charges
of John Dormore, 150 60
Sandisfield, for board, clothing and doctoring
Richard Dickson and family, and boarding and
nursing Hannali Wilcox, to 20th May, 1819, 5o 78
Swanzey, for support of James Carnet, Susanna
Boston, Sarah and Frances Boston and Math-
er Desnaps, to 22d May, 1819, 85 75
Shelburne, for board, nursing, doctoring and cloth-
ing Mary Bates, and Olive Bates and child, to
20th May, 1819, Q5 20
Sedgwick, for support of Miriam Low and family,
to 20th May, 1819, 77 47
Sandv/ich, for support of Esther Raymond, to
21st May, 1819, 39 00
Sutton, for support of two children of Isabella
Santee, and two children of Polly Volentine,
to 24th May, 1819, 48 73
Seekonk, for board, nursing and doctoring Thom-
as Peck and Mary Peck, to 22d May, 1819, 128 67
Stockbridge, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, 485 16
Spencer, for support of Thomas Humphrey and
wife, and John Landers, to 6th June, 1819, 217 03
St. George, for board and clothing Robert Hows,
to 30th May, 1819, 23 10
South Berwick, for board and clothing Lemuel
Wordworth, and an infant child of Mary Stack-
pole, to 20th May, 1819, 122 11
Scituate, for board and clothing John Woodward
and Samuel P. Jones, to 23d March, 1819, 31 80
78 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Salem, for support of sundry paupers, to 2d June,
1819, 2911 96
Springfield, for sundry paupers, committed to
gaol, to 19th May, 1819, 99 80
Taunton, for board and clothing, nursing and doc-
toring sundry paupers, to 31st May, 1819, and
funeral charges, 478 li
Uxbridge, for support of Philip 3 enks and children,
to 23d May, 1819, and support and funeral
charges of I). Mitchell, 55 25
Vassalborough, for support of Abigail Fairbrother
and James Brown, to 7th June, 1819, 43 87
Westbrook, for support of sundry paupers, to 8th
May, 1819, 346 00
Wareham, for boarding and clothing William
Long, to 27th May, 1819, 24 90
Westfield, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, 111 74
Waldoborough, for board, clothing, nursing and
doctoring Philip Handle, to 1st June, 1819, 39 00
Westborough, for board and clothing John Doni-
van and Dina, to 7th June, 1819, ISl 75
Wiscasset, for board, clothing, doctoring and
nursing Joseph Wells, Junior, and Jane Foy,
and support of John York and John Laha, to
to 20th May, 1819, ' 110 27
Winthrop, for board, clothing and funeral charges
of William Gasket, and board, nursing and
doctoring James McGuire, to June, 1818, 84 95
Worcester, for support of sundry paupers, to 1st
June, 1819, 106 71
West Springfield, for support of sundry paupers,
to 1st May, 1819, 87 42
Westford, for board, clothing and doctoriqg James
Pierce, to 10th June, 1819, 20 24
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 79
Warren, for support of sundry paupers, to S7th
May, 1819, 117 00
Westhampton, for board and clothing Lemuel
Culver and wife, and John Gay and wife, to Sd
June, 1819, 50 08
Williamstown, for support of sundry paupers, to
24th May, 1819, i31 96
West Stockbridge, for support of sundry paupers,
to 14th May 1819, 87 34
Western, for board, clothing and doctoring Robert
Campbell and Robert Smith, to 20th May, 1819, 93 37
Westport, for support of sundry paupers, to 20th
May, 1819, 222 71
Williamsburgh, for support of Benjamin Cantrell,
to 25th May, 1819, 86 00
Worthington, for support of sundry paupers, to
22d May, 1819, S2 65
Wayne, for board and clothing Joseph Richards
and wife, and Peter Fisher, to 20th May, i819, 220 00
Whately, for boarding Benjamin Mather, and
Mrs. Bacon, to 31st May, 1819, 45 30
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of house of correction, in
the County of Essex, for board and clothing
sundry persons, to 7th June, 1819, including al-
lowance made by Court of Sessions, 311 29
York, for support of sundry paupers, to 29th May,
1819, 217 61
Total Pauper Accounts, S 32543 37
MILITARY ACCOUNTS,
Courts Martial, and Courts of Inquiry, S^c.
William H. Sumner, for expense of a Court of
Inquiry, held at Parsonsfield, 4th May, 1819,
in the 5th Division, Brigadier Greneral John
McDonald, President, 157 24
80 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Simou Fogg, for expense of Court Martial, held
at Alfred, 8tb December, 1818, in tlie 6th Divi-
sion, Colonel John Spring, President, 319 li
Simon Fogg, for expense of Court Martial, held
at Alfred, 22d December, 1818, in the 6th Divi-
sion, Colonel John Spring, President, 187 86
Simon Fogg, for expense of Court Martial, held
at Alfred, 28th December, 1818, in the 6th Divi-
sion, Colonel John Spring, President, 235 18
Nathaniel Wilder, Junior, for expense of Court
Martial, held at Plymouth, 12th May, 1818, in
the 5th Division, Brigadier General Benjamin
Lincoln, President, 223 10
Thomas Grilbert, for expense of Court Martial,
held at New Salem, 19th January, 1819, in the
4th Division, Colonel Asa Rowland, President, 323 88
John F. Wood, for expense of Court Martial, held
at Readfield, 6th April, 1819, in the 8th Divi-
sion, Colonel Daniel Beal, President, 225 35
Josepli Treat, for expense of Court Martial, held
at Bangor, 12th January, 1819, in the 10th Di-
vision, Colonel John G. Dean, President, 181 19
John Scott, for expense of Court Martial, held at
Haverhill, 23d March, 1819, in the 2d Brigade,
Sd Division, Colonel Charles White, President, 164 86
i?ohn W. Smith, for expense of Court Martial,
held git Portland, 9th December, 1818, in the
12th Division, Colonel William Dunn, Presi-
dent, 124 21
Total, 32130 95
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. SI
Brigade Majors and Aids-de-Camp.
John Frost, to 1st January, 1819, 6th Division,
Thomas D. Robinson, to 20th May, 1819, 11th
Division,
John W. Smith, to 23(1 November, 1819, Sd
Brigade, 12th Division,
James Starr, to 4th December, 1818, 1st Brig
ade, 13th Division,
Elisha Tobey, to 28th December, 1818, 2d Brig-
ade, 5th Division,
George Wheelwright, to 26th May, 1819, 1st
Brigade, 6lh Division,
John F. Woods, to 29th May, 1819, ist Brigade,
8th Division,
William R. Ware, to 15th March, 1819, 10th Di
vision,
Total, S648 17
Brigade Quarter Masters,
Nathan Ames, 1st Brigade, 11th Division, for
1818, 16 50
Samuel Brastow, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, to
30th September, 1818, 13 35
Samuel C. Falcs, 2d Brigade, 5th Division, for
1817 and 1818, 44 60
Freeman Foster, 3d Brigade, 5th Division, for
1818, 10 90
Sylvanus Maxwell, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, for
1818, 38 25
Elias Phinney, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, for 1818, 29 50
Asa Phillips, 2d Brigade, 8tli Division; to 25th
May, 1819, 17 50
11
74 42
i
52 50
1
31 45
93 57
88 13
28 22
>
59 15
220 74
8S MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
John Huss, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, for 1818, 36 00
Joseph Stimpson, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, for
1818, 17 30
Nathaniel Thomes, Sd Brigade, 13th Division,
for 1818, 8 45
Total, S333 25
Adjutants.
Josiah Avery, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Division,
to 5th February, 1819, 64 89
Asahel Billings, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4tli
Division, to 28th April, 1819, - 2Q 97
Edward E. Bourne, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to 20th May, 1819, 7 16
Benjarain Barnett, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to 8th September, 1818, 23 29
Hira Bradford, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 13th Divi-
sion, to 20th May, 1819, 17 4'9
Calvin Buckman, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 13th Di-
vision, to 3d May, 1819, 10 78
Thomas Crane, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to l6th November, 1818, 34 54
Jesse Clement, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to 10th March, 1819, 9 64
Wyllys Carter, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to April, 1819, 31 85
Leonard Cary, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to 8th February, 1819, 16 00
Joseph Clarke, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 8th Di-
vision, to January, 1818, 14 00
Daniel Clarke, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 12th Divi-
sion, to 5th June, 1819, 21 41
William Draper, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d
Division, to 19th May, 1819, 26 62
MILITARY ACCOUJNTS. 83
Samuel Eells, Sd Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5tli Di-
vision, to Gth February, 1819, 52 80
Samuel Farnsworth, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
12th Division, to May, 1819, 58 00
Moses Gragg, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to 1st April, 1819, 97 ^9
Elias Groodspeed, Artillery, Sd Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to May, 1819, 18 11
.lohn C. Hoyt, 2d Regiment, Sd Brigade, 4tli Di-
vision, to 23d April, 1819, 14 36
Joseph Haskell, Cavalry, to 20th January, 1819, 46 30
Philip P. Hathaway, 5tii Regiment, 2d Brigade,
5th Division, to May, 1819, 21 48
Daniel Hasty, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 12th Di-
vision, to 1st June, 1819, 35 71
Moses Hammond, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 13th
Division, to 8th September, 1818, 42 28
Hophni Judd, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 4th Division,
to July, 1818, 10 00
Ivory Jefferds, 4tli Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to 31st May, 1819, 14- 10
Nathaniel Libbey, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to 25th January, 1818, 21 35
Porter Lambert, 3d Regime»t, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to June, 1819, 5 47
John Lander, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 8th Division,
to September, 1818, 20 03
Sylvanus Pratt, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 7th Divi-
sion, to 4th January, 1819, 22 71
George F. Richardson, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 11th
Division, to December, 1818, 31 49
John Sturtivant, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 5th Divi-
sion, to OctoberJ^ 1818, 24 61
Samuel Stacy, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 6th Division,
to 11th May, 1819, 21 3J
84. MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Oliver Sewall, 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8tli
Division, to May, 1819, 17 95
Benjamin Sewall, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, llth
Division, to January, 1819, 95 97
David Stanwood, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, llth
Division, to January, 1819, 26 41
Luther Spaulding, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to 10th May, 1819, 6 88
Thomas Wood, Sd Regiment, Sd Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to ISth January, 1819, 134 71
David Wilder, 1 st Kegiment, 3d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to 14th May, 1819, S4 45
William C. Wild, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8th
Division, to 1st January, 1819, 30 09
William Williams, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade,
8th Division, to May, 1819, 43 53
Hugh Wilson, Artillery, 1st Brigade, llth Divi-
sion, to 29th October, 1818, 28 64
Total, JSI27O 71
Expense for Horses to Haul Artillery,
Bryant, Hezekiah, for 1818, 8 00
Carr, Oliver, for 1817 and 1818, 10 00
Fessenden, Ebenezer Junior, for 1818, 5 00
Hemmenway, Adam, for 1818, 15 00
Hinsdale, Theodore, for 1817, 8 31
Johnson, Abraham, for I8I7 and 1818, 10 00
Lee, Charles, for 1818, 10 00
Lynn, William, for 1818, 8 00
Lincoln, Henry, for 5th January, 1819, 3 75
Perkins, Samuel, for 1818, 5 00
Rider, John B. for 1818, 5 00
Richmond, Leonard, for 1817, 8 00
SHERII'FS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS. 85
Whitney, Samuel, for 1818, 5 00
Welch, Edward, for 1818, 5 00
Total,
B106 06
Courts Martial, &c.
S130 95
Brigade Majors, &,c.
648 17
Brigade Q^uarter Masters,
233 25
Adjutants,
1270 71
For Artillery Horses,
106 06
Total Military, S4388 14
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Cooper, John, Sheriff of Washington County, for
distributing precepts, and returning votes, to
6th April, 1819, 95 50
Davis, Wendell, Sheriff of Barnstable County,
for returning votes, to May, 1819, ^ 80
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk County, for sun-
dry charges as Keeper of the gaol, to 3d June,
1819, 330 31
Hoyt, Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes, to 24th May, 1819, 8 00
Lyman, Joseph, Sheriff of Hampshire County, for
returning votes, &c. to 8th June, 1819, 56 00
Phelps, John, Sheriff of Hampden County, for
returning votes, &c. to xVlay, 1819, 36 60
Robbins, Chandler, Sheriff of Kennebec County,
for returning votes, &c. to 2d Jane, 1819, 86 60
Thatcher, Samuel, Sheriff of Lincoln County, for
returning votes, &e. to 1st June, 1819, 67 00
Worth, Jethro, Sheriff of Dukes' County, for re-
turning votes, to 1st June, 1819, 25 00
86 • PRINTEUS' ACCOUNTS.
Watson, George, Sheriif of Hancock County, for
returning votes, &c. to 1st June, d819, 70 00
Glover, Benjamin, Coroner of Nantucket County,
for an inquisition on the body of a stranger, and
funeral charges, 20 90
Kingsbury, Aaron, Coroner of Norfolk County,
for an inquisition on the body of a stranger, 15 00
Young, Asa, Coroner of Barnstable County, for
an inquisition on the body of a stranger, and
funeral charges, 18 79
Stevenson, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County,
for taking inquests on the bodies of several
strangers, and funeral charges, to June, 1819, 121 08
Total, JS955 48
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS.
Thomas C. Cushing, for publishing the laws, to
June, 1819, 16 67
Young and Minns, for publishing the laws, to
June, 1819, 16 67
Ballard and Wright, for publishing resolves, &c.
to June, 1819, 13 75
Benjamin Lindsey, for publishing laws, &c. to
May, 1819, 16 67
Thomas W. Shepherd and Co. for publishing
laws, for the year 1818, 16 67
Charles Webster, for advertising laws, to June,
1819, 10 00
Joseph T. Buckingham, for printing laws, to
June, 1819, 24 50
Total, S113 93
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS. 87
Burtlitt, James W. for stationary furnished the
government, to 17th June, 1819, Sll 38
Bryant, Nathaniel, for two hat trees, to June,
1819, 16 00
Brown, Abel, for engraving plate, to June, 1819, 35 00
Bacon, Henry, for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to l9th June, 1819, 65 00
Chase, Warren, for assisting the Messenger of
the General Court, to 19th June, 1819, 65 00
Easte, Caleb, for going on express to Dracut,
May, 1819, 11 00
Foster, Moses B. for printing State Notes, and
paper, June, 1819, 9 00
Francis, Mary, for services of her son Joseph, as
Page to the House of Representatives, to 19ih
June, 1819, 27 50
Kuhn, Jacob, for balance of his account, to 19th
June, 1819, 40 99
Low, Lewis, for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to 19th June, 1819, 37 50
Low, John V. for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to 19th June, 1819, 57 50
Snelling and Durant, for repairs on the State
House, June, 1819, 40 50
Thomson, James, for sundry repairs on the State
House, June, 1819, 147 43
Vose, Isaac and Son, for cushions, for Senate
Room, 16th June, 1819, 70 00
Gragg, Samuel, for twelve bamboo chairs, for
Couucil Chamber, June^ 1819, 24 00
Total, S857 79
87 KESOLVE TO ROLL NO. 81.
Aggregate of Roll, No. 8L
Expense of State Paupers, 325'iS 2.7
" of Militia, 4388 14?
<* of Sheriffs and CoronerS; 955 48
" of Printers, 113 93
of Miscellaneous, 857 79
i(
Total, S38858 71
llesolved, That there be allowed and paid, out of the
public treasury, to the several corporations and persons,
mentioned in this roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions and persons' names, respectively ; amounting, in the
whole, to thirty-eight thousand, eight hundred and fifty-
eight dollars and seventy one cents; the same being in full
discharge of the accounts and demands to which they refer.
June 18th, 1819 Approved,
J. BROOKS.
COMMONWElALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
secretaht's offick, august 18, 1818.
BY this, I certify, That the Resolves, contained in this pamphlet, passed at the session of the
General Court, in May and June, 1819, have been compared with the originals in this Office, and
appear to be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD, Secietaiy of the Commonwealth.
•,
INDEX
TO RESOLVES, PASSED AT THE SESSION OF THE GENERAL COURT,
WHICH COMMENCED 26th MAY, 1819.
A.
ADAMS, Boylston, grant to, for injury done his horse, - - 52
Augusta, South Parish, Assessors authorized to call a Meeting, - 46
B.
Bank, Agricultural, at Pittsfield, compensation to the Committe on
the concerns of, --.-.-_.. go
Belmont, their proceedings made valid, - - - - - 46
Beverly, the Pension of Israel Morgan to be paid the Overseers of
the Poor of, 40
C.
Cleaves, Sarah, authorized to execute Deeds, - - - - 44
Clerks of the General Court, pay fixed, ----- 67
" in the several State Offices, pay fixed, - - - - 64
Committee to view Sandy Bay Pier, and report, - - - 41
" on proceedings of the Agricultural Bank, in Pittsfield, - 60
" on Accounts, pay allowed, - - - - - 61
" « Roll, No. 81, 69
Council, pay of the Members of, .-.._- 40
Court, General, pay of the Members of, - - - - » 40
« " " « Clerks of, 67
« " " « Messenger of, 59
" Supreme Judicial, Term at Castine adjourned to September, 41
" " " " '^ in September, may be
held by one Justice, - 42
Cumberland, the choice of an additional Notary, provided for, - 43
Cummings, James, and Susannah Willard, their Marriage made valid, 60
Cushing, their Meetings and proceedings made valid, - - 42
INDEX.
D.
Deaf and Dumb, provision for Instruction of, - - - - - 6S
Doyle, David M. Guardian to certain Minors, authorized to demand
the Legacy given them, by the Will of J. Smith, - - - 47
E.
Essex, Town of, doings confirmed, - " - - - - 49
F.
Flagg, Samuel, and others, certain rights and privileges extended, 57
Forms of Returns of Votes given on Elections, to be printed, and
sent to the towns, ......... 5^
Form of Return of Votes on Separation, ----- 66
Freeport, Baptist Society in, doings confirmed, - - - - 44
G.
Gilbert, Clarissa, grant to, ------- 60
Gimbee, Lucy, the Trustee of the Grafton Indians to pay money for
the support of, - - - - - - - - - -50
Gott, Joseph, allowed %5A 93, for support of M. Antonio, - - 58
Greenough, David, Firewards of Boston may permit a Livery Stable
to be continued, ---------45
Governor, his Speech, -------- 27
" " Answer from the Senate, - - - - 31
« « « « House, - - - - 34
" his Message, announcing the death of Major General Good-
win, of the 5th Division, ------ 48
" requested to give notice to Parents or Guardians of Deaf
and Dumb Persons, of the provision for their Instruction, 63
I.
Indians, Trustee of the Grafton, to expend money for the support of
Lucy Gimbee, ------..-.50
K.
Kuhn, Jacob, Messenger to the General Court, pay established, - 59
« " « « « « grant to, for Fuel, - 64
L.
Leominster, Assessors authorized to sign Rate Lists and Warrants, 49
Lock, Ward, Assistant to the Messenger of the Governor and Coun-
cil, pay granted, 67
INDEX.
M.
Maine, District of, Secretary to have printed and forwarded, the
Report and Act relative to the Separation of, - - - - 65
Monmouth, to be reimbursed iglG, advanced for a sick Soldier, - 58
Morgan, Israel, his pension to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor
of Beverly, -- 40
N.
Newry, Town of, doings confirmed, 56
O.
Oxford County, the choice of an additional Notary, provided for, - 39
P.
Phillips, Town of, to be repaid, gll 83, ----- 53
Printer, for the Commonwealth, appointed, - - - - - 59
Printing, " pay granted Russell & Gardner for, 66
Prison, State, appropriation for, -------53
Q-
Quarter Master General, Account settled, and further appropriation
for his Department, .-._--. -62
Quarter Master General, to deliver Drums, &c. to Companies, who
lost theirs, during the late war, ----- . 65
R.
Raymond, doings of the Trustees of the School Fund, confirmed, - 56
Russell, Benjamin, appointed State Printer, - - - - 59
Russell and Gardner, pay for Printing, granted, - - - - 66
S.
Sandy Bay Pier, a Township granted to the Proprietors of, - - 55
" Committee to view the Pier at, and report, - - - 41
Sebeck, Secretary to deliver Books for, ----- 43
Secretary, to have Blank Forms for the return of Votes, given on Elec-
tions, printed and sent to the towns, - - - - - - 53
Secretary, to publish and transmit the Resolve for adjourning the
Term of the Supreme Judicial Court, at Castine, - - - 42
Secretary, to have printed and forwarded the Report and Act, rela-
tive to the Separation of Maine, - 65
Secretary, to deliver Books for Sebec, 43
Shirley, Town of, doings made valid, - - - - - - 48
Society, Baptist, in Freeport, doings confirmed, - - - - 54
INDEX.
Sterling, Town of, doings confirmed, - - ... 50
Suffolk County, Resolve for an additional Notary, repealed, - - 39
T.
Treasurer, directed to vest §50,000 in the United States Stock, 45
" authorized, to borrow Money, 52
" " to dispose of uncurrent Bank Bills, - ' 55
W.
"Walcutt, Thomas, pay granted, 68
Washington County, choice of an additional Notary, provided for, 39
Waugh, Sally, authorized to execute a Deed to William Sylvester,
Junior, ---51
Woolwich, doings of the First Parish confirmed, - - - ' 57
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
Commontoealtl) t^fM^^^WW^
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH OF JANUARY, AND
ENDED ON THE TWENTY FIFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
Pii}>liBhed agreeably to a Resolve of 16(h Jannaiy, 1812
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY RUSSELL fy GARDNER, FOR BENJAMIN RUSSELL,
PRINTER TO THE STATE.
1820.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS^
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COJMMENCED ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THE
TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JANUARY 13, 1820.
The two Houses being in Convention, the Secretary qf the
Commonwealth came doivnfrom the Council Chamber, to
the Senate and House of Representatives, ivith the follow-
ing Message from His Excellency the Gov&mor :
MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN taking a survey of the present condition of
the people of this Commonwealth, we find abundant
reason for thankfulness to Almighty God, for the
smiles of his Providence, in continuing to us the bless-
ings of peace, of general health, and of civil and
religious liberty. The seasons of the past year have
been uncommonly favorable to vegetation, and our
land, under the influence of improved cultivation, has
90 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
yielded a rich increase. Many branches of import-
ant manufactm-es, though laboring under discourage-
ments, have reached a high degree of respectability.
Through the medium of the several Agricultural So-
cieties, and other correct sources of information, we
learn, with satisfaction and pride, that the manufac-
tures of the State are rapidly increasing ; and that,
adapting themselves to the wants, the habits, and the
circumstances of society, they are becoming, what is
indispensable for their support and permanence, ob-
jects of the people's partiality and choice. This
important subject is now before the National Legis-
lature ; and from their liberal and enlightened views,
we may rest assured, that every degree of encourage-
ment will be afforded to that branch of national in-
dustry, not incompatible with the interests of the whole
community. Those branches of manufactures, con-
nected with national defence, merit preeminent re-
gard ; and it would yield the highest satisfaction to
the citizens of our country to learn, that competent
provision was made for manufacturing all the essen-
tials for the military defence of the nation. Parsimony
in this item of expenditure, might prove more danger-
ous than profusion.
If, in some of the great departments of active and
lucrative pursuit, especially navigation and commerce,
many of our fellow citizens are suffering depression
and embarrassment, our regret is tempered by the re-
flection, that those evils are partial, and constitute a
part of the price of the general peace of the world ;
a peace, which, as it restored to nations their rights,
and to individuals their occupations, compelled, in
each, a reliance on their own respective resources.
The transition of nations from a state of war to peace,
must always prove disastrous to numerous individuals.
At the termination of the late protracted war more
especially, in the course of which, the habitual pur-
suits of a large proportion of the people of the com-
aoVERMOR'S MESSAGE. 91
mercial world had been suspended, and they, either
induced by patriotism, urged by hunger, or forced by
power, were driven into the ranks as soldiers, extraor-
dinary changes in the condition of individuals must
have necessarily happened. Circumstances however,
exert a salutary influence on nations and individuals.
The tranquility of peace diminishes the incitements
to uncalculating enterprize, and induces those habits
which ensure the highest degree of general prosperity
and happiness.
The restoration of the relations of peace is not
chargeable with all the deep embarrassments visible
in the United States. They are domestic, and refer-
rible to a spirit of bold and unbounded adventure,
generated and elicited by specific causes. Over trad-
ing has been wrongfully accused of producing the
mischiefs complained of. It does not reach the origin
of the evil. The facility of commanding funds, at
once the incentive and the instrument of speculation,
has been the primary source of our deepest calamities.
No conceivable occurrence could have more com-
pletely cherished that passion, than the sudden and
profuse creation of capital. And it is not to be con-
cealed, that numerous banks, in various sections of
the United States, have been established, and allowed,
or have assumed the ruinous privilege of issuing bills
to an indefinite amount, without the means or the
obligation to meet the payment of their jjaper in
specie, on demand of the holder ; and have been
governed, not by the sober maxims of a judicious po-
litical economy, nor the dictates of a discriminating-
self interest ; but by the spirit of legalized monopoly,
and the insatiable cravings of inordinate speculation.
The over trading, and the immense profusion of for-
eign products and manufactures, with which seaports
are surcharged, are among the unavoidable conse-
quences of a redundant currency, and trading on
fictitious capitals. It i^ not incredible, however, that
92 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
evils of domestic origin have been aggravated by a
relaxation of the monitory system of another nation,
whose merchants and manufacturers, intimately con-
nected with our own, from parity of causes, have suf-
fered similar effects. The laws of currency and
exchange are immutable ; and a profusion of paper
will every where produce disastrous results. Besides
its inherent tendency to produce pecuniary disap-
pointment and distress, it leads to habits of dissipa-
tion and extravagance ; and to most of those vices
which dishonor society, and overwhelm individuals
in ruin.
Although many of the citizens of this State, who are
engaged in navigation, manufactures, and commerce,
have participated in the common disasters of the times,
we have reason for congratulation, that their misfor-
tunes have been comparatively light, and have usual-
ly arisen from contingencies beyond their control.
Confidence between man and man is strong an(J ac-
tive. A spirit of industry, stimulated by a laudable
pride of self dependence, is every where apparent.
The credit of the State is vmimpaired ; and our bank-
ing establishments, founded on the stable principles
of justice, and administered with an honorable refer-
ence to the principles on which they are founded, fa-
cilitate the operations of all the gTcat departments of
fair enterprize and industry ; and, furnishing a medi-
um more convenient than silver and gold, always
convertible into coin, the labors and products of agri-
culture are solicited by an equable and competent
circulation. May the time soon come, when all the
American people shall entertain an unwavering belief,
that no partial means can cure, no temporary expedi-
ents relieve the embarrassments of the times ,* but,
that their ultimate removal must be sought in the
power of just laws and virtuous habits.
In pursuance of the act passed at the last session,
" relating to the Separation of the District of Maine
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 83
from Massachusetts Proper, and forming the same
into a Separate and Independent State," all the returns
of votes received at the Secretary's Office, conform-
ably to the second section of said act, were opened
and examined as therein required. Upon counting
the votes given in, on the question of separation, it
appearing that the number of votes in favor of the
separation of said District, exceeded the number of
votes againt it, by and surpassing the number speci-
fied in the said second section, the result was made
known by proclamation, and the people of the said
District were therein called upon to choose Delegates
to meet in Convention, for the purposes, and in the
manner expressed in the said act. The history of the
subsequent progress of the separation, and the result
of the doings of the Convention, and of the people, on
the subject of a constitution of government, it is not in
my power, at present, to lay before you. But from a
communication which I have received from the Hon-
orable William King, President of the Convention,
dated the seventh instant, a copy of which, will be
herewith presented to you, I presume I shall shortly
be enabled to do it.
The connexion that has subsisted between Massa-
chusetts and the District of Maine, commenced at an
early period of their history. But until the year one
thousand six hundred and ninety-two, their union was
anomalous and interrupted. The promulgation of
the charter of William and Mary, comprehending
both sections of the country, united them under one
government ; and from that period to the present time,
the connexion has been uninterruptedly maintained
to mutual satisfaction and advantage.
The time of separation however is at hand. Con-
formably to the memorable act of June nineteenth,
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the fif-
teenth of March next will terminate forever the po-
litical unity of Massachusetts Proper and the District
94 GOVEBNOK'S MESSAGE.
of Maine. And that District, which is " bone of our
bone and flesh of our flesh," will assume her rank as
an Independent State in the American Confederacy.
To review the transactions which have immediate-
ly preceded and effected the separation, and to recol-
lect the spirit of amity and mutual accommodation,
that lias distinguished every stage of its progress, must
be truly and lastingly satisfactory. It is, at the same
time, highly gratifying to every friend of republican
government, to observe the unanimity and disposi-
tion to mutual concession with which a constitution,
founded on the broadest principles of human rights,
has been formed and adopted.
That the District of Maine was destined to inde-
pendence, has been long foreseen and acknowledged.
But it has been delayed until her internal resources
and her capacity for self government being fully deve-
loped, public opinion, emanating from a competent
and increasing population, decidedly invoked a fulfil-
ment of her destination.
Having yielded my assent to the act of separation,
it remains for me to obey the impulse of duty, as well
as of personal feeling, by acknowledging to the gen-
tlemen of the District, who have been particularly as-
sociated with me, either in the civil or military de-
partments of government, the able support, which, on
all important occasions, they have readily afforded ;
and to the citizens of the District generally, the can-
dor, liberality, and respectful attention I have expe-
rienced in the discharge of my official duties.
My fellow citizens of the District, who have now,
for the last time, united their councils in the delibera-
tions of the Legislature, will accept my devout wishes
for their individual happiness, and for the peace, tbe
honor, and prosperity of the new republic.
In adverting to the separation of Maine, we are
necessarily led to consider the effects of that secession
on the Government of Massachusetts. The constitu-
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 95
tion was not only the product of the united wisdom of
the two great sections of the country known as Massa-
chusetts and Maine ; but the provisions of it were de-
signed to apply to the circumstances of both, Ac-
cordingly in apportioning the number of Counsellors
and Senators, designated by the constitution, among
the several districts, Maine has ever had assigned to
it a constitutional proportion : And the act of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, con-
structed on this principle and now in operation, enti-
tles the Eastern Districts to nine Counsellors and
Senators. It would be unnecessary for me to remark,
that the act just mentioned, and the additional one of
February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen,
will require modification.
In meditating, however, on this subject, we are led
to extend our views beyond the single question of
modifying the first branch of the Legislature, and to
inquire, whether considerations affecting the interests
of the people, as connected with the future operations
of the government, will not, at the present time, call
ibr at least, a partial revision of the constitution ? The
fi^rcat outlines of the constitution were indeed drawn
by masterly hands ; and in its general principles, is
little, if at all, susceptible of improvement. Waving
therefore, every thing relating to the declaration of
rights, and to the definitions of power, as vested in dif-
ferent departments, it would not be wonderful, if some
of the numerous details of a system of civil policy,
intended to act upon, and to protect the diversified
interests of a people spread over a vast extent of ter-
ritory, should fail, in their practical adaptations, to a
more limited sphere of action. Nor should it be
thought a singular exception to the liableness of every
human composition to misconception and abuse, that
a constitution of government, framed in the midst of
the war for independence, should, after the lapse of
forty years, be found capable of amendment. The
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9(B GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
wise and faithful framers of the constitution, were
sensible of danger from this source : and all the checks
established by that instrument, are designed to guard
the purity of its republican character against the mis-
takes of public agents, as well as the misuse of power.
The indefeasible right of the people, " to institute
government," and " to reform, alter, and change the
same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and
happiness require it," is distinctly asserted in the h\\\
of rights. But the constitution contains no provision
for a revision, after the year one thousand seven hun-
dred and ninety five. Yet as the legislative power
extends to every object that involves the good and
well being of the Commonwealth, which is not spe-
cifically excepted, we may infer the right and duty of
the Legislature, to submit to the consideration of the
people, either the general question of revision, or such
propositions for particular amendments, as they shall
judge to be most promotive of the public good. The
inference from analogy arising from the provisions of
the tenth section of the sixth chapter of the constitu-
tion, seems to favor the idea of limiting the power of
the Legislature to submit primarily, the general ques-
tion only to the people. But as that article was de-
signed for the particular case of a revision in the year
above mentioned, it does not seem reasonable to con-
clude that the general power of the Legislature can be
abridged by that specific provision.
I have been thus particular in expressing my views
of the constitutional doctrine of amending the consti-
tution, from a persuasion, that an occasional recurrence
to first principles, tends to preserve the purity, and to
maintain the strength of a republican system of gov-
ernment ; and from a corresponding sense of obliga-
tion on my part, to present the same, on the present
occasion, to your consideration. The subject, gentle-
ttien, is constitutionally in your hands ; and I feel
entire confidence that your deliberations on this and
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 9T
every other subject, will be guided by wisdom, and
result in the best good of the Commonwealth.
To carry into eflfect the benevolent intention of the
Legislature, agreeably to a resolve of the nineteenth of
June last, "respecting the deaf and dumb," measures
were immediately taken to give publicity to the same,
and to require that application should be made in
writing, and directed to the Secretary, by the parents
or guardians of such persons as were entitled to the
benefits of the resolve. Immediately after tlie expir-
ation of sixty days, the attention of the Council was
invited to this subject, and such arrangements were
made as to designate twenty of the applicants who
appeared to possess the pre-requisites for admission
into the Asylum, at Hartford, pointed out by the gov-
ernment of that institution, to be placed under their
care. From the several documents, relating to this
business, you will perceive the course pursued in ad-
justing it. The report of Mr. Gallaudet, dated the
first of the present month, contains information relat-
ing to the individuals who are now at the institution.
From an examination of the documents, and fur-
ther reflection on the subject of the "deaf and dumb,"
a review of it may be thought adviseable ; more
especially in reference to protracting the term of ed-
ucation, as suggested by the Trustees of the Asylum ;
to increasing the number of beneficiaries, and to devis-
ing means for rendering the talents and acquirements
of those who are educated at the public expense, in
as high a degree as practicable, useful to themselves
and others.
During the recess, I received from the Governor
ef the State of South Carolina, a communication,
containing the proceedings of that State, on the sub-
ject of the amendment of the constitution, proposed
by the State of North Carolina. Likewise a commu-
nication from the Governor of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, containing a proposal of the Legislature of
bs GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
that State to amend the constitution, so that Congress
shall make no law to erect or incorporate any bank
or other monied institution, except within the District
of Columbia. These communications will be laid
before you by the Secretary.
At the usual period in October last, the Visitors of
the State Prison visited and examined the condition
of that Institution, and had the satisfaction to find
marks of vigilance among the officers, and the ap-
pearance of diligence and good order in the several
departments. The reports of the Warden, and the
Surgeon of the establishment, together with sundry
other documents, will be laid before you by the Sec-
retary. He will, at the same time, present the return
of the ordnance and ordnance stores, made by the
Quarter Master General.
J. BROOKS.
Council Ckamber^ January 13thf 1820.
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GOVERNOR'S MESSAGES. Jan. 17. 9.9
CHAP. LIII.
Gavernor^s Message. Jaftuary 17tli, 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives ,
I have just received a letter from the Honorable Prentiss
Mellen and the Honorable Hamson G. Otis, Senators of
this Commonwealth, in the Congress of the United States,
dated the eighth instant, stating, that in the discussion of
the bill that had passed the House of Representatives, for
the admission of Maine into the Union, many difficulties
presented themselves as to the right and mode of apportion-
ing the Representatives to be elected by Massachusetts and
Maine, respectively, for the seventeenth Congress. The
subject appearing to have a bearing on the bill pending in
Congress, for admitting Maine into the Union, I lose no
time in laying the communication before you, for your con-
sideration.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber^ Jamiary 17, 1820.
CHAP. LIV.
Governor's Message. January 19th^ 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
Having received from the Secretary of the Convention of
Maine, manuscript copies, duly authenticated, of the records
of the convention, of the constitution of govornment framed
by that convention, and the acceptance of it by the people
of the district, the Secretary will lay them before you.
Should you think proper to assign them a place in the ar-
chives of the Commonwealth, the arrangement would noL
iOO J. AND E. HAGER AND H. STORER. Jaw. 21.
only preserve those documents for future reference, but
perpetuate a remembrance of the respectful and courteous
attention of the Convention of Maine to the Government of
Massachusetts.
The Secretary Avill, at the same time, lay before you the
Treasurer's account for the last year.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council ChambeTf January 19, 1820.
CHAP. LV.
Mesolve on the petition of J. and E. Hager, and of Hannah
Storer. January 21st, 1820.
On the petition of Jonathan and Elijah Hager, and the
petition of Hannah Storer, each praying for the renewal of
a State note :
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petitions, that the
Treasurer of this Commonwealth be, and he is hereby direct-
ed to issue to the said Jonathan and Elijah Hager, a new
State note, of the same tenor and date as the one by them
lost ; that is, a note, number one hundred and fifty two, of
date, July the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and ten,
for one hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy eight cents ;
and to endorse thereon the interest that has been paid. Also
to issue to the said Hannah Storer a new State note of the
same tenor and date as the note by her lost ; that is, a note,
number three hundred and seventy, of date, July the thir-
tieth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, for two hundred
and seventy nine dollars and eleven cents ; and to endorse
thereon the interest that has been paid ; they the said Jona-
than and Elijah Hager, and the said Hannah Storer, first
making affidavit before some Justice of the Peace, of the
truth of the facts stated in their respective petitions, and
giving bonds to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, the
said Jonathan and Elijah Hager, in the penal sum of two
hundred dollars, and the said Hannah Storer, in the penal
sum of four hundred dollars, with one or more sureties each,
to secure the Commonwealth against any loss that may hap-
pen in consequence of the renewal of said notes.
GRANT OF LANDS. Jaiu 21. 10^
CHAP. LVI.
Resolve relative to Grant of Lands. January 21st, 1820.
Resolved, That all grants of land heretofore made by the
General Court, or pairchased of the Commonwealth, wherein
no time has been fixed for the location thereof, shall be lo-
cated under the direction of such persons as may hereafter
be designated for the purpose, and tlie returns thereof made
into the Land Office, on or before the first day of January,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty one ; and that all grants, the period heretofore as-
signed for locating, which shall expire before that time,
shall be located, and the returns thereof made as above ex-
pressed, at any time before the first day of January aforesaid,
and not afterwards : Provided, always, that the expenses of
said locations shall be borne and defrayed by the grantees,
assignees, or claimants of said lands.
Resolved, That the report of January seventeenth, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, made by the Commis-
sioners of the Land Office, (marked A.) be joined and printed
with these resolves.
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CHAP. Lvn.
JResolve on the petition of Ward J\r. Boylston.
January 21st, 1820.
Resolved, That the Solicitor Greneral of this Common-
wealth be, and he is hereby authorized to commence and
prosecute to final judgment and execution, in the name and
behalf of this Commonwealth, any proper and legal suit and
process, for the recovery of the possession of two portraits,
one of Nicholas Boylston, and the other of Mistress Grill,
wife of his late Honor Moses Gill, against any person what"
soever, who may now have the same in possession ; and on
the recovery thereof, to deliver the same to Ward Nicholas
Boylston. Provided, always, that the said Ward Nicholas
shall give bond to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, in
such security, and with such penalty as the said Solicitor
shall require, to indemnify and save harmless this Common-
wealth from all costs and expenses of every kind whatever,
arising from the suit or process.
CHAP. LVIII.
Resolve for the Relief of Richard Smallman,
January 22d, 1820.
On the petition of Richard Smallman, representing that
he now is, and for four months past has been confined in the
gaol, in tlie County of Berkshire, for having forfeited his
recognizance to appear as a witness at the Supreme Judicial
Court, holden at Lenox, in said county, in May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and
praying to be discharged from his said confinement :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Keeper of the Commonwealth's gaol, in the County of
Berkshire be, and he is hereby authorized and directed,
forthwith to discharge from imprisonment, the aforesaid
Richard Smallman ; provided, that he stands committed for
no other cause than the one above stated.
14
104 WAYNE.—DEAF AND DUMB. Jan. 25.
CHAP. LIX.
Resolve on the petition of the Town of Wayne.
January 24th, 1820.
On the petition of the Town of Wayne, in the County of
Kennebec, representing, that for several years past, the
Clerk of said town hath neglected to read the warrant, and
preside at the opening of town meetings, until a Moderator
was chosen ; and that, in many instances, the Clerk hath
neglected to record whether the officers of said toAvn, of
whom an oath, by law, is recpiired, were sworn into office
or not ; and that the several Justices of the Peace who have
administered the oath to the officers of said town, have neg-
lected to leave a certificate thereof, with the Clerk of said
town :
Resolved f For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
records and proceedings of said town be, and the same ai^
hereby confirmed and made valid in law, to all intents and
purposes, notwithstanding the omissions and supposed irreg-
ularities mentioned in the said petition.
CHAP. LX.
Resolve further jJ^'oviding for the Education of Deaf aiid
J)iimb Persons, at the Asylum in Hartford.
January 25th, 1820.
Whereas, it appears by the correspondence between
His Excellency the Grovernor of this Commonwealth and
the Directors of the American Asylum, at Hartford, for the
Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, that
it requires, generally, six years for the instruction of a pupil,
even in the common branches of education : Therefore,
Resolved, That those persons who have been placed in
that asylum, for education, by virtue of a resolve of this
General Court, passed on the nineteenth day of June last
past, may be continued there, for the term of six years from
the time of their admission; at the expense of this Common-
DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS. Jan. 25. 105
wealth ; not however, exceeding two hundred dollars per
annum, for each person.
Resolved, That during the term of six years, for which
appropriation is made in behalf of deaf and dumb persons,
by the aforesaid resolve of June nineteenth, last past;, appli-
cation may, at any time, be made to the Governor, for the
time being, in behalf of such persons ; and the Secretary of
State, for the time being, shall keep a register of all such
applications which have been, or which may be made ; and
in case of a vacancy, or vacancies at the said Asylum, among
those supported by this Commonwealth, for any cause, such
vacancy or vacancies may be filled by the Grovernor and
Council, for the time being, from among the candidates,^
having the qualifications required by the Directors of said
Asylum, by lot, in the same manner as those have been de-
signated who are now there : Provided, however, that no
such vacancy shall be thus filled, after three years from and
after the first day of October last past. «
And whereas it is desirable to extend as far as may be
the benefits of the Legislative munificence, in this particular :
therefore.
Resolved, that, if at any time Avithin three years, from and
after the first day of October last past, the Directors of the
said Asylum, may consent to receive more than twenty sucli
persons from this Commonwealth, and if by any vacancy,
or vacancies within the said term, any part of the fund ap-
propi'iated by the resolve aforesaid, of the nineteenth day of
June last past, may be unapplied ; and if among the parents
or guardians of the candidates for its appropriation and ben-
efit, security may be given for payment of one half the ex-
penses of their support, at said Asylum, for the remaining
time, the Grovernor and Council, for the time being, may, if
they think proper, elect such candidates, and pay the remain^
ing half of their expense and support at said Asylum, not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars per annum, for each person, so
far as the funds reverting, by such vacancy, or vacancies,
may permit ; and in case there may be more candidates with
the foregoing condition and provision in their favor, than the
remaining funds can support under the same condition, such
candidate shall be designated by lot.
106 WILLIAM EASTMAN. Jan. 25.
CHAP. LXL
Resolve authorizing William Eastman to convey Real
Estate. January 25tli, 1820,
On two petitions of William Eastman, of Granby, in the
County of Hampshire, Administrator on the goods and
estate, which were of John H. Dickinson, late of said Gran-
by, deceased, intestate, praying that he may be authorized
and empowered to make and execute good and sufficient
deeds of certain parcels of lands, to several persons, as men-
tioned and described in said petitions, according to the several
contracts entered into by said deceased, in his life time :
Resolved, That the said William Eastman, Administra-
tor as aforesaid, be, and he hereby is authorized and em-
powered to make and execute to Zebina Smith, of said
Granby, a good and sufficient deed of the following describ-
ed parcel of land, lying in said Granby, viz. : Beginning at
the north-west corner of the home lot, of said deceased, and
running north forty degrees east, eight rods, to a white oak
stub ; thence east three degrees south, five rods, to a stake
and stones ; thence south eight degrees east, six rods, to a^
stake and stones ; thence west twenty two degrees south, ten
rods, to the highway ; thence northerly to the first boundary,
containing eighty seven rods of land.
Resolved, That the said Eastman, in his capacity, as
aforesaid, be, and he hereby is authorised and empowered
to execute to Eleazer Nash and Nathaniel Nash, both of
said Granby, (they the said Eleazer and Nathaniel, first
paying to the said Eastman, for the use of said intestate's
estate, the sum of sixty dollars,) a good and sufficient deed
of the following described parcel of land, lying in Spring-
field, in the County of Hampden, being a part of lot number
one hundred and twenty four, in the Inward Commons, so
called, formerly laid out to Jedediah Bliss, beginning at the
northwest corner of said lot, and running east two degrees
forty minutes north, forty eight rods, to the county road ;
thence south thirty two degrees east, thirty five rods ; thence
west thirty two degrees south, thirty eight rods ; thence
west twelve degrees north, thirty four rods and six links ;
thence north two degrees forty seconds west, forty one
rods, to the first station ; coutaining fifteen acres and eighty
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. Jan. 25. 107
iSeven rods ; and bounded north on Moses Chapin's land, and
on land belonging to the heirs of Grilcs Montague; east on the
county road, as it is now travelled, south on land lately be-
longing to the said Dickinson, deceased, and west on Joel
Preston's land.
CHAP. Lxn.
Resolve relating to the election of Members of Congress^
after the Separation of the District of Maine.
January 25th, 1820.
Resolved, That in any election of Representatives to the
Congress of the United States, which may be made after the
District of Maine shall have been formed and erected into a
Separate and Independent State, in the manner prescribed
in and by the act, relating to the separation of the District of
Maine from Massachusetts proper, passed the nineteenth
day of June last, and until a new apportionment of Repre-
sentatives shall be made among the several States, the con-
sent of this Commonwealth be, and the same is hereby given,
that thirteen Representatives shall and may be elected within
the said State of Massachusetts, and seven within the pro-
posed new State ; any thing in the said act to the contrary
notwithstanding.
CHAP. LXIII.
Resolve on the petition of Peter Barras, and Elizabeth^
his Wife. January 25th, 1820.
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that all
the right, title, and interest, which the Commonwealth has,
or might have, in and to a certain small piece of real estate,
consisting of a piece of land, in Salem ; bounded southerly
on land, late of George Crowninshield, deceased, fifty four
feet six inches ; easterly on land of Ward, forty four feet ;
northerly on land of said Crowninshield, and others, forty
108 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Jan. 26.
eight feet, and westerly on a private way in common with
others, with the privileges and appurtenances thereto belong-
ing, be, and the same is hereby granted and released to
Elizabeth Barras, wife of Peter Barras, of Salem, in the
County of Essex ; the said real estate having lately belong-
ed to Thomas Grandy, late of Salem, an alien, brother of
said Elizabeth.
CHAP. LXIV.
Governor's Message. January 26tli, 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of RepresentativeSf
The Secretary will lay before you, a letter from His Ex-
cellency the Governor of Indiana, together with a copy of
the resolutions of the General Assembly of that State, con-
curring in an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, proposed to the consideration of the several States,
by the State of Pennsylvania ; the latter having been sub-
mitted to your consideration in my message, dated the thir-
teenth instant.
JOHN BROOJCS.
Council Chamber, January £6, 1820.>
CHAP. LXV.
Resolve on the 'petition of John JSTeal and others.
January 26th, 1820.
On the petition of John Neal, John Dennis, Jesse Pike,
Daniel Ring, Junior, Joshua W. Watson, and David C.
Burr, all of Litchfield, in the County of Lincoln, represent-
ing that they have been united in matrimony with their
JOHN NEAL AND OTHERS. Jan. 26. 109
present wives, viz. : John Neal with Polly Hutchinson, John
Dennis with Betsey Walker, Jesse Pike with Sally True,
(since deceased,) Daniel Ring, .Tunior, with Betsey Dennis,
Joshua W. Watson with Judith Tibhetts, and David C. Burr
with Catharine Fuller, having a lawful right so to do, and
their intentions accordingly having been legally published, by
the Town Clerk, of said Town of Litchfield, and that they
have severally been married by Ministers of the Baptist or
Methodist order, who were regularly ordained, according
to the rules of said Societies, as Ministers at large; and that
doubts have been expressed, respecting the validity of the
said marriages :
Resolved, That the several marriages aforesaid, of the
said John Neal, John Dennis, Jesse Pike, Daniel Ring,
Junior, Joshua W. Watson, and David C. Burr, solemnized
in manner aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby declared
to be legal, and valid, to all intents and purposes of mar-
riages : and the children of the said marriages are hereby
tleclared to be legitimate, as if the said marriages had been
solemnized by a person legally empowered for such purpose.
CHAP. LXVI.
Goveimor^s Message, January 27tli, 1820.
Crentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Re^resentatlces,
I have received a petition signed by John Greenougli, and
upwards of thirty other persons, who style themselves " In-
dian Natives," and appear to belong to the Town of Yar-
mouth. As the object of the petitioners is not cognizable by
the Executive of the Commonwealth, the petition, and sundry
papers connected with it, will be laid before you by the
Secretary.
JOHN BROOKS,
Council Chamber f January 27, 182.0.
110 WILLIAMS COLLEGE. Jan. 27.
p CHAP. LXVII.
Resolve on the jietition of the Trustees of Williams College,
January 27th, 1820.
Mesohed, That the Commissioners of the Land Office be,
and they hereby are authorized and empowered, to satisfy a
grant of a township of land, of the contents of six miles square,
made by a resolve of the nineteenth of February, one thousand
eight hundred and five, to the President and Trustees of Wil-
liams College, by locating the same, and conveying to said
Corporation, Township number three, second range, north of
Bingham's Penobscot purchase, the same being number four,
as surveyed by Alexander Greenwood : Provided^ said girant-
ees, or their assigns, shall first pay to said Commissioners,
the expense of surveying and locating said township, and
give security to the Commonwealth, in a manner satisfactory
to said Commissioners, that they will, within one year from
the passing of this resolve, cut out a road two rods wide,
from the termination of the road, commonly called the St.
John's road, (which has been opened under the direction of
said Commissioners, from Penobscot River into township
number two, the first range,) to said township, to be convey-
ed, and clear a travelled path therein, of one rod in width ;
and that within two years, they will clear a like road through
said township, so to be conveyed, and make the necessary
causeways and bridges thereon, all in a manner to be direct-
ed by said Commissioners ; and within three years, will
place on said township thirty families, as settlers, of the
description named in the act, for promoting the sale and
settlement of the public lands, in the District of Maine ; and
also, reserving in said township the usual public lots.
RUFUS BACON.— J. B. STONE. Jan, 28. HI
CHAP. LXVIII.
Uesolve authorizing Rufiis Bacon, Esquire, to call a Meet-
ing of the Congregational Parish, in Freetown.
January 28th, 1820.
Whereas it has been made to appear to the General Court,
that tJiere are no Parish Officers in the Congregational Par-
isli, in the Town of Freetown, in the County of Bristol :
Resolved, That Rufus Bacon, Esquire, one of the Justices
of the Peace, in and for said County of Bristol, be authoriz-
ed to issue his warrant, directed to some principal inhabitant
of said Congregational Parish, in said Town of Freetown,
requiring him to notify and warn the freeholders and other
inhabitants of said parish, who are qualiiied to vote in parish
affairs, to meet at such time and place as he shall name in
said warrant, to choose all such parish officers as are, by
law, required to be chosen, in the months of March and
April, annually. And that the aforesaid Rufus Bacon,
Esquire, being an inhabitant of said parish, be authorized
to open said meeting and preside therein during the, choice
of a Moderator, to regulate and govern said meeting.
CHAP. LXIX.
Resolve for Liberating John B. Stone, from Confinement.
January 28th, 1820.
On the petition of John B. Stone, praying to be liberated
from his confinement in the county gaol, in Worcester, to
which he was committed, by a warrant of distress, in favor
of the Commonwealth, which issued on a judgment recover-
ed against him before the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court, held at Worcester, in April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen :
Resolved, That, for reasons set forth in said petition, the
Sheriff of the county aforesaid, is hereby authorized and di-
rected to liberate and discharge the said John B. Stone from
his said imprisonment ; provided, he do not stand committed
for any other cause than the judgmejit aforesaid.
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112 DANIEL HASTY.— LABAN LEWIS. Jan, 29.
CHAP. LXX.
Resolve on the petition of Daniel Hasty. January 29th, 1820.
Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be, and they
are hereby dhected to receive, examine, and allow the ac-
count of the said Daniel Hasty, if the same appear to them
correct, the time, by law, required for exhibiting accounts,
having expired notwithstanding.
CHAP. LXXI.
Resolve on the petition of Laban Lewis, and others, author-
izing Joseph Bemis, Esquire, to call a Meeting of the
First Congregational Parish, in Canton. January 29th.
1820.
On the petition of Laban Lewis, and others, praying that
a warrant may be issued for calling a meeting of the First
Congregational Parish, in the Town of Canton :
Resolved, For the reasons set forth in said petition, that
Joseph Bemis, Esquire, be, and he hereby is authorized and
empowered to issue a warrant, directed to some principal
inhabitant of said parish, requiring him to notify and warn
the freeholders and other inhabitants of said parish, who are
qualified to vote in parish affairs, to meet at such time and
place as shall be named in said warrant, to choose all such
parish officers as parishes are, by law, authorized and re-
quired to choose, in the months of March or April, annually.
W. ANDREWS.— J. E, FOXCROFT. Jan. 29. 113
CHAP. LXXII.
Resolve granting William Andrews, Junior, and others,
Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, for 'prosecuting Doctor
Thomas Sewall, January 29th, 1820.
On the petition of William Andrews, Junior, on behalf of
himself, and others, stating that they were the complainants
and prosecutors, upon two indictments, against Doctor Thom-
as Sewall, for knowingly receiving certain dead bodies which
had been dug up and carried away from the graves in which
they had been buried, praying that they may be allowed the
fines, or a part thereof, which are now in the hands of the
Treasurer of the County of Essex, having been paid by the
said Sewall, pursuant to a sentence of the Supreme Judicial
Court :
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the County of Essex be,
and he hereby is ordered and directed to pay to the said
William Andrews, Junior, the sum of two hundred and fifty
dollars, out of the fines aforesaid, now in his hands ; and
that the receipt of the said Andrews, for the same, shall be a
sufficient discharge from him, of that sum, and the same shall
be allowed him in the settlement of his accounts with the
Commonwealth.
CHAP. LXXIII.
Resolve on the petition of Joseph E. Foxcroft, empowering
the Commissioners of the Land Office to convey certain
Lands to him. January 29th, 1820.
On the petition of Joseph E. Foxcroft, stating that, by an
act establishing Bowdoin College, five townships, each six
miles square, were granted to its Trustees, who, for seven
thousand and nine hundred and forty dollars, conveyed one
of the said five, viz. : township number five, of the seventh
range of townships, north of the Waldo Patent ; and that
the township does not contain the quantity of land as ex-
pressed, and praying that suitable aid and relief may be
extended to him :
114 A. OILMAN AND J. WEBSTER. Jan. 29.
Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Land OfRce be
hereby authorized to convey unto said Foxcroft, in fee, so
much of the Commonwealth's unappropriated lands, as they
shall find to be a just and adequate equivalent, in quantity
and quality, to the deficiency of six miles square, in said
township ; the location and assignment thereof to be made
at such place as he and they shall agree upon : Provided,
however, that the said Foxcroft do and shall execute a com-
plete release of all further claims, touching said deficiency,
as well in relation to the Trustees of Bowdoin College, as
to the Commonwealth : Jlnd, provided further, that no costs
or charges accrue to the Commonwealth by reason of passing
these resolutions.
CHAP. LXXIV.
Resolve on the jjetition of A. Gilman and J. Webster, ex-
tending the time for the Commissioners of the Land Office
to make Reeds of Two Lots, in Bangor. January 29th^
1820.
On the petitions of Allen Gilman and Jonathan Webster,
praying for further time to be allow ed for the Commissioners
of the Land Office to make deeds to the owners of lots num-
bered ninety three and one hundred and twelve, in the Town
of Bangor :
Resolved, That the time for making and receiving the
deed of said lots, be extended to the close of the first session
of the next General Court, and no further ; and the Com-
missioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized to make
deeds to the lawful and rightful claimants of said lots, taking
fare to receive, at least, one half the consideration money, in
hand, and good and sufficient security for the residue.
S. FREEMAN.— J. FORBES. Jan. 29. 115
CHAP. LXXV.
Hesolve on the petition of the Honorable Samuel Freeman.
January 29th, 1820.
Resolved^ That the Court of Sessions for the County of
Cumberland, which is, by law, to be holden at Portland,
within and for the County of Cumberland, on the fourth
Tuesday of March next, be, and they are hereby authorized
and empowered to make such alloAvance to the Honorable
Samuel Freeman, Judge of Probati? for the County of Cum-
berland, for his services in said office, from the twenty eighth
day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to
the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, (over and above his salary as now established by law)
as they may think just and reasonable : Provided, hoicever^
that such allowance shall not exceed the sum of one hundred
dollars per annum.
CHAP. LXXVI.
Hesolve for Discharging Jonathan Forbes from Prison.
January 29th, 1820.
On the petition of Jonathan Forbes, praying to be liberat-
ed from his confinement in the county gaol, in Worcester,
to which he was committed, by warrants of distress, in favor
of the Commonwealth, which issued on judgments recovered
against him, before the Supreme Judicial Court, at Worces-
ter, in April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen :
Resolved, That, for reasons set forth in said petition, the
Sheriff of the county aforesaid, is hereby authorized and di-
rected to liberate and discharge the said Jonathan Forbes
from his said imprisonment ; provided, he do not stand com-
mitted for any other cause than the judgements aforesaid.
116 HERRING POND INDIANS. Jan. 29.
CHAP. LXXVII.
Mesolve granting One Hundred and Fifty Dollars to repair
the Meeting House, of the Herring Pond Tribe of lu'
dians, in the Town of Plymouth. January 29th, 1820.
Resolved f That there be appropriated from the Treasury
of this Commonwealth, the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars, for the purpose of repairing the Meeting House of
the Herring Pond Tribe of Indians, so called, in Plymouth,
to be expended under the direction of the Overseers of the
Mashpee and Herring Pond Tribes ; whose account for the
expenditure of the same shall be audited, adjusted and trans-
mitted in the same manner as is provided in the seventh sec-
tion of <* an act in addition to the several acts respecting the
Indians and other persons, proprietors and residents on the
Plantations of Mashpee and Herring Pond, so called,'' pass-
ed on the eighteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen :
Resolved f That His Excellency the Grovernor be requested
to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of said Over-
seers, for the sum mentioned in the foregoing resolve.
CHAP. LXXVIII.
Resolve on the Memorial of the Corporation of the Trustees
of Leicester Academy, in the County of Worcester*
January 31st, 1820.
Whereas the Trustees of Leicester Academy, in the Coun-
ty of Worcester, in their corporate capacity, by their memo-
rial, presented to this Legislature, have represented the
occasion of aid to the funds of that institution, and have also
represented that there is a tract of land situated in the Town
of Holden, in said County of Worcester, and particularly
described in said memorial, which was heretofore duly con-
fiscated as the estate of William Brattle, an absentee, and
subsequently sold by Commissioners on behalf of the*Com-
monwealth, who executed a deed thereof to one Pierre
LEICESTER ACADEMY. Jan. 31. lit
Matthieu Andre ; and that the said land, for nearly forty
years, has been taxed in said Town of Holden, as the
" French Land," owned by a non resident proprietor, and
the taxes paid by timber and wood cut annually from the
land ; that the said Pierre Matthieu Andre, at the time of
the conveyance of said land to him, was a native of France,
to which country he immediately thereafter returned, and
has not since been heard from ; and that there is no person
known who claims, by title, to be proprietor of said land,
but that the same has escheated to this Commonwealth :
And the said Trustees, upon this representation, have pe-
titioned that this Legislature would authorize the Attorney
or Solicitor General in the name of the Commonwealtli, but
at the expense of the Trustees, to institute an inquest of office,
or other legal process, to obtain a judgment of law for the
recovery of said land, to the intent that the same may be
granted to the Corporation of said Trustees of Leicester
Academy ,^n aid of the funds of that institution :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said memorial, that the
Attorney and Solicitor General, or either of them, are direct-
ed to institute an inquest of office, or such other legal process
as they shall judge proper, in the name of the Common-
wealth, for the recovery of the tract of land described in said
memorial.
CHAP. LXXIX.
Resolve on the jpetition of the Proprietors of Sandy Bay Pier.
January 31st, 1820.
On the petition of the Proprietors of Sandy Bay Pier :
Resolvedf That the Commissioners of the Land Office be,
and they hereby are authorized and empowered to locate the
township of land granted to said proprietors, by a resolve of
the sixteenth of June last, (for the purpose of repairing and
improving the Pier and Basin, at Sandy Bay, in the Town of
Gloucester,) on the township number five, in the third range
of townships, north of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase, through
which the new road, commonly called the Canada road, ex-
tends, with the usual reservation for public lots ; Provided.
118 SANDY BAY PIER. Jan, 31.
the said grantees shall first give satisfactory security to said
Commissioners, to pay to the Commonwealth the sum of five
hundred dollars, to reimburse that amount of the expenses
of surveying said township, and making the aforesaid road
through the same ; two hundred dollars thereof, with interest,
in six months, and the residue in eighteen months, from the
passing of this resolve ; and keep the whole of said road
which extends through said township, and that part thereof
which extends from the extreme northerly part of said town-
ship to the Canada line, (so long as the Commonwealth shall
retain their interest therein) and the causeways and bridges
the same distance, in suitable repair for travellers and droves,
and place thirty families on said township within three years,
of the description in the act for promoting the sale and set-
tlement of the public lands in the District of Maine.
CHAP. LXXX.
Ilesolve relative to proposed Amendment of the Constitution
of the United States. January 31st, 1820.
The Committee to whom so much of His Excellency's
Message was committed, as relates to a communication from
the Grovernor of the State of South Carolina, upon the sub-
ject of an amendment to the constitution of the United States,
*^ to establish an uniform mode of electing Electors of Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United States," proposed by
the State of North Carolina, and rejected by the Legislature
of South Carolina ; and also so much of His Excellency's
Message as relates to a communication from the Governor of
the State of Pennsylvania, respecting an amendment of the
constitution of the United States, proposed by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Pennsylvania, in the words following,
viz. : ^^ Congress shall make no law to erect or incorporate
any bank or other monied institution, except within the Dis-
trict of Columbia ; and every bank, or other monied institu-
tion, which shall be established by the authority of Congress,
shall, together with its branches, and offices of discount and
deposit, be confined to the District of Columbia ;" have had
those subjects under consideration, and ask leave to report :
AMENDMENT 0¥ CONSTITUTION. Jan. 31. 119
That the Legislature of Massachusetts, having heretofore
considered the amendment of the constitution of the United
States, proposed by the State of North Carolina, to which
the communication of the Governor of South Carolina has
allusion, and by resolve passed on the ninth day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen, expressed their approbation of said amendment, as
modified in said resolve, and the doings in this behalf having
been communicated to the Supreme Executive of the several
States in the Union, and to our Senators and Representa-
tives in the Congress of the United States ; and as no reason
occurs to your Committee for doubting the correctness of tiie
opinion expressed in said resolve, it is inexpedient, in the
opinion of your Committee, that any further measures in
relation to said amendment, should be taken by this Le-
gislature.
Upon the subject of the amendment of the constitution of
the United States proposed by the Legislature of the State
of Pennsylvania, in whicli it appears from a communication
made by the Governor of Indiana, that the Legislature of
that State has concurred, your Committee report, that they
unanimously accord vrith them in the sentiments expressed
in the preamble to the proposed amendment, but with all due
respect for the opinion of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, do
not agree with them in their concit:sion, that the national
bank ought to be limited in its operations to the District of
Columbia.
If the abuses of a beneficial power, or institution, are to
decide and determine their condemnation, there is scarce a
source of public prosperity, or the exercise of a necessary
and useful power which will not be speedily closed and ter-
minated. We have nothing unmixed, and cannot expect
any thing perfect in an imperfect state : A portion of evil or
inconvenience attends every good thing ; and all power ca-
pable of being beneficially exercised, will, in the nature of
things, be susceptible of abuse. In the opinion of your Com-
mittee, a national bank, with branches, located in the various
parts of the United States, where large portions of the pub-
lic revenue are collected, and the interest of the public debt
is paid, greatly aids the government in the prosperous and
successful administration of its finances, and is productive of
much more good than mischief : and that a bank limited in
its operations to the District of Columbia, as contemplated
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120 AMENDMENT OK CONSTITUTION. Jan. 31.
in the proposed amendment, would be wholly inadequate to
the exigencies of the national government. Your Committee
therefore report the following resolves.
ARTEMAS WARD, Chairman,
JResolved, That the amendment to the constitution of the
United States, proposed by the Legislature of the State of
Pennsylvania, in the words following, viz. : ^^ Congress shall
make no law to erect or incorporate any bank, or other
monied institution, except within the Dictrict of Columbia ;
and every bank, or other monied institution, which shall be
established by the authority of Congress, shall, together
with its branches and offices of deposit and discount, be con-
fined to the District of Columbia," should it become a part
of the constitution of the United States, would not be salu-
tary in its operation ; and that our Senators and Represent-
atives, in the Congress of the United States, be requested
to use their endeavors to prevent such an amendment.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be request-
ed to forward a copy of the preceding resolution to the Su-
preme Executive of the State of Pennsylvania, the Supreme
Executive of the State of Indiana, and to each of our Sen-
ators and Representatives in the Congress of the United
States.
CHAP. LXXXI.
Resolve on the petition of Jonathan Peirce and Jonathan
S. Peirce. February 2d, 1820.
On the petition of Jonathan Peirce and Jonathan S. Peirce,
praying to be remunerated for expenses incurred by them in
procuring the attendance of witnesses in behalf of the Com
mon wealth, on indictments against William Peirce and
Naphtali Newhall, at the Supreme Judicial Court, held at
Worcester, in April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen :
Resolved, That, for the reasons set forth in said petitioji,
the sum of one hundred dollars be, and hereby is granted to
OLD SOLDIERS.— B. BALDWIN. Feb. a. 121
the said Jonathan Peirce and Jonathan S. Peirce, to be paid
to them out of the treasury of this Commonwealth.
CHAP. Lxxxn.
Resolve granting further time to Old Soldiers for Settling
Lands. February 3d, 1820.
Resolved, That a further time of four years, from the first
day of May next, be, and is hereby granted and allowed to
the non commissioned officers and soldiers, their widows and
children, to make settlement on the land granted them by a
resolve of the General Court, passed the fifth of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one.
And be it further resolved, That there be granted and
allowed to all such non conimissioned officers and soldiers,
their widows and children, who are embraced in the pro-
visions of said resolve, and have neglected to prove their
claims to the benefits thereof, the further time of two years
from the first day of May next, for said purpose, any thing
in said resolve, and others passed subsequent thereto, to the
contrary notwithstanding.
CHAP. LXXXIII.
Resolve on the iietition of Benjamin Baldivin, extending the
time for Payment of JVotes due the Commomcealth,
February 3d, 1820.
On the petition of Benjamin Baldwin, praying an cxten-
sion of time for the payment of certain notes due the Com-
monwealth :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed a further time of two years, from and after the
passing of this resolve, to the said Benjamin Baldwin, to
complete the payment of his bond and notes due the Com-
monwealth ; provided, said Benjamin shall be holden to pay
the interest on said obligations, annually.
122 R. MERRILL.— A. CRANE. Feb. S.
CHAP. LXXXIV.
.Resolve on the petition of Roger Merrill, excusing Thomas
Johnson and others^ from Settling Duties. '
February 3d, 1820.
Whereas, by resolves of this General Court, passed the
twenty fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifteen, eight thousand acres of
land were granted to Thomas Johnson and others, in portions
therein mentioned, on condition that they, within five years,
permanently settle on said location, fifteen families ; and
whereas, it is represented that the lands located under said
grant, lie in Orono, and are of a very poor quality, and that
a fourth part thereof, are not susceptible of cultivation and
settlement ; Therefore,
Mesolved, That for reasons mentioned, the grantees in said
resolves of January twenty fourth, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifteen, their heirs and assigns,
be, and they are hereby wholly excused from the performance
of all settling duties required by said resolves.
CHAP. LXXXV.
Mesolve on the petition of Mijah Crane. February 3d, 1820.
On the petition of Abijah Crane, of Boston, in the County
of Suffolk, Administrator of the goods and estate of William
Perkins, late of said Boston, deceased, shewing that said
Perkins, with Newell Withington, of said Boston, his late
partner in trade, did, by agreement, bargain and sell to one
Nathaniel Pratt, Junior, of Marshfield, in the County of
Plymouth, a certain piece of land, situated in said Marsh-
field, containing about one acre and six rods, said piece of
land being owned by said Perkins and Withington, jointly,
but he, the said Perkins died before the deed could be exe-
cuted to convey said land ; and praying that he the said
Abijah, in his said capacity, together with the said Newell,
may be authorized to convey said premises to him the said
Nathaniel :
E. HANDY.— A. LITHGOW. Feb. 5. 123
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that said
Abijah Crane be, and he is hereby authorized and empower-
ed to convey the said William Perkins' right and title in
and to the aforedescribed premises, and to join said Newell
Withington in a good and sufficient deed thereof, to have
and to hold the same, to the said Nathaniel Pratt, Junior,
his heirs and assigns, in as full and ample a manner as if
the said premises had been conveyed to him in the life time
of the said William.
CHAP. LXXXVI.
Mesolve on the petition of Ebenezer Handy.
February Sd, 1820.
On the petition of Ebenezer Handy :
Mesolved, That thirty six dollars be granted and paid out
of the public treasury, to Ebenezer Handy, in full for ex-
penses in pursuing and bringing to justice Aaron Grace and
Thomas B. Andrews ; which sum was recovered of them,
on forfeiture of their bonds, at the Supreme Judicial Court^
at Augusta, in the County of Kennebec, at the June term,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventeen.
CHAP. LXXXVII.
Resolve on the jpetition of Arthur Lithgow, Exempting him
from Arrest. February 5th, 1820.
On the petition of Arthur Lithgow, praying to be dis-
charged from an execution, founded on a judgment recovered
against him, in behalf of the Commonwealth, in one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighteen :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that, until
the Legislature shall otherwise direct, the body of the said
Lithgow be; and hereby is exempted from all arrests and
124 E. GILBERT AND OTHERS. Feb. 5.
restraints on account of a judgment or execution, wliicli was
recovered by tlie Commonwealth against liinij in the year
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for five hundred
and thirty one dollars, Avhich sum still remains due and
unpaid.
CHAP. Lxxxvin.
Resolve on the petition of Eliel Gilbert and others, empower-
ing the Court of Sessions to Grant Money for Building a
Bridge over Deerfield River. February 5th, 1820.
On the petition of Eliel Gilbert and others :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Court of Sessions, within and for the County of Franklin,
are hereby empowered at the next term of holding their
court, at Greenfield, on the first Tuesday of March next, and
at any future term of holding their said court, to hear any
petition, statement, or request, from any town, by their agents,
or any person or persons, inhabitants of said county, pray-
ing for aid and assistance to build and keep in repair a bridge
over Deerfield River, above and near the falls, so called,
between the Towns of Shelburne and Buckland, in said
county ; and the said Court of Sessions shall be, and are
hereby empowered to grant and allow such sum or sums of
money, from time to time, as they may think proper, not
exceeding two thousand dollars, for the purposes mentioned
in this resolve ; and may also appoint an agent, if they see
cause, to superintend the expenditure of all monies so grant-
ed, and render to the said court an account thereof.
Jlnd be it further resolved, That the said Eliel Gilbert
cause a copy of this resolve to be printed in the Franklin
Herald, published in Greenfield, in two successive papers,
before the time of holding said court, on the first Tuesday
of March next, that any town within the said county, may
appear, by their agent or attorney, and shew cause, if any
they have, why such grant or grants, ought not to be made.
J. LOCKE.— W. ANDREWS, JUNIOR. Feb. 5. 125
CHAP. LXXXIX.
Resolve on the petition of John Locke. February 5th, 1820.
On the petition of John Locke, of Ashby, in the County of
Middlesex, father, and Guardian of John Locke, Junior,
and Albert Locke, minors, praying for license to sell and
convey the whole of the real estate, devised to them by the
last will and testament of Nathaniel Goodwin, of Plymouth,
in the County of Plymouth^ Esquire :
Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner be granted ;
and the Guardian of the said John Locke, Junior, and Albert
Locke be, and he is hereby authorized and empowerd to sell
and convey, at public or private sale, all the right and inter-
est which his said children and minors have, in any and all
the real estate, devised unto them by the last will and testa-
ment of the said Nathaniel Goodwin, situate in the Towns
of Plymouth, Carver, and Sandwich. And such convey-
ance, so made by the said John Locke, in his said capacity,
shall operate to all intents and purposes as a valid convey-
ance of all the right, title, and interest, which the said minors
have in lands, holden by the devise aforesaid ; provided,
that the said John Locke, Guardian, as aforesaid, first give
bond, with sufficient sureties, to the Judge of Probate, for
the County of Middlesex, or his successor in said office,,
that the proceeds of all such sales, so to be made, shall be
put at interest, on good security, for the benefit of the said
minors, and the same be accounted for according to law.
CHAP. XC.
Resolve in favor of William Andreivs, Junior.
February 5th, 1820.
Whereas, by a resolve approved by the Governor, the
twenty ninth day of January last past, the Treasurer of the
County of Essex, was authorized and directed to pay William
Andrews, Junior, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars,
out of the fines paid by Doctor Thomas Sewall, to the
126 W. ANDREWS, JUN.— J. TREAT. Feb. 7.
Treasurer of the County of Essex, for the Commonwealth ;
and whereas, it now appears that the amount of said fines,
out of which said sum was ordered to be paid to the said
William Andrews, Junior, has been paid by the Treasurer
of the County of Essex to the Treasurer of the Common-
wealth ; Therefore,
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the County of Essex be,
and he is hereby ordered and directed to pay to the said
William Andrews, Junior, the said sum of two hundred and
jfifty dollars, out of any monies, now, or which hereafter may
be in his hands, belonging to the Commonwealth, and the
receipt of the said Andrews, shall be a sufficient discharge
to the said Treasurer of the County of Essex therefor, and
the same shall be allowed him, in the settlement of his ac-
counts with the Commonwealth.
CHAP. XCI.
Mesolvefor Conveying Land to Joseph Treaty on conditions.
Febmary 7th, 1820.
Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Land Office be,
and they hereby are empowered and directed to convey to
Joseph Treat, of Bangor, in the County of Penobscot, five
thousand acres of land, now owned by this Commonwealth,
on the easterly side of Penobscot River, bounded as follows,
viz. ; beginning in the north or head line of the nine town-
ships, formerly purchased of the Indians, where the same
strikes the easterly bank of Penobscot River ; thence extend-
ing east on said line, to the westerly bank of Cold Stream
Pond ; thence northerly by said Pond, until a line drawn
west, or parallel with the aforesaid line, to Penobscot River ;
and then down on the easterly side of said river, to the place
of beginning, shall contain five thousand acres ; the same to
be laid out under the direction of the Commissioners of the
Land Office, at the expense of said Treat : Provided, however,
that this conveyance be made to said Joseph, on the sole
condition, that the said Treat shall, for himself, and for, and
in behalf of Richard Winslow, release and surrender to said
Commissioners, all the right, title, claim and interest, which
J. TREAT.— E. A. GREENWOOD. Feh. 7. 127
they the said Treat and Winslow have, or may have, by
virtue of any lease or leases from the Penobscot Ttibe of In-
dians, to any lands, or timber, or meadow grounds, belonging
to the Commonwealth : Jind, provided further, that said
Treat execute a bond to the Commonwealth, Avith sufficient
sureties, conditioned that, within two years from the passing
of this resolve, he will faithfully erect and put in operation,
a good and sufficient saw mill and grist mill, on Cold Stream,
so called ; and, provided, also, that the reciprocal interchange
of deeds and writings herein mentioned, of the said Treat and
said Commissioners, be made before the close of the present
;ession of the Greneral Court, and not afterwards.
CHxiP. XCII.
Resolve on the petition of Ethan A. Greemeood.
February 7th, 1820.
On the petition of Ethan A. Grreenwood, Agent of the New
England Museum and Grallery of Fine Arts :
Resolved, That the resolve on the petition of Ward Nich-
olas Boylston, approved January twenty one, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed ; and the Solicitor General of this Commonwealth is
hereby directed to discontinue any proceedings which may
have been commenced pursuant to said resolve.
CHAP. XCIII.
Resolve authorizing the Governor to appoint Commissioners
to ascertain the Boundary Line between this Common-
wealth and the State of Connecticut. Febniary 7th, 1820.
Whereas it is represented to the Greneral Court of this
Commonwealth, that contentions and disputes have arisen
between the citizens of this Commonwealth, and those of the
State of Connecticut, respecting the boundary line between
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128 BOUNDARY LINE. Feb. 7.
this Commonwealth and the said State; to prevent which in
future, and to promote harmony and affection between the
citizens of the two respective States :
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice of the Council, be, and hereby is authorized and re-
quested to nominate and appoint three suitable persons as
Commissioners, on the part of this Commonwealth, for ascer-
taining the boundary line between the same and the said
State of Connecticut, east of Connecticut River. And the
said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered
to meet such Commissioners as may be appointed and vested
with similar powers, for the aforesaid purpose, by the Legis-
lature of the State of Connecticut ; and in conjunction with
them, as soon as may be, to ascertain, run, and mark such
boundary line, erect durable monuments, at such places as
they shall think proper and effectual, to prevent future mis-
takes and disputes respecting the same.
And the Commissioners on the part of this Commonwealth,
are authorized and empowered to agree upon such principles
respecting the running said line, as from the best documents
they can obtain, may appear to them just and reasonable ;
which line, when so ascertained, forever afterwards shall be
considered and held to be the just and true boundary line of
jurisdiction between this Commonwealth and the said State of
Connecticut. And the Commissioners, on the part of this
Commonwealth, are authorized to employ such Surveyors
and chain bearers, as they may think proper, to assist in duly
ascertaining the line aforesaid.
And the Grovernor of this Commonwealth is requested to
transmit a copy of this resolve to the Grovernor of Connecticut,
that the same may be duly communicated to the Legislature
of that State, in order that Commissioners may be appointed
and measures taken, on the part of such State, for ascertain-
ing the bounds aforesaid.
Be it further resolved, That there be paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to said Commissioners, a
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to enable them to
defray the immediate expenses of running and establishing
said line ; said Commissioners to be accountable to the Gen-
eral Court for the proper application of the same ; and His
Excellency the Governor is hereby requested to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer for the same.
LINCOLN ACADEMY. Feb. 7. 129
CHAP. XCIV.
"A
Resolve Confirming Certain Lands to Lincoln Academy.
February 7tb, 1820.
On the memorial of the Trustees of Lincoln Academy :
Resolved, That the gore of land, described in a deed,
made the twenty seventh day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, by John
Read and William Smith, Agents for the sale of Eastern
Lands, to the Trustees of Lincoln Academy, be, and hereby
is confirmed to said corporation, without the condition of
locating thereon, three lots, of one hundred and sixty acres
each, for public uses, according to the true intent and mean-
ing of a resolve of the twenty eighth of February, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fourteen : Provided, if there are
any persons who settled on said lands before the first day of
January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty
four, who have neglected to demand deeds conformable to said
resolve, said corporation shall be holden to assign to each
settler of that description, their heirs or assigns, one hundred
acres of land, as in said resolve is expressed, who shall ap-
ply for the same within three years from the passing of this
resolve.
CHAP. XCV.
Resolve relating to Soldiers' Claims upon the Common-
wealth, Febniary 8th, 1820.
Resolved, That the Secretary and Treasurer of the Com-
monwealth, for the time being, on application made to them,
for the payment of any balance, which appears by the books
in the Secretary's Office, to be due to any officer or soldier of
the American revolutionary army, belonging to the Massa-
chusetts line, and on the applicant's producing to them the
testimonials or vouchers, required by the resolves of June
fourteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three,
and February first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
130 SOLDIERS' CLAIMS.— S. FOWLER. Feb. 9.
four, and making oatli, that lie verily believes, that such
balance is still due and unpaid, shall certify to the Gov-
ernor and Council the amount of such balance, without
interest, together with the addition thereto, or deduction
therefrom, if any, required by the resolve of March sixth,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety three ; and his Ex-
cellency the Grovernor is hereby authorized and requested,
by the advice of Council, to issue his warrant on the Trea-
surer of the Commonwealth, for such sum, so certified as
aforesaid : Provided^ lioicever, that in all cases wherein
the said Secretary and Treasurer may have doubts, either
as to the sum due, or the validity of the testimonials, or
vouchers, aforesaid, the same shall be, by them, laid before
the Governor and Council for their consideration, examina-
tion and decision thereon : Jlnd provided, also, that no such
balance shall be certified or paid, as aforesaid, unless appli-
cation shall be made therefor, as aforesaid, within two years
next after the passing of this resolve.
CHAP. XCVL
Uesolve on the petitio7i of Smniiel Fowler, President of the
Eighth Massachusetts Tmmpike Corporation.
February 9th, 1820.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in the petition of Samuel
Fowler, President of the Eighth Massachusetts Turnpike
Corporation, that George Conant, Esquire, of Becket, in the
County of Berkshire, Jacob Bliss, Esquire, of Springfield^
and Enos Foot, Esquire, of Southwick, in the County of
Hampden, be a Committee, with full power to view the road
of the Eighth Massachusetts Turnpike Corporation, and
make such alterations in the course of said road as they may
think just and reasonable ; and to lay out the same in such
manner as will best promote the public good. And they are
hereby authorized to appraise any damages that may be sus-
tained, by any person or persons, over whose land the road
shall be laid. And the person or persons, so injured in their
lands, shall recover the appraised damage of said Corpora-
tion, in the manner provided in the act of incorporation.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Feb. 9. 131
And said Committee are further authorized to consider and
report what alterations, if anj^, ought to be made in the rate
of toll taken at the second gate : Provided, that thirty days
notice of the time and place of the first meeting of said
Committee, be given by publication thereof in the Hampden
Federalist, printed at Springfield, and the Berkshire Star,
printed three weeks successively before the meeting of said
Committee.
CHAP. xcvn.
Governor's Message. February 9th, 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlevnen of the House of Representatives ,
The Secretary will lay before you, a communication I
have received from the Governor of the State of Ohio, refer-
ing to several resolutions of the General Assembly of that
State, relating to an Amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, proposed by the State of Pennsylvania, for
restricting the power of Congress, in establishing any bank
or other monied institution, to the District of Columbia.
I avail myself of this occasion, to inform you, that the re-
signation of Major General Amos Hovey, has created a
vacancy in the office of Major General, in the second division
of the militia.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February 9, 1820.
CHAP, xcvin.
JResolve granting Fifty Dollars to the Town of Attlehoroiigh,
for Siippoi't of J. Barnard. February 9th, 1820.
On the petition of Lemuel May, Esquire, praying for al-
lowance for the support of Joseph Barnard, a Common-
wealth's pauper :
132 BENJAMIN R. NICHOLS. Feh. 9.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Common-
wealth, to said inhabitants, the sum of fifty dollars, in full
for the support of the said Joseph Barnard, to the twentieth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
CHAP. XCIX.
Mesolve on the petition of Benjamin jK. JSTichols.
February 9th, 1820.
On the memorial of Benjamin R. Nichols, of Salem, in
the County of Essex, in behalf of the Commissioners of the
Legislature, for arranging and transcribing the Plymouth
Colony Records, stating that they, or any one of them, were
appointed by the Legislature, in June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, a Committee to cause the said records
to be arranged and transcribed, and for that purpose, were
authorized to remove the records from the Register of Deeds'
Office, in Plymouth, and to return them when completed, to
the same place, and to deposit the copies in the Secretary's
Office in Boston ; that the said Nichols, at the request of the
other Commissioners, undertook the aforesaid trust, and
performed part of said services, as by his report heretofore
made to the Legislature ; since which time he has completed
the same : Therefore,
Resolved J For reasons set forth in said memorial, that there
be paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth, to the
said Benjamin R. Nichols, the further sum of one thousand
dollars, the same being in full for repairing, arranging,
transcribing and indexing the Plymouth Colony Records,
including expenses for paper, binding and stationary, cases
for the records, travelling, and all other expenses in relation,
to that subject, by the said Nichols, and his assistants, and
the other Commissioners. And His Excellency the Gover-
nor, with the advice of Council, is requested to issue a
warrant on the treasury accordingly^ for the payment of the
said sum.
MIDBLEBOROUGH. Feh. 10. 133
CHAP. C.
Resolve on the First Precinct in J^Iiddleborough,
February lOtli, 1820.
On the petition of the First Precinct in Middleborough,
praying to be authorized to raise money for a ministerial
fund, by tax :
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
inhabitants of said precinct be, and they hereby are author-
ized and empowered to raise by tax, a sum of money, not
exceeding three thousand and five hundred dollars, to be
agTeed upon, assessed, and collected in the usual way of
raising money for parochial purposes ; which sum, with
other money now in the treasury of said precinct, may be
placed in the hands of Trustees, to be kept as a fund for
the use of those inhabitants of said precinct, who shall be
incorporated into a new parish, agreeably to the petition of
John Tinkham and others, now pending before this General
Court.
CHAP. CI.
Resolve on the jjetition of Joseph Raynes, for an Old
Soldier^ s Gratuity. February 11th, 1820.
On the petition of Joseph Raynes, praying that a gratuity
for revolutionary services, performed by Jonathan Tyler,
Junior, may be paid him :
Resolved^ That, for reasons set forth in said petition,
there be paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth,
sixteen dollars, in full for the gratuity mentioned in said
petition ; and the Governor of tliis Commonwealth is hereby
authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor
of the said Raynes, for that sum.
134 JOHN SPRING.— LYJDIA ROWELL. Feb, 11.
CHAP. CII.
Resolve on the petition of John Spring.
February 11th, 1820.
Oil the petition of John Spring, in behalf of himself, and
Seth Spring :
JHesolved, For the reasons set forth in the said petition,
that two thirds of the amount of monies for which the Com-
missioners of the Land Office were authorized by resolve of
this Legislature, passed February twentieth, one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen, to pay Seth Spring, Andrew
M. Spring, and John Spring, be paid to Seth Spring and
John Spring, on their complying with the proviso of said
resolve ; and the remaining third, be paid to Andrew M.
Spring, on his compliance with the condition aforesaid, by
appearing in person, or by proper attorney.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
hereby is authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer
of the Commonwealth, in favor of the said Commissioners
of the Land Office, for such sum of money as they shall re-
quire, to enable them to carry the foregoing resolve into
effect.
CHAP. cin.
Resolve on the petition of Lydia Rowell, authorizing her to
Sell Real Estate. February 11th, 1820.
On the petition of Lydia Rowell, widow :
Resolved, That the said Lydia Rowell, in her capacity of
Guardian to Moses Rowell, a minor, be, and she is hereby
empowered to sell so much of the real estate of the said
Moses Rowell, her ward, as shall amount to and produce
the sum of four hundred dollars, and incidental charges,
necessary to purchase certain rights in the iron works on
Powow River, in the Town of Salisbury, and thereby to re-
lieve the premises from the incumbrances stated in her said
petition ; the said Guardian to post notifications, thirty days
AMOS G. BALDWIN. Feh, 11. 135
before the sale, and to give bonds to the Judge of Probate
for the County of Essex, to be under oath, and to observe
the rules and regulations relative to said sale, in the same
manner as is provided for, in cases where executors and ad-
ministrators shall have been empowered by court, to make
sale of the real estate of deceased persons, for the payment
of their just debts.
CHAP. CIV.
Resolve on the petition of Jlmos G. Baldwin.
February lltli, 1820.
On the petition of the Reverend Amos Gr. Baldwin, of
Ogdensburgh, in the County of St. Lawrence, and State of
New York, praying that he may be exempted from all lia-
bility in law, in consequence of having illegally solemnized
a marriage, in this Commonwealth :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, tliat the
aforesaid Amos G. Baldwin be, and he hereby is exempted
from all liability, in law, to any prosecution or penalty in-
curred by him, in consequence of having solemnized a mar-
riage, in the Town of Great Barrington, in this Common-
wealth, on the twenty seventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventeen, between the
Reverend Samuel Griswold and Miss Maria Riley, both of
Great Barrington, aforesaid.
Resolved, That the marriage aforesaid, of the Reverend
Samuel Griswold and Maria Riley, solemnized as aforesaid,
be, and the same is liereby made good and valid in law, any
statute of this Commonwealth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Resolved, also, That the issue of the marriage aforesaid,
if any, be, and they are liereby declared legitimate, and made
capable in law, of inheriting and of transmitting by inherit-
ance, through or from them, in the same way and manner as
though such marriage were originally solemnized according
to law.
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136 TREASURER'S STATEMENT Feb, 11.
CHAP. CV.
Resolve on the Statement of the Treasurer.
February 11th, 1820.
On the statement of the Treasurer of this Commonwealth,
in relation to taxes appearing by his books to be due from
sundry plantations and other places :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said statement, that the
sum of twenty seven dollars and four cents be remitted* to
township number thirteen, west of Machias, granted to John
Peck, Washington County, for taxes for the years one tliou-
sand eight hundred and twelve to one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighteen, inclusively ; it appearing that said
township is the town of Columbia, and that Columbia has
been taxed since one thousand eight hundred and twelve,
and the taxes on the same have been paid. Also, that seven-
ty eight dollars and thirty cents be remitted to township
number eleven and twelve, adjoining Harrison and Stubeu,
in the same county, for taxes for the years one thousand
eight hundred and twelve to one thousand eight hundred
and eighteen, inclusively ; it appearing that said townships
are included in the Town of Cherry field and Bingham's
Purchase, and that those places have been taxed, and the
taxes have been paid for the years one thousand eight hun-
dred and twelve to one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
inclusively. Also, that twenty seven dollars and twenty
cents be remitted to township number three, between Ken-
nebeck and Androscoggin River, granted to Jacob Abbot,
taxed in Oxford County, for the years one thousand eight
hundred and tAvelve to one thousand eight hundred and fif-
teen, inclusively ; the Sheriff of said County not being able
to find any such land in the County of Oxford, and it being
supposed, that said township is the Town of Phillips, in
Somerset County. Also, that seventeen dollars and thirty
three cents be remitted to Patricktown Plantation, in Lincoln
County, for taxes in one thousand eight hundred and eight-
een ; it appearing by several resolves of the General Court,
passed February twenty fifth, one thousand eight hundred
and fourteen, February sixteenth, one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifteen, and February thirteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen, that it was not the intention of
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Feb. 11. 137
the Legislature to tax it. Also, that sixteen dollars for taxes
for the years one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be remitted to a
place, called gore of land, north of Florida, Berkshire Coun-
ty ; it appearing by a resolve of the General Court, passed
February thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eight-
een, that it was not the intention of the government to impose
a tax on that tract. Also, that thirty six dollars for taxes,
from one thousand eight hundred and sixteen to one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighteen, inclusively, be remitted to
Sebasticook Plantation, Somerset County ; inasmuch as the
said taxes, so imposed, should have been apportioned be-
tween that plantation and Snakeroot Plantation, as has been
•Subsequently done in the tax act of one thousand eight hun-
dred and nineteen.
Jllso, it is further resolved^ that Honorable Daniel Sar-
gent, Treasurer, as aforesaid, be and he hereby is empow-
ered and directed to place to the credit of the aforesaid tax
debtors, the several sums remitted to them respectively, in
order that liis books be closed, in conformity to the tenor of
this resolve.
CHAP. CVI.
Governor's Message. February 12th, 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
A communication from the American Asylum, at Hartford,
dated the eighth instant, will be herewith laid before you,
by the Secretary. It presents a difficulty which was not
anticipated by the Legislature, when the resolve of June
nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, re-
specting the deaf and dumb, was passed. Although the con-
tinuance of the younger Tripp, from the account given of him
by the officers of the asylum, would be unavailing to his
improvement, the Executive is vested with no authority to
facilitate his return to his friends by pecuniary means. It
138 SALLY WAUGH.— ASA GOODELL. Feb. 15
is therefore submitted to your consideration, whether any pro-
vision shall be made for defraying the expense of the said
Tripp's removal, and for similar contingencies in future.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February 12, 1820.
CHAP. CVII.
J^esolve on tJie petition of Sally Waiigh.
February 14th, 1820.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that
there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Com-
monwealth, to Sally Waugh, widow, and Administratrix of
^he estate of the late Colonel James Waugh, Junior, of
Starks, in the County of Somerset, twenty five dollars and
seven cents, it being in full for the services rendered by her
late husband, as President of a Court Martial, held at Au-
gusta, in the County of Kennebec, in March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen ; which
said sum was duly returned as the amount of travel and at-
tendance of the said Colonel James Waugh, Junior, at the
Court Martial aforesaid: And His Excellency the Governor
be, and he hereby is requested to draw his warrant on the
Treasurer for the same.
CHAP. CVIII.
Mesolve on account of Asa Goodell, Trustee of Grafton
Indians, and appointing Jonathan Leland, Trustee in
his stead. February 15th, 1820.
Whereas Asa Goodell, of Millbury, in the County of
Worcester, the Trustee of the Hassanamisco or Grafton In-
dians, has presented his account for allowance, which has
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Feb. 15. 139
been examined, and believed to be correct; and there remains
in his hands, the sum of fourteen hundred and fourteen dol-
lars, including a note for twenty pounds, supposed to be of
little value, signed by Stephen Maynard.
Resolved, That the said account be, and it is hereby al-
lowed.
And he it further resolved, That Asa Goodell, the present
Trustee, according to his written request, be, and he is here-
by discharged from any further service in his said trust ; and.
that Jonathan Leland, Esquire, of Sutton, in said County of
Worcester, be, and he is hereby appointed Trustee of said
Hassanamisco Indians : and the said Leland is hereby em-
powered to receive of the said Goodell, the said sum of four-
teen hundred and fourteen dollars, including the said Stephen
Maynard'g note of twenty pounds ; and the said Goodell is
hereby ordered and directed to pay over the same accord-
ingly.
CHAP. CIX.
Governor's Message. February 15th, 1820.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of RejJresentatives,
The Secretary will lay before you, the petition of Allen
Durfee, of the State of Rhode Island, praying for a reward,
for apprehending Thomas Daniels, one of the supposed mur-
derers of the late Jacob Gould, of Stoneham. With the
view of explaining the reasons which have occasioned a re-
ference of the petition to your consideration, I shall, at the
same time, cause to be laid before you, a copy of the advice
of the Council, on that subject, and of the proclamation re-
ferred, to in tlie petition, together with sundry affidavits
adduced by the petitioner, to substantiate the facts on which
his claim to remuneration is founded.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, Fehruanj 15, 1820.
140 TOWNSHIP NUMBER THREE. Feb. 16.
CHAP. ex.
Hesolve authonzing the Sale of the Commonwealth'' s Inter-
est in Township JWmber Three. February 16th^ 1820.
Resolved^ That the Commissioners of the Land Ojffice be,
and they are hereby authorized to sell and convey all the
Commonwealth's right, title, and interest to the residue of
two elevenths of the third and fourth quarters of township
number three, on the east side of Penobscot River, at such
price, and upon such terms as they shall judge for the inter-
est of the Commonwealth ; said residue having reverted to
the Commonwealth, by an adjustment with Joseph Butter-
field, made pursuant to a resolve of December the thirteenth,
one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
CHAP. CXI.
Resolve on the petition of Mary Pratt. February 1 6th, 1820.
On the petition of Mary Pratt, of Bowdoin, in the County
of Lincoln, setting forth, that William Patten, Junior, late
of Topsham, in said county, deceased, intestate, was her
natural son, and that the said William, having left no legal
heir, his estate, amounting to the sum of ninety eight dollars
and twelve cents, after paying all the just debts and legal
claims, now remains in the hands of l)aniel Allen, of said
Bowdoin, Administrator on the estate of said deceased ;
which sum will escheat to this Commonwealth, and praying
that the same may be paid to her for her own use and benefit :
Resolved f That the prayer of the petitioner be granted,
and that she be, and she is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to receive and recover of the said Administrator, to her
own use and benefit, the said sum of ninety eight dollars and
twelve cents, in like manner as if she were the sole and legal
heir of said William Patten, deceased : Provided, neverthe-
less, that the said Mary Pratt shall, before receiving the
same, give to the said Administrator a bond, with a good and
sufficient surety, that she will refund to said Administrator,
TAX ON COUNTIES. Feb. 16. 141
the amount which she shall thus be entitled to receive, in
case any further debts or demands against the estate of said
William Patten, shall liereafter appear, for which the said
Administrator may, in any way, be liable.
CHAP. CXII.
Resolve allowing Davis Sumner and Wife, to Sell Real
Estate. February 17th, 1820.
On the petition of Davis Sumner and Dorothy, his wife :
Resolved. That Davis Sumner of Bellingham, in the
County of Norfolk, son of Seth Sumner, late of Milton, in
said County of Norfolk, Esquire, deceased, and Dorothy,
the wife of said Davis, who are Trustees, to the use of their
children, of a farm in said Bellingham, described in a deed
made to them, by John Miller, on the seventeenth day of
July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen,
duly recorded in the Registry of Deeds for Norfolk County,
be, and hereby are authorized and empowered to sell and
convey to Caleb Hobart, of Milton aforesaid, trader, thirty
acres and three fourths of an acre of land, part of the afore-
said farm, in such manner as the Judge of Probate for Nor-
folk County, shall direct and approve ; said sale being ne-
cessary to remove incumbrances on said farm, existing at the
time the same was purchased ; and a deed of the aforesaid
quantity of said farm from said Trustees, duly executed,
with the approbation of said Judge of Probate certified there-
in, shall vest the fee of the same in the purchaser or grantee,
his heirs or assigns.
CHAP. CXIII.
Resolve Laying a Tax on the Several Counties.
February 16th, 1820.
Whereas, the Treasurers of the following counties, have
laid their accounts before the Legislature , which accounts
142 TAX ON COUNTIES. Feh. 16.
have been examined ami allowed ; and whereas the Clerks
of the Courts of Sessions for said counties, have exhibited
estimates made by said courts, of the necessary charge«
which may arise within the said several counties for the year
ensuing, and of the sums necessary to discharge the debts of
said counties :
Resolved^ That the sums annexed to the several counties,
contained in the following schedule, be, and the same are
hereby granted as a tax for each county, respectively, to be
apportioned, assessed, paid, collected and applied, for the
purposes aforesaid, according to law, viz. :
County of Wasliington, one thousand ei»ht hundred dollars, §1,800 00
County of Kennebec, four thousand ei^iht hundred dollars, - 4,800 00
County of Middlesex, nine thousand dollars, . - - 9,000 00
County of Hancock, three thousand five hundred dollars, - 3,500 00
County of Franklin, three thousand two hundred dollars, - 3,200 00
County of Dukes' County, one thousand dollars, - - - 1,000 00
County of Somerset, three thousand dollars, - . - 3,000 00
County of Bristol, five thousand dollars, - - - - 5,000 00
County of Hampshire, three thousand dollars, _ - - 3,000 00
County of Penobscot, two thousand seven hundred and forty
dollars, ... - 2,r40 00
County of Barnstable, one thousand five hundred dollars, - 1,500 00
County of Norfolk, six thousand dollars, - .- - - 6,000 00
County of Berkshire, five thousand dollars, - - - - 5,000 00
County of Lincoln, four thousand seven hundred dollars, - 4,700 00
County of York, four thousand dollars, - - - . 4.000 00
County of Plymouth, ten thousand dollars, - - - - 10,000 00
County of Cumberland, fourteen thousand two hundred dollars, 14,200 00
County of Essex, seven thousand dollars, - - - - 7.000 00
County of Surt'olk, thirty thousand dollars, - - - -30,000 00
County of Worcester, twelve thousand dollars, - - - 12,000 00
County of Hampden, three thousand dollars, . . . 3,000 00
CHAP. CXIV.
Ilesolve Laying a Tax on the County of Oxford.
February IGth, 1820.
Whereas, the Clerk of the Court of Sessions for the Coun-
ty of Oxford, has exhibited an estimate made by said court,
of the necessary charges which may arise within said County
the year ensuing, and of the sum necessary to pay the debts
of said county :
COGNIZANCE OF CRIMES. Feb. 17. 143
Resolved, That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby granted as a tax on the said County of
Oxford, for the year of our Lord one thousand eiglit hundred
and twenty, to be apportioned, assessed, paid, collected and
applied for the purposes aforesaid, according to law. And
whereas said estimate is not accompanied by the Treasurer's
account for said county ; Therefore,
JBe it further resolved, That the Treasurer of said county
be, and he hereby is required to produce his account as
Treasurer of the county aforesaid, at the first session of the
next General Court.
CHAP. CXV.
Resolve giving the Supreme Judicial Court, at their adjourn-
ed term, in the County of Bristol, cognizance of Crimes
and Offences, and authorizing Appeals to he entered at
said term. February 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That the Supreme Judicial Court, which shall
be liolden in the County of Bristol, at the adjourned term
thereof, on the last Tuesday of May next, shall and may
have cognizance of all crimes and offences committed within
the said County of Bristol, in the same way and manner as
they would have at any regular and established term of said
court, and may direct the Clerk of said court to summon a
Grand Jury, to attend at the said adjourned term, if, in their
opinion, the number of prisoners in the gaol, in said county,
or other circumstances, shall render it expedient or necessary.
Resolved, That all appeals which have been made from
any judgment, decree or sentence of the Circuit Court of
Common Pleas, which was liolden in said County of Bristol,
on the second Monday of December last past, and all ap-
peals, which shall be made from any judgment, decree, or
sentence, of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, which will
be liolden in said county, on the second Monday of March
next, shall and may be entered, have day, and be proceeded
upon and determined, at the adjourned term of the Supreme
Judicial Court, to be holden in said county, on the last
Tuesday of May next, in the same way and manner as by
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144 DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS. Feb. 19.
law, appeals may be entered and acted upon, at any regular
and established term of said court.
CHAP. CXVI.
Mesolve on the jpetition of Mien Durfee.
February 18th, 1820.
On the petition of Allen Durfee, to His Excellency the
Governor, praying for a reward for apprehending Thomas
Daniels, one of the supposed murderers of the late Jacob
Gould, of Stoneham, w hich was referred by His Excellency
to the consideration of the General Court :
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to the said Allen Durfee, the
sum of two hundred dollars, which shall be in full for the
services stated in his petition ; and that the Governor, with
advice of the Council, be requested to draw his warrant ac-
cordingly.
CHAP. CXVII.
Resolve provid'mg for the Removal of Deaf and Dumb Per-
sons, from the *3.merican Asylum, at Hartford.
February 19th, 1820.
Whereas, it appears that Benjamin Tripp, one of the
number of deaf and dumb persons designated to participate
the advantages of the American Asylum, at Hartford, for
the instruction of such persons, by virtue of a resolve of this
Commonwealth, passed on the nineteenth day of June last
past, is wliolly incapacitated to improve those advantages,
and to derive the benefits thereof; Therefore,
Resolved, That the appropriation in favor of the said
Benjamin Tripp, by virtue of the resolve of the nineteenth
day of June last, shall cease and be discontinued, from and
after the fifteenth day of March next ; and that His Excel-
DEAF AND DUMB PEESONS. Feb. 19. 145
lency the Governor be requested to communicate the sub-
stance of the advice received from the Principal of the said
Asylum^ on this subject, and also the substance of this re-
solve, as soon as may be, to the parents of the said Tripp,
and request them to take immediate measures for his re-
moval.
Resolved^ That His Excellency the Governor be request-
ed, and he is hereby authorized, on receiving advice from
the Principal of said Asylum, after the said fifteenth day of
March next, that the said Tripp has not been removed by
his parents, to cause him to be removed, and returned to his
parents, in such manner as he may think proper ; the expense
of which removal, and also that of his board and instruction
at the said asylum, until such removal, shall be paid out of
the treasury of this Commonwealth, and deducted from the
general appropriation under the resolve of the nineteenth of
June last, respecting deaf and dumb persons.
Hesolved, That in all like cases, in future, the appropri-
ation in favor of any such person, shall cease in twenty days
next after advice thereof shall be received by the Executive
Department, from the Principal of the said Asylum : And
the same proceedings shall be had in every such case, as is
herein above provided, respecting the said Tripp. And all
expenses incurred under, and by virtue of these resolves,
shall be examined ?aid allowed by the Governor and Coun-
cil ; and His Excellency the Governor is requested to draw
his warrant on the Treasurer for the same.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested
to cause these resolves to be communicated to the Principal
of the said Asylum, at Hartford ; and request his immediate
advice of the neglect of the parents or friends of the said
Tripp, or of any other person in like circumstances, to cause
their removal, by the time when the appropriation in their
favor shall cease, agreeably to the foiTgoing resolve.
146 MAURIAGES CONFIRMED. Feb. 21.
CHAP. CXVIII.
Mesolve Confirm'mg Certain Marriages.
February 21st, 1820.
On the petition of Samuel Sibley and Charlotte Broad,
now called Charlotte Sibley, and John Wellington and
Mary Smith Winslow, now called Mary Smith Wellington,
all of Fairfax, in the County of Kennebec, representing,
that they have been united in marriage, having a lawful
right thereto, and their intention therefor having been legally
published by the Town Clerk of said Town of Fairfax, and
that they have been severally married by ministers, of whose
authority doubts have arisen :
Resolved, That the several marriages, aforesaid, of the
said Samuel Sibley with Charlotte Broad, and of the said
John Wellington with Mary Smith Winslow, married in
manner aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby declared to
be legal and valid, to all the intents and purposes of mar-
riage ; and the children of the said marriages shall be, and
are hereby declared to be legitimate, as though the said
marriages had been solemnized by a person legally empow-
ered for such purpose.
CHAP. CXIX.
Resolve allowing Charles Turner to Sell Real Estate.
February 21st, 1820.
On the petition of Charles Turner, Guardian to Josiah
Litchfield, of Scituate, in the County of Plymouth, non com-
jpos mentis, praying that he may be authorized to sell certain
real estate, named in said petition :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that said
Guardian be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered
to sell, at public vendue, and pass deed or deeds to convey
the right, title, and interest his ward has in and to a small
island, near the entrance of Boston Harbor, called Green
Island, and the buildings Hiereon standing ; and also about
INTERDICTION OF SLAVERY. Feb. 23. 147
one quarter of an acre of land, in Scituate aforesaid, with a
dwelling house thereon, near and adjoining the widow Lucy
Doane's land, first giving hond to the Judge of Probate for
the County of Plymouth, to comply with the laws for the
sale of real estates, by executors or administrators, and to
account to said Judge of Probate, for the proceeds of said
sales.
CHAP. CXX.
Resolve on the jjetition of John Merrill.
February 22d, 1820.
Mesolvedy That the Court of Sessions, for the County of
Cumberland be, and they hereby are authorized to adjust
the account of John Merrill, for services and medicines
rendered to prisoners confined in the gaol of said county,
on criminal prosecutions, in behalf of the Commonwealth,
during the years one thousand eight hundred and seventeen,
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen, and allow him such sum as may
be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the treasury of
said county.
CHAP. CXXI.
Resolve respecting Slavery. February 23d, 1820.
The Committee of both Houses, who were appointed to
consider *' what measures it may be proper for the Legisla-
ture of this Commonwealth to adopt, in the expression of
their sentiments and views, relative to the interesting subject,
now before Congress, of interdicting slavery in the New
States, which may be admitted into the Union, beyond the
River Mississippi," respectfully submit the following report :
1 18 INTERDICTION OF SLAVERY. Feh. 24.
The question now befoi*e Congress, is one of the most im-
portant that can ever arise in this country. It is a subject
which involves the happiness of millions ; and is intimately
connected with the honor, the prosperity, and all the great
interests of the United States.
After all the consideration your Committee have been
able to bestow on this momentous subject, they cannot but
express the most ardent hope, that Congress will interpose
to prevent the further introduction of slavery, into Missouri;
because it is within their constitutional power, and, because
it is demanded by humanity, sound policy, and the pros-
perity and happiness of the States to be created, as well as
the common welfare of the United States.
It is not necessary, in the opinion of your Committee, to
consider, at large, the constitutionality of the proposed re-
striction, which has been so much and so ably discussed.
They will content themselves with referring to the express
provisions of the constitution, which relate to this subject,
and to the practical construction, already given to that com-
pact, in the admission of States into the Union, in pursuance
of the wise and humane ordinance of one thousand seven
hundred and eighty seven ; a construction, which in the opin-
ion of your Committee, has the greater weight, as the States
thus admitted, were Avithin the original territory of the United
States.
If, as your Committee think, the constitutional right of
Congress to interpose, is contained in the constitution, and
has been practically settled, it might have been expected,
that on the expediency of the proposed restriction, there
could have been but one opinion in the United States. We
could have hoped, that the people in the States to be created,
would be satisiied that slavery is an evil of great magni-
tude, and that they would rejoice in an opportunity of secur-
ing a free population, when they consider the result of the
experiment under the ordinance of one thousand seven hun-
dred and eighty seven.
The restriction is demanded by the honor of our country.
Slavery has always been considered by our wisest and best
men and ablest statesmen, as the greatest moral and political
evil ; and necessity has been thought the only justification
for its continuance. Our answer to the reproach of slavery,
has heretofore been, that it was an evil entailed on us by our
ancestors, and that its introduction was owing to the policy
INTERDICTION OF SLAVERY. Feb. 24. 149
of a foreign government. It has, therefore, been no just
reproach to us, that while our declarations of independence,
and constitutions of government, contain the purest princi-
ples of natural and civil liberty, slavery yet exists in some of
the States ; and a large portion of the population are de-
prived of all their rights. The present generation is not
responsible for the evil. On the contrary, with just pride
we can point to measures of our government, which shew
that the steady course of their policy has been to prevent the
increase of slavery, and if possible, to provide for its gradual
abolition. The United States were the first nation to pro-
vide by law against the slave trade. And now, when other
nations are awakened, perhaps by our very example, to the
enormity of this practice, when a rapid and almost universal
change in public opinion has taken place in Europe, shall
Republican America, by opening a new market for slaves,
give a new stimulus to that traffic ?
Justice to the original States, also demands the interposi-
tion of Congress. It is not just that the inequality of repre-
sentation which already exists, should be further extended.
Those States have a deep interest in the question ; they have
a right to be heard, and to require that the concessions they
have made, shall be confined to the territory, which was the
subject of the federal compact. We would not alarm the
jealousies or excite the fears of our brethren in States where
slavery is still permitted. The Legislature of Massachu-
setts has no disposition to interfere with their rights, as now
secured by the constitution. Our faith and honor are pledged
to support every part of that instrument ; and unequal as the
compromise has proved, trifling as the equivalent is for the
political power given to other States, it Avas thought at the
time a necessary concession : And let it be inviolable !
It would not be improper on this occasion, to remark upon
the impolicy of extending slavery into the newly acquiretl
territory, as to the new States themselves, to their prosper-
ity, the character of their population and to their security.
Many reasons might also be offered in favor of tlie interpo-
sition of the power of Congress, which respect the common
defence and the general welfare of the United States : But
it cannot be necessary.
As connected with the rights of humanity, this question
swells into one of immense magnitude. In this view, no
subject so interesting ever claimed our attention. It is no
150 INTERDICTION OF SLAVERY. Feh 24*
less than whether those vast regions, spreading from the
Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, shall be a land of slaves
or of freemen ; and this not for a single State, but for a
Country, which is to furnish many States of the confederacy ;
not for a day, or a year, but forever !
Nor has this question less importance as to its influence
on the slave trade. Should slavery be further permitted,
an immense new market for slaves would be opened. It is
well known, that notwithstanding the strictness of our laws,
and the vigilance of the government, thousands are now an-
nually imported from Africa. The cupidity of slave dealers
will find many facilities in the pretended wants of those, who
now contend for the precious privilege of holding slaves.
They will be clandestinely brought into the country, and the
only consequence of the existing laws will be the greater suf-
fering of the slaves. After being torn from their native land
and transported across the ocean, they will be dragged
through woods, and deserts, and bye paths, and hid in the
dens and caves of the earth, until they can be sold into per-
petual bondage with impunity.
Should the present attempt to limit slavery be ineifectual,
the hopes of wise and benevolent men in all parts of our
country, that at some future time this evil might be extir-
pated, must be abandoned. The question will be forever
settled, and slavery will be perpetual in a nation which pro-
claims to the world these truths to be self evident, "^ that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre-
ator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and the basis of
whose constitution is " to secure the blessings of liberty to
themselves and their posterity."
When we reflect upon these momentous consequences of
the measure now before Congress, it appears to your Com-
mittee, whatever confidence may be justly reposed in that
body, to be the duty of this Legislature not to remain silent
and unconcerned spectators of the event, but to protest
against the extension of slavery over this continent. Inde-
pendent of any right as a member of this confederacy, this
Commonwealth has a deep interst in the establishment of the
principles of natural and civil liberty, and in the honor,
prosperity and happiness of every part of the nation. It
may justly be expected, that Massachusetts, which was
among the first to extend the blessings of liberty and equal
INTERDICTION OF SLAVERY, Feh. 24. 151
rights to all her inhabitants^ should now lift her voice, and
use all her influence to prevent the extension and perpetuity
of slavery. Nor do your Committee find any reason for out
silence in the extraordinary manner in which the question
has been brought before Congress, by connecting it with the
act for the admission of Maine into the Union, when no
reason whatever is known to exist against that measure ! It
would therefore be with the deepest concern, that the people
of Massachusetts should perceive a determination on the part
of any other members of the Union, to adopt a course which
would endanger the common safety, by augmenting the
materials for a convulsion, which may one day involve our
country in scenes of horror and suffei-ing, like those which
have been endured by the wretched white inhabitants of
some neighboring islands.
With these views, and under these general principles,
your Committee respectfully recommend to the Legislature
the adoption of the following resolutions.
By order of the Committee.
L. SALTONSTALL, Chairman.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Legislature, it is
the duty of the people and government of the United States,
by all constitutional means, to prevent the extension of so
great a moral and political evil as slavery ; that Congress
possess the constitutional power to prohibit the further intro-
duction of slavery into the territory of the United States,
not within the original limits of said States, and to make
such prohibition a condition of the admission of any new
State into the Union.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Legislature, it is
the duty of Congress to exercise this power on the admission
of all new States beyond the limits of the original territory
of the United States.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be
directed to transmit to each of the Senators and Represen-
tatives from this Commonwealth, in Cougress, a copy of these
resolutions.
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152 JONAS WHITE AND OTHERS. Feb. 24.
CHAP. CXXII.
Resolve on the petition of Jonas White and Others.
February 24th, 1820.
On the petition of Jonas White and Abijah White, for
themselves and otliers :
Resolved, That the lot of three hundred and twenty acres
of land, reserved for the future disposition of the General
Court, in the original deed of township number four, in the
fifth range of townships, north of the Waldo Patent, be, and
hereby is granted to the proprietors of said township, in full
of all claims on the Commonwealth, for any deficiency of
measure, in the original survey thereof, made by Messieurs
Ballard and Weston : And the Commissioners of the Land
Oflice are hereby authorized and directed to make and exe-
cute the necessary releases to said proprietors.
CHAP, cxxin.
Resolve on the petition of several Sick and Wounded
Soldiers. February 24th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to Joseph Storer, of Bruns-
wick, a soldier in Captain Woodard's company, for a wound
received in September last, seventy five dollars.
Also, to Daniel Hart, of Townsend, in the County of
Middlesex, a soldier in the second regiment, second brig-
ade, and third division, for a w ound received in October, one
thousand eight hundred and twelve, while on duty, fifty
dollars per year, during his life.
Also, to Isaac Noyes, for a wound he received in October,
one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, while on duty, fifty
dollars in full.
Also, to Joel Reynolds, of Marblehead, for a wound re-
ceived while on duty, at Danvers; in a sham fight, ninety five
dollars in full.
COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. Feb. 24. 153
AlsOj to William Tozer, a soldier in General Ulmer's
regiment, for a wound received in one thousand eight hun-
dred and twelve, while on duty, fifty dollars, in addition to
what he has already received, and in full.
CHAP. CXXIV.
Resolve for Paying the Committee on Accounts.
February 24th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to the Committee
on Accounts, one dollar per day, over and above their pay
as members, for the present session, to wit :
Honorable Elihu Hoyt, forty two days, forty two dollars.
Honorable Stephen P. Gardner, forty two days, forty two dollars.
Honorable Samuel Porter, forty two days, forty two dollars.
David Perry, Esquire, forty two days, forty two dollars.
Josiah Chute, Esquire, forty two days, forty two dollars.
CHAP. cxxy.
Resolve on the 'petition of JSTathaniel Peabody.
February 24th, 1820.
On the petition of Nathaniel Peabody :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Court of Sessions, for the County of Essex, be, and they are
hereby authorized to adjust the account of Nathaniel Pea-
body, for services and medicines rendered to prisoners
confined in the gaol of said county, on criminal prosecutions,
in behalf of the Commonwealth, during the year eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and allow him such sum, as may be
just and reasonable, to be paid out of the treasury of said
county.
154 WILLIAM TUDOR. Feb. 24.
CHAP. CXXVI.
Resolve on the petition of William Tudor.
February 24tli, 1820.
On tlie petition of William Tudor, of Boston, Administra-
tor on the estate of William Tudor, Esquire, late of Boston
aforesaid, deceased, praying that the endorsement of the said
William Tudor, deceased, to certain notes in the treasury
of tlie State, be relinquished :
Resolved, That, for reasons stated by the said petition-
er, the estate of the said William Tudor, deceased, be
exonerated from all claim, on account of principal or inter-
est, arising from the said William Tudor, deceased, having
endorsed certain obligations of John Peck, and William
Wetmore, dated in May, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety five ; but nothing in this resolve, shall go to
absolve the said obligors. Peck and Wetmore, from the
amount of their obligation, or from any judgment which has
been recovered thereon : Provided, that certain shares in the
South Boston Association, transferred by the said William
Tudor, deceased, in pursuance of a resolve of the Legisla-
ture, passed on the first of March, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eight, as collateral security, shall remain in the
hands of the Treasurer, who shall receive all dividends
arising from them, until the whole amount, principal and
interest, of the obligations of said Peck and Wetmore, shall
be received by the Commonwealth ; when the said shares,
with their remaining property, if any, shall be given up to
the heirs of the said William Tudor, deceased ; and provi-
ded, also, that the Commonwealth shall have right to sell
and dispose of the said shares, whenever it shall be deemed
adviseable so to do.
PAYMENT OF WITNESSES. Feb. 24. 155
CHAP. CXXVII.
Resolve for the Payment of certain Witnesses.
February 24th, 1820.
Resolved^ That there be allowed and paid out of the pub-
iic treasury,
To Micah Pool, Esquire, - - - S3 77
To Samuel Reed, 3 85
To Nathan Grurney, Junior, Esquire, - 3 30 "
To Tesse Dunbar, Esquire, - - - 4 65
To John B. Turner, - - - - 4 65
Amounting to S20 22
For their travel and attendance as witnesses, before a Com-
mittee of the House of Rem*esentatives, during the present
session ; and the Governor is hereby requested to draw his
warrant on the treasury, for the payment of the same.
CHAP, cxxvin.
Resolve extending the time for Performance of Settling
Duties. February 24th, 1820.
Resolvedy That the time limited for the performance of
the conditions, expressed in certain grants to colleges and
academies, in certain bonds, for settling duties on lands in
the District of Maine, which have been sold, or granted by
this Commonwealth, shall be, and the same is hereby ex-
tended for the term of four years, from the expiration of the
time limited in the resolve of December sixth, one thousand
eight hundred and sixteen.
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CHAP. CXXIX.
Resolve in favor of Russell and Gardner,
February 24th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid, out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to Russell and Gardner,
the sum of one thousand, three hundred and nine dollars
and ninety two cents, for printing for Benjamin Russell,
Printer for the Sate, to this day.
CHAP. CXXX.
Resolve relating to the Location of Lands, in Maine.
February 24th, 1820.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred the
report of the Commissioners of the Land Office, have consid-
ered its details and results, and also the map accompanying
their report, and submit the following facts and resolutions
for consideration.
Their said report states, that five millions, four hundred
and sixty five thousand and seventy five acres of the public
lands have been granted and sold, since the twenty ninth of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty five, and that two hundred and fifty thousand,
four hundred and twenty acres have never been located nor
surveyed. It is also ascertained, that the time for locating
some portions of this latter quantity has never been deter-
mined or fixed by the Greneral Court, and that the period
for locating other parts thereof has been, from time to time,
extended. Your CJommittee believe it to be highly important
to the interests of the Commonwealth, that all unlocated
lands, so granted or sold, should be speedily surveyed, and
their situation determined and known ; and that all monies
due and payable on all contracts for such lands, be as soon
collected as practicable. The map accompanying the said
Commissioners' report, designed especially for the use of
Maine, exhibits particulars; in writing, of the various grants
LOCATION OF LANDS IN MAINE. Feb, 24. 157
and locations since the year one thousand seven hundred and
eighty five^ June twenty ninth, and the names of such as
have had grants or conveyances made to them, and forms a
territorial exhibit of what the said report expresses. Both
the said report and the map deserve the particular consider-
ation of the Legislature.
WM. D. WILLIAMSON, Chairman,
Resolved, That the location of all grants and conveyances
of lands, at any time heretofore made on the part of the
Commonwealth, and not yet located, shall be determined
and actually made within one year from the passing of these
resolves, and not afterwards : and it shall be the duty of the
Commissioners of the Land Office, forthwith to give unto all
claimants of such unlocated grants or conveyances, due no-
tice of the time limited for said locations.
Resolved, That the whole of the said Commissioners' re-
port be printed with the resolves of the General Court, passed
the present session.
REPORT.
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court
assembled.
The Commissioners of the Land Office, in compliance
with your order of the eighteenth of January, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, report on the several items of re-
quisition therein mentioned, the annexed schedule, and state-
ment, and plan, which are respectfully submitted.
EDWARD H. ROBBINS.
LOTHROP LEWIS.
JOSEPH LEE.
Land Office, Fehrxiary 15, 1820.
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170 SETTLEMENT WITH MAINE. Feb, 25.
CHAP. CXXXI.
Resolve for the payment of Eight Thousand Dollars to the
District of Maine, conditionally. February 25tlij 1820.
Resolvedf That if the District of Maine shall become a
Separate and Independent State, on or before the last
Wednesday in May next, the Treasurer of this Common-
wealth be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to the
Treasurer of said State of Maine, on the tenth day of June,
the sum of eight thousand dollars, as part of the State Tax,
assessed and levied on said District, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, which sum, so paid
and received, is to be accounted for, and allowed by said
State of Maine, in the distribution and division of the public
property, according to the provisions of the act of separation,
passed the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen : Provided, how-
ever, that the Legislature of said State of Maine, shall j&rst
pass a resolve, authorizing their Treasurer to receive said
sum, to be accounted for, and allowed in manner aforesaid.
CHAP. CXXXII.
Resolve to facilitate a Settlement with Maine.
February 25th, 1820.
Resolved, In order to facilitate the future settlement between
Massachusetts and the District of Maine, according to the
act of separation, of the nineteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, that
it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of this Commonwealth,
and all receivers of public monies, belonging to the same, to
make up, and cause their respective accounts to be made up
and stated, to the day on which the said District shall be
admitted a Separate and Independent State, exhibiting the
funds in the treasury, the several sums due, to and from the
Commonwealth, as of that date.
D. DUNBAR AND J. WARDWELL. Feb. 25.^ 171
CHAP. CXXXIII.
llesolve on the petition of David Bimbarand Jeremiah Ward-
well, for the Town of Penobscot, granting a tract of Land.
February 25tli, 1820.
On the petition of the inhabitants of the Town of Penob-
scot, by David Dunbar and Jeremiah Wardwell, their com-
mittee :
Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Land Office be,
and they hereby are authorized to make the inhabitants of
the Town of Penobscot, an allowance and satisfaction for
the just proportion of the public taxes on all the lands within
said township, released to the Commonwealth, by the heirs
and legal representatives of the late Leonard Jarvis, Esquire,
(said public taxes having been assessed upon the inhabitants
and estates within said town, during the exemption of such
released lands from taxation,) by conveying unto them, in
fee, a parcel or tract of said land, at its just value, equiv-
alent thereto, for the use of the schools within said town.
CHAP. CXXXIV.
Resolve on the petition of Joseph Bridgman, Junior.
February 25th, 1820.
On the petition of Joseph Bridgman, Junior, of Belcher-
town, in the County of Hampshire, one of the Administra-
tors on the estate of Henry D wight, Esquire, late of said
Belchertown, deceased, praying that he may be authorized
to convey to Simeon D wight, of said Belchertown, one un-
divided half of a certain pew, in the congregational meeting
house, in Belchertown aforesaid, according to a contract of
the said deceased :
Resolved, That the said Joseph Bridgman, Junior, Ad-
ministrator as aforesaid be, and he is hereby authorized and
empowered to make a good and sufficient deed of the said
half of a pew, according to the prayeyr of the said petition.
172 DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS. Feb. 25.
CHAP. CXXXV.
Resolve relating to the JMstribution of Books, Maps, ij^c,
belonging to the Commonwealth. February 25th, 1820.
The Committee of both Houses, appointed to consider
what copies of the laws, resolves, records, and other docu-
ments of this Common wealtli, and territorial plans of eastern
lands, ought to be furnished and delivered to the government
of Maine, have investigated that subject, and ask leave to
report tlie following resolve.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State of this Common-
wealtli be, and hereby is authorized to deliver, as soon as
tnay be, after the time when said District of Maine shall be
admitted, by Congress, as a Separate and Independent State,
to the Secretary of State, pro tempore, for the proposed State
of Maine, for the use of said proposed State, one third part
of all the copies of the laws, resolves, term reports, and all
other books and maps belonging to said Commonwealth, and
not appropriated by any previous law or resolve, except in
cases where there are but two copies, to deliver one. And
that authenticated copies of all the plans, papers, deeds,
records, and other documents, in any of the public offices of
this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, which may be necessary
or convenient for the said proposed State of Maine, be fur-
nished by the proper officer or officers, to the said Secretary
of State of the said proposed State; and the expenses thereof
to be divided in the proportion of two thirds to this Common-
wealth, and one third to said proposed State of Maine ;
provided, the whole expense of such authenticated copies,
shall not exceed one thousand dollars : Provided, however,
that this Commonwealth shall not be charged with any part
of the expense, for any copies, which shall not be ordered
before the expiration of two years from the time of such ad-
mission.
CHAPLAINS.—T. WALCUTT. Feb, 25. 173
CHAP. CXXXVI.
Resolve to loay Chaplains, §*c. February 25tli, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the pub-
lic treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Reverend John
Cr. Palfrey, Chaplain of the Senate, and to the Reverend
William Jenks, Chaplain of the House of Representatives,
sixty dollars each, in full for their services in said offices,
the present year. Also,
Resolved, That there shall be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the gentleman who shall preach the Elec-
tion Sermon, in May next, fifty dollars ; and that His Excel-
lency the Governor be authorized to draw his wai'rants on
the treasury, for said sums.
CHAP. CXXXVII.
Resolve to -pay Thomas Walctitt. February 25th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies, for the assistance of the
Members of the Legislature, one hundred and twenty five
dollars, in full for his services during the present session of
the General Court.
174 WARD LOCK. Feb, 25.
CHAP. CXXXVIII.
.Resolve to iiaij WarA Lock. February 25th, 1820.
Resolved^ That there be allowed and paid from the treas-
ury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant to the
Messenger of the Grovernor and Council, two dollars and
fifty cents, for each and every day lie has been, or may be
employed in that capacity, during the present session of the
Council.
ROLL No. 82....JANUARY, 1820.
The Committee on Accounts having examined
the several accounts they now present.... Report,
That there is now due to the corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their
names respectively ; which, wlien allowed and paid^
will be in full discharge of the said accounts, to the
several dates therein mentioned ; which is respect-
fully submitted,
E. HOYT, Per Order,
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Amherst, for boarding and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 27th, 1820, 126 51
Adams, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
13th, 1820, 327 94
Amesbury, for board and clothing Mary Young,
and her five children, until they left the town,
June 9th, 1819, 40 43
Attleborough, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 1st, 1820, 219 87
Andover, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1820, 345 65
Ashburnham, for board and clothing Suke Frank-
lin, to January 10th, 1820, 50 20
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176 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Abington, for board and clothing Thomas Seymore,
to January 15th, 1820, 54 50
Augusta, for board and clothing John Morgan, to
January 1st, 1820, 36 60
Bridgewater, for supporting John F. Bigner and
Sally Brown, to January 28th, 1820, 72 64
Belchertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 14th, 1820, 170 35
Burlington, for board and clothing Thomas Hard-
man, to January 27th, 1820, 76 00
Blanford, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1820, 134 37
Bristol, for board and clothing Nancy Hill, to
December 11th, 1820, 106 00
Bath, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
20th, 1820, 101 55
Brimfield, for supporting John Christian, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 70 20
Becket, for supporting Asa Tiffany, to January
1st, 1820, 25 70
Bingham, for board and clothing Sally Atkinson
and her two children, to January, 1820, 56 25
Bmnswick, for supporting sundry paupers, to Feb-
ruary, 1820, 64 43
Beverly, for support of sundry paupers, to January
1st, 1820, 172 75
Bethel, for board and clothing William Buck, to
January 7th, 1820, 35 00
Bi-adford, for supporting Joshua L. Alsers and
Mary Beals, to January 1st, 1820, 55 02
Barre, for board and clothing Samuel Lee and
Sally Taylor, to January 7th, 1820, 61 00
Bluehill, for board and clothing Nathaniel Her-
rick, to January 10th, 1820, 100 00
Billerica, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1820, , 142 08
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 177
Boston Board of Health, for board, doctoring and
nursing sundry paupers, on Rainsford Island, to
January 23d, 1820, 384 75
Boston, for boarding and clothing sundry paupers,
to December 1st, 1820, 8495 86
Cambridge, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 26tli, 1820, 760 72
Cumington, for board and clothing John Lamson,
to January 25th, 1820, 50 65
Cape Elizabeth, for supporting sundry paupers, to
December 30th, 1819, 127 00
Canton, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
14th, 1820, 84 42
Chesterfield, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 11th, 1820, 111 25
Cheshire, for supporting sundry State paupers, to
January 9th, 1820, 215 59
Colrain, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to
January 8th, 1820, 186 37
Chester, for board and clothing several paupers, to
January 8th, 1820, 172 49
Camden, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
22d, 1820, 84 10
Chelmsford, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 1st, 1820, 118 80
Conway, for board and clothing Charles Freeman
and Martha McMurphy, to November 20th,
1819, 48 55
Cushing, for board and clothing Mary Henderson,
to January 5th, 1820, 36 26
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 28th, 1820, 2798 01
Dresden, for board and clothing John Cullen, to
January 1st, 1820, 83 89
Dalton, for supporting Phebe Veets, to January
20th, 1820, 38 90
Dorchester, for supporting William Sloan and
family, to August 2d, 1819, 57 75
178 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Deerfield, for board and clothing Daniel AUis and
William Clarrick, to February 1st, 1820, 174 09
Dudley, for supporting Martin Barker, to January
10th, 1820, 28 07
Dracut, for board and clothing Richard Baker, to
January 16th, 1820, 91 00
Dedham, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 3d, 1820, 48 97
Dennysville, for the support of Mistress Harper,
to the time she left the Commonwealth, in July,
1819, 49 54
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 25th, 1820, 1766 42
East Andover, for board and clothing William
Foster, Junior, to December 1st, 1819, 50 00
Egremont, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 14th, 1820, 144 80
Easton, for supporting Mary Leondell, to Decem-
ber 6th, 1819, 17 69
Essex, for board and clothing Ira Percival and
James Crawley, to February 15th, 1820, 118 80
Eliot, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to
January 25th, 1820, 126 76
Falmouth, (Maine,) for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1820, 222 60
Falmouth, for supporting Edward Edwards, to
January 19th, 1820, 35 01
Friendship, for board and clothing James Metcalf
and Martha Bichmore, to January 26th, 1820, 1 14 00
Fayette, for supporting William Gr. Martin, to
January 1st, 1820, 67 20
Fairhaven, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1820, 162 50
Fairfax, for supporting sundry paupers, 14 00
Framingham, for board and clothes for Lucy Green
and James Riggs, to January 16th, 1820, 35 60
Gorham, for supporting Robert GilfiUing and Mary
Hartford, to January 10th, 1820, 85 03
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 179
Gloucester, for boarding, doctoring and niu'sing
sundry paupers, to November 10th, 1819, 575 38
Groton, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to
January 10th, 1820, 549 50
Gardiner, for supporting John Brinkman, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1820, 54 73
Great Barrington, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 14th, 1820, 226 28
Granville, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 11th, 1820, 107 93
Greenwich, for board and clothing Lot Lee, to
January 14th, 1820, 56 64
Grafton, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 25th, 1819, 282 53
Gill, for board, clothing, doctoring and nursing
Sarah Lyons, to January 15th, 1820, 68 80
Hopkinton, for boarding and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 31st, 1820, 245 70
Harlem, for board and clothing William Yaulin,
to January 10th, 1820, 48 50
Hubbardston, for supporting Abner Hybra, to No-
vember 27th, 1819, 100 80
Haverhill, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
nary, 1st, 1820, 156 20
Hardwick, for board and clothing Hannah Morgan,
to December 1st, 1820, 33 60
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk County, for board,
doctoring and nursing sundry State paupers, to
January 3d, 1820, 972 85
Hadley, for board and clothing Friday Allen and
wife, to January 9th, 1820, 55 69
Hallowell, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 10th, 1820, 275 43
Hollis, for board and clothing Joseph Temple, to
January 14th, 1820, 62 90
Hancock, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 24th, 1820, 84 00
180 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Jay, for supporting Elizabeth Bell and Daniel
Holland, to January 19tli, 1820, 51 60
Industry, for Sherburn Fogg, to January 6th, 1820,, 58 50
Ipswich, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 25th, 1820, 116 76
Kittery, for boarding and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1820, 210 52
Lisbon, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 160 75
Lincolnville, for supporting Alexander White and
Edward Crane, to January 28th, 1820, 67 25
Lanesborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
December 31st, 1819, 205 61
Leeds, for board and clothing Nicholas Tallier
and Richard Creech, to January 1st, 1820, 39 26
Lynn, for supporting sundry paupers, to November
30th, 1819, 347 14
Litchfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4th, 1820, 62 78
Leyden, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 8th, 1820, 249 68
Limerick, for board and clothing Mary Record,
to January 17th, 1820, 36 90
Lee, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
10th, 1820, 540 00
Leicester, for board, nursing and doctoring French
Decker, and funeral charges, to June 19th, 1819, 29 31
Lenox, for boarding and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 9th, 1820, 280 05
Littleton, for board and clothing John Putnam, to
February 3d, 1820, 57 84
Lynnfield, for board, nursing and clothing Mary
Grant, to June 14th, 1819, 25 00
Longmeadow, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 24th, 1820, 198 25
Machias, for supporting sundry paupers, to the
time they left the Commonwealth, 174 76
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. i81
Milton, for board and clothes for Archibald Mc-
Donald, to January 19tli, 1820, 42 90
Millbury, for support, Avhile sick, and funeral ex-
pense of Andrew Leduke, January 10th, 1820, 46 55
Marlborough, for supporting Joseph Waters, to
November 28th, 1819, 105 25
Mansfield, for support of sundry paupers^ to Jan-
uary 19tli, 1820, 121 22
Montague, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 14th, 1819, 131 08
Marblehead, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 19th, 1820, 306 75
Middleborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1820, 220 80
Medfield, for board and clothing George Turner,
to November 25th, 1819, 67 20
Monson, for board and clothing Rhoda Sechem,
to January 1st, 1820, 23 40
Minot, for support of Philip Weeks and Elizabeth
Phinney and two children, to January 10th,
1820, 86 05
Montgomery, for board and clothes for Moses
Conair, to the time of his death, and funeral
charges, 7 40
Montville, for board and clothing John Gloster
and William McLany, to January 29th, 1820, 146 70
New Castle, for support of Nancy Hodgman and
Patrick Meager, to January 18th, 1820, 116 52
Newton, for board and clothing Joseph Prichard,
to January 1st, 1820, 67 20
Norwich, for supporting Ruth Sanford, to Jan-
nary 6th, 1820, 28 30
North Yarmouth, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 11th, 1820, 108 25
Northfield, for board and clothing Amos Rylej-,
to January 8th, 1820, 41 30
182 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Newbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 999 38
New Gloucester, for supporting Mary Ann Forbes
and Joseph Gregory, to February 1st, 1820, 124 00
Nantucket, for supporting Anthony Swazy, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, and supplies for James Sauns-
bury, and Francis Joseph, to the time of his
death, and funeral charges, 130 39
Northampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1820, 287 07
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1820, 1047 64
Orrington, for supporting Thomas Huzell, to Jan-
uary 20th, 1820, 25 00
Overseers of the Mashpee Indians, for support of
sundry paupers, to January 12th, 1820, 452 25
Overseers, or Guardian of the Troy Indians, for
support of sundry Indians, 168 93
Pittsfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 630 51
Palermo, for supporting Rachel Chase and chil-
dren, to January 1st, 1820, 23 28
Pittston, for supporting Deborah Bethans, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1820, 30 00
Phipsburgh, for supplies for sundry sick paupers,
to January 20th, 1820, 138 16
Prospect, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4th, 1820, 177 55
Plymouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1820, 380 75
Pelham, for board and clothing sundry paupers, to
January 10th, 1820, 52 00
Pembroke, for boarding and clothing Elizabeth
Jack, to January 20th, 1820, 22 10
Parsons, for support of Mary Watson and Sophia
Patten, to January 1st, 1820, 52 75
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 183
Parsonsfield, for supporting several paupers, to the
the death of one and removal of the others, 40 00
Palmer, for support of William and Phebe Men-
dum, to January 8th, 1820, 85 08
Portland, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 31st, 1820, 1377 94
Rowe, for supporting Betsy Carpenter, to May
15th, 1819, 26 00
Rowley, for Elle Collins' support, to January 1st,
1820, 42 20
Russell, for support of John Newton and wife, to
January 1st, 1820, 99 65
Rehoboth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 420 35
Roxbiiry, for support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 3d, 1820, 544 74
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
2d, 1820, 3778 45
Salem Board of Health, for support of sundry for-
eigners, to the time they left, 128 56
Seekonk, for board, clothing and nursing Tilly
Peck, to January 10th, 1820, 42 21
Sudbury, for supporting John Waighton, to his
death, and funeral expenses, 66 00
Sherburn, for supporting Benjamin Haughton, to
January 29th, 1820, 31 00
St. George, for board and clothing Robert Hawes
and Haunce Johnson, to January 30th, 1820, 48 40
Sandwich, for board and clothing Esther and Ma-
son Raymond, to January 10th, 1820, 66 00
Shirley, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1820, 173 66
Southbridge, for support of London Derry, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, and Grace Daramon, to her
death, 74 70
24
184 PAUPER ACCOUNTS
Sandisfield, for board and clothing for sundry pau-
pers, to January 11th, 1820, 100 39
Stockbridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to
December 1st, 1819, 241 64
Scituate, for boarding and clothing Jonah , to
the time he left the Commonwealth, 24 66
Sutton, for sundry paupers, to January 10th, 1820, 85 50
Sheffield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 94 41
Saco, for board and nursing Alexander M'Donald,
until he left the town, January 14th, 1820, 9 41
Shelburn, for support of sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 14th, 1820, 120 29
Sunderland, for board and nursing William Rus-
sell, to June 1st, 1819, 64 00
Sharon, for supporting Job Lewis, James Welsh,
and John H. Kolhoff, to January 27th, 1820, 72 02
Swanzey, for support of James Garnet and Mar-
tha Dusneps, to January 15th, 1820, 68 00
Saugus, for board and clothing Jonathan Briggs
and Margaret Evans, to January 15th, 1820, 68 90
South Brimfield, for board and clothing for Jona-
than Hill, to January 13th 1820, 45 25
Somerset, for board and clothing for William El-
iot, to January 1st, 1820, 36 00
Starks, for board and clothing for Robert Arnold,
to February 1st, 1820, 67 20
South Berwick, for funeral expense for Lemuel
Woodworth, and supporting Mary Stackpole's
child, to January 30th, 1820, 48 00
Springfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 3d, 1820, 285 69
Topsham, for supplies for William Potter, and fu-
neral expenses, and supporting John Hearn, to
January 3d, 1820, 220 37
Thomaston, for supporting John Anderson; to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 57 20
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 185
Tyringham, for sundry paupers' support, to Janu-
ary 5tli, 1820, 128 66
Taunton, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to December 31st, 1819, 616 49
Upton, for the support of Elbridge Gerry Farrer,
to January 21st, 1820, 54 45
Vassalborough, for Joseph Graves and Abigail
Fairbrother's support, to February 1st 1820, 100 05
Wiscasset, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 20th, 1820, 305 25
Williamston, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 11th, 1820, 210 73
Westfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 153 24
Western, for board and clotliing Eliza and Harriot
Trim, to May 25th, 1819, 65 00
Windham, for supplies furnished Thomas Kenard,
wife, and daughter, to January 6 th, 1820, 131 20
Walpole, for supporting Elizabeth Ellis, and two
children of Nancy Carnes, to January 16th,
1820, 104 35
Westhampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 12th, 1820, 229 55
Waltham, for board and nursing Alexander R.
Ballock, to the time he left the town, 66 17
West Springfield, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 6th, 1820, 169 41
Wilton, for support of Enoch Foot, wife, and two
children, to September 27th, 1819, 32 75
Wellington, for supporting Catharine Butler, to
the time of her death, and funeral charges, 93 00
Williamsburgh, for support of Benjamin Kentrell,
to the time he left the town, 25 44
Wrentham, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1820, 386 06
Waterville, for board, clothing, and nursing Abi-
gail Odlin, to January 1st, 1820, 108 35
186 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
\ratert0wn5 for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 25th, 1820, 215 37
Westbrook, for support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 22d, 1820, 187 58
Westford, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 27th, 1820, 42 30
Westborough, for board and clothing sundry pau-
pers, to January 16th, 1820, 137 60
Worcester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary Ist, 1820, 173 35
Waldoborough, for board and clothing for sundry
paupers, to January 4th, 1820, 115 50
Wayne, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 12th, 1820, 114 53
West Stockbridge, for the support of sundry pau-
pers, to January 1st, 1820, 118 02
Waterborough, for board and clothing, doctoring
and nursing Thomas Brannon, to January 24th,
1820, 27 80
Warren, for board and clothing sundry paupers,
to January 25th, 1820, 235 50
Wareham, for board and clothing William Long,
to January 13th, 1820, 46 30
Wliately, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1820, 94 92
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Correc-
tion, in Essex County, for board and clothing
sundry insane persons, to January 10th, 1820,
including alloAvance by the Court of Sessions, 445 90
West Cambridge, for support of James Uismont,
till his discharge, 16 00
York, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
22d, 1820, 491 91
Total Pauper Accounts, 847,327 13
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 187
Courts Martial and Courts of Inquiry.
Sumner, William H. for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Augusta, June 22d, 1819, whereof
Joshua Wingate, Junior, was President, 336 44
Sumner, William H. for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Worcester, December 21st, 1819,
whereof Ebenezer Hyde was President, 804 66
Sumner, William H. for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Alfred, December 23d, 1819, where-
of William Gould was President, 1071 60
Sumner, William H. for expenses of a Court of
Inquiry, held at Roxbury, February 1st, 1820,
whereof William Sullivan was President, 104 60
Gilbert, Thomas, for expenses of a Court of In-
quiry, held at Warwick, February 7th, 1819,
whereof Theodore D. Lyman was President, 242 56
Page, Samuel, for expenses of a Court Martial,
held at Thomaston, July 5tli, 1819, whereof
John Cummings was President, 147 52
Sewall, Joseph, for expenses of a Court Martial,
held at Bath, October 19th and 22d, 1819, where-
of Richard I. Dunlap was President, 225 53
Heard, Nathan, Junior, for expenses of a Court
Martial, held at Leicester, May 19th, 1819,
whereof Joseph D. Sargeant was President, 141 42
Wilder, Nathaniel, for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Plymouth, August 24th, 1819,
whereof Abiel Washburn was President, 316 88
Lincoln, Enoch, for expenses of a Court Martial,
held at Fryburgh, October 27th, 1818, whereof
Joshua Carpenter was President, 306 01
Smith, John W. for expenses of a Court Martial,
held at Portland, January 5th, 1820, whereof
Jeremiah Bailey was President, 111 65
Scott, John, for expenses of a Court Martial, lield
at Boxford, December 28th, 1819, whereof Dan-
iel Adams, 3d, was President, 82 85
188 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Grover, John, for expenses of a Court Martial, held
at Waterford, December 21st, 1819, and Janu-
ary 3d, 1820, whereof Joshua Carpenter was
President, 373 61
Wood, John F. for expenses of a Court Martial,
held at Farmington, June 8th, 1819, whereof
Ephraim Getchel was President, 178 51
Total Courts Martial, &c. S4,443 84
Brigade Majors and Aids-de-Camp.
Allen, Samuel, Junior, 1st Brigade, 7th Division,
to February 23d, 1819, 6 75
Bancroft, Ebenezer, 2d Division, to January, 1820, 62 07 1
Butterfield, Joseph, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, to
January, 1820, 172 73
Bliss, George, Junior, 1st Brigade, 4tli Division,
to January, 1820, 85 97
Barnard, Robert F. 1st Brigade, 9th Division, to
January, 1820, 42 88
Coffin, Timothy G. 5tli Division, to January, 1820, 125 65
Cobb, David G. W. 2d Brigade, 5th Division, to
January, 1820, 85 75
Carter, Solomon, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 103 52
Clark, Joseph, 2d Brigade, 8th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 92 66
Davis, John, 7th Division, to January, 1820, 38 10
Dutch, Ebenezer, 8th Division, to January, 1820, 157 62
Fairbanks, Stephen, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to
January, 1820, 41 26
Frost, John, 6th Division, to January, 1820, 41 47
Fogg, Simon, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to Janua-
ry, 1820, 57 34
Gilbert, Thomas, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 65 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 189
Heywood, N. 5th Division, to January, 1819, 85 82
Heard, Nathan, Junior, 1st Brigade, 7th Division,
to January, 1820, 36 98
Hopkins, Thomas, 9th Division, to January, 1820, 26 02|
Hubbell, Calvin, 2d Brigade, 9th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 42 93
Hyde, Lina, 1st Brigade, 11th Division, to Janu-
ary, 182Cl, 58 88
Hubbard, Russell, 13th Division, to January, 1820, 42 67
Jaquis, Samuel, Junior, 1st Brigade, 3d Division,
to February, 1820, 241 77
Kendall, Joseph Cr. 2d Brigade, 7tli Division, to
January, 1820, 5 00
Lev^^is, Philo, 2d Brigade, 10th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 124 12|
Page, Samuel, 2d Brigade, 11th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 150 68
Robinson, Thomas D. 11th Division, to January,
1820, 57 00
Smith, John, Junior, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to
January, 1820, 79 58
Scott, John, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, to January,
1820, 157 68
Saxton, Jonathan A. 4th Division, to January,
1820, 30 00
Samson, Joseph, 3d Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 129 12|
Sewall, Joseph, 1st Brigade, lltli Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 18 32
Smith, John W, 2d Brigade, 12th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 45 09
Starr, James, 1st Brigade, 13th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 18 52
Thayer, Minot, 1st Division, to January 22d, 1820, 127 80
Thayer, Samuel M. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to
February, 1820, 117 39
190 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Treat, Joseph, 1st Brigade, lOtli Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 334 45
Varnum, Benjamin F. 3d Division, to January,
1820, 43 00
Whitney, Timothy P. 2d Brigade, 1st Division,
to January, 1820. 84 29
Wilder, Nathaniel, Junior, 1st Brigade, 5th Divi-
sion, to January, 1820, 71 70
Wheelwright, George, 1st Brigade, 6th Division,
to January, 1820, 38 11
Wood, John F. 1st Brigade, 8th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 63 70
Whitman, Josiah, 12tli Division, to January, 1820, 54 00
Total, S3,463 41
Brigade Qiiarter Masters.
Day, Benjamin, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, for 1818
and 1819, 23 00
Coburn, Samuel A. 2d Brigade, 3d Division, to
January, 1820, 20 75
Clark, Royal, 1st Brigade, 10th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 47 58
Campbell, James A. 2d Brigade, 10th Division,
for 1819, 35 75
Day, Robert, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to Janua-
ry, 1820, 36 50
Dennett, Mark, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 17 50
Fisher, Freeman, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 16 90
Griswold, Timothy, 2d Brigade, 9tli Division, to
1818 and 1819, January, 1820, 38 50
Hobart, Thomas, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 16 70
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 191
Hubbell, Calvin, 2d Brigade, 9th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 5 15
Harris, Moses, 1st Brigade, 12tli Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 37 90
Kendall, Jonas H. 2d Brigade, 7th Division, to
January, 1820, 32 00
King, Amos, 1st Brigade, 9th Division, to Janua-
ry, 1820, 16 25
M^well, Sylvester, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January, 1820, 32 79
Nichols, Thomas, 2d Brigade, 11th Division, to
January, 1818, ^ 77 75
Phinney, Elias, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 29 50
Pollard, Oliver, 1st Brigade, 13th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 21 60
Kollins, John, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, to Janu-
ary, 1820, 20 56
Russ, John, 1st Brigade, 8th Division, to Janu-
ary, 1820, 36 00
Sampson, James, 3d Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uaiy, 1820, 13 30
Stimson, Joseph, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 17 00
Thomas, Nathaniel, 2d Brigade, 12th Division, to
January, 1820, 8 10
Willington, John, 2d Brigade, 8tli Division, to
January, 1820, 41 54
Total, 8642 62
Adjutants.
Adams, Gribbons, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
'Division, to January, 1820, 40 00
25
192 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Allen, Charles, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7tli Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 18 64
Avery, Josliua, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Division,
to January, 1820, , 29 36
Abbot, Chenery, special order, 1st Brigade, 7tli
Division, 2 92
Bailey, Calvin, Artillery, 3d Brigade, 1st Division,
to January, 1820, 33 50
Breed, Andrew, 4tli Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 24 43
Bradley, Charles, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 2d Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 47 55
Bemis, Isaac, Junior, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1820, 36 75
Burr, Samuel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 76 74
Bancroft, William A. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1820, 71 17 ♦
Bishop, Earl, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 4th Division,
to January, 1820, 43 35
Bryant, Nahum, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 41 40
Bourne, Edward E. Artillery, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 6 68
Brooks, Jeremiah, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 18 56
Bailey, Holloway, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1820, 40 20
Barrett, Benjamin, 4tli Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1820, 25 08
Backus, Zenas, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8th
Division, to January, 1820, 65 20
Bachelder, James R. Adjutant P. T. 1820, 6 16
Bishop, Henry W. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 9th
Division, to January, 1820, 32 22
Blake, Edmund, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 24 51
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 193
Gushing, Ned, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 64 42 1
Clark, Samuel, 1st Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 122 00
Clapp, William W. 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st
Division, to January, 1820, 97 87 1
Clark, Gilbert, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 32 26
Curtis, Alfred, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 93 00
Clioate, William, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 17 23
Coolidge, Nathaniel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 38 84
Collins, Michael, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January, 1820, 76 09|
Califf, Josiah, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 7 27
Campbell, Daniel, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8th
Division, to January, 1820, 71 42
Cram, Levi, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 10th Division,
to January, 1820, 105 20
Carlton, William, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 21 20
Clap, James, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 13th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 30 84
Day, Alfred, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 1st Division,
to January, 1820, 36 07
Dickinson, Philo, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 29 73
Davis, Benjamin, 6th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1820, 9 4l|
Dunlap, Robert P. 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 81 74
Edwards, Elislia, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4tli
Division, to January, 1820, 32 56
194 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Ellis, Samuel, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5tli Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 59 35
Emery, Caleb, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6tli Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 15 88
Emery, Daniel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 144 77
Frost, Elislia, Junior, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1820, 44 97
Freeman, William, Artillery, 3d Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 39 42
Foster, Benjamin, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 8tli
Division, to January, 1820, 61 97
Frost, Greorge, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 12th Division,
to January, 1820, 4 62
Gates, Abraham, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1820, 24 90
Goodspeed, Elias, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 36 89
Gilmore, Apollos R. 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
10th Division, to January, 1820, 8 63
Hutchins, Joseph, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 67 75
Hoyt, John C. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 26 77
Haskell, Joseph, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 5th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 19 20
Hathaway, Philip D. 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade,
5th Division, to January, 1820, 12 03
Hamblin, Joseph, 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January, 1820, 40 50
Hamilton, Abiel, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 30 92
Hanson, John B. 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 37 37
Herrick, Benjamin J. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 32 69
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 195
Hunton, Jonathan G. Artillery, 1st Brigade, 8tli
Division, to January, 1820, 22 15
Haskins, Robert R. Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 10th
Division, to January, 1820, 51 09
Healey, Halsey, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 11th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 12 10
Hazeltine, Arad, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade^ 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 81 44
Hovey, Alfred, 8d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 24 12
Harris, Moses, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 12tli
Division, to January, 1820, 16 29
Hasty, Daniel, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 12th
Division, to January, 1820, 35 54
Hammond, Moses, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 13th
Division, to January, 1820, 40 83
Jeffords, Avery, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 13 75
Knights, Jonathan, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1820, 16 35
Kellogg, Absalom B. 2d Brigade, 9th Division,
to January, 1820, 9 97
Knights, Peter M. Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 12th
Division, to January, 1820, 13 09
Keith, Joseph, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 13th
Division, to January, 1820, 131 21
Kimball, Moses, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 13th
Division, to January, 1820, 28 81
Lovr, Joseph L. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 11 35
Lincoln, Asa, 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 24 60
Low, Ephraim, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6tii
Division, to January, 1820, 46 40
Libbey, Nathaniel, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division^ to January, 1820, 18 88
196 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Larraby, Josiah, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8tli
Division, to January, 1820, 50 50
Leicester, Charles F. 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
9tli Division, to January, 1820, 56 79
Marrell, Nathaniel, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 19 04
Mitchell, Isaac, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1820, 16 71
Morse, Moses L. 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7 th
Division, to January, 1820, 25 61
Mead, William, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 7th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 18 26
Miles, Josiali, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 43 34
Newell, Luther, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to January, 1820, 102 00
Nye, Samuel, 4tli Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to September, 1819, 13 37
Nevi^ell, Joseph W. 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1820, 66 06
New^comb, Horatio Gr. 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade,
7th Division, to January, 1820, 52 75
Osborn, Richard, Junior, 5th Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 2d Division, to January, 1820, 18 24
Orr, Hector, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 109 25
Ormsby, Abraham, Junior, 1st Regiment, 2d
Brigade, 5th Division, to January, 1820, 30 94
Page, William, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 13 62
Poor, Dennet A. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 40 06
Parker, Henry, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1820, 41 00
Preston, Warren, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 8th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 22 59
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 197
Pynclion, George, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 9tli Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 17 66
Pond, Asa A. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 10th
Division, to January, 1820, 66 65
Rogers, Daniel W. 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1820, 22 SBf
Richardson, Wyman, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1820, 24 80
Rockwell, Uzell, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 23 72
Robinson, Elijah, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 8th
Division, to January, 1820, 51 39
Richardson, George F. 1st Brigade, 11th Division,
to January, 1820, 30 86
Reed, Samuel, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 75 07
Sayles, Richard, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 1st Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 73 85
Sanford, Sewell, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st
Division, to January, 1820, 112 50
Smith, James, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 12tli
Division, to January, 1820, 10 30
Shepherd, Amos, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1820, 35 87 1
Seaver, James, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5tli
Division, to January, 1820, 51 98
Stacy, Samuel, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, Gtli Division,
to January, 1820, 7 22
Spring, Luther, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1820, 24 52
Sprague, Peleg, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 8th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 50 02
Sewell, Oliver, 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8th
Division, to January, 1820, 37 42
Sexton, George, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 9th
Division, to January, 1820, 34 02
198 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Swazy, John N. 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th
Division, to January, 1820, 113 69
Simpson, George, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th
Division, to January, 1820, 137 53
Smith, John, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 11 25
Sewell, Benjamin, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade*, 11th
Division, to January, 1820, 51 66
Tucker, Seth, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 1st Division,
to January, 1820, 44 60
Turner, John P. Artillery, 1st Brigade, 5th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 30 75
Thompson, Arad, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January, 1820, 62 50
Taylor, Henry, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 1820, 45 14
Toby, James, 1st Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 40 87
Thomas, Job, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 12th
Division, to January, 1820, 21 61
Upton, Stephen, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 2d Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 10 21
Upton, John, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 10th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 46 59
Wild, Jonathan, Junior, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
1st Division, to January, 1820, 144 75
Wright, David, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 4th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 58 07
White, James P. T. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 8th
Division, to January, 1820, 4 90
Wyman, Levi, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 8th Di-
vision, to January, 1820, 32 19
Wright, Simeon W. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
9th Division, to January, 1820, 24 85
Wilson, Hugh, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 11th Divis-
ion, to January, 1820, 16 43
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 199
Waterman, Daniel, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade,
12th Division, to January, 1820, 29 02
Total, Adjutants, S5,374 64
Expense for Horses to Haul Artillery.
Aldrich, Cromwell, for the year 1819,
Barker, Timothy A. for the year 1819,
Bangs, Dean, for the year 1819,
Beach, William, for the year 1819,
Baldwin, Henry, for the year 1819,
Blaisdel, John, Junior, for the year 1819,
Chadburn, Thomas, for the year 1819,
Cleaves, William W. for the year 1819,
Coffin, Samuel, for the year 1819,
Dungan, Joshua, for the year 1819,
Dunham, George S. for the year 1819,
Ensign, Thomas, for the year 1819,
Flagg, Marshal, for the year 1819,
Graves, Asa, for the year 1819,
Goldthwait, Moses, for the year 1819,
Hopkins, Charles W. for the year, 1819,
Harris, King, for the years 1818 and 1819,
Hunting, John, for the year 1819,
Hammat, George, for the years 1818 and 1819,
Hemraenway, Adam, for the year 1819,
Holland, Nathaniel, for the year 1819,
Jenkins, Benjamin, for the years 1817, 1818 and 1819, 25 00
Joy, William, for the year 1819,
Kingsbury, Ebenezer A. for the year 1819,
Knight, Daniel, for the year 1819,
Kimball, Edmund, for the year 1819,
Lovejoy, John, for the year 1819,
Lynn, William, for the year 1819,
Lowell, John, for the year 1819,
26
10
00
20
00
5
00
16
00
10
00
25
60
7
50
10
00
20
00
5
00
7
50
5
00
7
50
5
00
10
00
3
75
23
75.
15
00
10
00
12
50
15
00
,25
00
12
50
7
50
5
00
10
00
10
00
4
50
8
00
200 MILITAllY ACCOUNTS.
Lewis, Winslow, for the years 1817, 1818 and 1819, 52 00
Lincoln, Henry, for the year 1819,
May, Joseph, for the year 1819,
Mayo, Jeremiah, for the year 1819,
Marston, Shobel, for the year 1819,
- Morse, Edward, for the year 1819,
Milikan, Isaac, for the year 1819,
Mallard, Abraham, for the year 1819,
Nash, Micah, for the year 1819,
Nelson, Henry, for the year 1819,
Perkins, Samuel, for the year 1819,
Richmond, Leonard, for the year 1819,
Stutson, Peter, for the year 1819,
Shiverick, Nathaniel, for the year 1819,
Seaver, James, for the years 1818 and 1819,
Stetson, Timothy, for the year 1819,
Slater, Andrew, for the year 1819,
Stone, Joseph, for the year 1819,
Slades, John, for the year 1819,
Severance, Otis, for the year 1819,
Smith, Eleazer, for the years 1818 and 1819,
Taft, Francis, for the year 1819,
Toby, John, for the year 1819,
True, Solomon, for the year 1819,
Talbot, Wheaton, for the year 1819,
Whitcomb, Josiah, for the year 1819,
Welsh, Edward, for the year 1819,
Wize, William W. for the year 1819,
Washburn, Joseph, for the year 1819,
White, Micah, for the year 1819,
Warrener, Walter, for the year 1819,
Wheeler, Elisha, for the year 1819,
Williams, Thomas C for the year 1819,
Whitney, Samuel, for the year 1819,
Total, Hauling Artillery, S660 85
3
75
10
00
5
00
5
00
10
00
10
00
10
00
5
00
15
00
5
00
7
50
10
00
3
00
20
00
7
50
6
00
20 00
10
00
7
50
10
00
20
00
10
00
5
00
5
00
5
00
5
00
10
00
12 00
7
50
6 25
5
00
7
50
3
75
67
50
9
20
24
10
98
00
3
20
32
80
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS. 201
Austin, Nathaniel, Sheriff of Middlesex County,
for distributing precepts, and returning votes, to
January 1st, 1820, 5 81
Cooper, John, Sheriff of Washington County, for
distributing precepts, and returning votes, to
July, 1819,
Hunewell, Richard, Sheriff of Cumberland Coun-
ty, for returning votes, &c. to May, 1819,
Hamlin, Cyrus, Sheriff of Oxford County, for
distributing precepts, and returning votes, &c. to
January 1st, 1820,
Herrick, Jedediah, Sheriff of Penobscot County,
for returning votes, &c. to January, 1820,
Leonard, Horatio, Sheriff of Bristol County, for
returning votes, &c. to February 15th, 1820,
Sawtell, Richard, Sheriff of Somerset County, for
returning votes, to January 1st, 1820,
Thatcher, Samuel, Sheriff of Lincoln County, for
returning votes, and distributing precepts, to
January, 1820, 41 80
Watson, Greorge, Sheriff of Hancock County, for
returning votes, and distributing precepts, to
January, 1820, 58 08
Bancroft, Joseph F. Coroner of Middlesex County,
for an inquisition on the body of a stranger, and
funeral charges, 29 30
Cogswell, North end, Coroner of York County, for
an inquisition on the body of Lemuel Woodwork, 16 97
Fisk, Nathan, Coroner of Middlesex County, for
an inquisition on the body of a stranger, and fu-
neral charges, 19 40
Kingsbury, Aaron, Coroner of Norfolk County, for
an inquisition on the body of a stranger, and fu-
neral charges, 18 00
Lang, William, Coroner of Essex County, for an
inquisition, on the body of Thomas Berkley, a
foreigner, 14 90
202
BRINTEES' A(:JCOUNTS.
Smith, Jonathan, Coroner of Essex County, for an
inquisition on the body of Samuel Eaton,
Stevenson, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County,
for sundry inquisitions on the bodies of three
sti'angers, and funeral charges.
White, Gilman, Coroner of Essex County, for an
inquisition on the body of a child, a stranger,
13 90r
49 62
18 83
IS516 41
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS.
AUen, Phineas, for printing acts and resolves, to
January 10th, 1820, 46 67
Alleyne, Abel D. for printing laws, and advertising
lands in Maine, 37 00
Allen, E. W. for printing laws, to August, 1819, 33 34
Ballard and Wright, for publishing resolve for
deaf and dumb, and newspapers, to February
23d, 1820, 116 37
Burton, James, Junior, for printing laws and re-
solves, to January, 1820, 16 67
Clapp, William W. for printing acts and resolves,
to January 1st, 1820, 22 66
Dickman, Thomas, for printing acts and resolves,
to October 1st, 1819, 16 67
Denio and Phelps, for printing acts and resolves,
to January 1st, 1820, 16 67
Douglas, Francis, for printing Treasurer's notice,
relative to taxes in Maine, to January, 1820, 4 50
Foster, Moses B. for printing State notes, to Sep-
tember 1st, 1819, 7 00
Groodale, Ezekiel, for printing laws, and adver-
tising public lands, to January, 1820, 22 33
Manning, William, for publishing acts and re-
solves, to January lOth, 1819, 16 67
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS. 203
Shirley, Aithur, for publishing laws, &c. to Jan-
uary, 1820, 21 00
' Hale, Nathan, for printing laws and resolves, and
newspapers and circulars, to January 10th, 1820, 77 09
Russell, Benjamin, for newspapers, for the Legis-
lature, to February 24th, 1820, 77 75
Total, iS502 39
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Agricultural Society of Massachusetts, for sundry
expenses in raising seeds and plants, and ex-
periments made by said society, in gardens at
Cambridge, under the direction of Professor
Peck, including Wells and Lilly's account for
printing, for the year 1819, and to January 10th,
1820, 645 28
Boston Board of Health, for repairs on Rainsford
Island, as per Jonathan Loring's bill, to Jan-
uary, 1820, 693 81
Burditt, James W. for stationary furnished the
government, to February 11th, 1820, 237 95
Blaney, Henry, for sundry repairs on the State
House, to January 11th, 1820, 28 49
Bird, Abraham, for timber furnished for repairing
State House, to December 3d, 1819, 31 83
Bradley, Samuel, repairs on the State House, per
direction of Jacob Kuhn, 23 47
Committee to examine the Treasurer's account, viz. :
To Ebenezer Gay, 14 00
Thomas Greenleaf, 14 00 i
Sherman Leland, 14 00 42 00
Darant, William^ for repairs on the State House,
to December 23d; 1819, 32 75
204 MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Grant, Moses, for repairing carpets and cushions,
in the State House, 40 00
Hobart, Moses L. Keeper of the Hospital, on
Rainsford Island, 44 44
Loring, Benjamin, books and stationary for the
Adjutant General's Office, February 14th, 1820, 87 28
Lincoln, Amos, for hanging windows, and work
on the State House, 15 25
Lane and Lamson, for crape for tlie General Court, 55 00
Lincoln, Amos, Junior, for painting at the State
House, to 1820, 17 26
Parker, William, for quills for Secretary's Office,
to 1820, 6 00
Sanderson, Isaac, for paper for Secretary's Office,
to January 5th, 1820, 19 00
Wheeler, John H. for repairs on the State House,
to 1820, 229 91
West, Richardson and Lord, for stationary for
Secretary's Office, to January 15th, 1820, 36 00
Cutting, Elijah W. for assisting the Messenger of
the General Court, to February 24th, 1820, 100 00
Town, Edmund, for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, nine days, to February 12th,
1820, 22 50
Low, J ohn V. for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to February 24th, 1820, 95 00
Bacon, Henry, for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to February 24th, 1820, 82 50
Margaret Rider, for her son, Thomas P. Rider,
as Page to the House, to February 24th, 1820, 38 00
Chase, Warren, for assisting the Messenger of the
General Court, to February 24th, 1820 105 00
Total, Miscellaneous, 82728 64
RESOLVE TO ROLL No. 82. 205
Aggregate of Roll No. 82.
Expense of State Paupers^ 47327 13
" of Militia, 14585 36
<^ of Sheriflfe and Coroners, 516 41
« of Printers, 502 39
« of Miscellaneous, 2728 64
865659 93
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions and persons' names, respectively ; amounting in the
whole, to sixty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine
dollars and ninety-three cents ; the same being in full dis-
charge of the accounts and demands to which they refer.
Jlpproved by the Governor, February 24th, 1 820
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
secretary's office, may 10, 1820.
BY THIS, I CERTIFY, That the Resolves, passed at the session of the Legislature,
beginning January 12th, and ending February 25th, 1820, have been compared with the origi-
nals in this office, and appear to be correct.
.\LDEN BRADFORD, Secretary of the Common-wenhh
INDEX
TO THE RESOLVES PASSED IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1820.
A.
ACADEMY, Leicester, Attorney General to institute a process for
recovery of certain Lands, ... - 116
'' Lincoln, Lands confirmed to, .... 129
Andrews, William, Junior, and others, Treasurer of Essex to pay
8250, 113, 125
Attleborough, allowed for the support of J. Barnard, - - - 131
B.
Baldwin, Benjamin, time for paying his notes extended, - - 121
Baldwin, Reverend Amos G. exempted from prosecution, - - 135
Banks, resolve on proposition that Congress make no law to erect,
except in the District of Columbia, - - - - -118
Barnstable County, Tax granted, > - 142
Barras, Peter, and wife, a piece of Land, in Salem, released to her, 107
Berkshire County, Tax granted, 142
Boylston, Ward N. Solicitor General to prosecute for recovery of
of two Portraits, 103
" " resolve in favor of, repealed, - - - 12r
Bridge, over Deerfield River, Court of Sessions for Franklin to grant
money for building, - - - - - - - -124
Bridgeman, Joseph, Junior, authorized to sell half a Pew, - 171
Bristol County, Tax granted, - - -.- - - -142
" " the Supreme Judicial Court, at the adjourned term
in May, shall have cognizance of crimes, &c. - 143
Burr, David C. Marriage confirmed, - . . , . los
C.
Canton, a Meeting of the First Congregational Parish to be called, 112
Chaplains of the General Court, pay granted, - . . . 173
College, Williams, grant of a Township to be satisfied, - - HO
Commissioners of the Land Office, to satisfy a grant to Williams
College, - - - 110
<< ••' *' toronvey LandtoJ.E. Foxcroft, IIS
INDEX.
Commissioners of the Land Office, allowed further time to make
Deeds of Lots 93 and 112, in
Bangor, - - - - 114
" " <' to locate the Township granted
to the Proprietors of Sandy
Bay Pier, - . - 117
" " " to convey 5000 acres to Joseph
\ Treat, - - - 126
« " " to pay J. and S. Spring 2-3 of a
certain sum, - - 134
" . " " to sell the Commonwealth's right
in No. 3, - - - 140
" " " to release a Lot to the Proprie-
tors of No. 4, - - 152
'' " " to give notice of the time limit-
ed for locating grants, &c. of
Lands in Maine, - - 157
" " " their report of all Lands convey-
ed, &c. - . . 158
" " " to make an allowance to the in-
habitants of Penobscot for cer-
tain Taxes by them paid, - 171
Commissioners to be appointed to ascertain the Line between this
State and Connecticut, 127
Committee, to view 8th Massachusetts Turnpike Road, &c. - 130
" on Accounts, Pay for services granted, - - - 153
" « Roll, No. 82, 175
Congress, number of Members from Massachusetts and Maine de-
termined, -- - - - - - - - 107
Constitution of the United States, resolve on proposed amendment,
relative to Banks, &c. 118
Court, Supreme Judicial, to have cognizance of crimes, &c. at their
adjourned term in May next, in Bristol County, - - - 143
Court of Sessions, Cumberland County, to adjust the account of
John Merrill, 147
" " Essex County, to adjust the account of Doctor
Peabody, 153
" " Franklin County, to grant money for a Bridge over
Deerfield River, 124
Crane, Abijah, as Administrator of the estate of William Perkins, au-
thorized to execute a Deed, --_... 122
Cumberland County, Tax granted, 142
D.
Deaf and Dumb Persons, further provision for, . - - . 104
INDEX.
Deaf and Dumb Persons, provision for removing from the Asylum,
when necessary, --------- 144
Dennis, John, Marriage confirmed, . _ - . . 108
Dukes' County, Tax granted, 142
Durfee, Allen, granted a reward of S200, . . - - 144
E.
Eastman, William, as Administrator of the estate of J. H. Dickinson,
to make certain Deeds, ------- 106
Essex County, Treasurer to pay William Andrews, Junior, and oth-
ers g250, 113
« « Tax granted, - 142
F.
Forbes, Jonathan, to be discharged from imprisonment, - - 115
Foxcroft, Joseph E. Commissioners of the Land Office to convey
Lands to, --------- - 113
Franklin County, Tax granted, ------- 142
" " Court of Sessions to grant money for a Bridge
over Deerfield River, - - - - - - - -124
Freeman, Honorable Samuel, Court of Sessions to allow an addi-
tion to his Salary as Judge of Probate, 115
Freetown, a Meeting of the Congregational Parish to be called, - 111
G.
Gilbert, Eliel, and others, Court of Sessions, in Franklin County, to
grant money for building a Bridge over Deerfield River, - - 124
Gilman, Allen, Commissioners of the Land Office allowed further
time to make a Deed, - -114
Goodell, Asa, discharged as Guardian of the Grafton Indians, - 138
Governor, his Message, at the opening of the Session of the General
Court, 89
" " communicating a letter from Senators in
Congress, relative to the election of Re-
sentatives, by Massachusetts and Maine,
for the 17th Congress, - . - 99
" " laying before the Court a copy of the Re-
cords of the Convention, and of the Con-
stitution of Maine, - - - - 99
" " communicating resolutions of Indiana, con-
curring with Pennsylvania, for amending
the Constitution of the United States, 108
^' ''' submitting a petition from the Indians in
Yarmouth, 109
INDEX.
Governor, his Message, communicating a letter from the Governor
of Ohio relative to amending the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and the resigna-
tion of Major General Hovey, - - 131
" " respecting Benjamin Tripp, at the Hartford
Asylum, . _ . . - 137
" " submitting the claim of Allen Durfee, - 139
" requested to appoint Commissioners to ascertain the Line
between this State and Connecticut, - - - 127
" requested to remove Benjamin Tripp from the Asylum
at Hartford, 144
Greenwood, Ethan A. resolve on petition W. N. Boylston repealed, 127
Griswold, Reverend Samuel, Marriage confirmed, ... 135
H.
Hager, J. and E. Treasurer to issue a new State Note, - - 100
Hampden County, Tax granted, 142
Hampshire « « « 142
Hancock, « « « • 142
Handy, Ebenezer, grant to, 123
Hart, Daniel, pensioned, 152
Hasty, Daniel, Committee on Accounts to examine his account, - 112
I.
Indians, Grafton, new Guardian appointed, ... - 139
" Herring Pond, grant for repair of their Meeting House, - 116
Johnson, Thomas, and others, excused from settling duties, - 122
K.
Kennebec County, Tax granted, .--*-- 142
L.
Lands, Schedule of grants unlocated, 102
" Schedule of grants, sales, &c. since the establishment of the
Land Office Department, 158
'• Schedule of grants not located, but time for location stated, 166
" Schedule of contracts, amount of consideration, and balances
due, 167
" Schedule of Lands conveyed to Colleges, Academies, &c. and
sold and conveyed to individuals, - - - - 169
" time fixed for locating grants and sales of Land, - 101, 156
'' time for performing settling duties on Lands, extended, 155
" see Commissioners of the Land Office, ....
Leland, Jonathan, Esq. appointed Guardian of the Grafton Indians, 139
INDEX.
Lincoln County, Tax granted, 142
Lithgow, Arthur, exempted from arrest, - - - - 123
Locke, John, empowered to sell Real Estate, of his children, - 125
Locke, Ward, Assistant to the Messenger, Pay granted, - 174
M.
Maine, State of, shall be entitled to one third of all Books, &c. - 172
" " and Massachusetts, Receivers of Public Monies to
make up their accounts to a certain day, - 170
" " Treasurer of Massachusetts to pay S8000 to Trea-
surer of, ----_.. 170
Merrill, Roger, Thomas Johnson, and others excused from settling
duties, 122
Merrill, John, Court of Sessions in Cumberland, to adjust his account, 147
Mlddleborough, First Precinct, empowered to raise Money, - - 133
Middlesex County, Tax granted, 142
N.
Neal, John, Marriage confirmed, . . _ . > . 108
Nichols, Benjamin R. Esq. granted pay for transcribing Plymouth
Colony Records, &c. 132
Norfolk County, Tax granted, .-_-_. 140
Noyes, Isaac, grant to, 152
O.
Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, balances due to
be paid, 129
Oxford County, Tax granted, - - 142
P.
Peabody, Nathaniel, the Court of Sessions, Essex, to adjust his ac-
count, 153
Peirce, Jonathan, and J. S. grant to, - - - - - - 120
Penobscot County, Tax granted, 142
^' Town of. Commissioners of the Land Office, to make al-
lowance to the inhabitants, for certain Taxes by
them paid, ------- 171
Pike, Jesse, Marriage confirmed, 108
Plymouth Colony Records, Benjamin R. Nichols compensated for
transcribing, &c. - - - - - - - - 132
Plymouth County, Tax granted, - - - - - . - - 142
Pratt, Mary, money left by her son, granted to her, - - - 140
Printers, pay for services, - - r 156
INDEX.
R.
Rajiies, Joseph, granted sixteen dollars, for services of Jonathan
Tyler, Junior, - - - - - - -- - 133
Reynolds, Joel, grant to, ._.---- 152
Ring, Daniel, Junior, Marriage confirmed, - - - - - 108
Rowell, Lydia, empowered to sell Real Estate, . _ - 134
Russell and Gardner, granted pay for printing for the Commonwealth, 156
S.
Sandy Bay Pier, Commissioners of the Land Office, to locate the
Township, granted to the Proprietors of, ----- 117
Secretary, to deliver one third of the Books, &c. for the State of
Maine, 172
Secretary and Treasurer, directed relative to balances due Officers
and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, - - - 129
Sibley, Samuel, Marriage confirmed, ------ 146
Slavery, report and resolves on the subject of, - - - 147
Smallman, Richard, to be discharged from prison, . - > 103
Soldiers, sick and wounded, in Militia Service, grants to, - 152
" of the Revolutionary Army, balances to be paid to, - 129
" " " further time granted to settle
lands, and claim gratuity, - 121
Solicitor General, to prosecute lor two Portraits, for W. N. Boylston, 103
«c " " " repealed, - - 127
Somerset County, Tax granted, 142
Spring, John and Seth, Commissioners of the Land Office, to pay a
certain sum, 134
Stone, John B. to be discharged from prison, - - - - 111
Storer, Hannah, Treasurer to issue a new State Note to, - - 100
Storer, Joseph, grant to, 152
Suffolk, Tax granted, - 142
Sumner, Davis, and his wife, authorized to sell Real Estate, - 141
T.
rax,
granted to the
County of Barnstable,
ii
ii
ii
Berkshire,
a
a
a
Bristol,
ii
a
Cumberland,
ii.
ii
Dukes' County
ii
a
Essex,
ii
ii
Franklin,
ii
ii
Hampden,
ii
ii
Hampshire,
ii
ii
Hancock,
>-
142
> - 14£
INDEX.
Tax, granted to the County of Kennebeck,
« « " Lincoln,
« « . " Middlesex,
« « « Norfolk,
« « « Oxford,
« " " Penobscot,
" « « Plymouth,
" « " Somerset,
« " « Suflfolk,
« " « Washington,
" *' " Worcester,
« " « York,
Tozer, William, grant to, 152
Treasurer, to credit certain towns and plantations, - - - 136
Treasurer, to issue a New Note to J. and E. Hager, and H. Storer, 100
" to credit certain Tax Debtors, . - _ - 136
" and all Receivers of Public Monies, directed as to what
time they shall make up their accounts, - - 170
" to pay the Treasurer of Maine eight thousand dollars, in
June, 170
" and Secretary, directed respecting balances due to OflB.-
cers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, - 129
" of Essex County, to pay William Andrews and others,
S250, 113, 125
Treat, Joseph, Commissioners of the Land Office, to convey five
thousand acres to, - - - - - - - - 126
Tripp, Benjamin, to be removed from the Asylum, in Hartford, - 144
Trustees of Williams College, grant of a Township to be satisfied, 110
Tudor, William, deceased, his estate released from claim, on account
of his having endorsed obligations given by Peck and Wetmore, 154
Turner, Charles, authorized to sell Real Estate of Josiah Litchfield, 146
Turnpike, 8th Massachusetts, Committee to view the Road, &c. 130
Tyler, Jonathan, Junior, gl6 as gratuity, granted - - - 1
<}<!
w.
Walcutt, Thomas, Clerk in the Lobbies, Pay granted, - - 173
Washington County, Tax granted, 142
Watson, Joshua W. Marriage confirmed, .... 108
Waugh, Sally, allowed for services of her husband Colonel J. Waugh, 138
Wayne, Records and Proceedings made valid, _ . . 104
Webster, Jonathan, Commissioners of the Land Office, allowed fur-
ther time to make a Deed, -- 114
Wellington, John, Marriage confirmed, - - - - ' - 146
INDEX.
White, Jonas, and others, Proprietors of No. 4, Lot of Land grant-
ed to, 152
Williams College, Trustees, resolve on petition of, - - - 110
Witnesses, before a Committee of the House, pay granted, - 155
Worcester County, Tax granted, - 142
Y.
York County, Tax granted, ------- 142
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
CommontoealtJ) of ^USajS^at&ujSettiS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTY FIRST OF MAY, AND
ENDED ON THE SEVENTEENTH OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th Januarj', 1812.
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY RUSSELL <§• GARDNER, FOR BENJAMIN RUSSELL,
PRINTER TO THE STATE.
1820.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
FOR THE POLITICAL YEAR 1820...21. v
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN BROOKS, ESQUIRE,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, ESQUIRE,
LIEUTENANT GOVEROR.
COUNCIL.
HON. TIMOTHY BIGELOW,
" BENJAMIN PICKMAN,
" GEORGE BLISS,
« NAHUM MITCHELL,
" EPHRAIM WILLIAMS.
" SAMUEL CROCKER,
" SILAS HOLMAN,
'^ RICHARD SULLIVAN,
«• THOMAS GREENLEAF.
ALDEN BRADFORD, ESaUIRE,
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
HONORABLE DANIEL SARGENT,
TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH
SENATE.
HON. JOHN PHILLIPS^
PRESIDEJVT.
SUFFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. John Phillips, Hon. Jonathan Hunewell,
Peter C Brooks, Benjamin Gorham,
John Welles, William Sullivan.
ESSEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Israel Bartlett, Hon. Ebenezer Mosely,
Dudley L. Pickman, Hobart Clark.
Robert Rantoul,
MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Joseph B. Yarnum, Hon. William Whittemore.
Leonard M. Parker,
PLYMOUTH DISTRICT.
Hon. John Thomas, Hon. William Bourne.
NORFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. Benjamin Reynolds, Hon. John Ruggles, Jr.
BRISTOL DISTRICT.
Hon. John M. Williams. Hon. James Howland, 2d.
BARNSTABLE, DUKES' COUNTY AND NAN-
TUCKET DISTRICT.
Hon. Solomon Freeman.
SENATE. 209
WORCESTEU DISTRICT.
Hon. Stephen P. Gardner, Hon. Samuel Eastman,
Aaron Tufts, Lewis Bigelow.
HAMPSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Jonathan H. Lyman, Hon. Thomas Longley,
Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Mark Doolittle.
BERKSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Caleb Hyde, Hon. Phineas Allen.
SAMUEL F. McCLEARY, Esq. Chrk
JOHN FARRIE, Jr. Assistant Clerk.
Rev. JOHN G. PALFREY, Chaplain,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
HON. ELIJAH H. MILLS,
SPEJIKEB.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Boston, Josiah Quiiicy,
Benjamin Russell j
Warren Button,
William Tudor,
Lemuel Shaw,
William Sturgis,
Samuel Hubbard,
Joseph Coolidge, Junior,
Heman Lincoln,
Edmund Winchester,
Nathan Hale,
George Bond,
Joseph Austin,
Francis C. Oray,
Theodore Lyman, Junior.
ESSEX.
John G. King,
Samuel Ropes,
Charles Saunders,
Edward Lander,
John Forrester.
Ipswich, John Choate.
Chelsea.
Salem,
HOUSE OF KEPRESENTATIVES. 211
JVewbury,
Josiah Little.
Lynn,
Ezra Miidge.
GloHtcesteVf
William W. Parrott.
Roivley,
Joshua Jewett.
Salisbury^
Ephraim Morrill.
Wenkam,
Manchester,
Haverhill,
Moses Wingate.
Andover,
Stephen Barker.
Marblekead,
John Hooper.
Topsfield,
Amesbury,
David Lowell.
Beverly,
Josiah Lovett,
Thomas Davis.
Bradford,
Boxford,
Moses Dorman.
Methuen,
Benjamin Osgood.
Middleton,
Danvers,
Nathan Felton.
JVewb wry port,
Stephen Howard,
Stephen W. Marston.
Lynnfield,
Hamilton,
Saugus,
Joseph Cheever.
Parsons,
Daniel Emery.
Essex.
MIDDLESEX.
Charlestoivn,
Timothy Thompson, Junior,
Philemon R. Russell,
Thomas Harris,
Richard D evens.
John H. Brown,
Peter Tufts.
Watertown,
Levi Thaxter.
Medford,
Abner Bartlett.
Oavfibridge,
Samuel P. P. Fay.
212
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Concord,
Sudbury f
Wohurn,
Meadingf
Maiden y
Chelmsford,
Billerica,
Groton,
Marlborough.
Dunstable,
Sherburne,
Stow and Boxborough,
JSTewton,
Framingham,
JDracut,
Weston,
Lexington,
Littleton,
HopJcinton,
Holliston,
Stoneham,
Westford,
Bedford,
Wilmington,
Townsend,
Tewksbury,
Acton,
Waltham,
Shirley,
Pepperell,
Lincoln,
Ashby,
East Sudbury,
JSTatick,
Tyngsborough,
Burlington,
Thomas Wheeler.
Isaac Gibbs.
John Wade.
Edmund Parker.
Joseph Bailey.
Luther Lawrence.
Joel Cranston.
Augustus Tower.
Joseph Jackson.
John Trowbridge.
George W. Smith.
Nathan Cliandler.
Nathan Phipps.
Aaron Warren.
David Townsend.
Abel Jewett.
Elijah Fiske.
Micah M. Rutter.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
213
Carlisle,
Brighton^
Gorham Parsons.
West Cambridge,
Thomas Russell.
South Reading,
John Hart.
HAMPSHIRE.
JVorthampton,
Elijah H. Mills.
Hadleij,
Charles P. Phelps.
Hatfield,
Pelham^
Henry Kingman.
Southampton,
South Hadley,
Greenwich,
Jlmherst,
Timothy I. Gridley,
Belchei'town,
Justin Forward.
Ware,
Chesterfield,
Granhy,
Eli Dickenson.
Worthington,
Trowbridge Ward.
Williamsburg,
J\*orivich,
Cummington,
Westhampton,
Goshen,
Middlefield,
Plainfield,
Easthampton,
Enfield^
Jesse Fobes.
PLYMOUTH.
Plymouth,
Barnabas Hedge.
Hingham,
James Stephenson^
Solomon Jones.
Scituate,
Edward F. Jacobs.
Buxbury,
28
/
214
HOUSE OF REFRE8ENTAT1VES.
Marshfield,
Hull,
BridgewateVf
Middleboroiigh;
Rochester,
Plymjpton,
Pembroke,
Ahington,
Kingston,
Hanover,
Halifax,
JVareham,
Carver,
Taunton,
Mehoboth,
Dartmouth,
Swanzey,
Freetown,
Jtttleborough,
JSTorton,
JJighton,
Eastown,
Maynham,
Berkley,
Mansfield,
JSTew Bedford*
Westport,
Somerset,
Troy,
Fairhaven,
Joseph Clift.
William Baylies.
Charles H. Holmes-
Kilborn Whitman.
llobert Eells.
I
Benjamin Ellis.
BRISTOL.
D. O. W. Cobb.
James Bliss.
Joseph Giftbrd,
Holder Slocum^
Thomas Almy.
John Winslow.
Nathaniel Morton, Junior.
Abiather Richardson, Junior
George Walker*
Solomon Pratt.
John Nye,
Lemuel Williams, Junior.
William Hathaway,
Thomas Rotch.
David Anthony.
James Taber.
Sekonkf
Wellington.
Barnstable^
Sandwich f
Yarmouth,
Eastham,
Falmouth,
Harwich,
Truro,
Chatham,
Provincetoivn,
Welfleet,
Dennis,
Orleans,
Brewster.
Edgartown,
Tisbury,
Chilmark.
JSTantucket,
Lancaster,
Mendon,
Worcester,
Oxford,
Leicester,
Rutland,
Sutton,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Peter Hunt.
215
BARNSTABLE.
Nymphas Marston.
John Reed.
Harding Knowles.
Thomas Fish.
Orin Howes.
DUKES' COUNTY.
Peter Norton.
NANTUCKET.
William Coffin.
WORCESTER.
Jonathan Russell,
Daniel Thurber.
Abraham Lincoln,
Levi Lincoln,
Edward D. Bangs.
John King.
Jonas Sibley.
216 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Westhoroiigh,
Brookfield,
TJxhridge,
SouthhHdge,
Shrewsbury,
Jjunenburghf
Dudley,
Harvard,
Grafton,
Upton,
Hardwick,
Bolton,
Sturbridge,
Holden,
Leominster,
Western,
Douglas,
JSTew Braintree,
Spencer,
Petersham,
Charlton,
Templeton,
Athol,
Oakham,
Fitchburgh,
Winchendon,
Paxton,
Boyalston,
Jlshburnham,
J\rorthborough,
Hubbardston,
Westminster,
Princeton,
JSTorthbridge,
Barre,
Ward,
Bezalael Taft.
Edmund Cushing.
Timothy Paige.
Sylvester Watkins.
William Di'ury.
Bezalael Lawrence.
Samuel Blair.
Welcome Whipple.
William Bemis.
Hutchins Hapgood.
Horatio Gr. Newcomb.
Rufus Bullock.
James Keyes.
Edward KendalL
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
21t
Milford,
Sterlings
Berlin^
Gai'dner,
Boylston,
Dana,
West Boylston,
jyorth Brookfield.
Milhury,
Phillipston^
Southbridge.
Sheffield,
Stockhridge,
JSTew Marlborough,
JEgremont,
Pittsjield,
Great Barrington,
Sandisfield,
Southfield,
Tyringham,
Lanesborough,
JSTew Jlshford,
Williamstownf
Beckety
Richmond,
Lenox,
Windsor,
Peru,
Alford,
Otis,
West Stockbridge,
Hancock,
Washington^
Lee,
Mams,
Samuel Sawyer,
William Whitney.
BERKSHIRE.
Joseph Wilcox.
Jared Curtis.
Benjamin Wheeler.
Seth Newman.
Jonathan Allen.
Isaac L. Van Deusen.
Joseph Sears.
Adonijah Bidwell.
Nehemiah Talcott.
Daniel Noble.
Benjamin C. Perkins.
Hugo Burghardt.
Charles Mattoon.
Henry Emmons.
Joseph B. Hill.
Rodman Hazard.
Jasper Morgan.
John B. Perry.
Richmond Brown.
218 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mount Washington, '
Dalton,
Cheshire,
Savoy,
Clarhshurgh,
Hinsdale,
Florida.
Dorchester,
Roxbury,
Ethan A. Rix.
Thomas Allen.
NORFOLK.
Weymouth,
Dedham,
Braintree,
Medfield and Dover,
Milton,
Wrentham,
Brookline,
JSTeedham,
Medway,
Dellingham,
Walpole,
Stoughton,
Sharon,
Cohasset,
Franklin,
Foxborough,
Dover,
Quincy,
Randolph,
Canton,
James Humphreys.
Sherman Leland,
Abijali Draper,
Paul Grore,
Lemuel Lebaron.
Isaac Davis.
Christopher Webb.
Levi Bates.
William Ellis.
Nathaniel Thayer.
Daniel Adams.
Samuel Day.
John Robinson.
Jesse Boyden.
Jacob Flint.
Lewis Fisher.
Thomas Grreenleaf.
Samuel Capen.
HOUSE OF REPRESENT ATIVES.
219
FRANKLIN.
Deerfield,
J^orthfieM,
Sunderland^
Greenfield^
JS'ew Salem,
Montague,
Colraine,
Shutesbury,
Bernardston,
Warwick,
Ashfield,
Charlemonty
Conway,
Shelburne,
Whately,
Leverett,
Biickland,
Wendell,
Orange,
Howe,
Heath,
Hatcley,
Gill,
Ley den.
Springfield,
Westfield,
Brimfield,
Blandford,
Palmer,
Granville,
Monson,
Elihu Hoyt.
Medad Alexander.
Solomon Smead.
Varney Pearce.
Robert L. McClannen.
Ashbel Ward.
Henry Bassett.
William Wells,
Ephraim Hastings.
HAMPDEN.
Daniel Bontecou.
William Atwater.
Stephen Pynchon.
James Stebbins.
Francis Stebbins,
James Barlow.
Abraham Haskell.
S, Brimfield and Hollands
220 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WilhraJiam,
Chester,
Southwiclcj
West Spnng^eldf
Ludloic,
Montgomery^
Longmead Wy
Mussell,
Tolland.
Abel Bliss, Junior.
William Wade.
Joseph Forward.
Charles Ball.
BENJAMIN POLLARD, Esq. Clerk.
HENRY CODMAN, Esq. Assistant Clerk.
Rev. WILLIAM JENKS, Chaplain.
JACOB KUHN, Messenger to the General Court.
JOHN VAUGHAN LOW, Jlssistant Messenger.
THOMAS P. RIDER, Page to the House.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF MAY, AND ENDED ON THE
SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, EIGHTEEN HimORED AND TWENTY.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JUNE 6, 1820.
^t noorif agreeably to assignment the two Houses assem-
bled in Convention^ when His Excellency the Governor
came in, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attended
by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable
Council, and the Officers of State ; and delivered the
following
SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
AS you have convened under singular cir-
cumstances, from the severance of the State of
Maine, the subjects of legislation which will call
your attention, though less diversified than hereto-
fore, must be extremely important. Their magni-
tude in some instances, must add peculiar solemnity
29
222 GOVERNOR S SPEECH.
to your deliberations ; and a consideration of the
greatness of the trust confided to your wisdom tlie
present year, will, I doubt not, lead to such delib-
erations and results, as shall comport with the best
interests of the Commonwealth. The formation of
the District of Maine into a separate State, having
been a question of reiterated legislative discussion,
and the public mind appearing to have been pre-
pared for the consummation of such a measure, the
Legislature of the last year, after great considera-
tion, yielded its assent to the separation. It noAV,
therefore, devolves on you, gentlemen, to meet a
state of things necessarily resulting from the force
of circumstances, and to devise such measures for
maintaining the honor and prosperity of ancient
Massachusetts, as the occasion may demand.
Although, by the separation of Maine, the
Commonwealth is greatly reduced in territory, and
not inconsiderable in population, it yet possesses
the elements of a great and powerful community.
Its resources are not only capable of maintaining
the respectability of its political, civil, literary, and
religious institutions, but of aiding such public im-
provements as circumstances may require. Its free
population, which alone forms the strength of a
people, will be exceeded in number by a few only
of the States in the Union. Its militia, in point of
character and discipline, is surpassed by none. The
capacity of its citizens, in all the various branches
of industry, their public spirit, the wisdom and
solidity of their public institutions, the habits and
morals of the people, the spirit and skill with which
GOVERNOirS SPEECH. 223
agriculture is prosecuted, the sagacity and honora-
ble enterprize of our merchants, will assure, under
the blessing of Heaven, a continuance of the long-
established respectability of the State.
By referring to a statement of the Treasurer
the last year, it will appear, that, for defraying the
ordinary expenses of the government, little, if any,
increase of taxes will be required. Whatever ex-
traordinary expenditures may arise on account of
contingent occurrences, or for the promotion of
objects of public improvement and utility, they will
render additional means necessary.
Since the last session of the T^egislature, sundry
applications have been made, under the resolution
of the eighth of February last, relating to " Soldiers'
claims," for the payment of balances as therein de-
signated. From the amount that appears by the
books in the Secretary's Office, to be due to sundry
officers and soldiers of the late revolutionary army,
it is to be apprehended that a considerable demand
may be made upon the treasury on that account,
the present year.
At a time when the nation is at peace, and all
the sources of revenue reserved to the State are
unoccupied by the National Government, it is dif-
ficult to conceive a reason why the finances of the
Commonwealth should not be placed on a respecta-
ble foundation ; more especially, as so desirable a
condition of the Treasury might be accomplished
without any additional tax on labor or agriculture.
From the report of the Treasurer, already mention-
ed, it is highly pleasing to find, that the treasury
224 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
department possesses the means of discharging the
debts due from the Commonwealth, whenever the
Legislature shall think fit to adopt that measure.
In the course of the last year, it is extremely
gratifying to me to be able to observe, nothing has
occurred to disturb the tranquility of the Common-
wealth, or to impair the social enjoyments of its
citizens. The laws of the State, so far as my own
observations have enabled me to judge, have been
duly administered. And although several crimes,
of great enormity, have been perpetrated, yet the
year has been marked by a diminution in the num-
ber of crimes.
The State Prison in Charlestown, an institu-
tion, on account of the success of which I have ever
felt a degree of solicitude, increases, if I mistake
not, in its reputation and usefulness. An establish-
ment of such a nature must always, I presume, be
attended with expense to the State. The one in
question appears, from public documents, to be less
so, in proportion to the number of convicts, than
any other in the United States. Some additions,
however, have been suggested to me, as being re-
quisite as well for executing the sentences of our
criminal tribunals, as for supporting the police and
discipline of the prison. An institution necessarily
expensive to the State, and at the same time so
closely connected with the administration of justice,
and the good order of society, has unceasing claims
to the guardian care of the Legislature. But prior
to any definitive measure being taken on this sub-
ject, I would recommend to your consideration an
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 225
examination of the Prison by a Committee of the
two Houses. Some further improvements may
probably be suggested by such an investigation.
The substitution of solitary imprisonment and con-
finement to hard labor, instead of corporal punish-
ment, is a device of modern times ; which, although
generally adopted by the several States in the
Union, may be considered rather as the commence-
ment of a great and complicated experiment in
jurisprudence and morals, than as the settled and
exact result of facts and truths, already established.
As there can exist no doubt, that the idea origina-
ted in some of the best feelings of the human breast,
and that it has been thus far sustained by the
prevalence of similar sentiments, it seems due to
humanity, as well as the laws, that we exert our-
selves in our respective stations, to give the utmost
effect to so benevolent a conception.
But the welfare of the State, I am aware, is not
wholly under your control. Its prosperity may be
promoted or impaired, by causes extraneous to its
local authorities and institutions. The right of
regulating commerce is exclusively vested in the
Government of the United States ; and the people
of this State are deeply interested in the admin-
istration of that great branch of political economy
and national revenue. The interests of Massachu-
setts are essentially agricultural and commercial.
Domestic manufactures, upon which immense la-
bor is bestowed, have grown up, and are interwo-
ven with agriculture. The mechanic arts, which
now give lucrative employment to a vast propor-
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tion of the population of this State, have sprung
spontaneously from the wants, and have thriven and
multiplied in proportion to the increased numbers
and wealth of the people. Agriculture, navigation,
and commerce, maintain an intimate relation with
the mechanic arts ; they mutually sustain and are
supported by each other. Hitherto, conformably to
the genius and maxims of free republican govern-
ments, all the departments of industry have been
equally protected by the laws. The destination of
labor and capital has been controlled by the option
of individuals ; and in this freedom of choice, our
liberty greatly consists. We are characterized by
no Asiatic casts, nor degraded into villainage by
the tyranny of feudal laws ; but the citizens of our
republic, having equal constitutional rights, are en-
titled to equal protection in the pursuit of happiness.
From the earliest period of the history of the
people of this State, industry appears to have been
a prominent trait of character, accompanied by a
talent of judiciously applying its powers to the pur-
poses of subsistence and accumulation. The prim-
itive fathers of Massachusetts brought with them in
their pilgrimage, a moderate capital, and a good
knowledge of the arts of life. If the greater part
of their number were engaged in bringing forward
their agricultural settlements, others were no less
assiduously employed in conciliating the good will
of the savages, with a view to the fur trade, or ex-
ploring the coast for the ulterior purposes of estab-
lishing fisheries and commerce. Whilst the utmost
scope was thus given to enterprize, they prosecuted
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 227
their most weighty concerns with consummate wis-
dom and eminent success. And it is but paying a
just tribute of respect to the memory of our revered
progenitors, to acknowledge, tliat to their good sense
in giving direction to industry and capital, to their
pious and patriotic institutions, and to their correct
and economical habits, we are indebted for many of
our most substantial enjoyments. This ancient me-
tropolis, so long greeted as the cradle of American
liberty ; our University, that rich nursery of litera-
ture and science, whose origin is inscribed on the
first pages of Massachusetts' history ; many of the
towns and villages which adorn our sea coast, are
among the beloved monuments of the enterprize,
the wisdom, and the patriotism of our venerated
ancestors.
The gifts of nature are distributed with an
unsparing hand, by one common Parent, but in
various forms and in different proportions, over
every section of the earth. Products, which are
denied to some, are bestowed on others, in great
profusion. These objects which excite the keenest
thirst of avarice every where, are imparted only to
particular regions ; although every known portion
of the globe is possessed of some peculiar product
of more intrinsic value than the precious metals.
In this diversity are to be found the elements of com-
merce ; which, being modified and preserved by
human ingenuity, become the objects of desire and
exchange, and common sources of enjoyment to the
whole human family. And I may add, that while
the commercial intercourse of nations serves to mul-
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tiply the means of subsistence, and the objects of
taste and convenience, it tends to humanize the
original savageness of our nature, and to make man
the friend and the auxiliary of man.
But reciprocity is the vital principle of com-
merce. The idea is not for a moment to be sus-
tained, that a nation should be able to avail itself
of the products of others, without being able, in
some form, to pay an equivalent. Nor is the doc-
trine to be admitted, that a nation may be rich, and
great, and prosperous, and happy, by immuring
itself within its own boundaries, and consuming on
its own necessities, the fruits of its labor. The
whole history of human affairs is opposed to such
an hypothesis. Gain is the only unfailing incite-
ment to industry. Labor, graduated by the tame
hope of competent subsistence, must, besides ex-
posing the laborer to evils, arising from accidents
and unpropitious seasons, become languid and
spiritless ; and, being conducted with apathy, will
probably terminate in suffering and ruin. The
wealth of a nation is but the aggregate of the wealth
of individuals, which is great, or otherwise, in
the ratio of its exchangeable value. It requires
no formal induction of reasoning to show, that as
every state and nation is endowed with distinctive
advantages, its prosperity must depend on the use
made of those advantages, and in their being devel-
oped by a judicious application of industry. In
proportion as industry is thus applied, will be its
power of accumulation ; and the amount of surplus,
above consumption, goes to form the mercantile
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 229
capital of the State. It is not intended to be insinu-
ated, that the exchangable products of a State arise
exckisively from agricultural excess, nor that the
commerce of nations consists in a specific exchange
of their respective commodities. It is far otherwise.
Capital may be generated by every possible mod-
ification of labor ; and extensive international com-
merce is known to exist, with little or no direct
barter of local products.
Hence the unspeakable importance of commerce
to the people of Massachusetts. Denied a genial
climate and a prolific soil^ many thousands of them
are compelled to seek their sustenance from the
ocean, and to become carriers of the wealth of oth-
ers. Circumstances favorable for ship building, for
navigation, for the fisheries of every description, and
for the formation of seamen, having presented them-
selves to their choice, have led to great intenseness
of industry, which, by the involutions of commerce,
has been converted into wealth. The official state-
ments of the United States' Treasury Department,
sufficiently establish the importance of the naviga-
tion and commerce of Massachusetts, not only as
branches of political economy, but as sources of
public revenue. For a number of years past, we
learn, by official documents, that one tliird part of
the tonnage of the United States, has been owned
by the citizens of this State ; and that the exports
of foreign produce, the last year, exceeded, by a
large amount, the exports of any other State in the
Union.
Whilst, then, the interests of navigation and com-
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merce must be peculiarly dear to the citizens of this
State, as means of subsistence, they have strong
claims to the patronage of the National Government,
as sources of income. The circumstances of the
United States, at all times, require no inconsidera-
ble revenue ; and experience has shown, that reve-
nue, derived from a judicious rate of imposts, of all
others, is the most certain, and the most easily paid.
Excessive restrictions on trade, lessen the amount
of imposts, and induce a resort to direct taxes ;
which the people will be the less able to pay, as the
products of agricvdture shall be reduced in value
by the diminution of commerce. A just govern-
ment will be disposed to do equal justice to all its
citizens, and to afford equal encouragement to ev-
ery branch of useful labor. And the utmost im-
pulse being thus given to industry, the general
prosperity and happiness may be expected to ensue.
A law of the United States was passed on the
twelfth of May last, by which it was enacted, " that
the system of discipline and field exercise, which
is, or shall be ordered to be observed by the regular
army of the United States, in the different corps of
infantry, artillery and riflemen, shall be observed
by the militia, in the exercises and discipline of
the said corps, respectively, throughout the United
States." As the provisions of this act are obliga-
tory on the militia, it remains for the State Legis-
lature to apply the means of carrying into effect,
the designs of the National Government. A meas-
ure that appears to be so well calculated to impart
military information to the officers, to improve the
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 231
discipline of the militia generally, and to enable it
to act in concert with the regular army, should war
unfortunately occur, cannot fail to be acceptable to
the officers, to animate the great body of the militia,
and prove beneficial to the State and Nation. At
almost every session, for several years past, attempts
have been made, in Congress, to revise the national
militia law. But, inasmuch as Congress, in acting
on that subject, has altered the law in only one of
its substantial features, it is to be presumed that the
present plan of organization, of arming and equip-
ping the militia, and of making returns, together
with the regulations for the discipline and field ex-
ercise, will long remain the distinguished character-
istics of our militia system. And at a time when
a new epoch in our history has conmienced, there
seems to be a peculiar fitness in giving a vigorous
impulse to the great military force of the State.
Examples are powerful ; and precedents established
at the introduction of a new order of things, will
be productive of lasting effects.
A good militia is one of the greatest safeguards
of our freedom ; but without instruction and disci-
pline, the militia is but a name. It is discipline,
effected by the united influence of laws, founded on
just principles, the patronage of the Legislature,
and the agency of zealous and meritorious officers,
that has raised the character of our militia to its
present distinguished height ; and it is discipline
only that can maintain it there. But a militia is
not only of inestimable value as the means of na-
tional defence, and of preserving our liberties, but
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its organization and discipline exert a salutary in-
fluence on manners and social order.
The highest offices in the militia being open to
the ambition of all, the youth of our country be-
come emulous to excel in those literary and moral
attainments, which secure distinction and command.
The Secretary will lay before you, a commvmi-
cation from the Executives of the States of New
Jersey and Tennessee, accompanied by sundry res-
olutions of the Legislatures of those States respect-
ively, relating to an amendment of the Constitution
of the United States, proposed by the State of
Pennsylvania, to limit the power of Congress to
erect or incorporate any bank, or other monied in-
stitution, except within the District of Columbia.
He will, at the same time, lay before you, a letter
from the Honorable Prentiss Mellen, resigning his
seat in the Senate of the United States.
I have only to add assurances of the perfect
readiness with which I shall unite my efforts with
yours, to promote the public welfare.
JOHN BROOKS.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it please your Excellency,
THE choice of your Excellency to fill again
the honorable and responsible office of First Mag-
istrate of the Commonwealth, gives the assurance,
that the fairest claim to the continued confidence
of the people, is founded in a solicitude for the wel-
fare of the public, and devotion to its service.
The circumstances and condition of the Com-
monwealth, are just subjects of congratulation. In
the freedom and industry of its population, in the
spirit, intelligence and enterprize of the people, in
their moral and religious habits, in their civil, reli-
gious and literary institutions, are found "the ele-
ments of a great and powerful community ;" and
we look back through the whole period of our his-
tory, with sentiments of aiFection and veneration for
our progenitors, who, amidst the rude difficulties of
their situation, laid the foundations of those high
and distinguished blessings, which, under God, we
now enjoy : a sentiment to be encouraged and cher-
ished ; for, in the respect of a people for its an-
cestors, is seen the best proof of a regard for its
posterity.
234 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
The views presented by your Excellency as to the
sources of the wealth and prosperity of the State,
and of the means of securing them, are in perfect
coincidence with those of the Senate. They ac-
cord in the sentiment, that the great interests of
agriculture, commerce and manufactures, are in-
timately and essentially united, mutually assisting,
maintaining, and even dependent on each other.
They are fully impressed with the importance of
placing the treasury upon the respectable founda-
tion to which the resources of the State are fully
adequate, without the imposition of taxes, either
burdensome in amount, or partial or local (of course
unjust) in their operation ; with the propriety of
improving the system of discipline of the militia,
upon the efficiency of which, our security so greatly
depends ; with the necessity of encouraging and
maintaining good morals, which lie at the founda-
tion of personal safety and public freedom. These
great pillars of our system, are to be supported and
strengthened, for the law of our nature connects
plenty with industry, safety with valor, and ordei;
and peace with pvirity of morals.
The formation of the District of Maine into a
separate State, an event long prepared by public
opinion, has been effected under circumstances aus-
picious to the continuance of harmony between the
States, and to a friendly union of exertions to secure
and protect those great interests which are common
to both. Contrary to the general apprehension
entertained at the last session of the Legislature,
the consent of the Congress of the United oy' tes
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 235
lo this measure, was given within the period limited
by the original law relating to this subject ; and the
separation, of course, took effect on the fifteenth day
of March last. As the Legislature w ere not after-
wards in session, no opportunity existed of dividing
the Commonwealth into districts for the choice of
Senators, agreeably to the strict letter of the Con-
stitution. Under these circumstances, the people
in all parts of the State, have accommodated them-
selv.es to the obvious necessity of the case, and have
elected and returned thirty one Senators within those
districts in Massachusetts Proper, which were es-
tablished while Maine constituted a part of the
Commonwealth. It will become the duty of the
Legislature, at its next session, to provide for the
future organization of the government, by dividing
the Commonwealth into the number of districts,
and distributing among them the number of Sen-
ators, required by the Constitution.
Upon all occasions, the Senate will cordially unite
with your Excellency, in their exertions to promote
the welfare of the State, and the happiness of it?
people.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
May it please your Bcccellency^
THE House of Representatives are duly sen-
sible of the obligations resulting from the high trust
reposed in them, and to the peculiar importance of
some of the subjects upon which they are called to
legislate at this session. The formation of the
State of Maine, has severed from this Common-
vt^ealth a great portion of its ancient territory, and
a considerable number of its inhabitants ; but has
still left to it physical and moral resources, which
assure it a high and responsible place in the Union.
Notwithstanding, however, our political separation,
there exist strong bonds of connexion between us
and the citizens of the new State, derived from the
similarity of our institutions, habits and pursuits ;
and we cannot but feel a lively solicitude for their
respectability and happiness. In our commercial
relations, and in every national concern, we must
prosper, or suffer together. The question, what
measures are to be adopted in consequence of this
event, has engaged our earliest attention, and shall
receive that dispassionate and patient deliberation,
which its magnitude and delicacy demand.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 237
It is very gratifying to us to learn the prosperous
condition of the treasury ; and it shall be our con-
stant aim to administer the government with the
most rigid economy ; but without sacrificing to pe-
cuniary and momentary considerations, the faith,
the rights, or the permanent interests of the people.
The State Prison, in Cliarlestown, shall be an
e'arly object of our attention, and after proper in-
vestigation, such measures, shall be adopted with
reference to it, as may appear most likely to increase
its usefulness.
The charitable attempt to reclaim criminals, at
the same time that we punish them, ought not lightly
to be abandoned, nor hastily to be pronounced in-
eflfectual ; for it never was imagined that this sys-
tem would abolish all crimes ; and while those which
are committed in spite of its establishment, are
known and punished, it is impossible to conjecture,
without long experience, how many it prevents.
We are aware, with your Excellency, of the
immense importance of giving free scope to the
enterprize and industry of individuals, in every pur-
suit. Laws affecting the occupations of men, should
not be made with a view to increase the profits,
either of merchants, manufacturers, or farmers,
alone, at the expense of the public, since each class
is only a part of the community ; but to promote
the interests of consumers, for they are the whole ;
every person, whatever may be his particular em-
ployment, making use of some of the productions
of all these classes. The only legitimate object of
legislation, on this subject, beyond that of raising a
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238 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
revenue for the public service, is, to render the pro-
ductions of every occupation viltimately cheaper
and more abundant. Nothing can be more effect-
ual for this purpose, than to facilitate the means of
internal and external commerce, which cannot be
successfully attempted on any other principle than
reciprocity. For though some theorists have as-
sumed it as self evident, that the exchange of exact
equivalents in value cannot be profitable to either
party, just reasoning, no less than experience, shews
that it is in truth, profitable to both. The funda-
mental principles of a republic, and sound policy
in all governments, require them to leave industry
unshackled, by giving equal protection to every
pursuit, and permanent and exclusive privileges to
none. A different course, particularly in a free,
elective government, would be productive of a se-
ries of evils, in which even the favored class would
be finally involved, by the reaction that would
quickly follow so uneqal and unsound a mode of
legislation. It is undoubtedly true, that the welfare
of the State is not within the control of its own
councils. The exclusive power of regulating com-
merce, in which we are deeply interested, we have
given to the Legislature of the United States ; and
in so doing, we were governed by the necessity of
having an equal and uniform system for the whole
nation, and of furnishing the most efficient and easy
means of obtaining a revenue. Entertaining the
strongest belief, that the interests of commerce were
inseparably connected with those of agriculture,
and with the general prosperity of the nation^ we
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 239
trusted, that we should always be secure against
any injurious exercise of that important power.
Fears have recently been created, lest the influence
exerted by powerful combinations of individuals
concerned in manufacturing establishments, might
induce the National Legislature to impose large,
or prohibitory duties, on the importation of various
foreign products, for the plausible purpose of en-
couraging American manufactures. But is it to
be believed, that a wise Legislature will ever adopt
a measure, whose tendency would be to diminish
exports as well as imports, and thus depress com-
merce and agriculture ; to force capital into new
channels, to compel labor to abandon, or change
its employments, and thus break in upon the habits
and happiness of large portions of citizens ; to en-
hance the price of manufactures, diminishing at
the same time the means of purchase, and thus tax
the consumer ; to lessen the revenue arising from
duties on imported goods, and thus render a resort
to internal taxation necessary ; in fine, to aid one
comparatively small class of the community, at the
expense of all the rest ? Such a course would do
violence to the spirit, if not to the letter of our free
constitution, and would be a dereliction of those
sound principles of legislation, which our former
experience had shown to be correct. It would be
singular indeed, if in this enlightened country, and
at this period of our history, we should fall into
errors, that belong only to the dark ages of political
economy, and which, partly by the light of our own
example, seem now about to be exploded through-
240 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
out Europe. We also believe this artificial aid to
the manufacturer, is as unnecessary as it would be
unjust and unwise. It is demonstrated by the ex-
ample of the largest and most important maufac-
turing establishment in this vicinity, that when
sustained by capital and skill, they are already
among the most profitable pursuits in the country ;
and we cannot forbear to state the fact, that the
most intelligent and most largely interested indi-
viduals concerned in them, do not wish this kind
of encouragement. They are satisfied it would be
temporary and fallacious, and are willing, like the
farmer and merchant, to rely vipon their own en-
terprize, industry and skill, under the equal protec-
tion of the laws. They are sensible, that in this
way only, they shall acquire a sound and healthy
existence ; that, if forced by artificial means to an
earlier maturity, they would be out of season, and
would cost many times more, than if produced in
a more natural method.
We shall not be regardless of the duty of making
such provisions as may be requisite for carrying
into effect the laws of the United States, regulating
the militia, and conducive to its discipline and effi-
ciency. We value this institution most highly ;
not only as the best means of defence, but as tend-
ing to secure the political integrity of the people,
by rendering them more conscious of their power,
and thus impressing on them a deeper sense of their
responsibility.
We beg leave to express to your Excellency, our
perfect confidence in your professions of devotion
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 241
to the public service, and to assure you, on our part,
that the various subjects recommended by you, shall
be duly considered, and that every measure adopted
in relation to them, shall be chosen with a single
eye to the rights and prosperity of oiu' constituents.
242 NOTARIES PUBLIC. June 6, 1820.
CHAP. I.
Resolve for appointing additional J^otaries Public, in the
Counties of Berkshire, Bristol, and Suffolk.
June 6th, 1820.
Resolved, That an additional Notary Public be appoint-
ed within the County of Berkshire, to reside in the Town
of Sheffield ; and that two additional Notaries Public be
appointed within the County of Bristol, one to reside in the
Town of Dartmouth, and the other to reside in the Town
of Fairhaven ; and also one additional Notary Public within
the County of Suifolk, to reside in the Town of Boston.
CHAP. II.
llesolve for paying the Members of the Legislature.
June 7th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to each Member of the Council, Senate,
and House of Representatives, two dollars for each and
every day's attendance, the present political year ; and the
like sum of two dollars for every ten miles travel, from their
respective places of abode, to the place of the sitting of the
Legislature, at every session thereof, ^nd be it further re-
solved, that there be paid to the President of the Senate,
and Speaker of the House of Representatives, each, two
dollars per day, for each and every day's attendance, in ad-
dition to their pay as members.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE. June 12, 1820. 243
CHAP. ni.
Mesolve referring the Account from the Town of Hinsdale,
to the Committee on Accounts. June 12th, 1820.
On the petition of Thomas Allen, in behalf of the inhabit-
ants of the Town of Hinsdale, in the County of Berkshire ;
Resolved, For the reasons therein set forth, that the Com-
mittee of both Houses on Accounts, appointed at this session,
be, and they hereby are directed and empowered, to pass
upon, and consider the account of said town against the
Commonwealth, for expenses incurred in relieving and sup-
porting one Lucinda Melona, a pauper, and for her funeral
charges, any provision in any statute of limitation, notwith-
standing.
CHAP. IV. \
Resolve on the petition of the Trustees and Overseers of
Bowdoin College. June 12th, 1820.
Whereas by an act of this Commonwealth, entitled <^an^
act relating to the separation of the District of Maine from
Massachusetts Proper, and forming the same into a Separate
and Independent State," it is provided among other things,
in the terms and conditions set forth in the first section of
said act, that the President and Trustees, and Overseers of
Bowdoin College, shall have, hold and enjoy their powers
and privileges in all respects, so that the same shall not be
subject to be altered, limited, annulled or restrained, except
by judicial process, according to the principles of law :
And whereas the Trustees and Overseers of said College,
have applied to the Legislature of this Commonwealth, for
its consent to such a modification of the provision above
referred to, relating to said College, as would enable the
Legislature of the State of Maine to make donations, grants
and endowments to said College, which it is apprehended
by said Trustees and Overseers, cannot now be made, con-
244 HOPKINS' ACADEMY. June 12, 1820.
sistent with a certain provision or restriction, contained in
the Constitution of the State of Maine ; Therefore,
Resolved, That the consent and agreement of the Legis-
lature of this Commonwealth be, and the same is hereby
given to any alteration or modification of the aforementioned
clause or provision in said act, relating to Bowdoin College,
not affecting the rights or interest of this Commonwealth,
which the President, and Trustees, and Overseers of said
College, or others having the authority to act for said Cor-
poration, may make therein, with the consent and agreement
of the Legislature of said State of Maine ; and such altera-
tions or modification, made as aforesaid, are hereby ratified
on the part of this Commonwealth.
CHAP. V.
Resolve on the ^letition of the Trustees of Hophins'
Academy. June 12th, 1820.
Whereas it appears that sundry donations and grants of
money and lands, have already been made by the Town of
Hadley, and by several individuals, constituting a permanent
fund of more than three thousand dollars, in addition to
their buildings, for the use and benefit of Hopkins' Academy :
Resolved, That there be, and hereby is granted to the
Trustees of Hopkins' Academy, their successors in said
office, or assigns, for the sole use and benefit of said Acad-
emy, one half township of six miles square, from any of the
unappropriated lands in the State of Maine, which, on the
division of said lands, shall fall to the share of this Com-
monwealth : and to be subject to all the reservations usual
in grants of this kind ; the same half township to be vested
in said Trustees, their successors in said office, and assigns,
forever, for the sole use and benefit of said Academy, re-
serving four hundred acres, one half for the use of schools,
and the other half for the use of the ministry therein ; the
said half township to be laid out under the direction of the
Commissioners for the Sale and Settlement of Eastern
Lands, at the expense of said Trustees : Provided, the said
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOUS. June 14, 1820. 245
Trustees, within five years from and after the laying out
and location of said half township, cause ten families to be
settled thereon ; aud j^rovided, also, that said Trustees give ^
bond to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, faithfully to
apply the proceeds and avails of said half toAvnship, to the
sole use and benefit of said Academy.
Jind he it further resolved, That the said half township of
land, shall be located agreeably to the foregoing provision,
>vithin ten years from the first day of January next, other-
wise this grant shall be void.
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CHAP. VI.
Resolve regulating the choice of Electors of President and
Vice President of the United States.
June 15th, 1820.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court assembled, That the choice of Electors of
President and Vice President of the United States, shall
be made in the following manner, viz : Each of the present
districts for the choice of Representatives to Congress, shall
form one district, for the choice of one Elector, and the two
remaining Electors shall be chosen by the people at large ;
for which purpose, the several towns, districts and places,
shall assemble in town meetings, to be notified in the usual
manner, and five days at least, previous to the first Monday
of November next, on which day the said meetings shall be
held ; and each person qualified to vote for Representatives
to the General Court, shall have a right to vote in the choice
of Electors, the persons so voted for, not being a Senator or
Representative in Congress, or holding any office of trust or
profit under the United States ; and the people shall vote
by ballot, on which shall be designated who is voted for
as Elector for the district, and who are voted for as Electors
at large. And the Selectmen shall preside at sucli meet-
ings, and receive, sort, count, and declare, and the Town
Clerks respectively, shall record the votes given in ; and
exact returns thereof, designating as aforesaid, those voted
33
246 PKESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. June 14, 1820.
for as Elector for the district, and those voted for as Electors
at large, shall be made under the hands of a majority of the
Selectmen, and of the Town Clerk, who shall seal up and
deliver the same to the Sheriff of the county, within one
week from the time of the election, to be by him transmitted
to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or
before the tw entieth day of November next ; or the Town
Clerk or Selectmen shall themselves transmit the same to said
office, on or before said tAventieth day of November next ; and
all votes not so returned, shall be rejected in the counting ;
and the Governor and Council shall open and examine the
returns aforesaid, and count the votes. And His Excellency
the Governor is hereby requested to transmit to each person
appearing to be elected, by a majority of votes, a certificate
of his election, on or before the thirtieth day of November
next.
Be it further resolved, That the Electors so chosen, shall
meet at the State House, in Boston, on the first Tuesday of
December next, at four o'clock in the afternoon ; and in case
of the death or absence of any Elector, or in case the whole
number of Electors to which the Commonwealth is entitled,
shall, from any cause, be deficient, the deficiencies shall
forthwith be supplied from the people, by a majority of the
votes of the Electors present ; and the Electors thereafter,
on the first Wednesday in December next, shall vote by
ballot, for one person for President, and one for Vice Presi-
dent of the United States ; and that, for their travel and
attendance, they shall receive the same compensation as
Members of the Legislature are entitled to. And all laws
now in force, regulating the duty and conduct of Sheriffs,
Magistrates, and Voters in the election of Governor, Lieu-
tenant Governor, Counsellors, Senators and Representatives,
shall, as far as applicable, apply and be in force, as to the
meetings to be holden, and elections and returns made, or
to be made, under this resolve, and under the like forfeitures
and pc^naltics.
INDIANS.— ISRAEL MORGAN. June 15, 1820. 247
CHAP. VII.
Resolve granting S300 for building a Meeting House, S^c.
for the Chappaquiddick Indians. June 15th, 1820.
Resolved, That fof reasons stated by a Committee of the
Indian inhabitants of Chappaquiddick, in the Town of Ed-
garton, in their petition, that there be granted and paid out
of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, three hundred dol-
lars, for the purpose of building a house of public worship,
and a school house, on the Island of Chappaquiddick, for
the use of said natives ; and that the Governor, with the
advice and consent of tlie Council, draw his w arrant on the
Treasury for that sum, to be paid to the Guardians of the
natives on Chappaquiddick, they to account to the Governor
and Council for the expenditure of the same.
CHAP. VIII.
Resolve directing the payment of Israel Morgan'' s Pension
to the Overseers of the Poor of Beverly.
June 15th, 1820.
Resolved, Tliat there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Overseers of the Poor of the Town
of Beverly, fifty dollars, in full for a pension, which Israel
Morgan, of said Beverly, an insane person, is entitled to
receive from this Commonwealth, for one year, ending the
nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty, to be by them applied to-
wards the support of said Morgan.
Resolved, That said pension to said Morgan, be annually
paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the
Overseers of the Poor of said Beverly, so long as said
Morgan shall continue insane, and remain under their care,
to be by them applied towards his support.
248 J. STANWOOD.— C. HERBERT. June 16, 1820.
CHAP. IX.
Resolve on the 'petition of Joseph Stanwood and others^
Agents for the Town of Parsons, authorizing the Court
of Sessions to amend the assessment of the County Tax.
June 15th, 1820.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Court of Sessions for the County of Essex, be, and they are
hereby authorized and directed to amend the assessment of
the County Tax for the present year, so far as to apportion
the sum assessed on the Towns of Newbury and Parsons,
in the proportion of two thirds to Newbury, and one third
to Parsons.
CHAP. X.
Resolve granting 18351 21 ^o Charlotte Herbert, for the
services of the late George Herbert, Esquire.
June 16th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to Charlotte Herbert, widow of the late
Greorge Herbert, Esquire, the sum of three hundred and
fifty one dollars and twenty one cents, being the balance of
his account rendered June the eighth, eighteen hundred and
eighteen, the said sum being a final payment and full settle-
ment of all claims whatever, for services rendered by the
said George Herbert to the Commonwealth, before or subse-
quent to the date above mentioned ; and His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, is
hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for
the amount.
A. DILLINGHAM.— S. PRISON. June 16^ 1820. 249
CHAP. XL ^
Resolve granting S 100 /or the Support and Education of
Abby Dillingham, at the Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, in
Hartford. June 16th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Superintendent of
the Asylum of the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, the sum of
one hundred dollars, to be appropriated to the support and
education of Abby Dillingham, in the Asylum aforesaid.
CHAP. XII.
Resolve authorizing the Merrimac Boating Company to
call a Meeting. June 16th, 1820.
Resolved, F or the reasons set forth in said petition, that
the said Corporation may call a meeting, at any time within
the month of July and August, in the present year, and
transact, at such meeting, all such business as might have
been transacted at the time fixed for the annual meeting of
said Corporation, or the proprietors thereof.
CHAP. XIIL
Resolve granting Sl600,/or the use of the State Prison.
June 16th, 1820.
On the representation of Gamaliel Bradford, Esquire,
Warden of the State Prison,
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Public Treasury,
sixteen hundred dollars, to the Warden of the State Prison,
for the use of said Prison ; and His Excellency the Gov
250 BLANK RETURNS. June 17, 1820.
ernor, with advice of Council, is hereby requested to draw
his warrant on the Treasurer accordingly.
CHAP. XIV.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to borrow Money.
June leth, 1820.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be,
and he hereby is authorized and directed to borrow, of any
of the banks in Boston, any sum, not exceeding seventy -five
thousand dollars, that may at any time, within the present
year, be necessary for the payment of the ordinary demands
made on the Treasury ; and that he pay any sum he may
borrow, as soon as money sufficient for the purpose, and not
otherwise appropriated, shall be received into the Treasury.
CHAP. XV.
Resolve directing the Secretary to jpy^epare and transmit
Blank Forms of Returns to the several Towns.
June 17th, 1820.
Resolved f That the Secretary of the Commonwealth, be,
and he is hereby directed to prepare and transmit a compe-
tent number of printed blank forms of returns, to be made
conformably to an act passed at this session, relating to the
calling a Convention of Delegates of the people, for the
purpose of revising the Constitution of the Commonwealth,
for the use of the officers of all the towns, districts and
places, from which returns may be required under said act ;
which returns may be made according to the forms hereto
annexed.
BLANK llETURNB. Jime 17, 1820. 251
AT a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of
in the County of and Commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for Senators
or Representatives, holden on the twenty first day of Au-
gust, being the third Monday of said month, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, pur-
suant to a law of this Common wealtli, for the purpose of
giving in their votes, by ballot, on the following question :
Is it expedient that Delegates should be chosen, to meet
in Convention, for the purpose of revising or altering the
Constitution of Grovernment of this Commonwealth ?
The whole number of votes were, in open town meeting,
received, sorted, counted, and declared, and record thereof
made as follows :
For the said measure, there were votes. And
against the said measure, there were votes.
> Selectmen,
ATTEST.
Town Clerk.
Note.... Insert the number of votes in words, at lengthj and not in
figures.
CoTamion-wealtU ol M.assac\«isfeUs.
PURSUANT to a law of this Commonwealth, the in-
habitants of the Town of in the County of
qualified according to the Constitution to vote for Represent-
atives in the General Court, having been duly convened in
town meeting, on the sixteenth day of October, being the
252 COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS. June 17, 1820.
third Monday of said month, in tlie year of onr Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, to elect Delegates
to meet Delegates from other towns in Convention, at Bos-
ton, on the third Monday of November next, for the purpose
of revising the Constitution of Grovernment of this Common-
wealth, did then and there elect to be their Delegate
for the purposes aforesaid.
i Selectmen.
ATTEST.
Town Clerk.
CHAP. XVI.
Resolve to pay Committee on Accounts. June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to the Com-
mittee on Accounts, one dollar per day, over and above
their pay as members, for the present session, to wit : Hon-
orable Stephen P. Grardner, Robert Rantoul, Elihu Hoyt,
Jonas Sibley, and Hugo Burghart, Esquire, for twelve days
each.
CHAP. XVII.
Resolve in favor of Edward Kellogg. June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Edward
Kellogg, of Westfield, in the County of Hampden, a soldier
in Captain Charles Lee's company of artillery, one hundred
dollars, in full for all losses and expenses occasioned him,
by a wound which he received in October last, while on
military duty ; and tiiat His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice of the Council, be requested to draw his warrant
on the Treasurer accordingly*
LAWS, RESOLVES, &c. June 17, 1820. 253
CHAP. XVIII.
Resolve directing the number of volumes of the Term
Reports, and copies of the Laws and Resolves of this
Commonwealth, which shall he iwocured in future. June
17th, 1820.
On the representation of the Secretary of the Common-
wealth, of the ninth of June current, respecting the number
of copies of the Term Reports, to be purchased in future,
for the use of the Commonwealth, and of copies of the Laws
and Resolves passed at the present and future sessions of
the Legislature, to be printed at the expense of the State ;
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be,
and he hereby is directed to purchase, for the use of the
Commonwealth, to be distributed according to existing re-
solves of the Legislature, three hundred and fifty copies of
the Reports of Cases determined in the Supreme Judicial
Court of this Commonwealth, provided they can be had at
the rate heretofore given for them ; and also to have printed,
for the use of the Commonwealth, seven hundred and fifty
copies of the Laws and Resolves passed at the present and
future sessions of the Greneral Court, instead of twelve hun-
dred and fifty copies, the number heretofore printed at the
expense of the Commonwealth.
CHAP. XIX.
Resolve appropriating 81000, for Fuel, ^c.
June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the Greneral
Court, the sum of one thousand dollars, to enable him to
purchase fuel, and such other articles as may be necessary
for. the use of the General Court, together with the Governor
^nd Council Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasurer's, Adju-
33
254 GUNPOWDER. June 17, 1820.
tant General's, and Quarter Master General's Offices, and
also for the Land Office ; he to be accountable for the ex*
penditure of the same.
CHAP. XX.
Resolve limiting the quantity of public Gunpowder to be
kept at any place in the Town of Boston.
June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That neither the Quarter Master General, nor
any other person acting in the department of Commissary
or Quarter Master General of this Commonwealth, be al-
lowed to have, keep or possess, at any one time, at the State's
Arsenal, in the Town of Boston, or any other place within
the said town, a greater quantity of Gunpowder than two
hundred pounds.
CHAP. XXI.
Resolve establishing the pay of Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of
the General Court. June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, in full for his services, as
Messenger to the General Court, and for his care of the
State House, and all other services rendered by him, includ-
ing those mentioned in a resolve passed October nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and fourteen, for the year commencing the
thirtieth day of May last, one thousand dollars, payable
quarterly yearly ; and His Excellency the Governor, with
advice of Council, is requested to draw his warrant accord-
ingly.
LAND OFFICE. June 17, 1820. 255
CHAP. xxn.
Resolve to pay the Clerks of the General Court.
June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate, and the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, respectively, seven dollars
per day ; and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate, and As-
sistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, each, the
sum of five dollars, for each and every day they have, or
may be employed in that capacity, during the present session
of the Legislature ; and the Governor is requested to draw
his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XXIII.
Resolve in favor of Ward Lock, Assistant Messenger to the
Council June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid from the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant
to the Messenger of the Governor and Council, two dollars
for each and every day he has been, or may be employed
in that capacity, during the present session of the Council.
CHAP. XXIV.
Resolve relative to the Land OJice. June 17th, 1820.
Resolved, That the Honorable Messrs. Brooks and Wells,
of the Senate, Messrs. Button and Sturgis, of Boston, and
Mr. Leland, of Roxbury, of the House, be a Committee
to examine and adjust the accounts of the Commissioners of
the Land Office, from the time of their first executing the
256 LANB OFFICE— T. WALCUTT. June 17, 1820.
duties of that office, to the twentieth of this month, being
the period of the expiration of their office, and that they
report their doings at the next session of this Legislature.
And he it further resolved, That Greorge W. Coffin be,
and hereby is appointed, until the further order of the Legis-
lature, an Agent, to take charge of the records, plans, papers
and documents, of every description, appertaining to the
lands in the State of Maine, formerly belonging to this
Commonwealth, and to furnish such authenticated copies
thereof, make such conveyances of land, and do and per-
form such acts and duties respecting said lands, as the Com-
monw ealth are liolden to perform, by any law or fesolve, or
the terms of any deeds, or grants heretofore made, or by
any contract or undertaking of the Commissioners of the
Land Office, or any former Agent of the Commonwealth on
the subject of Eastern Lands, not incompatible with the act
passed the nineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and nine-
teen, relating to the separation of the District of Maine, &c.
and to take such measures as he shall judge proper, for the
collection of the demands due the Commonwealth, for grass
and timber, sold or permitted to be cut under the authority
of said Commissioners ; and pay over such sums as he may
receive, to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth ; and also
to take such measures as may be expedient, to preserve the
timber on the public lands in Maine, now belonging to this
Commonwealth ; and all the duties appertaining to this ap-
pointment, said Agent shall perform without charge for
Clerkship.
CHAP. XXV.
Resolve for jpaying Thomas Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies.
June ITth, 1820.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies, for the assistance of the
Members of the Legislature, thirty-two dollars, in full for
his services during the present session of the Legislature.
PAY OF CLERKS. June 17, 1820. 257
CHAP. XXVI.
Resolve fixing the Pay of Clerks in the Secretary's, Trea-
surer's, Adjutant General's, and Qiiarter Master Gen-
eral's Offices. June 17tli, 1820.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Cdmmouwealth, to the first Clerk in the Secretary's office,
also to the first Clerk in the Treasurer's office, also to the
first Clerk in the Adjutant General's office, twelve hundred
dollars each, in full compensation for their services for one
year, from the first day of this current month of June ; and
likewise to each of the other Clerks in said Secretary's,
Treasurer's, and Adjutant General's offices, and also to the
Clerk in the Quarter Master General's office, three dollars
per day, for each and every day they are respectively em-
ployed therein, for one year from the said first of June
current.
CHAP. XXVII.
Resolve making an Appropriation for the Quarter Master
General's Department. June 17th, 1820.
The Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the
Quarter Master General's communication, relating to an ap-
propriation to meet the expenditures of his department, for
the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, have had
the same under consideration, and ask leave to report the fol-
lowing resolve, which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES HOWLAND, 2d, Per Order.
Resolved, That the sum of four thousand five hundred
dollars, be paid to the Quarter Master General, from the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to meet the expenses of
his department the ensuing year; for the application of
258 Q. M. Gr. DEPARTMENT. June 17, 1820.
whicli the said Quarter Master Greneral is to be accountable.
And His Excellency the Governor is requested to issue his
warrants on the Treasury for the amount, in such sums, and
at such periods, as His Excellency, with the advice of
Council, may deem expedient for the public service.
ROLL, No. 83 JUNE, 1820.
The Committee on Accounts having examined
the several accounts they now present.. ..Report,
That there is now due to the Corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their
names respectively ; which, when allowed and paid,
will he in full discharge of the said accounts, to
the dates therein mentioned ; which is respectfully
submitted.
STEPHEN P. GARDNER, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Abiiigton, for supporting Thomas Seymore, to
June 10th, 1820, 30 14
Adams, for sundry accounts, State Paupers, to
May 25th, 1820, 151 29
Amherst, for the support of Robert, Jane and
Polly Richardson, to May 25th, 1820, 55 62
Alfred, for the support of paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 57 46
Bristol, for the support of Samuel and Nancy
Hill, to March 15th, 1820, 27 00
Brighton, for the support of John J. Baker, to
June 1st, 1820, 65 00
260 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Bellingham, for supporting Nathan Freeman, to
May 22d, 1820, 126 05
Belchertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 2d, 1820, 115 90
Boxford, for the support of Mehitable Hall, to
June 3d, 1820, 59 50
Bradford, for supporting Joshua L. Alsers, to
June 1st, 1820, 24 96
Beverly, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1820, 125 25
Boxborough, for the support of John M'Coy, to
April 23d, 1820, 72 20
Boston, for the support of paupers, clothing, 25th
February, and funeral expenses, to June 2d,
1820, 7313 32
Camden, for the support of sundry paupers, to
March 15th, 1820, , 20 67
Chester, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 27th, 1820, 99 97
Colrain, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 24th, 1820, 65 32
Conway, for the support of Hannah M'Neal, to
May 23d, 1820, 59 50
Concord, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 208 18
Carver, for the support of Martin Grady, to June
1st, 1820, 84 00
Cheshire, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 23d, 1820, 101 99
Carlisle, for the support of Robert Barber, to
May 29th, 1820, 70 58
Charlestown, for the support of sundry paupers,
to June 10th, 1820, 1579 05
Cape Elizabeth, for the support of sundry pau-
pers, to March 15th, 1820, 41 56
Danvers, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 6th, 1820, 766 48
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 261
Douglas, for the support of Isabella Saiitee and
three children, to May 24th, 1820, 50 00
Dedham, for the support of Robert Ridgley and
Alanson Whitman, to June 10th, 1820, 6 25
Dartmouth, for sundry paupers' support, to May
20th, 1820, 59 70
Edgarton, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 20th, 1820, 114 63
Enfield, for the support of Deborah Butterworth,
to May 25th, 1820, • 50 66
Gorham, for the support of sundry paupers, to
March 15th, 1820, 45 73
Granville, for the support of several paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 116 60
Greenwich, for the support of Lot Lee, to May
25th, 1820, 17 80
Great Barrington, for the support of sundry pau-
pers, to May 31st, 1820, 90 89
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
10th, 1820, 562 06
Hardwick, for the support of Cato Santee and
Hannah Morgan, to June 11th, 1820, 60 20
Hancock, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
7th, 1820, 85 56
Hinsdale, for supporting Lucinda Melona, till she
died, and funeral expense, 26 87
Hamilton, for the support of Alice Cook, to April
6th, 1820, 56 14
Hubbardston, for the support of Abner Hybra, to
May 27, 1820, 28 77
Jay, for support of Elizabeth Bell, to March 15th,
1820, 8 00
Ipswich, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 15th, 1820, 60 40
Hallowell, for the support of sundry paupers, to
March 15th, 1820, 328 75
34
36^ PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Hadley, for the support of Friday Allen, to May
25th, 1820, 39 00
Portland, for the support of sundry paupers, to
March 15th, 1820, 331 85
Lee, for supporting sundry paupers, to May 7 th,
1820, 225 61
Lenox, for the support of sundry paupers, to May
24th, 1820, 121 16
Limerick, for the support of Mary Record, to
March 15th, 1820, 9 29
Lanesborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 27th, 1820, 105 00
Longmeadow, for supporting several paupers, to
May 24th, 1820, 69 92
Lynn, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
30th, 1820, 216 36
Leyden, for supporting several paupers, to May
26th, 1820, 72 77
Lunenburg, for the support of Molly Farr, until
her death, 82 00
Marblehead, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 10th, 1820, 282 63
Monmouth, for supporting Peggy Magner, to
March 15th, 1820, 35 61
Mercer, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 99 91
Montague, for supporting Edward Potter and
wife, to May 23d, 1820, 52 00
Milton, for supporting Archibald McDonald, to
June 7th, 1820, 21 50
Montgomery, for the support of Charles Collins,
to June 1st, 1820, 23 64
Marshfield, for the support of Samuel Homes, to
20th May, 1820, 18 28
Medford, for supporting Peter Boucher, and re-
moving John Edmunds to New Hampshire, to
May 3d, 1820, 42 29
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 263
Manchester, for the support of Abraham Grloss, to
May 20th, 1820, 39 00
New Salem, for support of Philip Haven, to April
2d, 1820, 56 00
Newbury, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 563 78
Newburyport, for the support of sundry paupers,
to June 1st, 1820, 1025 32
Northfield, for the support of Amos Riley, to May
27th, 1820, ' 24 53
New Bedford, for the support of sundry paupers,
to April 1st, 1820, 488 17
North Brookfield, for the support of Joseph Peter-
son and others, to June 5 th, 1820, 27 92
Northampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 3d, 1820, 206 52
Norwich, for the support of Ruth Sanford, to May
25th, 1820, 21 00
Oxford, for the funerai expenses of James Max-
well, in the montli of February last, 5 00
Orleans, for the support of Walter P. Swain, to
May 20th, 1820, 26 42
Phipsburg, for the support of Jacob Wheeler, to
March 15th, 1820, 8 00
Pelham, for the support of sundry paupers, to May
15th, 1820, 78 80
Pittsfield, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 266 45
Pepperell, for the support of R. B. Minchin and
D. Smith, to May 21st, 1820, 91 00
Pembroke, for the support of Elizabeth Jack, to
May 20th, 1820, 17 28
Plymouth, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 5th, 1820, 126 00
Russell, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
23d, 1820, 107 21
264 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Rehoboth, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 2d, 1820, 204 86
Roxbury, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 3d, 1820, 297 65
Robinson, William, Guardian to tlie Dudley In-
dians, for their support, to June, 1820, 196 83
Richmond, forithe support of sundry paupers, to
May 26th, 1820, 230 96
Rochester, for the support of Owen Kelly, to May
29th, 1820, 19 42
Rowe, for the support of Betsey Carpenter, to May
15th, 1820, ^ ' 26 00
Rowley, for the support of EUe Collins, to May
27th, 1820, 27 52
Sunderland, for the supjjort of William Russell,
to June 1st, 1820, 32 35
Southwick, for the support of George Reed, to
June 1st, 1820, 65 80
Salem, for the support of a great number of pan-
pers, to June 2d, 1820, 3153 78
Spencer, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 6th, 1820, 193 00
Seekonk, for the support of Tilly Peck, to Jime
1st, 1820, 17 48
Swanzey, for the support of James Garnet and
Mather Disnips, to May 20th, 1820, 39 34
South Brimfield, for the support of sundry paupers,
say Jonathan Hill, 15 20
Shelburn, for supporting Mary and Olive Bates,
to May 29th, 1820, 58 38
Sandisfield, for the support of Richard Duck son
and family, to May 24th, 1820, 49 02
Shutesbury, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 25th, 1820, 175 00
Sharon, for the support of sundry paupers, to June
3d, 1820, 77 00
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 265
Sandwicli, for the support of Esther and Raymond
Mason, to May 29th, 1820, 40 00
Sheffield, for the support of William Brown and
others, to June, 1820, 48 00
Saugus, for support of sundry paupers, to May
27th, 1820, 41 25
Starks, for the support of sundry paupers, to No-
vember 20th, 1819, and March l5th, 1820, 107 67
Stockbridge, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 301 82
Tyringham, for the support of Thomas Peters and
family, to January 4th, 1820, 63 25
Taunton, for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 31st, 1820, 262 95
West Stockbridge, for support of Ransom H.
Briggs, to May 14th, 1820, 58 71
Westford, for the support of James Peirce, to June
1st, 1820, 20 83
Westfield, for the support of sundry State Paupers,
to June 10th, 1820, 145 48
Washington, for the support of several paupers, to
May 25th, 1820, 126 56
Waldoborough, for supporting Philip Handle, to
March 15th, 1820, 20 00
Whately, for supporting the widow Bason, to the
29th May, 1820, 45 55
West Springfield, for the support of sundry pau-
pers, to May 26th, 1820, 78 25
Worcester, for the support of sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1820, 94 71
Walpole, for the support of Jane Walker and
others. State Paupers, to June 3d, 1820, 78 94
Western, for supporting Daniel Mundell, Eliza
and Harriot Trim, to May 29th, 1820, 111 30
Worthington, for the support of sundry paupers,
to May 1st, 1820, 39 25
266 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
"Williamstowiij for the support of sundry paupers,
to May 29tli, 1820, 125 75
Westhamptoi), for the support of sundry paupers,
to May 24th, 1820, 82 53
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Correc-
tion, in Essex County, including what was al-
lowed by the Court of Sessions, 323 43
Yarmouth, for the support of James Cantelo, to
June 10th, 1820, 72 00
York, for the support of sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 52 37
Total Pauper Accounts, 1325,335 41
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Courts Martial and Courts of Inquiry.
Fairbanks, Stephen, Brigade Major, for the ex-
pense of a Court of Inquiry, held at Boston, on
the 13th day of March, 1820, whereof Daniel
L. Gribbens was President, 84 46
Brigade Majors and Aids-de-Camjp.
Sewall, Joseph, 1st Brigade, 11th Division, to
February 23d, 1820, 10 50
Ware, William R. Aid-de-Camp, 10th Division,
to March 1st, 1820, 54 02
Total, S62 52
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 26?
Mjutants.
Heald, Josiali, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, IStli
Division, to December, 1819,
Bosworth, Stephen, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
9th Division, to March 1st, 1820,
Nye, Nathan, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 12th
Division, to January 1st, 1820,
Farnsworth, Samuel, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
12th Division, to March 1st, 1820,
Washburn, Cromwell, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
5th Division, to January 26th, 1820,
Pratt, Sylvanus, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 7th Divi-
sion, to March 1st, 1820,
Amory, Daniel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th
Division, to March 1st, 1820,
Lunt, Amos, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 11th Di-
vision, to March 1st, 1820,
Cobb, Ezekiel R. Artillery, 2d Brigade, 9th Di-
vision, to March 1st, 1820,
Clement, Jesse, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to March 1st, 1820,
Balkam, John A. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 10th
Division, to December 6th, 1819,
Newell, Luther, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to March 1st, 1820,
Nored, Elder, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to December, 1819,
Whitney, Solon, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, Tth
Division, to September, 1819,
Clark, Daniel, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 12th Division,
to October 5th, 1819,
Richardson, Edward, P. T. 4tli Regiment, 2d
Brigade, 5th Division, to October 20th, 1820,
Total. 8270 39
13
74
17
51
15 95
13 42
26 64
26
56
8
38
8
50
6
14
6 04
30 92
13 45
17
60
19
63
18 28
27
63
268 SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS^ ACCOUNTS.
Exjoense of Horses to Hale Jlrtille^'y.
Lee, Charles, for the year 1819, 5 00
Braman, Thomas, Junior, for the year 1819, 6 25
Total, Sll 25
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS,
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk County, for sup-
porting poor debtors in goal, to June 7th, 1820, 718 31
Bartlett, Bailey, Sheriff of Essex County, for re-
turning votes, to May, 1820, 8 40
Davis, Wendell, Sheriff of Barnstable County, for
returning votes for Grovernor and Lieutenant
Governor, to April, 1820, 4 80
Hoyt, Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, to May, 1820, 8 00
Phelps, John, Sheriff of Hampden County, for
returning A'otes, to May, 1820, 9 60
Worth, Jethro, Sheriff of Dukes' County, for re-
turning votes for Member of Congress, to April,
1820, 8 00
Johnson, J otham, Coroner of Middlesex County,
for taking an inquisition at Cambridge, on the
bodies of Hugh Martin and Thomas Daniels, 35 53
Baker, John, Coroner of Norfolk County, for taking
an inquisition on the body of a stranger, to June
12th, 182|), 23 53
Spear, Daniel, Coroner of Norfolk County, for
taking an inquisition on the bodies of two stran-
gers, to June, 1820, 51 08
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking an inquisition on the bodies of several
strangers, to June 15th, 1820, 64 06
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS. 269
Harris, Jonathan, Coroner of Worcester County,
for taking an inquisition on the body of J ames
Maxwell, to May, 1820, 15 82
Richardson, Amasa, Coroner of Norfolk County,
for taking an inquisition on the body of a stran-
ger, in 1817, 22 84
Glover, Benjamin, Coroner of the County of Nan-
tucket, for taking an inquisition on the body of
Barnard Grraham, in February last, 1820, 26 05
Total, S996 02
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS.
Buckingham, J. T. for publishing Acts and Re-
solves, to June 15th, 1820, 16 67
Cushing, Thomas, for publishing Acts and Re-
solves, to June, 1820, 16 67
Foster, Moses, for printing Blanks for State Notes,
to June, 1820, 4 00
Lindsy, Benjamin, for publishing Acts and Re-
solves, to May, 1820, , 16 67
Mann, J. H. and W. H. for publishing Acts and
Resolves, to May, 1820, 16 67
Russell, Benjamin, by Russell and Grardner, for
printing for government, to June 12th, 1820, 3278 72
Shephard, Thomas W. and Company, for pub-
lishing the Laws, &c. to May, 1820, 16 67
Webster, Charles, for publishing Acts, &c. to
June, 1820, 16 67
Young and Minns, for publishing Acts, &c. to
May, 1820, . 16 67
Total, 83399 41
f55
270 MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Boston Board of Health, for the support of pau-
pers, on the Island, to June, 1820, 13 00
Ballard and Wright, for Newspapers, to June
15th, 1820, 42 90
Burdett, James W. for Stationary furnished the
government, to June 15th, 1820, 148 93
Blaney, Henry, for repairs on the State House, to
May 27th, 1820, 18 62
Durant, William, for cleaning windows, to June
15th, 1820, 42 00
Howe, Joseph's Estate, for Funnels for the State
House Chimnies, to June, 1820, 9 25
Kuhn, Jacob, for balance due on his account, to
June 15th, 1820, 127 20
Loring, Josiah, for Stationary furnished Secreta-
ry and Treasury, to May 2d, 1820, 145 00
Pearson and Cloutman, for Glass for the State
House, to June 15th. 1820, 5 71
Russell, Benjamin, for Printing and Newspapers,
to June 15th, 1820, 107 62
Vose, Isaac and Son, for Screen for Chair, to
June, 1820, 10 00
Wells, J. and B. T. for repairs on Copper Basons,
at the State House, to June, 1820, 48 72
Low, John V. for assisting Messenger of the Gen-
eral Court, sixteen days, to June 17th, 1820, 32 00
Bacon, Henry, for assisting the Messenger, twenty
days, to June 17th, 1820, 40 00
Chase, Warren, for assisting Messenger, twenty
days, to June 17th, 1820, 40 00
Hider, Margaret, for performance of Page, by her
son, Thomas P. Rider, June 17th, 1820, 16 00
Agricultural Society of Massachusetts, for sundry
expenses, in raising Seeds and Plants in the
Garden at Cambridge, under Professor Peck,
it being the balance of the sum granted them for
the past year, and not before received, 354 72
RESOLVE TO ROLL NO. 83. 271
Committee to ascertain the terms upon which the
House of Correction, at Worcester, may be ob-
tained, by order of government, viz :
To Honorable Jonathan H. Lyman, 33 00
i' Samuel Porter, 31 00
William Jackson, Esquire, 70 00—134 00
Aggregate of Roll No, S3.
Expense of State Paupers, 25,335 41
" of Militia, 430 62
« of Sheriffs and Coroners, 996 02
" of Printers, 3,399 41
" of Miscellaneous, 1,335 67
131,497 13
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Public Treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this Roll, the suras set against such corpora-
tions and persons' names respectively, amounting in the whole
to thirty-one thousand, four hundred, ninety seven dollars,
and thirteen cents, the same being in full discharge of the
accounts and demands to which they refer.
Approved by the Governor, June 17th, 1830.
ComYfton-wealtlv ol iMassaeVvusfctts.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE, JULY 28, 1820.
BF THIS I CERTIFY, That the Resolves, passed at the session
of the Legislature, beginning May 31st, and ending June 17th, 1820, have
been compared with the originals in this office, and appear to be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD, fifecretar^/o/f/^e Commonwealth.
INDEX
TO THE RESOLVES, PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1820.
A.
Academy, HopLins', an half township granted to, - - - 244
B.
Berkshire County, an additional Notary Public to be appointed for, 242
Beverly, Israel Morgan's Pension to be paid to the Overseers of, - 247
Bristol County, two additional Notaries Public to be appointed for, 242
C.
Clerks of the General Court, Pay established, - - . . Q55
« " Public Offices, " " - - - - 257
Coffin, G. W, Esq. appointed Agent of the Land Office, - - 256
College, Bowdoin, alteration of the provisions in the act for the
Separation of Maine, relative thereto, may be made, - - 243
Commissioners of the Land Office,Committee to adjust their accounts, 255
Committee on Accounts, Pay granted, 252
« « Roll No. 83 258
" " to adjust the Accounts of the Commission-
ers of the Land Office, - - - - 255
Company, Merrimack Boating, may call a Meeting, - - - 249
Council, Pay established, 242
Court, General, Pay established, .----. 242
Court of Sessions for Essex, authorized to amend the assessment of
the County Tax, - 248
D.
Dillingham, Abby, grant for her Education at the Asylum for Deaf
and Dumb Persons, in Hartford, - - - - - - 249
INDEX.
E.
Electors of President and Vice President of the United State, choice
of, regulated, 245
G.
Governor, his Speech to the Legislature, ----- 221
« « Answer to, by the Senate, - - - - 233
« " Answer to, by the House, - . - 236
Gunpowder, public, quantity to be kept in Bo&ton, limited, - - 254
H.
Herbert, Charlotte, grant to, for services of her late husband, - 248
Hinsdale, their account for supporting Lucinda Melona, referred to
the Committee on Accounts, ------- 243
Hopkins' Academy, an half township of land granted to, - - 244
I.
Indians, Chappaquiddick, g300 granted to build a Meeting House,
and School House for, ..------ 247
*
K.
Kellogg, Edward, gi*ant to, 252
Kuhn, Jacob, Messenger, grant to, for Fuel, &c, - - - - 253
« « " Pay established, . - . . 254
L.
Land Office, Committee to adjust the Commissioners' Accounts, - 255
*' " G.W. Coffin, Esq. appointed to perform the business of, 256
Laws and Resolves, the number of copies to be procured in future, 253
Lock, Ward, Assistant to the Messenger, Pay granted, - - 255
M.
Merrimack Boating Company may call a Meeting, - - - 249
Morgan, Israel, his Pension to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor
of Beverly, 247
N.
Notaries Public, additional, to be appointed, - - - - 242
INDEX.
P.
Parsons, Court of Sessions in Essex, authorized to amend the as-
sessment of the County Tax for, ------ 248
Prison, State, &1600 granted for use of, 249
Q.
Quarter Master General, or others, directed not to keep more than
200 pounds of public Gunpowder in Boston, at any one time, - 254
Quarter Master General, appropriation for his department, - 257
R.
Reports, Term, the number of copies to be procured in future, - 253
Resolves and Laws, " " " " « - 253
S.
Secretary to furnish the towns with Blank Forms, conformably to
the act relating to calling a Convention of Delegates, - - 250
Secretary directed as to the number of copies of Term Reports, and
Laws and Resolves to be purchased and printed, - - - 253
State Prison, gl600 granted for the use of, 249
Suffolk County, an additional Notary Public to be appointed for, 242
T.
Term Reports, number of copies to be procured in future, - 253
Towns, Secretary to furnish with Blank Forms, conformably to the
act relative to calling a Convention of Delegates, . - - 250
Treasurer authorized to borrow Money, 250
U.
United States, President and Vice President of, choice of Electors
of, regulated, 245
W.
"Walcutt, Thomas, grant to. -_.---- ^56
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
Commontoealti) of JllajS^acliu^m^,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
%VHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TENTH OF JANUARY, AND ENDED
ON THURSDAY, THE FIFTEENTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of IGth January, 1812.
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY RUSSELL 8/- GARDNER, FOR BENJAMIN RUSSELL,
rRINTER TO THE STATE.
1821.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED
ON THURSDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JANUARY 10, 1821.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth came down from the
Council Chamber, to the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, with the following Message from His Ex-
cellency the Governor.
MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN again assembling to resume the functions
of legislation, it must be highly satisfactory for you
to observe that the relations of amity continue to
be maintained between the United States and for-
eign nations; that the agricultural, manufacturing,
and other resources of the several States in the
great American Union, are gradually developing
their productive powers, and furnishing to naviga-
274 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
tion and commerce, augmented means of trans-
portation and traffic ; and that the pecuniary and
mercantile embarrassments, which lately pressed
with a distressing force, on a large portion of the
people in some parts of our country, are now yield-
ing to the salutary correctives of experience and
more enlightened views of political economy. So
far as the citizens of Massachusetts have enjoyed
an exemption from such embarrassments, we are
justified in believing that the immunity has arisen,
under the smiles of Heaven, from the existence of
laws founded in justice, and imparting in their
operation, to every member of the community,
whether rich or poor, an equal share of protection
in the enjoyment of his rights. The lessons of ex-
perience are never fallacious; and the history of
the past, no less than the assurances of inspiration,
should determine us, as the public guardians of the
rights of the people, to manifest a persevering con-
fidence in the sacred position, that a nation is
exalted by righteousness.
It is with great satisfaction that I am able to
state to you, gentlemen, that no occurrence unfa-
vorable to pviblic peace and good order, has come
to my knowledge, during the recess. The affairs
of the State Prison, and of the General and Insane
Hospitals, both institutions of great public interest,
continue to be administered with fidelity and sound
judgment. The number of convicts in the State
Prison, has been reduced in the course of the last
two years, from three hundred and seventy two to
three hundred and eight.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE. 275
The Insane Hospital, as affording a refuge
from the observations of society, as well as the best
means of restoration, for such as are suffering the
deprivation of intellect, has already become a great
public blessing ; but the institution is susceptible of
higher improvement, and more extensive utility.
The General Hospital, though respectably advan-
ced, is, for want of means, suffering retardation,
and is not in a condition to receive patients. The
time, it is to be hoped, is not very remote, when
such revenues will be realized, as will enable the
Legislature, without increasing the general tax, to
continue its honorable career in building up public
institutions which tend to lessen the sum of human
suffering, and confer honor on the State.
The act of the Legislature, which passed on the
nineteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred
and nineteen, "relating to the Separation of the
District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper, and
forming the same into a Separate and Independent
State," requiring, under specified circumstances,
the appointment of two Commissioners by the Ex-
ecutive of the Commonwealth, for the purposes
therein mentioned, has been duly attended to, and
the Honorable Timothy Bigelow and the Honor-
able Levi Lincoln have been appointed agreeably
to the provisions of the act. From a report, Avhicli
has been communicated to me by the Commission-
ers, you will be made acquainted with the entire
organization of that Board, and with their readi-
ness to proceed to the business of their appointment.
During the late recess, I received from the
276 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Governor of the State of Maine, sundry resolutions
of the Legislature of that State, "declaring the
sense of the Legislature of the powers of the Gen-
eral Government over the Mililia."
A resolution of the State of Vermont, was like-
wise communicated to me within the same period,
by the Governor of that State, on an amendment
of the Constitution of the United States, proposed
by the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania.
By a reference to the legislative records, of the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, it
will appear that the sum of eleven thousand dollars
had been remitted by the Treasurer of the United
States to the Governor, and placed by him in the
treasury of this State, on account of advances made
to the militia in the United States service, during
the late war. Since the termination of the late
session, I have received a letter from the Treasury
Department, requesting that the evidence of the
expenditure of that amount, on the part of Massa-
chusetts, might be forwarded to that department.
Inasmuch, however, as I could perceive no author-
ity for the transmission of the required documents,
and conceiving that the advance made, had been^
in principle, admitted by the Executive of the Uni-
ted States, as falling within his authority to reim-
burse, a doubt arose in my own mind, whether the
case in question ought to be considered as com-
prehended in the provisions of the resolve passed
the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred
and eighteen, respecting the " claims of this Com-
monwealth against the United States," and whether
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 277
some further legislative provision was not called for,
respecting that object. Entertaining these doubts,
I have deemed it to be my duty to submit the busi-
ness to your direction. The propriety of such refer-
ence, at this time, seemed to me to be more decisive,
from the consideration that the communication from
the Government of the State of Maine, has relation
to the same general object, the claim of Massachu-
setts against the United States, for advances made
for defence against the common enemy, during the
late war.
On a former occasion, I expressed, with some
distinctness, my view of this claim. I shall not,
therefore, now occupy your time in discussing its
merits. But I must totally reject the thought,
that an enlightened American Republic can ever
be deliberately unequitable. I can never bring
myself to believe that the high minded statesmen
who now wield the destinies of a vast confederated
empire, will cease to respect the interests, the feel-
ings, the efforts, and the sacrifices of one of its
important members : A member too, that is, and
ever has been proud, with the blood and treasure
of its citizens, to support the union, maintain the
independence, and brighten the glory of a free and
happy nation.
The several papers to which I refer, will be
laid before you by the Secretary.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January lOfft, 1821.
278 GOVERNOR'S MESBAGE.—N. PEASE.
CHAP. XXYIII.
Governor's Message. Jp.nuary 16th, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives ,
I have to announce to you, the resignation and discharge
of Major General Epaphras Hoyt; in consequence of which
a vacancy exists in the office of Major General in the Fourth
Division of the Militia.
The Secretary will also lay before you the annual return
of the Militia, together with the returns of the ordnance and
military stores of every description, belonging to the Com-
monwealth.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 16, 1821.
CHAP. XXIX.
Resolve empowering JSTaomi Pease to give a Deed of a
certain piece of Land. January 18th, 1821.
On the petition of N oami Pease, of Northampton, in the
County of Hampshire, widow and administratrix of Walter
Pease, late of said Northampton, deceased, intestate, stating,
that on the 19th day of January, one thousand eight hun-
dred and nineteen, the said deceased made a verbal contract
with one Thomas Pomeroy, of said Northampton, to sell
and convey to him, by deed of w^arranty, a certain piece of
land, lying in said Northampton, and bounded as follows,
viz. : Beginning at a stake and stones in the line of the
county road, leading to Chesterfield, five rods east of the
easterly corner of Gains Burt's land ; thence north eighteen
and half degrees east, fifty four rods, to a stake and stones ;
thence south thirty degrees east, twenty four rods, to a stake
and stones ; thence north sixty eight degrees east, twenty
one rods, to a stake and stones ; thence south eighteen and
N. PEASE.— STATE PRISON. 279
half degrees west, fifty five rods, to the line of said road ;
thence westerly on said road, to the first mentioned bounds,
containing ten acres and one hundred and forty nine rods.
Also, one undivided half of a piece of land adjoining the
above described land, and bounded as follows ; Avesterly on
Gains Burt, northerly on F. H. Wright's land, easterly on
Asahel Pomeroy, partly, and partly on Elijah Phelps' land,
and southerly on the county road aforesaid : That the con-
sideration agreed to be paid and received for said land, was
one hundred and forty dollars ; that the said Pomeroy, im-
mediately after said contract, entered into possession of said
land, and has improved the same to the present time : That,
at the time of the said contract, the said Walter agreed to
execute a deed of said land to said Thomas, so soon as he
should pay one hundred dollars of the purchase money, but
that no particular time for paying the remainder was stipulat-
ed ; that previous to the first day of February last, the said
Thomas had actually paid to the said Walter, ninety three
dollars towards said purchase money, and that said Thomas
is now ready to pay the residue of said sum ; that the said
Walter died after a short illness, on the eighteenth day of
said February, not having executed the deed aforesaid :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that
Naomi Pease, Administratrix of Walter Pease, late of
Northampton, deceatsed, be, and she hereby is authorized
and empowered to make and execute a deed of warranty to
the said Thomas Pomeroy, of the land above described, he
first paying to her the remainder of the purchase money
aforesaid, which remains unpaid ; which deed shall have
the same force and effect, as if made and executed by the
said Walter, in his life time.
CHAP. XXX.
Resolve granting S4000/or the use of the State Prison.
January 19th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, for the use of the State Prison, four thous-
and dollars; to be drawn from the treasury by the Warden
37
280 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE, &c.
of said prison, in such sums as the Directors shall from time
to time direct ; and His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice of the Council, is hereby requested to drav\^ on the
Treasurer for said sum accordingly.
CHAP. XXXI.
Resolve for the Messenger to sell Old Iron, ^c. i^c.
January 19th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Messenger be directed to dispose of
such iron plates, old iron and stoves belonging to the Com-
monwealth, as has become useless, and pay the amount re-
ceived therefor, into the treasury of the State.
CHAP. XXXII.
Governor'' s Message. January 22d, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The Secretary will lay before you sundry resolutions of
the Legislatures of the States of New Hampshire and
Maine.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber y January 22«?, 18£1.
CHAP. XXXIII.
Resolve to repay the Cumberland Bank 81000.
January 23d, 1821.
On the petition of the President and Directors of the Cum- .
berland Bank, at Portland, representing that, in the month
CUMBERLAND BANK. 281
of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, they paid
one thousand dollars into the treasury of Massachusetts, as
the semi-annual tax on said bank, due on the first day of
said month of April, and that subsequently to said payment,
they were called upon by the Treasurer of the State of
Maine, in virtue of a resolve of the Legislature of that State,
passed June the twenty third, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty, to pay the same sum, for said tax, into the
treasury of Maine, and it was paid accordingly, and so has
been twice paid, as appears also by a communication from
the said Treasurer, dated August thirty first, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, and be-
cause of the resolve aforesaid, that there be paid back, and
the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay back
to the President and Directors of the Cumberland Bank, in
Portland, the said tax of one thousand dollars, taking a VQ^
ceipt, in discharge, for the same. And His Excellency the
Governor, with the consent of the Council, is hereby re-
quested to draw his warrant on the treasury accordingly.
CHAP. XXXIV.
Resolve on petition of the Second Precinct in Rochester,
making valid the records and proceedings.
January 23d, 1821.
On the petition of the Second Precinct in the Town of
Rochester, in the County of Plymouth, praying that certain
proceedings therein stated may be rendered valid ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
records and proceedings referred to in said petition be, and
they hereby are confirmed and rendered valid to all intents ;
provided, nothing in this resolve contained, shall affect any
suit or action which has hitherto been commenced.
282 PITTSFIELD TAXES.— CHESTEU.
CHAP. XXXV.
Jlesolve empowering the Assessors of Pittsfield to issue a
warrant to collect certain Taxes. January 24th, 1821.
On the petition of John B. Root and Richard Cogswell,
sureties of Benjamin Cogswell, late Constable and Collect-
or of Taxes in the Town of Pittsfield, County of Berkshire,
now deceased, praying that the present Assessors of said
town, or their successors in office, may be authorized and
empowered to issue their warrant for the collection of that
part of the taxes, assessed by the Assessors of the said
Town of Pittsfield, for the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifteen, sixteen and seventeen, which still
remains uncollected ;
Hesolved, That for reasons set forth in said petition, that
the present Assessors of said Town of Pittsfield, or their
successors in office be, and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to issue their warrant to Reuben Brooks, or any
other person or persons, authorizing and directing him or
them to collect, in the manner prescribed by law, whatever
remains due and unpaid upon the list of assessments for
said town, for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen,
one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and to pay over
the same according to the directions of the law.
CHAP. XXXVI.
Mesolve on the petition of the Toimi of Chester.
January 25th, 1821.
Resolved f For reasons set forth in the petition of the
Town of Chester, in the County of Hampden, that the Jus-
tices of the Court of Sessions for said county, be authorized
and directed to add to their other county estimates for a tax
for said county, such sum or sums of money as the said
Justices shall from time to time determine to be necessary
and proper, and order the payment of the same out of the
LAND IN THE STATE OF MAINE. 283
county treasury, for the purpose of aiding said town in
building and supporting a bridge at Cliester Village, so
called, and to appoint an agent to superintend the expendi-
tures for the same.
CHAP. XXXYII.
Resolve respecting Land in the State of JMaine.
January 26th, 1821.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor of this
Commonwealth be, and he is hereby requested to address a
letter to the Governor of the State of Maine, proposing a
compromise relative to the lands in said State of Maine,
which have become the property of this Commonwealth, by
the provisions of the act, entitled "an act relating to the
separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts
proper, and forming the same into a separate and independ-
ent State ; by which the right, title, and interest of this
Commonwealth in the said lands may be transferred to the
said State of Maine, upon such terms and conditions, as
shall or may be agreed upon by the Legislatures of the two
States, in pursuance of the ninth article of the first section
of the aforesaid act.
Resolved, That a Committee of five members of the two
Houses of the General Court be appointed by the Legisla-
ture, to meet a Committee to be appointed by the Legislature
of Maine, which Committee, on the part of this Common-
wealth, shall have full power and authority to negociate,
settle, adjust and determine with the Committee of the said
State of Maine, (having similar and competent powers from
the Legislature of Maine, for that purpose and on that be-
half,) all the stipulations, terms and conditions of a contract,
by w hich the right, title and interest of this Commonwealth,
in the said lands, may be transferred to the said State of
Maine ; which contract, when made as aforesaid, shall by
the said Committees, be submitted as soon as may be, to the
Legislatures of this Commonwealth, and of Maine, respec-
tively, for their approbation and ratification.
Resolved, That the said Committee on the part of this
284 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Commonwealth, whenever such contract shall have been
made and ratified as aforesaid, be, and they hereby are au-
thorized and empowered to alien, sell and convey all the
right, title, interest and estate of this Commonwealth, in and
to all the lands in the said State of Maine, for the consider-
ation and in pursuance of the stipulations, terms and condi-
tions which may be specified and contained in such contract,
and to execute deeds accordingly.
CHAP, xxxvin.
Governor's Message. January 31st, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
On the twenty sixth instant, I transmitted to the Gover-
nor of the State of Maine, the Resolutions which passed the
Legislature that day, proposing to the Legislature of that
State, a compromise in relation to the lands, the property of
this Commonwealth, in the State of Maine. The proposi-
tion has been cordially received by the Legislature of that
State ; and I have the satisfaction of laying before you by
the Secretary, several Resolutions which have been trans-
mitted to me by the Governor of the State of Maine, expres-
sive of their readiness to meet the views of the Legislature
of Massachusetts, and to enter, in the manner contemplated
by your Resolutions of the twenty sixth instant, upon the
proposed negociation.
JOHN BROOKS.
' Council Chamber, January Slsi, 1821.
LANDS IN MAINE.— TAXES. 285
CHAP. XXXIX.
jResolve respecting Lands in Maine. February 3d, 1821.
The Committee of both Houses to whom was referred the
Message of His Excellency the Governor, covering the pro-
ceedings of the Legislature of the State of Maine, as to a
compromise in relation to the lands, the property of this
Commonwealth, in said State, &c.
Report, That from the proceedings of the State of Maine,
as well as by the passage of a resolve of the present Gren-
eral Court, it has become necessary, that a Committee should
be appointed by the Legislature, as is in said resolve provid-
ed. The Committee therefore recommend the passage of the
following resolve.
All which is submitted.
JOHN WELLS, Per Order.
Resolved, That the Honorable Messrs. Brooks and
Dwight, Hubbard, Burghardt and Hooper, be a Committee
on the part of this State, to perform all the duties requir-
ed by a resolve passed on the twenty sixth day of Janua-
ry, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty one, "giving full power and authority to ne-
gociate, settle, adjust and determine with the Committee of
said State of Maine, all the stipulations, terms and condi-
tions of a contract, by which the right, title and interest of
this Commonwealth, in the said lands, may be transferred
to the State of Maine.''
CHAP. XL.
Resolve for County Taxes. February 8th, 1821.
Whereas, the Treasurers of the following counties have
laid their accounts before the Legislature, which accounts
have been examined and allowed; and whereas, the Clerkf^j
of the Courts of Sessions for said counties^ have exhibited
286 TREASURER TO BORROW MONEY.
estimates made by said courts^ of the necessary charges
which may arise within the said several counties for the
year ensuing, and of the sums necessary to discharge the
debts of said counties :
Resolved, That the sums annexed to the several counties,
contained in the following schedule be, and the same are
hereby granted as a tax for each county respectively, to be
apportioned, assessed, paid, collected, and applied for the
purposes aforesaid, according to law, viz. :
County of Hampden, five thousand dollars, - - - 85000
County of Berkshire, four thousand dollars, - - 4000
County of Worcester, twelve thousand dollars, - 12000
County of Middlesex, nine thousand dollars, - - 9000
County of Suifolk, thirty five thousand dollars, - 35000
County of Dukes' County, one thousand dollars, - 1000
County of Barnstable, eighteen hundred dollars, - 1800
County of Bristol, three thousand five hundred dollars, 3500
County of Franklin, three thousand dollars, * - 3000
County of Norfolk, four thousand dollars, - - - 4000
County of Essex, three thousand five hundred dollars, 3500
County of Hampshire, three thousand dollars, - - 3000
CHAP. XLl.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to Borrow Money,
February 9th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, be,
and he hereby is authorized, and directed to borrow of any
of the banks in Boston, any sum not exceeding twenty five
thousand dollars, in addition to the sum which he is author-
ized and directed to borrow, by a resolve passed on the
sixteenth of June last, that may at any time within the cur-
rent political year be necessary for the payment of the ordi-
nary demands made on the Treasury ; and that he pay any
sum he may borrow, as soon as money sufficient for the
purpose, and not otherwise appropriated, shall be received
into the Treasury.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.— G. W. COFFIN. 287
CHAP. XLn.
Governor's Message. February 9tli, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Rejpresentatives,
The Secretary will lay before you a letter I have receiv-
ed from the Governor of the State of Ohio, dated the twenty
second day of January last, together with sundry resolutions
of the General Assembly of that State, on the subject of
certain proceedings of the Bank of the United States, against
the officers of said State, in the United States Circuit Court,
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February 9th, 1821.
CHAP. XLIII.
Resolve on the communication of George TV, Coffin.
♦ February 9th, 1821.
On the communication of George W. Coflfin, Agent of the
Land Office, relative to certain letters of attorney required
of Catharine Drowne and others ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in. said communication,
that the letters of attorney required (by a resolve passed the
twenty seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred
and thirteen,) of Catharine Drowne and others, be, and
hereby are dispensed with : And said Agent is hereby au-
thorized to execute conveyances to said Catharine Drowne
and others, their heirs and assigns, notwithstanding said
letters of attorney have not been made and executed, any
thing in the said resolve to the contrary notwithstanding.
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288 CLAIMS AGAINST UNITED STATES.
CHAP. XLIV.
Resolve compensating Benjamin Sparhawh and JSTathan
Fitz Tilton, wounded soldiers. February 13tli, 1821.
Mesolvedf That there be allowed and paid out of the pub-
lic treasury of this Commonwealth to Benjamin Sparhawk,
of Marblehead, the sum of fifty dollars in full for damage
and cost occasioned by wounds received while on duty in
October last, under the commmand of Captain Edmund
Kimball, of Marblehead, while doing duty in the Artillery.
Also, to Nathan Fitz Tilton, for wounds received while on
duty in Captain Kimball's company of Artillery, in Mar-
blehead, on the second day of October last, one hundred
dollars.
CHAP. XLV.
Mesolve authorizing the Governor and Council to adjust
the claims of this State against the United States.
February l4th, 1821.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred so
much of the Message of His Excellency the Grovernor, at
the opening of the session, as relates to the claim of Massa-
chusetts on the General Government, and also a letter from
the third Auditor of the Treasurer, respecting an advance
of eleven thousand dollars on account of the claim, report
in part, the following resolve.
Which is submitted.
DUDLEY L. PICKMAN.
Mesolved, That His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice of Council, be authorized to take such measures as
may seem necessary to adjust and settle the claim of this
State on the General Government, for expenses incurred
during the late war, and to forward such vouchers and doc-
uments in support of the claim, as may from time to time be
required for this purpose, and to receive and receipt for such
sums as may be paid on account of the same.
GAY HEAD INDIANS. 289
CHAP. XL VI.
Resolve granting ^GS, for the Indian Proprietors at Gay
Head. February 14th, 1821.
Resolved, That for reasons set forth in the petition of
Joel Rogers and others, Indian Proprietors of Gray Head,
that there be allowed and paid to Matthew Mayhew, Es-
quire, of Chilmark, as Agent for said Indian Proprietors,
the sum of sixty three dollars, to be by him paid to said
Indian Proprietors, in proportion to what each person fur-
nished for the support and charges incurred by said propri-
etors, in the sickness of Joseph De Grass, a foreigner.
CHAP. XLVII.
Resolve to pay the Committee on Accounts.
February 14th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee appoint-
ed to examine and pass on accounts presented against this
Commonwealth, for their attendance on that service during
the present session, the sum of one dollar per day in addi-
tion to their pay as Members of the Legislature, viz. : Hon-
orable Stephen P. Gardner, thirty four days, thirty four
dollars ; Honorable Robert Rantoul, thirty days, thirty
dollars; Honorable Elihu llo'yt, thirty fcrur day sy -thirty
four dollars ; Honorable Jonas Sibley, twenty two days,
twenty two dollars, and Hugo Burghardt, Esquire, twenty
five days, twenty five dollars.
290 WARD LOCK.— LOCATION OF LANDS.
CHAP. XLVni.
llesolvefor paying Ward Loch, Assistant Messenger of the
Governor and Council. February 14th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid from the trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant Mes-
senger of the Governor and Council, two dollars for each
and every day he has been, or may be employed in that ca-
pacity, during the present session of the Council.
CHAP. XLIX.
Resolve relating to the Location of certain Lands.
February 14th, 1821.
Resolved, That the further time of nine months, from the
twenty fourth day of February instant, be allowed for the
location of all grants and conveyances of lands, at any time
heretofore made on the part of the Commonwealth, and not
yet located; which said locations shall be determined and
actually made within the said term of nine months, from the
twenty fourth day of the present month, and not afterwards ;
and it shall be the duty of the Agent of the Land Office to
give to all claimants of such unlocated grants and convey-
ances, notice forthwith, of the time limited for said locations.
' ■ — 7^ '^-—
CHAP. L.
Resolve granting Benjamin Pollard, Esquire, 817 67, for
copies of •Articles of Impeachment against Judge Pres-
cott. February 14th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Benjamin
Pollard, the Clerk of the House, out of the public treasury,
T. WALCUTT.— PAY OF CLERKS. 291
Ihe sum of sixteen dollars and sixty seven cents, in full for
the services of persons employed by him, agreeably to the
order of the House on the third day of February current,
directing him to cause to be made out seven copies of the
articles of impeachment, against James Prescott, Esquire^,
for the use of the Managers of this House, and that His
Excellency the Governor be requested to draw his warrant
on the treasury therefor.
CHAP. LI.
Resolve for paying Thomas Walcutt. February 15tli, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies, for his assistance of the
Members of the Legislature, seventy five dollars, in full for
his services during the present session of the Legislature.
CHAP. LIL
Resolve to pay the Clerks of the Legislature.
February 15th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this
Commonwealth to the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, respectively, seven dollars
per day, and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate, and to
the Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, each,
the sum of five dollars per day, for each and every day they
have, or may be employed in that capacity, during the
present session of the Legislature ; and the Governor is re-
quested to draw his warrant accordingly.
X
292 PAY OF CHAPLAINS. • #
CHAP. LIII.
Resolve for paying the Chaplain of the Senate, and the
Chaplain of the House of Representatives.
February 15th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Reverend John Gr.
Palfrey, Chaplain of the Senate, and to the Reverend Wil-
liam Jenks, Chaplain of the House of Representatives, sixty
dollars each, in full for their services in said oflBce the pre-
sent political year.
V
ROLL, No. 84....JANUARY, 1821
The Committee on Accounts, having examined
the several accounts thej now present.. ..Report,
That there is now due to the Corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their
names respectively, which, when allowed and paid,
will be in full discharge of the accounts to the sev-
eral dates therein mentioned ; which is respectful-
ly submitted.
STEPHEN P. GARDNER, Per Order,
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Adams, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 18tli, 1821, 244 80
Alford, for supporting Edward Griynn, to January
1st, 1821, 3 04
Alfred, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15tli, 1820, 23 00
Augusta, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
ISth, 1820, 27 00
Andover, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1821, 177 03
Amherst, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 10th, 1821, 128 25
294 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Attleborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 195 47
Abington, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 27th, 1821, 29 14
Blan^ord, for supporting sundry paupers, to JajO^-,
uary 13th, 1821, 151 00
Boston, for supporting sundry paupers, to Novem-
ber 30th, 1820, 5064 56
Boston Board of Health, for supporting sundry sick
persons, at Rainsford Island, to January, 1821,
and Hobart's bill, 53 39|
Beverly, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1821, 129 02
Brimfield, for the support of Jonathan Shelburn,
to January 7tli, 1821, 18 00
Belcliertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 12th, 1821, 117 60
Barre, for supporting Samuel Lee and Sally
Thayer, to January 7th, 1821, 78 00
Boxford, for supporting Mehitable Hall, to Janu-
ary 13th, 1821, 32 00
Burlington, for support of Thomas Hardman, and
Jonathan A. Pasho, to January 22d, 1821, 85 49
Becket, for support of Michael Powers, to Janua-
ry 13th, 1821, 2 00
Braintree, for supporting Titus and Mary Ash-
man, and nine children, to January 19th, 1821, 157 50
Billerica, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 15th, 1821, 129 40
Bath, for the support of sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 39 47
Bradford, for the support of Joshua Alsace, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1821, 30 56
Bridgewater, for supporting Jonathan F. Bigner,
to January 30th, 1821. 53 00
Cheshire, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
nary 9th, 1821, 189 10
r
/
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 295
Canton, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 8th, 1821, 87 00
Conway, for supporting Martha McMurphy, to
January 1st, 1821, 49 06
Chester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
- ry 6th, 1821, 152 80
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to January
1st, 1821, 31 00
Colraine, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 3d, 1821, 124 00
Cummington, for the support of Jonathan Lamson,
to January 8th, 1821, 50 29
Chelmsford, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1821, 198 23
Cambridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 26th, 1821, 808 98
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 20th, 1821, 1839 62
Chesterfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 25th, 1821, 162 00
Dartmouth, for the support of Francis Freeman,
and Ann Carter, to January 20th, 1821, 42 00
Deerfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary, 13th, 1821, 217 38
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 23d, 1821, 967 97
Douglas, for supporting Isabella Santee, and her
three children, to January 17th, 1821, 57 40
Dorchester for support of William Grant and John
Field's family, to January 12th, 1821, 66 75
Dracut, for the support of Richard Barker, to Jan-
uary 16th, 1821, 52 00
Durham, for the support of Samuel, Jonathan and
Asa Demerit, to March 15th, 1820, 166 52
Dedham, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 22d, 1821, 14 00
39
296 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Elliot, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 27 92
Essex, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 20th, 1821, 118 66
Egremont, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 8th, 1821, 132 60
Erving's Grant, for supporting Franklin Terry,
to February 4th, 1820, 46 5^
Fairhaven, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 213 20
Framingham, for the support of Lucy Green, to
January 20th, 1821, 23 40
Falmouth, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 19th, 1821, 49 39
Groton, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1821, 367 00
Grafton, for the support of sundry paupers, to De-
cember 25th, 1820, 77 58
Gardner, for the support of John Brinkman, to
January 6th, 1821, 52 00
Gardiner, for the support of Thomas Doyle, to
March 15th, 1820, 73 15
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary, 1821, 439 08
Gill, for the support of Sarah Lyon, to January
15th, 1821, 86 71
Great Barrington, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 3d, 1821, 139 50
Greenwich, for the support of Lot Lee, to Janua-
ry 14th, 1821, 33 42
Greeniield, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 35 42
Granville, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1821, 121 00
Hard wick, for supporting Jacob Freeman and Han-
nah Morgan, to December 11th, 1820, 47 00
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 297
Hopkinton, for supporting sundry paupers^ to Jan-
uary 18th, 1821, ' 202 62
Haverhill, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 9th, 1821, 181 25
Hadley, for supporting Frye and Rebecca Allen,
to January 7th, 1821, 64 00
Hancock, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1821, 135 67
Hall, Joseph, Sheriiff of Suffolk, for supporting
sundry paupers in Gaol, to January 8th, 1821, 486 25
Lynn, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
22d, 1821, 169 29
Longmeadow, for the support of Edward Booth,
to January 18th, 1821, 34 00
Litchfield, for supporting Jerusha Twambley, to
March 15th, 1820, 11 92
Lanesborough, for the support of sundry paupers,
to January 6th, 1821, 114 98
Leyden, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1821, 111 86
Lenox, for the support of sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 9th, 1821, 323 42
Lunenburg, for the support of William Shearer,
to January, 1821, 52 00
Lexington, for supporting Mary Williams, to Jan-
uary 15th, 1821, 8 57
Lee, for the support of sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 10th, 1821, 243 30
Littleton, for supporting Joseph Davenport, and
Jonathan Putnam, to January 10th, 1821, 59 50
Leominster, for supporting Bryan and Huldah
Conley, to their removal in March, 1820, 13 32
Montgomery, for supporting Charles Collins, to
January 1st, 1821, 30 50
Montague, for the support of Edward Potter and
wife; to January 2d, 1821, 64 00
298 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Marshiield, for supporting Samuel Holmes, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1821, 33 00
Medfield, for the support of George Turner, to No-
vember 25th, 1821, 52 00
Milton, for the support of J. J. Myers, and James
Bowman, to January 29th, 1821, A. McDonald, 56 14
Mount Vernon, for the support of sundry paupers,
to March 15th, 1820, 331 00
Marblehead, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 20th, 1821, 293 90
North Yarmouth, for supporting sundry paupers,
to March 15th, 1820, 29 56
Newbury, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 645 26
Norwich, for supporting Ruth Sanford, to Janua-
ry 25th, 1821, 33 57
Northiield, for the support of Amos Ryley, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1821, 32 00
Newton, for the support of Joseph Prichard, to
January, 52 00
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 597 99
Natick, for the support of Israel Boston, to his
death, and funeral expenses, July, 1820, 28 75
Northampton, for the support of sundry paupers,
to March 1st, 1821, 364 87
Orleans, for supporting Walter P. Swaine, to Jan-
uary 6th, 1821, 33 00
Overseers of the Marshpee Indians, for the support
of sundry paupers, to January 13th, 1821, 355 29
Nantucket, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 112 71
Pittsfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary, 1st, 1821, 210 42
Plymouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 16th, 1821, 192 00
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 299
Palmer, for supporting William and Phebe Men-
don, to January 9th, 1821,
Roxbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 3d, 1821,
Readfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820,
Rehoboth, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 5th, 1821,
Russell, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1821,
Richmond, for supporting Rosanna Winston and
Samuel Hill, to January 19th, 1821,
Rowley, for the support of Ella Collins and Ja-
cob Vinton, to January 5th, 1821,
Rutland, for the support of William Henderson,
to January 7th, 1821,
Reading, for the support of Nathaniel Ingersol, to
January 9th, 1821,
Sharon, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 21st, 1821,
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
2d, 1821,
Swanzey, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 6th, 1821,
Seekonk, for supporting several paupers, to Janu-
ary, 15th, 1821,
Somerset, for supporting William Elliot, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1821,
Stockbridge, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 2d, 1821,
Shrewsbury, for supporting Abraham Fecunder,
to his death, and funeral expenses, J anuary 15th,
1821,
Saugus, for the support of Margaret Evans and
child, to September 1st, 1820,
104 90
264 91
101
34
290 00
125
31
68
00
63
27
112 00
18 28
87
66
2351
06
68 95
105
75
52
00
240 00
13 00
17
25
300 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Shelburne, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 15th, 1821, 84 15
Springfield, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 3d, 1821, 237 95
Stow, for supporting Henry Stinker, his wife and
two children, to the time he left the place, 15 GO
Sheffield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 24th, 1821, 197 12
Sandwich, for the support of Esther and Mason
Raymond, to January 16th, 1821, 66 GO
Shirley, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1821, 174 76
Sudbury, for supporting William Harrison, to his
death, and funeral expenses, January, 1821, 6 25
South Brimfield, for the support of Eliza Black-
man and John Hill, to January 5tli, 1821, 83 28
Sunderland, for support of William Russell and
Gars^tt Hacker, to January 1st, 1821, 31 74
Taunton, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 31st, 182G, 398 60
Townsend, for supporting Tom Thomas, to May
IGth, 1820, 11 00
Tyringham, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 245 68
Uxbridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 29th, 1821, 43 92
Wasliington, for supporting James Robbins, to
January 16th, 1821, 33 63
West Newbury, for the support of Sophia Patten,
to January, 31 16
Whately, for the support of Benjamin Mather and
Widow Bacon, to January 10th, 1821, 53 99
Westborough, for the support of sundry paupers,
to January 16th, 1821, 161 22
Walpole, for the support of Eliza Ellis and James
Walker, to January 13th, 1821, 81 60
/ PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 301
Wilbralianij for the support of sundry paupers, to
May 25th, 1820, 148 53
Wayne, for the support of sundry paupers, to
March 16th, 1820, 21 14
Western, for the support of Sally Trims and Sam-
uel P. Tracey, to January 1st, 1821, 23 72
Williamstown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 8th, 1821, 283 82
Warwick, for support of Polly Cezar and two
children, to January 11th, 1821, 16 00
Wareham, for support of William Long, to Janu-
ary 13th, 1821; 52 00
West Stockbridge, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1821, 99 00
Westford, for support of James Peirce, to January
11th, 1821, 31 00
Wrentham, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1821, 134 20
Warren, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1820, 46 41
Watertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 25th, 1821, 153 32
Worcester, for supporting several paupers, and
persons in Graol, to January 1st, 1821, 101 54
Westhampton, for support of sundry paupers, to
January 3d, 1821, 64 00
Westfield, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1821, 184 48
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Correc-
tion in the County of Essex, for supporting sun-
dry paupers, including an alloAvance made him
by the Court of Sessions, 356 50
Yarmouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1821, 136 19
Total Paupers, 1827,980 89
/
.302 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Courts Martial, and Courts of Inquiry.
Fairbanks, Stephen, for the expense of a Court
Martial, held at Boston, October 12th, 1820,
whereof Colonel Washington Cashing was Pre-
sident, 100 01
Heard, Nathan, for the expense of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Charlton, September 19th, 1820,
whereof Colonel William Crawford was Pre-
sident, 116 88
Wilder, Nathaniel, for the expense of a Court
Martial, held at Bridge water. May 23d, 1820,
whereof Brigadier General Elijah Cobb was
President, 272 09
Forster, William, for house use and firewood, for
a Court of Inquiry, 20 00
Brigade Majors and Aids-de- Camp.
Fisher, Freeman, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, to
March, 1820, 34 05
Heard, Nathan, Junior, 1st Brigade, 7th Division,
to January, 1821, 25 67
Barnard, Robert F. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 25 65
Cobb, David Gr. W. 2d Brigade, 5th Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 23 50
Gilbert, Thomas, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 33 50
Hopkins, Thomas, Aid, 9tli Division, to January
15th, 1821, 17 55
Coffin, Timothy G. Aid, 5th Division, to January
15th, 1821, 31 85
Frost, John, Aid, 6th Division, to March 15th,
1820, 6 02
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 303
Fairbanks, Stephen, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 28 64
Perley, Thomas, 1st Brigade, 12th Division, to
March 15th, 1821, 118 67
Smith, John, Junior, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 40 11
Sexton, Jonathan A. Aid, 4th Division, to Janu-
ary, 1821, 19 05
Thayer, Minot, Aid, 1st Division, to January
15th, 1821, 43 40
Thayer, Samuel M. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to
January 15th, 1821, 45 95
Vernam, Benjamin F. Aid, 3d Division, to Janu-
ary 15th, 1821, 21 25
Wilder, Nathaniel, Junior, 1st Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 23 07
Brigade Quarter Masters.
Ames, Nathan, to March 15th, 1821, 15 79
Tiffany, Bela, to January, 1820, 24 00
Hauling Artillery.
Tufts, Francis, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary, 1821, 20 00
Slade, John, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janu-
ary, 1821, 20 00
Stone, Joseph, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janu-
ary, 1821, 10 00
40
\
304 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Adjutants.
Allen, CharleSj 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, Tth Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1821, 12 50
Bishop, Henry W. 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 9tli
Division, to January 15th, 1821, 11 74
Billings, Asahel, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to March 15th, 1820, 25 50
Bemis, Isaac, Junior, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January 15th, 1821, 20 38
Coolidge, Nathaniel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
4th Division, to January, 1821, 15 00
Cushing, Ned, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1821, 32 27
Cram, Levi, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 10th Division,
to March 15th, 1820, 15 05
Clioate, William, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 15th, 1821, 10 48
Clapp, William W. 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade,
1st Division, to January 15th, 1821, 16 50
Carey, Leonard, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to February, 1820, 10 00
Chase, James, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 13th Di-
vision, to March 15th, 1820, 22 33
Day, Alfred, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 1st Division,
to January 15th, 1821, 30 94
Edwards, Elisha, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1821, 20 20
Frost, Elisha, Artillery, 1st Brigade, ad Divi-
sion, to January 15th, 1821, 27 10
Gates, Abraham, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1821, 15 00
Gragg, Moses, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1821, 51 06
Haskins, Robert R. Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 10th
Division, to March 15th, 1820, 9 95
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 305
Haskell, Joseph, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 5th Divi-
sion, to October 1st, 1820, 15 00
Hamblin, Joseph, 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January, 1821, 15 00
Low, Joseph L. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 16 94
Lincoln, Asa, 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 10 35
Mayhew, Greorge, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1821, 17 20
Mann, Ebenezer, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1821, 24 98
Miles, Josiah, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 40 85
Newcomb, H. Gr. 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to April 8th, 1820, 1 97
Osborn, George, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to April 3d, 1821, 12 36
Osborn, Richard, Junior, 5th Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 2d Division, to January, 1821, 14 06
Pynchion, George, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 9th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 6 06
Rockwell, Uzael, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1821, 14 68
Rogers, Daniel W. 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1821, 13 13
Sexton, George, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 9th
Division, to January 15th, 1821, 15 00
Sturtevant, John A. Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 5tli Di-
vision, to January 1821, 30 02
Sever, James, Junior, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade,
5th Division, to January, 1820, 17 88
Sargent, Patten, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to September, 1820, 13 26
Salmon, William, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, lOtli
^ Division, to March 15th, 1820, 108 97
306 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Sales, llichard, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion, to January 15 th, 1821, 43 10
Tucker, Seth, Artillery, 1st Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 1st Division, to January 15th, 1821, 33 98
Thompson, C. 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, lltli
Division, to March 15th, 1820, 127 79
Taylor, Henry, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 13 78
Thompson, Arad, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 15th, 1821, 12 50
Treadwell, Thomas, 4tli Regiment, 1st Brigade,
10th Division, to March 15tli, 1820, 68 13
Wright, Simeon W. 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
9th Division, to January, 1821, 10 06
Wright, David, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 4fch Divi-
sion, to January, 1821, 18 12
Wild, W. C. 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 8th Di-
vision, to March 15th, 1820, 29 12
Wild, Jonathan, Junior, 3d Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 1st Division, to January, 1821, 43 75
Bailey, Holloway, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 15th, 1821, 19 86
Newhall, Joseph W. 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January 15th, 1821, 15 00
Bent, James, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion, to February 4th, 1820, 29 73
Sedgwick, Charles, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 9th Di-
vision, to January, 1821, 3 57
Brigade Majors^ and other Military Services.
Carr, Joshua W. 1st Brigade, 10th Division, to
March 15th, 1820, 25 37
Sampson, Jo, 3d Brigade, 5tli Division, to May
25th, 1820, 22 05
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS. 307
Yarnum, Joseph B. Major General, for two clays'
investigating a dispute in Colonel Bowers' Reg-
iment, 10 00
Williams, John S. for summoning to a Court of
Inquiry, in addition to Avhat he was allowed
before, 2 94
Jackson, Greorge, for his attendance as a witness
at a Court of Inquiry, 1 50
Haskell, Jonah, for his attendance as a witness at
a Court of Inquiry, 1 50
Morse, Moses L. Adjutant, 5tli Regiment, 1st Bri-
gade, 7tli Division, to January, 1821, 15 00
Total Military Accounts, 82,417 26
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Austin, Nathaniel, Sheriff of Middlesex County,
for returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 23 83
Brown, Henry C. Sheriff of Berkshire County,
for returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 302 70
Crane, Elijah, Sheriff of Norfolk County, for re-
turning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 53 49
Davis, Wendell, Sheriff of Barnstable County, for
returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 14 00
Goodwin, Ichabod, Sheriff of York County, for
returning votes, &c. to March 15th, 1820, 21 25
Hoyt, Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 42 00
Lyman, Joseph, Sheriff of Hampshire County, for
returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 50 00
Leonard, Horatio, Sheriff of Bristol County, for
returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 19 20
Lawrence, Jeremiah, Sheriff of Nantucket County,
for returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 81 60
Robbins, Chandler, Sheriff of Kennebeck County,
for returning votes, &c. to March 15th, 1820, 17 00
f
308 MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Hayward, N. Sheriff of Plymouth County, for re-
turning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 38 60
Ward, Thomas W. Sheriff of Worcester County,
for returning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 35 55
Worth, Jethro, Sheriff of Dukes' County, for re-
turning votes, &c. to January, 1821, 39 28
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to January, 1821, 124 38
Chapel, William, Junior, Coroner of Berkshire
County, for taking an inquisition, &c. to Janu-
ary, 1821, 16 00
Foot, Enoch, Coroner of Essex County, for taking
an inquisition, &c. to January, 1821, 13 40
Groodwin, Nathaniel, Coroner of York County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to March 15th, 1820, 20 00
Lang, William, Coroner of Essex County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to January, 1821, 14 20
Pike, Joseph, Coroner of Essex County, for taking
an inquisition, &c. to January, 1821, 16 90
Stowers, Joseph, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to January, 1821, 17 33
Withington, Elbenezer, Coroner of Norfolk Coun-
ty, for taking an inquisition, &c. to January,
1821, 18 33
Total Sheriffs' and Coroners' Accounts, S979 04
MISCELLANEOUS AND PRINTEUS' ACCOUNTS.
Committee to examine the Treasurer's Account,
the past year, viz. :
Honorable John Welles, 14 00
ii Robert Rantoul, - - - - 14 00
« John Hooper, 14 00
" Jonas Sibley, 14 00
Lemuel Shaw, Esquire, - - - - - 14 00
jg70 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS. 309
Committee to examine and settle with the Com-
missioners of the Land Office, and reported at
the present session, viz. :
Honorable P. C. Brooks,
" John Welles,
Warren Dutton, Esquire, - - - - -
Sherman Leland, Esquire, - _ . _
' S36 00
Woods, Sampson, Esquire, for procuring, and
bringing forward witnesses, before a Commit-
tee of the House of Representatives, to inquire
into the conduct of James Prescott, Esquire,
Judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex;
said persons are named in said Woods' account,
with the sum each person is entitled to, January
30th, 1821, 103 58
Low, John V. Assistant Messenger to the General
Court, twenty nine days, to February 10th,
1821, 58 00
Bacon, Henry, Assistant Messenger to the General
Court, twenty nine days, to February 10th,
1821, 58 00
Cutting, Elijah W. Assistant Messenger to the
General Court, twenty nine days, to February
10th, 1821, 58 00
Chase, Warren, Assistant Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, thirty one days, to February 10th,
1821, 62 00
Rider, Margaret, for her son, as Page to the House
of Representatives, twenty eight days, to Feb-
ruary 10th, 1821, 28 00
Allen, Phineas, for printing Acts and Resolves,
for the year 1820, 16 67
Denio & Phelps, for printing Acts and Resolves,
for the year 1820, 16 67
310 MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Ballard & Wright, for advertising, &c. to Janu-
ary 1st, 1821, 12 50
Clapp, William W. for printing Acts and Re-
solves, and advertising, to January 26tli, 1821, 19 41
Loring, James, for two dozen Registers, for the
Council Chamber, 20 00
Russell, Benjamin, by Russell and Gardner, for
all kinds of printing for the Government, Con-
vention, &c. to February 10th, 1821, 734 83
Boston Board of Health, for repairs at Rainsford
Island, to January 15th, 1821, 437 47
Agricultural Society of Massachusetts, for exper-
iments at the Botanical Garden, and Wells &
Lilly, for printing Journal, to February, 1821, 1000 00
Russell, Benjamin, for printing of all kinds for
the Government, to January 1st, 1821, 80 17
Wheeler, John H. for work and materials, for and
about the State House, to January 1st, 1821, 271 92
Lincoln, Amos, for work and materials, for the
State House, to 1821, 58 50
Burditt, James W. for stationary, &c. furnished
the Government, to February 8th, 1821, 223 38
Otis & Thaxter, for boards, plank and timber, for
the State House, to February 8th, 1821, 20 42
Bird, Abraham, for lumber, &c. furnished for the
State House, to February 8th, 1821, 39 07
How, Thomas & Robert, for labor and materials,
for the State House, to February 8th, 1821, 19 00
Bradley, Samuel, for a variety of materials, fur-
nished for the State House, to February 8th,
1821, 45 92
Thompson, James, for articles furnished for the
State House, to February 8th, 1821, 74 32
Durant, William, for cleaning and furnishing glass,
to February 8th, 1821, 35 00
KESOLVE TO ROLL, NO. a4. 311
Blaney, Henry, for work and materials, for the
State House, to February 8th, 1821, 47 45
Russell and Gardner, for paper and printing for
the several Offices, and for other printing for
Grovernraent, 695 97
Clark, Greorge, for four reams of paper, for the
Secretary's Office, to February 12th, 1821, 19 00
Total Miscellaneous Accounts, 84,361 25
Aggregate of Roll, JVo. 84.
jixpense of State Paupers, - - - - 27,980 89
^' « of Militia, 2,417 26
(' « of Sheriffs and Coroners, - - 979 04
' " for Miscellaneous Expenses, - - 4,361 25
. S35,738 44
* JResolvedy That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this Roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions and persons' names, respectively, amounting in the
. whole to the sum of Thirty Five Thousand, Seven Hun-
dred, Thirty Eight Dollars and Forty Four Cents ; the
same being in full discharge of the accounts and demands
to which they refer.
February IQth, 1820 Approved,
JOHN BROOKS.
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I*'
RESOLVES
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT A SESSION, BEG^N^fING APRIL THE SEVENTEENTH, AND
ENDING APRIL THE TWENTY EIGHTH, EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE.
CHAP. LV.
Governor's Message. April 18th, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
During the late recess, 1 received from the Executive of
the State of Maine, sundry resolutions of the Legislature of
that State, ratifying and confirming the agreement made and
concluded by and between a Committee appointed by a re-
solve of the Legislature of this Commonwealth, passed the
third of February last, on the one part, and a Committee ap-
pointed by a resolve of the State of Maine, passed the
twenty ninth of January last, on the other part ; by vy^hich
agreement the Commonwealth engages, for the considetation
expressed in the said agreement, to sell and convey to the
State of Maine, all the right, title and interest of the Com-
monwealth, in and unto all the lands owned by the Com-
monwealth, which lie within the limits of the State of
Maine. During the same period, I received a communica-
tion from the Governor of the State of Maryland, accom-
panied by a report of a Committee of the Senate, and sundry
resolutions of the Legislature of that State, relative to the
appropriation of public lands, the common property of the
Union, for the purposes of education.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 313
I have likewise received from the Governor of the State
of Illinois, sundry resolutions of the Legislature of that
State, relating to an amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, proposed to the consideration of the several
States by the State of Pennsylvania ; to another amendment,
proposed by the State of Vermont, for forming the several
States into districts for the choice of Representatives in the
Congress, and for the appointment of Electors of President
and Vice President of the United Statfes ; and to another
amendment proposed by the State of Kentucky, for restrict-
ing the power of Congress in varying the compensation of
its members.
All the abovementioned documents will be laid before
you by the Secretary.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber f April ISth) 1821.
CHAP. LVI.
Resolve authorizing the Town of Beverly to elect a Collec-
tor of Taxes, April 25th, 1821.
Resolved, That the inhabitants of the Town of Beverly
shall be, and they are hereby authorized to elect a Collector
of Taxes for said town, at the annual May meeting for the
present year ; the choice of such an officer not having beeu
made at the annual March meeting, as by law provided ;
and the Collector so chosen, shall have the same powers as
if he had been chosen at the regular time.
CHAP. LVII.
Resolve on petition of John Russell and others.
April 28th, 1821.
On the petition of John Russell, Simon Gardner, Edward
Renouf; and Samuel H. Bridge, praying that the Solicitor
f
314 SALE OF EASTERN LANDS.
General may be directed to refrain from a further prosecu-
tion of certain suits instituted against them :
Mesolved, That for the reasons set forth in said petition,
the Solicitor General be, and he hereby is directed and em-
powered, on the payment of all costs that have accrued, to
stay all further proceeding, in the suits instituted by him in
behalf of this Commonwealth against the aforesaid petition-
ers, for an alleged breach of an act, entitled *< an act regu-
lating the management and drawing of lotteries in certain
cases, within this Commonwealth,^' by advertising a scheme
and having in possession, with intent to sell and negotiate
tickets of a certain lottery called the N ational Lottery.
CHAP. LVIII.
Resolve referring the subject of the Sale of Eastern Lands j
to the State of Maine, April 28th, 1821.
Whereas the contract made by and between the respect-
ive Committees of Massachusetts and Maine, on the subject
of the Eastern Lands, have been referred by the House of
Representatives to the next session of the General Court :
And whereas this reference has not taken place from any
decided disapprobation of the terms of that contract, on the
part of the House, but in consequence of the greatness of the
subject, and its important bearings upon the interests of this
Commonwealth, and because, at the present session, inas-
much as it is of an extraordinary nature, and for a special
purpose, and has been attended by very few members, it
could not, in the apprehension of the members present, be
so intelligently discussed, or satisfactorily decided, as at a
usual session, and with a full representation of all the people
of the Commonwealth : Therefore,
Resolved, That the Legislature of this Commonwealth
will, at the next session of the General Court, take the said
contract into consideration, and decide upon the expediency
of accepting or rejecting the same.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor of this
Commonwealth be requested to communicate the preceding
resplution to the Governor of the State of Maine, for the
PAY OF WITNESSES. 315
purpose of apprising the Legislature and people of that
State of the reasons which have occasioned this postpone-
ment ; and of indicating the willingness of the Legislature
of this State, by thus leaving the contract open to both
States, to give to each an opportunity for a farther and more
full reflection upon the subject : to the end to any arrange-
ment which may take place, may, with more certainty,
eventuate in the perfect satisfaction of the people of both
States.
CHAP. LIX.
Resolve to pay Witnesses on Trial of Judge Prescott.
April 28th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of the Commonwealth, to the following persons, the
sum set against their names respectively, for their travel,
attendance and services, as witnesses or officers, in the trial
of the impeachment against James Prescott, Enquire.
To Isaac Fiske, twenty two dollars and eight cents.
Benjamin Dix, seven dollars and twenty four cents.
Abel Tarbell, ten dollars and fifty four cents.
Jonathan Loring, ten dollars and thirty cents.
Peter Stevens, eight dollars and twenty eight cents.
Lemuel Parker, eight dollars and twenty cents.
Joseph Butterfield, ten dollars and thirty cents.
Alpheus Ware, thirteen dollars and nine cents.
Amos Wood, two dollars and fifty cents.
Josiah Crosby, six dollars and sixty cents.
Samuel Whitney, six dollars and sixty cents.
John Walker, eight dollars and fifty four cents.
Benjamin Wyman, seven dollars and five cents.
John Wood, eight dollars and fifty four cents.
Joseph Parker, three dollars and seventy five cents.
Rufus Brewer, one dollar and sixty nine cents.
Nathaniel Austin, one dollar and fifty six cents.
Sampson Woods; twenty dollars and twenty eight cents.
316 INVENTORY OF MILITARY STORES.
And that the Governor be requested to draw his warrant
on the treasury for the payment of the same.
CHAP. LX.
Resolve authorizing the appointment of two persons to make
an Inventory of Military Stores in the Qiiarter Master
GeneraVs Department. April 28th, 1821.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
hereby is authorized, by and with the consent and advice of
the Council, to appoint two suitable persons to make a full
and complete inventory, in kind, quantity and quality, of all
public property now in the department of the Quarter Mas-
ter General ; and to draw his warrant on the treasury for
the amount of their reasonable compensation for the services
which they may render in virtue of this resolve.
Resolved further, That the Adjutant General be, and he
hereby is authorized and empowered to employ an additional
Clerk in his office, until the end of the first session of the
next General Court.
CHAP. LXI.
Resolve granting Jacob ICuhn two hundred dollars to pur-
chase necessaries for the General Court,
April 28th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this*
Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the General
Court, the sum of two hundred dollars, to enable him to
purchase such articles, as may be necessary for the use of
the General Court, together with the Governor and Council
Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasurer's, and Adjutant Gen-
eral's Offices ; he to be accountable for the expenditure of
the same.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 317
CHAP. LXII.
Hesolve to pay the Clerks of the General Court.
April 28th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth, to Samuel F. McCleary,
Clerk of the Senate, and Benjamin Pollard, Clerk of the
House of Representatives, eighty four dollars each ; and to
John Farrie, Junior, Assistant Clerk of the Senate, sixty
dollars, in full for their services in said offices the present
session of the General Court.
Also, that there be paid as aforesaid, to the Clerk of the
Senate, the further sum of ninety dollars, in full for his ser-
vices as Clerk of the Court of Impeachment, for the trial of
James Prescott, Esquire, previous to the present session,
including his services in making up the record thereof, and
certifying a copy to His Excellency the Governor, agreeably
to a vote of the Senate.
CHAP. LXIII.
Governor's Message. April 23d, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
By an act passed on the sixteenth of February last, provi-
sion was made for transferring the duties of the Quarter Mas-
ter General to the Adjutant General. Since which time, it has
occurred to me that it would be proper, and for the interest
of the Commonwealth, that an accurate survey should be had
of all the cannon, muskets, and other munitions of war, de-
posited in the arsenals of the State. Many of the articles
which were accumulated during the late war, and were then
deemed indispensably necessary for the public defence, are
now superfluous, and some of them are liable to injury and
decay for want of use. Should a survey be appointed, and
318 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
on examination it should be found that some of the military
stores might be disposed of, the Commonwealth, by adopting
that measure, would not only realize the avails of the sale
of such articles ; but, by reducing the quantity, might save
some expenses annually, which would otherwise be requisite
for their preservation. But besides considerations of a pru-
dential and economical nature, the transfer, at the present
time, of a great but indeiinite amount of property, to an
officer who is to be considered as accountable for its safety,
and the necessity of an accurate inventory of all tlie muni-
tions of war being provided, with a view to a just division
of the same with the State of Maine, are in my mind con-
clusive reasons in favor of the measure now suggested.
In order to place the subject of the ordnance stores be-
longing to the Commonwealth, together with that of trans-
ferring the care of the same to the Adjutant General, in a
more distinct and specific form before you, I shall here-
with submit to your consideration the report of the Honora-
ble Richard Sullivan and the Honorable Thomas Greenleaf,
w^ho were appointed an executive Committee on the sixteenth
of February last, to inspect the arsenals of the Common-
wealtli, and other repositories of the property appertaining
to the Quarter Master General's Department, preparatory to
the transfer of the same to the care of the Adjutant General.
That report, and a letter from Brigadier General Sumner,
the Adjutant General of the State, dated the eleventh instant,
which will at the same time be laid before you, will furnish
the two Houses with the best information I possess on the
subject to which I invite your attention.
With the documents already mentioned, the Secretary
will lay before you a memorial of Brigadier General Davis,
the Quarter Master General, agreeably to the wishes of that
officer, on the subject of the act for transferring the duties of
the Quarter Master General's Department to the Adjutant
General.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, <April 23rf, 1821.
INDEX
TO THE RESOLVES PASSED IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND APRIL, 1821,
A.
Adjutant General to have a Second Clerk for a limited time, - 316
B.
Bank, Cumberland, Treasurer to refund gl 000, - - - 280
Beverly, to choose Collector of Taxes, at May meeting, - - 313
Bridge, at Chester, tax for building, ----- 282
c.
Chaplains of Legislature, allowance to, - - - - - 292
Claims on United States, 288
Clerks of Legislature, allowance to, . - _ - 291, 317
Chester, Bridge, to be built by county tax, - _ - - 282
Committee on Accounts, __---.-. 289
County taxes granted, ----...- 285
D.
Drowne, Catharine, deed of land to be given her, and others, - 287
G.
Gay Head Indians, 289
Governor's Message, - - - 278, 280, 284, 287, 312, 317
L
Iron, old, Messenger to sell it, - - - - - - 280
Indians at Gay Head, - -.- - - - - - 289
L.
Land Office, Agent of, petition respecting deed to C. Drowne, - 287
Lands in Maine, proposal for selling, . - - 283, 285, 314
« location of, 290
Lock, Ward, Assistant Messenger, 2j90
INDEX.
M.
Maine, Public Lands in, proposal to sell, - - - 283,285,314
Messenger to sell Old Iron, 280
" money allowed for expenses, 280
P.
Pease, Naomi, empowered to give a deed to T. Pomeroy, - 278
Pittsfield, Taxes in, for 1815, 1816 and 1817, to be collected, - 282
Precinct, Second, in Rochester, doings made valid, - - - 281
Prison, State, appropriation for, 279
Pollard, Benjamin, allowance to, - - - - - - 290
Prescott, Judge, Witnesses in his trial paid, - _ - . 315
Q.
Quarter Master General's Department, account of articles in, to be
taken, 316
R.
Rochester, doings of First Parish made valid, - - - 281
Russell, John, and others, not to be prosecuted for advertising
tickets, •--- 314
State Prison, appropriation for, 279
Sparhawk, Benjamin, pension, 288
T.
Taxes in Pittsfield, to be collected for 1815, 1816 and 1817, - 282
" for several counties, granted, 285
Treasurer to refund g 1000 to Cumberland Bank, - - - 280
" to borrow money, - 286
Tilton, Nathan F. pension, 288
U.
United States, claims on, - - - 288
W.
Walcutt, Thomas, allowance to, 291
Witnesses in trial of Judge Prescott, paid, 315
CjomioaonweaVtl^ oi Massacliusetts.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE, MAY 10, 1821.
BF THIS I CERTIFY, That the Resolves contained in this pam-
phlet, have been compared with the originals in this ofiBce, and appear to
be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD,
Secretary of Commonwealth.
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
CommottUjealtJ) of JHIajS^atliu^ettjJ,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY. THE THIRTIETH OF MAY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE SIXTEENTH OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of the 16th of January, 1813<
BOSTON:
BENJAMIN RUSSELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE.
Printed by Russell and Gardner.
1821.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
FOR THE POLITICAL YEAR 1821....22.
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN BROOKS, ESQUIRE,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, ESQUIRE,
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
COUNCIL.
HON. SAMUEL CROCKER,
" SILAS HOLMAN,
'i RICHARD SULLIVAN,
" THOMAS GREENLEAF,
^^ DANIEL NOBLE,
'i WILLIAM REED,
" SAMUEL PORTER,
" ABRAHAM HOLMES,
" JOSEPH LOCKE.
ALDEN BRADFORD, ESQUIRE,
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
HONORABLE DANIEL SARGENT,
TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
SENATE.
HONORABLE JOHN PHILLIPS,
PRESIDEJ^T.
SUFFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. John Phillips, Hon. Warren Dutton,
John Welles, Lemuel Shaw,
Jonathan Hunewell, Joseph Tilden.
ESSEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Israel Bartlett, Hon. Hobart Clark,
Robert Rantoul, John Glen King.
Ebenezer Moseley,
MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Joseph B. Varnum, Hon. William Austin.
William Whittemore,
PLYMOUTH DISTRICT.
Hon. John Thomas, Hon. William Bourne.
NORFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. Benjamin Reynolds, Hon. John Ruggles.
BRISTOL DISTRICT.
Hon. John M. Williams, Hon, Oliver Starkweather.
BENATE. 321
BARNSTABLE, DUKES' COUNTY AND
NANTUCKET DISTRICT.
Hon. Elijah Cobb.
WORCESTER DISTRICT.
Hon, Aaron Tufts, Hon. John Shepley^
Salem Town, Jr. Nathaniel Jones.
HAMPSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Elihu Hoyt, Hon. Mark Doolittle,
Jonathan D wight, Jr. Alanson Knox.
BERKSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Phinehas Allen, Hon. Lemuel Moffitt.
SAMUEL F. M'CLEARY, Esq. Clerk.
JOHN FARRIE, Jr. Esq. Assistant Clerk.
Rev. JOHN PIERPONT, Chaplain.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
HONORABLE JOSIAH QUINCY9
SPEAKER,
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Boston^, Josiah Quincy,
Benjamin Russell,
, Thomas H. Perkins,
William Prescott,
' William Tudor,
Lynde Walter,
James Savage,
Benjamin West,
Nathan Appleton,
John Cotton,
Gedney King,
Enoch Silsby,
Peter C. Brooks,
Joseph Lovering,
George W. Otis,
Nathan Hale,
Jonathan Phillips,
Heman Lincoln,
Edmund Winchester,
Francis C. Oray,
Theodore Lyman, Junior,
Henry Bass,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 323
Boston,
Chelsea.
Ameshury,
Andover,
Beverly,
Boxford,
Bradford,
Danvers,
Essex,
Gloucester,
Hamilton,
Haverhill,
Ipswich,
Lynn,
Lynnfield,
Manchester,
Marhlehead,
Methuen,
Middleton,
JSTewhury,
JVeivburyport,
Rowley,
Salem,
Eliphalet Williams,
William Shimmin,
Francis J. Oliveit".
ESSEX.
Stephen Sargent.
Stephen Barker.
Josiah Lovett.
Moses Dorman.
William Grreenougli.
Nathan Felton.
William W. Parrott.
Moses Wingate.
John Choate.
Ezra Mudge.
John Hooper.
Benjamin Osgood.
Silas Little.
Stephen W. Marston,
Abner Wood.
Solomon Nelson, Junior.
Nathaniel Silsbee,
Stephen White,
Michael Sheppard,
Joseph Ropes,
Joseph E. Sprague,
David Cummins,
Nathaniel Frothingham,
John Punchard,
Benjamin W. Crowninshield,
Joseph Winn.
324 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Salishuryy
Samuel Marsh.
Saugus,
Abijah Cheever.
Topsfield^
Wenham,
West JS'ewhury,
Daniel Emery.
»
MIDDLESEX.
Acton,
Joseph Noyes.
Ashhy,
Bedford,
William Webber.
Billerica,
Joseph Locke.
Brighton, »
Gorham Parsons.
Burlington,
Cambridge,
William Hilliard.
Carlisle,
John Heald.
Charlestown,
Thomas Harris,
John H. Brown,
Philemon R. Russell
Chelmsford,
Jonathan Perham.
Concord,
John Keyes.
Dracut,
Dunstable,
East Sudbury,
Micah M. Rutter.
Framingham,
John Trowbridge.
Groton,
Luther Lawrence.
Holliston,
John Mellen.
Hopkinton,
Lexington,
Nathan Chandler.
Lincoln,
Elijah Fiske.
Littleton,
Jonathan Manning.
Maiden,
Marlborough,
Silas Shelton.
Medford,
Turell Tufts.
JSTatick,
JSTewtdn,
Joseph Jackson.
Pepperell,
Abel Jewett. .
Heading,
Daniel Flint.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 335
Sherburne,
Calvin Sanger.
Shirley,
South Reading,
John Hart.
Stoneham,
Stow and Boxhorough,
Augustus Tower.
Sudbury,
Isaac Gribbs.
Tewksbury,
Townsend,
Aaron Warren.
Tyngsborough,
Waltham,
Luke Fiske.
Watertown,
Levi Thaxter.
West Cambridge,
Thomas Russell.
Westford,
Thomas Fletcher.
Weston,
George W. Smith.
Wilmington,
Woburn,
John Wade.
WORCESTER.
Ashburnham,
Joseph Jewett.
Mhol,
James Humphreys.
Barre,
Oliver Harding.
Berlin,
Amos Sawyer.
Bolton,
Bernard Nurse.
Boylston,
Aaron White.
Brookfield,
Joseph W. Hamilton,
Charlton,
Samuel Hall.
Dana,
Douglas,
Dudley,
William Winsor.
Fitchburg,
Gardner,
Gerry,
Grafton,
Hardwick,
Timothy Paige.
Harvard,
Holden,
Ethan Davis.
Hubbardston,
Daniel Woodward.
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336 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Lancaster,
Leicester,
Leominster,
Lunenburg,
Mendon,
Milford,
Milhury,
^ew Braintree,
JSTorthborough,
J\f*orthbridge,
JSTorth Brookfield,
Oakham,
Oxford,
Paxton,
Petersham,
Princeton,
Phillipston,
Hoyalston,
Midland,
Shrewsbury,
Southborough,
Southbridge,
Spencer,
Sterling,
Sturbridge,'
Sutton,
Templeton,
Upton,
Uxbridge,
Ward,
TVestborough,
West Boylston,
Western,
Westminster,
Winchendon,
Worcester,
Jacob Fislier.
John Hobart.
Jonas Kendall.
Daniel Thurber.
Pearly Hunt.
Gideon Delano.
Abijali Davis.
Samuel Harrington >
David Rice.
John Doane.
Rufus Bullock.
Joel Davis.
Dexter Fay.
Calvin Amidown.
James Wilder,
Luther Rugg.
Jonas Sibley.
Ezra Wood.
Bazalael Taft, Junior.
Oliver Bliss.
Abraham Lincoln.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
3^7
JlmJierst,
Belchertowriy
Chesterfield,
Cummington,
Easihamjptoriy
Enfield,
GosJieriy
Granhy,
Greenwich,
Hadley,
Hatfield,
Middlefield,
JSTorthampton,
JSTorwich,
Pelham,
Plainfield,
South Hadley,
Southampton,
Ware,
JVesthampton,
JVilliamsburg,
Worthington,
Blanford,
Brimfield,
Chester,
Granville,
Holland,
liOngmeadow,
Ludlow,
Monson,
J\Iontgomery,
Palmer,
Mussell,
South Brimfield,
HAMPSHIRE.
Nathan Franklin.
Joseph Bridgman, Junior.
Thaddeus Clapp.
Jesse Forbes.
Eli Dickinson.
Charles P. Phelps^
James Dickinson.
Elijah Warner.
Joseph Strong, Junior^
John Wells.
Trowbridge Ward.
HAMPDEN.
David Blair, Junior.
Stephen Pynchon.
Horace Smith.
Joel Root.
Oliver Bliss.
Abijah Newell.
Samuel Webber.
338 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
South wick,
Joseph Forward.
Sjpringfield,
George Bliss.
Tolland,
Henry Hamilton.
Wesfjield,
James Fowler.
West Sjjringfield f
Caleb Rice.
Wilbraham.
FRANKLIN.
Mijleldj
Barnardston,
Hatsel Purple.
Bucklandf
Joseph Grriswold.
Charlemontf
Stephen Bates.
Colraine,
Robert L. McClallen
Conway,
Joel Parsons.
Deerjield,
Rufus Saxton.
Gill,
Greenfield,
Solomon Smead.
Hawley,
Heath,
Ephraim Hastings.
Leverettf
Leyden,
George Mawry.
Montague,
JSTew Salem,
Varney Pearce.
J^torthfield,
Orange,
Howe,
Selburne,
William Wells.
Shutesbury,
Sunderland,
Warwick,
Caleb Mayo.
Wendell,
Joshua Greene.
Whately,
Ervin Grant.
BERKSHIRE.
Adams,
Richmond Brown.
Mford,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
339
Becket,
Cheshire,
Clarksburg, ^
Dalton,
Egremont,
Florida,
Great Barrington,
Gore,
Hancock,
Hinsdale,
Lanesborough,
Lee,
Lenox,
Mount Washington,
JVew Jlshford,
J\*ew Marlborough,
Otis,
Peru,
Pittsfield,
Richmond,
Sandisfield,
Southjield,
Savoy,
Sheffield,
Stockbridge,
Tyringham,
Washington,
West Stockbridge,
Williamstown,
Windsor,
Zoar.
Bellingham,
Braintree,
Brookline,
George Conant.
Francis Fisk.
Isaac L. Vandeusen.
John Gardner.
John Young.
Gershom Bassett.
Charles Mattoon.
Zenas Wheeler.
Lestei; Filley.
Jonathan Allen,
William C Jarvis.
George Hull.
Robert F. Barnard.
Isaac Curtis, Junior.
Jasper Morgan.
Keyes Danforth.
Noah Greene.
NORFOLK.
Benjamin Hall.
Minot Thayer.
John Robinson.
340 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Canton,
CoJiasset,
Dedham,
Dorchester,
Foxhoroiigh,
Franklin,
Medfield and Dover,
Medway,
Milton,
JVeedham,
Quincy,
Randolph,
Roxbury,
Sharon,
Stoughton,
JValpole,
Weymouth,
Wrentham,
Mington,
Bridgewater,
Carver,
Duxbiiry,
Halifax,
Hanover,
Hingham,
Hanson,
Hull,
Kingston,
Marshjield,
Middleborough,
Pembroke,
Edward Dowse.
James Humphreys.
Lewis Fisher.
Johnson Mason.
Edward Miller,
Noah Curtis.
Luther Thayer.
Sherman Leland.
John Drake.
Jesse Boyden.
Christopher Webh,
Levi Bates.
Josiah J. Fiske.
PLYMOUTH.
Nathan Gurney.
Hector Orr.
Seth Sprague.
Nathaniel Morton.
James Stephenson,
Solomon Jones,
Joseph Richardson.
Thomas Hob^^rt.
Elisha Phillips.
Martin Keith.
Kilborn Whitman.
HOUSE OF REPEESENTATIVES. 341
Plympton,
Plymouth^
Barnabas Hedge.
RochesteVf
Joseph Meigs.
Scituate,
William Peakes.
Wareham.
^
BRISTOL.
Attleboroughy
Abiather Bichardson, Junior.
JBerkley,
Apollos Tobey.
Dartmouthy
Caleb Anthony.
Dighton,
John Hathaway.
JEaston,
Fairhaven,
Stephen Merrihew.
Freetown,
Hercules Cushman.
Mansfield,
Solomon Pratt, Junior.
JSTew Bedford,
Thomas Rotch,
Lemuel Williams, Junior.
JVorton,
Ephraim Raymond.
MaynhaMf
Samuel Wilbour.
Mehoboth,
David Perry.
Seekonk,
Peter Hunt.
Somerset,
Edward Slade.
Swansey,
John Mason.
Taunton,
Cromwell Washburn.
Troy,
Abraham Bowen.
Westport,
Abner Brownell.
Wellington,
Joseph Gooding.
BARNSTABLE.
Barnstable,
Nymphas Marston.
Brewster,
Isaac Foster, Junior.
Chatham,
Dennis,
Oren Howes.
Eastham,
Harding Knowles.
Falmouth,
Shubael Lawrence-
Harwich,
Marshpee,
/
Bm HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Orleans,
ProvincetowTif
Sandwich,
Truro,
Wellfleet,
Yarmouth,
Chilmark,
JEdgarton,
Tishury.
JSTantucket,
Daniel Comings.
Joseph Atkins.
Josiali Whitman.
James Crowell.
DUKES' COUNTY.
John Hancock.
William Jernegan.
NANTUCKET.
Jethro Mitchell,
Francis Gr. Macy,
Barker Burnell.
BENJAMIN POLLARD, Esq. Clerk.
HENRY CODMAN, Esq. Assistant Clerk.
Rev. WILLIAM JENKS, aiaplain.
JACOB KUHN, Messenger to the General Court.
ELIJAH W. CUTTING, .Assistant Messenger.
THOMAS P. RIDER, Page to the House.
v
RESOLVES
OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTIETH OF MAY, AND ENDED
ON SATURDAY, THE SIXTEENTH OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JUNE 5, 1821.
Jit noon, agreeably to assignment, the two Houses assem-
bled in Convention, when his Excellency the Governor
came in, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attend-
ed by his Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Honor-
able Council, and the Officers of State, and delivered
the following
SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
THE general prevalence of industrious
habits, and of good manners and morals, in the
commufiity which you represent, is a subject of
pleasing contemplation. It encourages the persua-
sion so grateful to every benevolent mind, that re
ligion and the laws are effecting those salutar)
44
334 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
purposes which they were intended to produce. It
is, at the same time, a satisfactory pledge of the
future prosperity and happiness of the people of the
Commonwealth.
The truth of no position is more fully establish-
ed, than that a close connexion subsists between
the morals of a people and their enjoyments. And
as this connexion results from an order of things
ordained by the Great Creator, it must be indisso-
luble. Evils incident to humanity, communities
and individuals ought to be prepared to encounter.
We are not authorized to look for an exemption
from moral, any more than from physical evil.
Under the present economy of Providence, vice
and crime must be expected to intermingle them-
selves with the affairs of men. Crimes which shock
the moral sense of mankind, which invade the
rights of property, and destroy or put in jeopardy
the lives of men, continue to be perpetrated; and
the vigilance of the legislator, no less than of the
magistrate, is in constant requisition, to guard the
community from the midnight flames of the incen-
diary, the depredations of the thief and burgler,
and the ferocious assault of the assassin. The his-
tory of the world, and our own experience, never-
theless, tend to inspire a belief in the practicability
of gradual amelioration.
Men, it is true, are in all ages alike. They have
the same essential wants to supply, and the same
passions soliciting gratification. But they appear
under different aspects, which are, in a greater or
less degree, induced by circumstances, and oflen-
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 335
times by circumstances over • which tliey have no
control. Climate and other physical causes, have
no inconsiderable agency in modifying the pas-
sions, and forming the character ; in leading to
courses of vice and crime, or in awakening senti-
ments and efforts of virtue. Forms of government,
modes of religion, and different states of civiliza-
tion and refinement, exert a powerful influence in
forming the manners and morals of a people. And
here may we not gather strong hopes of the con-
tinued prosperity and happiness of our country ?
The manners and morals of the people of Massa-
chusetts have been formed under circumstances
peculiarly fitted to ensure their permanence. Our
free constitution of government, the benign religion
we profess, the improvements in the powers of the
understanding, our habits of order, together with
our physical relations to climate, to soil, and to
occupation, conspire to render durable the liberties
and the prosperity of the state.
Massachusetts was always free. Our forefathers
brought with them, from the other hemisphere,
their civil and religious principles; which, being
transplanted to a new region, remote from the
blighting influence of despotism, gradually acquir-
ed greater amplitude, struck a deeper root, and
attained a more vigorous growth. Under charters
which had been granted with reluctance, our an-
cestors, though watched with jealous vigilance by
the grantors, acquired more enlarged and definite
ideas of their rights ; and liberty, no longer a fan-
ciful theory, was reduced to practice, and became
336 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
habitual. When the ties which bound the Provin-
ces to Great Britain were severed, the former,
though knowing no constitution but a charter, al-
ready recognized only as belonging to history,
remained firm and steady in their habits. The
separation could scarcely be deemed a revolution.
Ancient usages supplied the place of laws, until
after the lapse of five years, the constitution under
which we now assemble, was framed and adopted.
Without arrogance, or intending to utter an invid-
ious remark, it may justly be affirmed, that no
people on earth ever enjoyed so great a share of
the blessings of freedom and self-government, as
do the people of the United States. Not, indeed,
that undefined and tumultuous liberty, that has oc-
casionally agitated, and emblazoned the history of
some other nations ; but that sober, rational liberty
that consults and protects equally the rights of all
the people, and manifests itself with a mild, steady,
and benignant lustre in our constitution of govern-
ment.
The present reference to the habits, the general
prosperity, and the future hopes of the people, is
not designed to flatter their vanity, or to indulge
in a strain of ostentatious boasting. The reference
is intended for serious reflection and practical use.
If the people are in the enjoyment of great and
distinguished blessings, how important is it that
the constituted authorities should be intimately ac-
quainted with the various sources whence these
blessings flow, that they duly estimate their value,
and guard their safety ! If it be our fortunate lot
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 337
to realize more exalted degrees of civil and reli-
gious freedom than do the people of other govern-
ments, it becomes us to cherish our privileges, and
to shun those errors and vices which lead to their
destruction. If we believe that public virtue is the
firmest support of a free republic, we shall aspire
to add strength to the great pillar on which it #
rests. To you, gentlemen, are committed the dear-
est interests of your fellow citizens. They are now
free, prosperous, and happy. May the wisdom of
your legislation be the means of protracting their
duration.
Among the means on which the public prosper*
ity depends, industry holds a distinguished place.
Few of our enjoyments, indeed, are derived from
any other source, and without the agency of indus-
try, all our hope of future prosperity must wither
and die. To many of the vices which debase and
impoverish mankind, it proves the most efficacious
antidote ; and as the foundation of public as well a&
private wealth, has undisputed claims to legislative
consideration. By the power of industry, the Amer-
ican wilderness has been reclaimed, and our fields^
enriched by culture, are made to teem with plenty.
Industry has erected our temples of religion, of
learning, and of justice. It has raised and furnish-
ed and beautified our habitations, built and navi-
gated our ships, and filled our stores and garners
with the products of various climes. Industry, in
fine, has established, and is perfecting our various
manufactures, and rendering them productive sour-
ces of individual wealth and comfort. The encour-
338 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
agement, therefore, of general industry, as occasion
and circumstances may require, is a legitimate ob-
ject of legislative regard and patronage.
We live, blessed be God, in a land in which
human rights are understood, where we meet each
other as men enjoying the same franchises, and as
the offspring of a common parent. On this hallowed
foundation is erected our venerated constitution.
And all our subordinate institutions, our laws, the
care bestowed on the education and moral instruc-
tion of our children and youth, the ample scope given
to talent and mental effort, the principle of equal-
ity that governs the distribution of estates, and the
interest that every man has in the maintenance of
a free government, conspire with many other caus-
es, to render the constitution perpetual. No better
proof can be furnished of the merits of our great
social compact, and its adaptation to the character
and circumstances of the Commonwealth, than that
for forty years it should have been the means of
making a great community happy. The result of
the test to which it has recently been subjected, has
proved the attachment of the people to the consti-
tution ; and that, in their estimation, few alterations
only, were expedient.
I avail myself of the "present occasion, to notice
the termination of the misunderstanding that so
lone: subsisted between the United States and the
Spanish nation. The conclusion of the controversy,
has not only put at rest the question of hostility,
which seemed at one period to threaten our peace,
but will be the means of restoring to some of our
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 339
enterprizing citizens a part, at least, of the losses
they sustained by spoliation, during the late Euro-
pean war.
Several other subjects will be laid before you by
special message. I only add, that in all your meas-
ures for advancing the interests of our common
country, I shall be ready most cordially to co-op-
erate.
JOHN BROOKS.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it please your Excellency,
THE Senate of Massachusetts, assembled
in obedience to the voice of the people, from the
various parts of the Commonwealth, have derived
much satisfaction from the official interview with
your Excellency, at the commencement of the
present political year. As the organs of the people
whom we represent, we would offer to your Excel-
lency our congratulations on your re-election to
the office of Chief Magistrate. This renewed ex-
pression of public confidence in the wisdom and
purity of your administration, is a proof of the gen-
eral prevalence of good habits and correct princi-
ples in the community ; and your Excellency's
cheerful and ready acceptance of this arduous and
responsible station, by which a long series of public
services already rendered, is protracted, furnishes
new evidence of the exalted patriotism for which
your Excellency has ever been distinguished.
To the wisdom and virtue of our forefathers, we
are indebted, under Providence, for the civil and re-
ligious privileges which we enjoy. Deeply impressed
with the truth of the position, " that a close connex-
ion subsists between the morals of a people and their
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 341
Enjoyments," they labored with an anxious and
provident soUcitude, in the midst of perils and of
sufferings, to erect the fabric of pubUc prosperity
on the broad and permanent basis of public virtue.
'^ Their efforts and their prayers were not unavailing*
The industrious habits, pure morals, and correct
principles, which they "brought with them from
1" the other hemisphere," inculcated and enforced by
I their precepts and examples, combined to exert a
powerful, salutary, and, we trust, permanent influ-
, ence on the character and manners of their desren-
dents. It is true, indeed, that the institutions which
they established, were but human institutions, and
therefore imperfect. They could not change the
nature of man, nor exempt him from the infirmities
and passions inseperable from his condition in the
world. Moral as well as physical evils existed, and
crimes of deep malignity were sometimes perpetra-
ted among them ; but the history and condition of
our country, compared with others, will exhibit
evidence of " the practicability of gradual amelior-
ation," and confirm the truth of the position, that a
free constitution, humane government, and mild
Ic^ws, promptly and impartially executed, combined
with a general diffusion of literary and religious
instruction, have a more efficacious influence in
%. restraining vice and promoting virtue, than the
cruel codes and sanguinary punishments, invented
and multiplied by arbitrary and despotic authority.
A single glance at the condition of the people in
the most enlightened and civilized nations of the,
world, will furnish decisive proof that "no people
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342 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
on earth enjoy so great a share of the blessings of
freedom and self government, as do the people of
the United States." The general state of society
in Europe is such as to excite the compassion, as
much as the hopes, of the friends of rational liberty.
Recent revolutionary movements, having for their
ostensible objects, the extension and establishment
of popular freedom, have either been crushed, in
their incipient stages, or are still in a state of
doubtful experiment. They have hitherto mani-
fested little of that constancy, moderation, wisdom
and virtue, wliich must be combined, in order to
effect a practical and permanent reform of existing
abuses. Where the institutions of government are
calculated to limit to the favored few, the exclusive
possession of honors, wealth and power, and to
transmit them, with the rights of primogeniture, by
hereditary descent, ignorance, poverty and degra-
dation must be the inheritance of the many, from
generation to generation. The iron hand of des-
potism may, indeed, succeed in its efforts to stifle
the groans of its victims, and to produce, even
there, an apparent and superficial tranquility ; but
it will be a tranquility, not of complacency, but of
stupidity or of despair.
According to the theory of our constitution, on
the contrary, honors are a tribute to virtue ; wealth
is the recompense of industry, and power is the re-
ward of merit, however humble and obscure their
origin. All authority emanates from the people,
and all our institutions are of a popular character.
Our constitution is established by the people ; our
AIS^WER OF THE SENATE. 34a
rulers are elected by the people ; our government
is administered for the benefit of tlie people ; and
all our laws are but so many distinct expressions of
the will of the people. Industry is unfettered by
arbitrary restrictions ; enterprize is free to select
and pursue its favorite objects ; the means of edu-
cation are offered to all, and the rights of conscience
are inviolably secured to all. These are a few of
the blessings which attend "that sober, rational
liberty, that consults and protects equally the rights
of all the people, and manifests itself, with a mild
and steady lustre, in our constitution of govern-
ment."
To the serious and reflecting mind, a contem-
plation of the exalted privileges we enjoy, furnishes
occasion, not of " ostentatious boasting," but of de-
vout acknowledgements to that Being from whose
bounty they are all derived. On the heart of the
conscientious legislator, it will make a deep and
solemn impression of his responsibility to preserve
and perpetuate those privileges in all their purity
and excellence. The Senate of Massachusetts feel
the weight of this responsibility. We assume the
trust committed to us with diffidence ; but we see
the path of duty illuminated by the wisdom and
virtues of our predecessors ; and conscious of the
purity of our intentions, we shall endeavor to pur-
sue it with singleness of heart. Believing as we do,
"that public virtue is the firmest support of a free
rebublic, we shall aspire to add strength to the
great pillar on which it rests." To diffuse wisdom,
knowledge and virtue ; to spread the opportunities
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and advantages of education ; to cherisli the inter-
ests of literature and the sciences ; to promote agri-
culture, arts, commerce, trades and manufactures ;
to countenance and inculcate the principles of hu-
manity and general benevolence ; public and pri-
vate charity ; industry and frugality ; honesty and
punctuality ; sincerity, good liumor, and all social
affections, and generous sentiments among the peo-
ple of this Commonwealth, are duties imperiously
enjoined on the Legislature, as well by their inher-
ent importance, as by the express provisions of the
constitution.
The people of Massachusetts understand their
rights. They are aware that innovation may not
be improvement. The steady attachment which
they have manifested to our "venerated constitu-
tion," is not a blind, but an enlightened and rational
attachment. It is founded on an intimate and ex-
perimental knowledge of its excellencies. Forty
years experience lias taught them justly to appre-
ciate its merits, and to feel "its adaptation to the
character and circumstances of the Commonwealth."
The public revision to which it has recently been
Subjected, and during which its provisions, in all
their relations and consequences, were minutely
examined and discussed, has endeared it still more
to their aiFections. None of the more important
principles, and few of its minuter details, were
found to be susceptible of improvement. We may
therefore confidently indulge the expectation, that
'^our great social compact" will continue to be, for
future generations, what it has hitherto been for
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 345
ourselves and our fathers, the bond of political
union, and the charter of civil and religious privi-
leges.
The amicable termination of the controversy
which has so long subsisted between the United
States and Spain, and which, at one period, threaten-
ed to involve the two nations in war, is a just subject
of congratulation. An indemnity for even a small
portion of the losses which our enterprizing mer-
chants sustained by spoliation during the late Euro-
pean war, will be, at this time, peculiarly accepta-
ble. The people of the United States, at peace
with the world, and forming an united and harmoni-
ous family among themselves, may now devote their
undivided efforts to the amelioration of their own
condition, and extend their commercial intercourse
and relations wherever a profitable market may
be found for their surplus productions. The indus-
try and enterprize of our fellow citizens are pro-
verbial ; and although their rewards may be of less
magnitude, yet we trust they will also be less pre-
carious, than they were during the late conflict
which agitated the nations of Europe.
Any subjects of legislative deliberation which
your Excellency may suggest, will receive from the
Senate, all the attention which their importance may
require, and we shall most cordially cooperate with
the other branches of the government in any mea-
sures for advancing the interests of our common
country.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
May it please your Excellency ,
THE HcTuse of Representatives concur in the
views which your Excellency has expressed of the
solid foundations on which our prosperity rests, and
of the means by which it may be rendered more
ample, as well as more secure. It is to the general
prevalence of industrious habits and good morals,
that the people of this Commonwealth must look
for the best pledges of their future prosperity. The
relations between industry and enjoyment are ex-
tremely various. It contributes to the happiness
of him who exerts it, not only by its immediate
fruits, but by the tranquil temper which it begets,
the health whicli it preserves and invigorates, and
the temptations which it guards against. It is a
virtue without which a people must be, not merely
debased, but must want the capacity of being im-
proved. It is therefore of all objects the most de-
serving of commendation and encouragement, as
the characteristic of a people, which, wherever it
exists, cannot fail of leading to national happiness
and glory.
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It will therefore always be the policy of a wise
Legislature, to encourage and reward industry in
the community, by all the means in its power. The
most suitable of these means have not escaped the
attention of the framers of our scheme of polity, and
of the legislators of this Commonwealth. They have,
for the attainment of this end, always kept two ob-
jects distinctly in view: First, to lay open to the
competition of all the citizens of the state, every
honorable employment, not only in the arts of pri-
vate life, but in the public service ; and secondly, to
secure to every individual the fruits of his industry,
and the rewards of his talents and virtues. These
two principles lie at the foundation of our system
of government, and they have happily never been
departed from in its administration. But in aid of
these means, others are necessary. Public instruc-
tion— that men's minds may be open to the motives
to honorable exertion, and that they may be able
to give a judicious direction to their industry — re-
ligious education — to supply the defects of human
motives, to point out the true objects of desire, to
temper the ardour of pursuit, and to moderate the
pains of disappointment — a strict administration of
justice — that there may be no temptation to grasp
at the fruits of labor by dishonest means, and that
honest industry may not fail of its reward. These
objects have received the uniform encouragement
of the Legislature, as means of promoting the gen-
eral industry as well as of preserving the public
morals.
It is true that notwithstanding the facilities thus
848 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
offered to all, for acquiring an honorable standing
in society, we are sometimes called upon to witness
the perpetration of "crimes which shock the moral
sense of mankind, which invade the rights of prop-
erty, and destroy or put in jeopardy the lives of
men." There is no condition of our nature in
which the recurrence of such acts can be entirely
prevented. The great difficulty in any system of
laws is to propose such sanctions as shall reach all
the members of the state. It is impossible to pro-
vide that all shall be placed by education, by habit,
by the relations which they form in society, and by
the motives which obtain an influence over.* them,
in a situation to be governed by considerations
which direct the conduct of rational and enlight-
ened men. No community has come nearer to re-
moving this difficulty than our own. Every person
has in his youth placed within his reach the means
of education. This blessing has been always enjoyed
in this Commonwealth, so that every parent knows
enough of its value, to be induced to secure it for
his children. Those therefore who grow up among
us, with a very few exceptions, grow up not only
as human but enlightened beings, capable of exer-
cising the gift of reason, and of pursuing their own
good. It is also in the power of every individual
to acquire property, which gives him an interest in
the welfare of the community, removes the tempta-
tions to dishonesty, and affi3rds a pledge of his
fidelity. Even the few who are so unfortunate as
not to acquire this pledge of their good conduct,
are surrounded by so large a proportion in all
ANSWER OB^ THE HOUSE. 349
classes of society who have some property to bind
them to the state, that they do not acquire that de-
gree of wantonness and profligacy of character
which is found in other communities, where there
are whole classes of persons that have every thing
to hope from a change of their condition, and no-
thing to lose. Crimes therefore are not frequent
among us ; and if our provisions for general educa-
tion are gradually improved and extended — if the
laws continue to be vigilantly and impartially ex-
ecuted, and the guilty to be promptly punished, so
that those who are dead to all honorable motives,
may not be tempted to the commission of crimes
by the chances of escape — there is reason to hope
that their recurrence may be rendered still less
frequent.
We agree with your Excellency, that the happy
experience of forty years under our social compact,
furnishes the best proof of its merits, and of its
adaptation to our condition. The reluctance which
has been shown by the people of this Common-
wealth, in the recent revision of this instrument, to
change any of its important features, affords a most
gratifying proof of their attachment to its funda-
mental principles and a valuable pledge of its per-
manency. This revision has not been without par-
tial utility. Besidfes giving a favorable opportunity
of discussing and elucidating its principles, and of
introducing some slight improvements, it has ena-
bled the people to express their approbation of the
system of government formed by their fathers, and
to hand it down to their posterity, recommended
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350 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
by the deliberate sanction of two successive gen-
erations.
We regard the ratification of the treaty to which
your Excellency has alluded, as a liappy event, be-
cause it terminates a perplexing and unprofitable
controversy, and secures to the United States the
principal objects for which they have contended.
The House of Representatives will receive with
respectful attention, the further communications
which your Excellency shall please to make to
them, and will heartily co-operate with your Excel-
lency in every measure for promoting the welfare
of the Commonwealth.
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 351
CHAP. I.
Mesolve for publishing the Amendments to the Constitution.
June 5th, 1821.
Whereas the Convention of the Delegates of the people,
assembled at Boston, on the third Wednesday of November,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, for the purpose of revising and amending the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth, pursuant to an act of the
General Court, passed on the sixteenth day of June, in the
year aforesaid, submitted certain Articles of Amendment
of the Constitution to the people, for their ratification and
adoption ; and whereas it appears by a certificate of the
Committee of the said Convention, that the following Arti-
cles of Amendment, so submitted as aforesaid, have been
ratified and adopted by the people, in the manner directed
by the said Convention, and liave thereby become a part of
the Constitution of this Commonwealth, to wit :
<^Art. 1. If any bill or resolve shall be objected to, and
not approved by the Governor ; and if the General Court
shall adjourn within five days after the same shall have
been laid before the Governor for his approbation, and there-
by prevent his returning it, with his objections, as provided
by the Constitution ; such bill or resolve shall not become
a law, nor have force as such.
Art. 2. The General Court shall have full power and
authority to erect and constitute municipal or city govern-
ments in any corporate town or towns in this Common-
wealth, and to grant to the inhabitants thereof such powers,
privileges and immunities, not repugnant to the Constitu-
tion, as the General Court shall deem necessary or expe-
dient for the regulation and government thereof, and to
prescribe the manner of calling and holding public meetings
of the inhabitants in wards, or otherwise, for the election of
officers under the constitution, and the manner of returning
the votes given at such meetings : Provided, that no such
government shall be erected or constituted in any town not
containing twelve thousand inhabitants; nor unless it be
with the consent and on the application of a majority of the
inhabitants of such town; present and voting thereon, pur:
352 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION,
suant to a vote at a meeting duly warned and holden for
that purpose : And provided also, that all by laws made by
such municipal or city government, shall be subject, at all
times, to be annulled by the General Court.
Art. 3. Every male citizen of twenty one years of age
and upwards, (excepting paupers and persons under guar-
dianship) who shall have resided within the Commonwealth
one year, and within the town or district, in which he may
claim a right to vote, six callender months next preceding
any election of Governor. Lieutenant Governor, Senators, or
Representatives, and who shall have paid, by himself or
his parent, master or guardian, any state or county tax,
"which shall, within two years next preceding such election,
have been assessed upon him, in any town or district, of this
Commonwealth ; and also every citizen who shall be by law
exempted from taxation, and who shall be in all other re-
spects qualified as aliovementioned, shall have a right to vote
in such election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators
and Representatives ; and no other person shall be entitled
to vote in such elections.
Art. 4. Notaries Public shall be appointed by the Gov-
ernor, in the same manner as judicial officers are appointed,
and shall hold their offices during seven years, unless sooner
removed by the Governor, with the consent of the Council,
upon the address of both Houses of the Legislature.
In case the office of Secretary or Treasurer of the Com-
monwealth shall become vacant from any cause, during the
recess of the General Court, the Governor, with the advice
and consent of the Council, shall nominate and appoint,
under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, a com-
petent and suitable person to such vacant office, who shall
hold the same until a successor shall be appointed by the
General Court.
Whenever the exigencies of the Commonwealth shall
require the appointment of a Commissary General, he shall
be nominated, appointed and commissioned, in such manner
as the Legislature may, by law, prescribe.
All officers commissioned to command in the militia, may
be removed from office in such manner as the Legislature
may, by law, prescribe.
Art. 5. In the elections of Captains and Subalterns of the
militia, all the members of their respective companies, as
well those under, as those above the age of twenty one years,
shall have a right to vote. ^
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 353
Art. 6. Instead of the oath of allegiance prescribed by
the Constitution, the following oath shall be taken and sub-
scribed by every person chosen or appointed to any office,
civil or military, under the government of this Common-
wealth, before he shall enter on the duties of his office, to
wit:
<^ I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and
will support the Constitution thereof. So help me God."
Provided, That when any person shall be of the denomi-
nation called Quakers, and shall decline taking said oath, he
shall make his affirmation in the foregoing form, omitting the
word ^< swear,'' and inserting, instead thereof, the word
^^affirm," and omitting the words "so help me God," and
subjoining, instead thereof, the words "this I do under the
pains and penalties of perjury."
Art. 7. No oath, declaration or subscription, exceptin'g
the oath prescribed in the preceding article, and the oath of
office, shall be required of the Governor, Lieutenant Govern-
or, Counsellors, Senators or Representatives, to qualify them
to perform the duties of their respective offices.
Art. 8. No Judge of any Court of this Commonwealth,
(except the Court of Sessions,) and no person holding any
office under the authority of the United States, (Postmasters
excepted,) shall, at the same time, hold the office of Gov-
ernor, Lieutenant Governor or Counsellor, or have a seat in.
the Senate or House of Representatives of this Common-
wealth ; and no Judge of any Court in this Commonwealth,
(except the Court of Sessions,) nor the Attorney General,
Solicitor General, County Attorney, Clerk of any Court,
Sheriff, Treasurer and Receiver General, Register of Pro-
bate, nor Register of Deeds, shall continue to hold his said
office after being elected a member of the Congress of the
United States, and accepting that trust ; but the acceptance
of such trust, by any of the officers aforesaid, shall be
deemed and taken to be a resignation of his said office ;
and Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas shall hold no
other office under the government of this Commonwealth,
the office of Justice of the Peace and Militia Offices excepted.
Art. 9. If at any time hereafter, any specific and partic-
ular amendment or amendments to the Constitution, be pro-
posed in the General Court, and agreed to by a majority of
the Senators and two thirds of the Members of the House of
354 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Representatives present and voting thereon, such proposed
amendment or amendments shall be entered on the journals
of the two Houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon,
and referred to the General Court then next to be chosen,
and shall be published ; and if in the General Court next
chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amend-
ments shall be agreed to by a majority of the Senators and
two thirds of the Members of the House of Representatives
present and voting thereon ; then it shall be the duty of the
General Court to submit such proposed amendment or amend-
ments to the people ; and if they shall be approved and rati-
fied by a majority of the qualified voters, voting thereon, at
meetings legally warned and holden for that purpose, they
shall become part of the Constitution of this Commonwealth.''
Resolved, That the above recited Articles of Amendment
shall be enrolled on parchment, and deposited in the Secre-
tary's OflRce, as a part of the Constitution and Fundamental
Laws of this Commonwealth, and published in immediate
connexion therewith, in all future editions of the laws of
this Commonwealth, printed by public authority. And in
order that the said Amendments may be promulgated and
made known to the people of this Commonwealth without
delay, it is further
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
hereby is authorized and requested to issue his proclama-
tion, reciting the articles aforesaid ; announcing that the
same have been duly adopted and ratified by the people of
this Commonwealth, and become a part of the Constitution
thereof; and requiring all magistrates, officers^ civil and
military, and all the citizens of this Commonwealth, to take
notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly.
CHAP. II.
Resolve for paying the Members of the Legislature.
June 5th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to each Member of the Council,
Senate and House of Representatives, two dollars per day,
TAXES IN SOMERSET AND EASTON. 356
for each day's attendance the present, and each session of
the present General Court ; and the like sum of two dollars
for every ten miles travel from their respective places of
abode to the place of the sitting of the General Court.
Jlnd he it further resolved. That there be paid to the
President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives, two dollars per day each, over and above their
pay as members.
CHAP. III.
Resolve altering the Taxes in the Towns of Somerset and
Easton, in the County of Bristol. June 7 th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Commonwealth be
directed to notify the Town of Somerset, in the County of
Bristol, that the tax set against that town, in the tax act
which passed the Legislature on the thirteenth of February,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, is diminished
the sum of one hundred dollars ; also to notify the Town of
Easton, in said county, that the tax set against that town, in
said tax act, is increased the sum of one hundred dollars ;
and the said Treasurer is hereby directed to issue his war-
rants accordingly.
^ CHAP. IV.
Resolve on petition of John Abbot to convey certain Land to
Justus Pike. June 7th, 1821.
On the petition of John Abbot, of Westford, in the County
of Middlesex, Esquire, Executor of the last will and testa-
ment of Jeremiah Cogswell, late of said Westford, gentle-
man, deceased, testate, praying to be authorized to convey
by deed to Justus Pike, of Tyngsborough, in said county,
the assignee of one Joseph Wild, a certain tract of land.
356 BENJAMIN LARRABEE.
situate in the northerly part of said Westford, containing
about thirty one acres, bounded and described as follows,
viz : Beginning at a stake and stones on Tyngsborough
line ; thence running westerly upon said line to a black oak
tree marked, by John Gates' land formerly ; thence by Gates'
land southerly, to a pine marked; thence south-westerly, to
a white oak tree marked; thence southerly, by Thomas
Nutting's land, to a pine tree marked, by land of Colonel
Osgood formerly; thence easterly, by said Osgood's land,
to a white oak tree marked; thence north-westerly, to a
stake and stones in a pond hole; thence north-easterly to a
stake and stones ; thence northerly, to the bound first men-
tioned ; pursuant to a contract in writing, made by the said
Cogswell in his life-time, to the said Wild :
Resolved^ For the reasons set forth in said petition, that
the said John Abbot be, and he is hereby fully authorized
and empowered to convey, by deed, to the said Justus
Pike, his heirs and assigns, the aforedescribed tract of land,
pursuant to the written contract of the said Cogswell;
which deed, when duly executed by said Abbot, shall be as
valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, to pass said
real estate, as if the said Cogswell had duly conveyed the
same iw-his life-time; the said Abbot accounting, as Execu-
tor of said Cogswell, for the sum paid to him for said tract
of land, as part of the personal estate of said Cogswell, ac-
cording to law.
CHAP. V.
Resolve on petition of Benjamin Larrabee, directing the
Treasurer to issue a new JSTote. June 7th, 1821.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
Treasurer of this Commonwealth be, and he is hereby di-
rected to issue to the said Benjamin Larrabee, a new State
Note, of the same tenor and date as the note lost ; that is, a
note numbered six hundred and sixty nine, and dated the
twenty first of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, for
the sum of four hundred and fifty five dollars and seventy
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 357
one cents, and to endorse thereon, the interest that has heen
paid; he, the said Benjamin Larrabee, first making affidavit
before some Jnstice of the Peace, to the truth of the facts
stated in his said petition, if he has not already so done, and
filing the same in said Treasurer's Office, and giving bonds
to the said Treasurer, in the penal sum of seven hundred
dollars, with one or more sureties, to secure the Common-
wealth against any loss that may happen in consequence of
the renewal of said note.
CHAP. VI.
Governor's Message. June 9th, 1821.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Rej^resentativeSf
\
On the twenty third of April last, I made a communica-
n to the tAvo Houses of the Legislature, on the subject of
tKe Quarter Master General's JJepartment, the duties of
which had, by an act passed the sixteenth day of Febru-
ary last, been transferred to the Adjutant General. In
consequence of that communication, the Governor, with the
advice of the Council, was authorized to appoint two suit-
able persons, to make a full and complete inventory, in
kind, quantity, and quality, of all the public property in
the Dej/^rtment of the Quarter Master General. Ag,i-eeably
to that authority, two respectable citizens were appointed,
and are new assiduously engaged in executing the trust re-
posed in them. I have until very recently, entertained
hopes of being able, by this time, to avail myself of the
result of their labors, and to have laid the same before you.
But the greatness of the work, and the discriminating man-
ner in which il is necessary that it should be performed,
will require so much time to complete an inventory, as to
preclude the hope of its being in readiness for your inspec-
tion the present session. Inasmuch, however, as the busi-
ness of the Quarter Master General's Department, from the
want of funds to defray necessary current expenses, and
some further legislative provisions respecting its due admiu-
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358 ATTORNEY GENERAL.
istration, is in a great measure suspended, you will, I doubt
not, deem it a subject meriting your attention, at the present
session. The amount of public property is very great, and
every day's experience serves to show the importance of the
investigation now making, as to the condition of the several
articles. Many valuable materials, I hav/ reason to con-
clude, are in a decaying state ; and some of the buildings
are in great want of repair.
For a more particular view of the situation of the Quarter
Master General's Department, you will please to be referred
to my message to the two Houses of the iist Legislature, of
the twenty third of April, of the present year, and the sev-
eral documents which accompanied the same.
I also submit to you a letter from the xldjutant General,
received this morning, enclosing a partial report of the pro-
ceedings of the Commissioners.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber f June 9th, 1821.
CHAP. VII.
Resolve appropriating S50 87, in the hands of the Attor-
ney General. June 9th, 1821.
Resolved, That the sum of fifty dollars and eighty seven
cents, being the balance of monies in the hands of the Attor-
ney General, due to the Commonwealth, be, and is hereby
appropriated towards defraying the expenses which may
accrue in carrying into effect, his agreement with Thomas
Williams, of the twenty sixth of May, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty one, to procure a survey to be made of
the Commonwealth's land on Pine Island, and to erect and
establish suitable and durable monuments on the boundary
lines between the lands of the Commonwealth and those of
said Thomas Williams, on said island ; he, the said Attor-
ney General, to account to the Treasurer of the Common-
wealth for the expenses aforesaid, as soon as the said
business shall be accomplished.
TREASURER TO SELL STOCK. 359
CHAP. VUL
Resolve on petition of John Mott and Isaac Prentiss,
Juue nth, 1821.
On the petition of John Mott and Isaac Prentiss, of Bos-
ton, in* the County of Suffolk, shipwrights, stating that by
reason of misfortunes, in trade and business, they have
become unable to pay the full amount of their debts, and
that they are indebted, on a balance of account with the
Warden of the State Prison, for goods had and received
from him on account of the Commonwealth, in the sum of
four hundred and ninety one dollars and forty cents ;
Resolved, That the Warden of the said State Prison, or
some other person having authority in the same, be, and
hereby is ordered, on the receipt of one hundred dollars of
and from said John Mott and Isaac Prentiss, or either of
them, to give and execute a full and sufficient discharge and
acquittance to them of said demand.
CHAP. IX.
Mesolve authorizing the Treasurer to sell Deferred Six
Per Cent. Stock. June 11th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby authorized and directed forthwith to make
sale of and assign the certificate of United States deferred
six per cent, stock, so called, now in his possession, the
original amount of which was four huudred and sixteen
thousand, two hundred and sixty seven dollars, and the
real par value of which will be about ninety six thousand
dollars, on the first of July next, after a payment on account
of the same shall then be received; provided, the same shall
not be disposed of at a less rate than one hundred and two
dollars for every hundred dollars of the real par value of
said stock, to be assigned and paid for on the second of
July next.
360 THOMAS BRAMIX, JUN.— CONVENTION.
Resolved, That if the Treasurer should thus nia-ke sale
of the said deferred stock, he shall apply the proceeds
thereof towards the payment of the remainder of the State
debt; and the sum which he may then borrow for the pur-
pose of paying the debt, shall not exceed seventy thousand
-dollars ; which money so borrowed, or any part thereof, he
shall repay as soon as money sufficient for the purpose,
and not otherwise appropriated, shall be received into the
treasury.
CHAP. X.
Reaolve making alloivance to Tliomas Bramin, Junior, of
18172 75 cents, for building a Gun House, in JSTorton.
June 11th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Thomas Bramin, Jun-
ior, the sum of one hundred and seventy two dollars and
seventy five cents, for the expense of building a new gun
house, in the Town of Norton, and repairing the gun car-
riages, &c. exclusive of the proceeds of the old gun house.
CHAP. XI.
Resolve to pay the Committee of the late Convention.
June 12th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to the Mem-
bers of the Committee of the late Convention, the amount of
their travel and attendance, from May twenty third to May
twenty fourth, inclusive, as certified by the pay roll of said
Committee, attested by Isaac Parker, Esquire, Chairman,
and amounting to three hundred and ninety seven dollars.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Benjamia
Pollard, the Clerk of the Committee of the late Convention,
JONATHAN WILD.— JOHN MASON. 361
the sum of forty dollars, in full for his services as such, and
for other services in relation to the engrossment of the origi-
nal articles of amendment, and those adopted by the people ;
and that His Excellency the Governor be requested to draw
his warrant on the treasury for the above sums.
CHAP. XII.
Resolve on the petition of Jonathan Wild, of Boston, in the
County of Suffolk. June 12th, 1821.
Resolved, That for reasons set forth in said petition, the
said Jonathan Wild be, and he hereby is released from a
judgment of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, for the
sum of twenty five hundred dollars debt or damage, against
the said Wild and his sureties, on their recognizance for
the appearance of Frederick Wild, on his paying to the offi-
cer authorized to receive the same, in behalf of the Com-
monwealth, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, together
with all costs which have arisen in the prosecution of said
Frederick Wild, and in obtaining of such judgment on said
recognizance ; so that the said Jonathan Wild, nor his sur-
eties, shall be required to pay any other or further sum on
the said judgment than the sums aforementioned.
CHAP. XIII.
Resolve on petition of John Mason, empowering him to
collect Taxes in Gloucester. June 13th, 1821.
On the petition of John Mason, and for reasons set forth
in said petition.
Resolved, That John Mason be empowered to collect the
uncollected taxes, standing on the list of Nathaniel Haskell,
Junior, Collector for the Town of Gloucester, for the years
one thousand eight hundred and nine and one thousand
eight hundred and ten ; he having been surety for said Has-
362 WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
kell, and having paid the balance due on said list into the
Treasury of the Town of Gloucester.
CHAP. XIV.
Resolve on petition of Otis J\'ewman and Sarah Phillips.
June 13th, 1821.
On the petition of Otis Newman and Sarah Phillips,
Grafton Indians, praying: that certain lands may be sold in
Grafton, to which they are entitled for their support ;
Resolved, For reasons contained in their said petition,
that Jonathan Leland, Trustee to said Indians be, and he
is hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public auction,
and execute good and sufficient deeds of the whole, or any
part of said lands, described in said petitions, conforming to
law, in said sales ; and apply the same to the support of the
said Otis and Sarah, in the proportions as the said lands
furnish the means ; and settle and adjust his accounts with
the Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester.
CHAP. XV.
Resolve on the Memorial of the Warden of the State
Prison. June 14th, 1821.
On the memorial of the Warden of the State Prison,
Resolved) That there be paid out of the public treasury,
for the use of the State Prison, the sum of seven thousand
dollars, to be drawn from the treasury, by the Warden of
said prison, in such sums as the Directors shall from time
to time direct ; and His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice of Council*, is hereby requested to draw his warrant
on the Treasurer for said sums accordingly.
qUARTER MASTER GENERAL. 363
CHAP. XVI.
Resolve on representation of the Quarter Master General.^
June 14th, 1821.
On the representation of Amasa Davis, Quarter Master
General, shewing that on settlement of his accounts with a
Committee of the Honorable Council, a balance remained in
his hands, due to the Commonwealth, of five hundred forty
eight dollars and fifty one cents :
Jlesolved, That upon the payment of said sum to the
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, and taking his receipt
therefor, the said Quarter Master General shall be dis-
charged from said sum.
Resolved, further, That for reasons set forth in said rep-
resentation, that the Treasurer be authorized to receive of
the said Quarter Master General, in part of the above sum,
one ten dollar bill of the Hallowell and Augusta Bank, one
five dollar bill of the Wiscasset Bank, and one one dollar
bill of the Castine Bank.
CHAP. XVII.
Resolve on the petition of George Bliss and others.
June 14th, 1821.
On the memorial of George Bliss and Edward H. Robbins,
Esquires, Commissioners appointed to ascertain and run the
line betweeli this CommonM'ealth and the State of Connecti-
cut, and adjust all differences respecting the same ;
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth to said Commissioners, the sum of two hun-
dred dollars, for the purpose of enabling them to prosecute
said commission, they to be accountable for the expenditure
of the same.
364 COM. ON ACCOUNTS.— N. E. BANK.
CHAP. XVIIl.
Resolve for the pay of the Committee on Accounts.
June 14th, 1821.
Jlesolvedf That there be allowed and paid out of the*
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee appoint-
ed to examine and pass on accounts against this Com-
monwealth, for their attendance on that service during the
present session, one dollar per day in addition to their pay
as members, viz. : Honorable Elihu Hoyt, twelve days,
twelve dollars ; Honorable Robert Rautoul, eleven days,
eleven dollars ; Honorable Jonas Sibley, twelve days,
twelve dollars ; Apollos Tobey, Esquire, six days, six dol-
lars; Jonathan Allen, Esquire, twelve days, twelve dollars.
CHAP. XIX.
Mesolve on the petition of the President and Directors of
the J\'ew England Bank. June 14th, 1821.
Whereas by a resolve passed at the present session, on
the petition of Jonathan Wild, and others, sureties on a
recognizance of one* Frederick Wild, who was bound for
his appearance at the Municipal Court, for the Town of
Boston, on a charge of forgery, committed against the Pres-
ident, Directors and Company of the New England Bank,
it was ordered, that, upon the payment of the sum of fifteen
liundred dollars, and all costs and charges, said sureties
might be discharged :
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in the petition of the
President and Directors of said Bank, that the said sum of
fifteen hundred dollars, when the same shall have been paid
into the Treasury of this Commonwealth, be paid over to
the President, Directors and Company of the New England
Bank ; and His Excellency the Governor is hereby author-
ized and requested to draw his warrant on the treasury
therefor.
TAX FOR PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 365
CHAP. XX.
Mesolve granting a Tax to the County of Plymouth.
June 15th, 1821.
Whereas the Treasurer of the County of Plymouth has
laid his accounts before the Legislature, which accounts have
been examined and allowed ; and whereas the Clerk of the
Court of Sessions for said County has exhibited an estimate
made by the court, of the necessary charges which may
arise within the said county, for the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty one, and other purposes stated in said
estimate :
Resolved, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby granted as a tax for said County of
Plymouth, to be apportioned, assessed, paid, collected and
applied for the purposes aforesaid, according to law.
CHAP. XXL
Mesolve authorizing DaniH'*Crane to convey Real Estate.
June 15th, 1821.
On the petition of Daniel Crane, of Bridgewater, in the
County of Plymouth, Administrator of the estate of Edwin
Howard, late of said Bridgewater, Esquire, deceased, rep-
resenting that the said Edwin Howard, in his life time, viz.
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six, was, to-
gether with Thaddeus Howard, and Gramaliel Howard, both
of said Bridgewater, seized in fee, and as tenants in com-
mon, of two tracts of wood land, situated in said Bridgewa-
ter; one of said tracts containing about thirty one acres, and
bounded northerly by a highway, westerly by land of Albert
Copeland, southerly by land of Josiah Williams, and east-
erly, partly by land of Josiah Williams, and partly by land
of Salmon Howard ; the other of said tracts containing about
twenty nine acres, and bounded northerly by land of Luther
Hayward, westerly by laud of Asa Copeland; and the heirs
43
366 DANIEL CRANE TO CONVEY ESTATE.
of Cyrus Suell, southerly by the land of the widow Siiell,
and easterly, partly by land of Jonathan Copeland, and
partly by land of Asa Copeland; and the said Edwin and
Gamaliel were also seized in fee^, and as tenants in common
of one other tract or parcel of wood land, situated in said
Bridgewater, containing about fourteen acres, and bounded
northerly by land of Alfred HoAvard, westerly by land of
Benjamin B. Howard, southerly by land of James Ames,
and easterly by land of Thomas Howard ; and that it was
agreed by and between the said Edwin, Gramaliel, and
Thaddeus, that the said Thaddeus should convey and re-
lease to them, the said Edwin and Gamaliel, and their
heirs and assigns forever, all his right, title, and interest in
the two tracts of land, of which he, together with the said
Edwin and Gamaliel, were seized as aforesaid ; and that in
consideration thereof, the said Edwin and Gamaliel should
convey to him, the said Thaddeus, his heirs and assigns
forever, the last described tract of land : And that it was
then further agreed between the said Edwin, and the said
Gamaliel, that the said Edwin should convey and release to
said Gamaliel, his heirs and assigns forever, all his, the
said Edwin's right, title and interest in and to the tract of
land, above mentioned, containing twenty nine acres ; and
that said Gamaliel, on his part, should convey and release
to the said Edwin, his heirs and assigns forever, all his, the
said Gamaliel's right, title and interest in and to the tract of
land above described, as containing thirty one acres ; and
that the said Edwin should pay the sum of two hundred
dollars to the said Gamaliel, as the difference in value be-
tween the said lots ; and that the said parties entered into
possession accordingly ; and that the possession and im-
provement has so been had and continued to the present
time, but that no deeds have ever been executed by said
parties ; and praying that he, the said Daniel Crane, in his
said capacity of Administrator, may be authorized to ex-
ecute and receive sufficient deeds, and to carry into effect
the aforesaid agreement, which the said Thaddeus and Ga-
maliel are ready to do on their part :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Daniel Crane, Administrator, as aforesaid, be, and he
hereby is authorized, in his said capacity, to receive from
the said Thaddeus Howard and Gamaliel Howard, respec-
tively, good and sufficient deeds of release and quit claim of
D. CRANE TO CONVEY REAL ESTATE. 367
all their right, title and interest in the tract of land contain-
ing thirty one acres, as ahove described, to be held as part
of the real estate, and for the benefit of the legal repre-
sentatives of the said Edwin Howard, deceased, or to be
disposed of for the payment of his debts, under the same
regulations and restrictions ; and such deeds, so made to
the said Daniel Crane, in his said capacity, shall have the
same effect, in law, in all respects whatever, as if the same
bad been made to the said Edwin Howard, his heirs and
assigns, in his life time, in pursuance of the aforesaid agree-
ment. And the said Daniel Crane, Administrator, as afore-
said, is thereupon hereby further authorized to make and
execute to the said Thaddeus Howard, his heirs and assigns,
a good and sufficient deed of release and quit claim of all the
right, title and interest which the said Edwin Howard had,
or which his legal representatives now have, in the tract of
land above described, as containing fourteen acres ; and,
also, to make and execute to the said Gamaliel Howard, his
heirs and assigns, a good and sufficient deed of release and
quit claim of all the right, title and interest which the said
Edwin Howard had, or which his legal representatives now
have, in the tract of land above described, as containing
thirty nine acres. And such deeds, so made by the said Dan-
iel Crane, in his said capacity, shall have the same effect, in
law, as if the same had been made by the said Edwin How-
ard, in his life time, in pursuance of the aforesaid agreement*.
CHAP. XXII.
Mesolve authorizing Agents of South Parish in Harivicky
to sell Lands in Brewster. June 15th, 1821.
On the petition of Agents of the South Parish of Harwich,
in the County of Barnstable, and for reasons set forth in
said petition ;
Resolved, That Obed Brooks, Elisha Doane, and Levi
Snow, Agents of the said South Parish of Harwich, be, and
they are hereby authorized and empowered, in behalf of
said parish, to sell all the lauds lying in the Town of
368 WARD LOCK.— MESSENGER.
Brewster, which was set off to the Town of Harwich, by
virtue of an act, entitled "an act to divide the Town of
Harwich, and to incorporate the northerly part thereof into
a separate town, by the name of Brewster,^' passed Febru-
ary nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and three, either
at private sale, or public auction, as the Agents aforesaid
shall think most advantageous for the interest of said parish*
And the Agents aforesaid be, and they hereby are author-
ized and empowered, good and suificient deed or deeds
thereof to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or
purchasers of the same, according to law ; and that the pro-
ceeds of said lands, when sold, be appropriated to the re-
pairs of the meeting house of said Soutb Parish, conformably
to the prayer of the aforesaid petitioners.
CHAP. XXIII.
Resolve for paying Ward Lock. June 16th, 1821.
Mesolved, That there be allowed and paid from the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant
Messenger of the Governor and Council, two dollars for
each and every day he has been, or may be employed in
that capacity, during the present session of the Council.
CHAP. XXIV.
Resolve for paying the Messenger of the General Court.
June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, in full for his services as
Messenger to the Greneral Court, and for his care of the
State House, including those services mentioned in a resolve
passed on the nineteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord o^e thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the year
TREASURER TO BORROW MONEY. 369
oommencing the thirtieth day of May last, one thousand
dollars, payable quarterly year; and His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice of Council, is requested to draw
his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XXV.
Mesolve appropriating iS 1000 /or the purchase of Fuel.
June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the Greneral
Court, the sum of one thousand dollars, to enable him to
purchase fuel, and such other articles as may be necessary
for the use of the General Court, together with the Govern-
or's and Council Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasurer's and
Adjutant General's Office, and also for the Land Office; he
to be accountable for the expenditure of the same.
CHAP. XXVI.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to borrow S 50,000.
June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby authorized and directed to borrow, of any
of the banks in Boston, any sum not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars, that may, at any time within the present year,
be necessary for the payment of the ordinary demands made
on the treasury ; and that he pay any sum he may borrow,
as soon as money sufficient for the purpose, and not other-
wise appropriated, shall be received into the treasury.
Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and he hereby is au-
thorized to exchange, upon the best terms in his power, any
bills of banksji in the country, which he may have in his
possession, for bills of the banks in Boston, whenever he
370 QUARTER MASTER GENERAL.
may deem it for the interest of the Commonwealth so to do,
for the purpose of repaying any money which he may have
borrowed for the use of tlie Commonwealth.
CHAP. XXVII.
Mesolve making appropriations for the Quarter Master
GeneraVs Department, 8^c. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Adjutant General be, and he is here-
by authorized and empowered to appoint a suitable person
as Military Store Keeper ; and the person so appointed
shall be under the direction of the Adjutant General, and
shall perform such services as shall be required of him, and
shall follow and obe;^ such instructions and orders, as he
shall from time to time receive, relative to the care of the
Laboratory in Boston, and the Arsenal in Cambridge, as
well as to the preservation and distribution of the public
property there deposited ; and the said Store Keeper shall
be removable at the pleasure of the Adjutant General. And
the person who shall be appointed Military Store Keeper
shall be entitled to receive, in full compensation for his ser-
vices, a sum not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum ;
which shall be paid him in equal quarterly payments ; and
the said Store Keeper shall not be appointed for a longer
term than to the end of the next session of this Legislature.
Resolved further, That the sum of six thousand dollars
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the use of the
Quarter Master General's Department, for the purpose of
repairing the public buildings, and for defraying the ex-
penses of that department. And that His Excellency, by
and with the advice of Council, be requested to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer for the same, for such sums, and
such periods as the public service shall require, in favor of
the Adjutant General, for the application of which he is to
be accountable.
Resolved further. That the Adjutant General be, and he
is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a Clerk in
his office, in addition to the one allowed by the act passed
the sixteenth day of February last, until the end of the next
session of the present General Court.
/ *^ALE OK PUBLIC STOCKS. 371
CHAP, xxvin.
Resolve on the Sale of Public Stocks. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, for
the time being, be, and he is hereby directed to receive the
interest on the three per cent, stock and upon the six per
cent, deferred stock of the United States, which has been,
or may be sold and assigned by order of the Legislature,
and that he pay over the same to the purchaser or purchas-
ers of the said stock, together with all the reimbursement of
principal thereon ; or that he give a power of attorney as
Treasurer of the State to the purchaser or purchasers of
the said stock, to receive the interest thereon, and the said
reimbursment of principal, at their option.
CHAP. XXIX.
Resolve for engrossing and authenticating Articles of
*lmendments to the Constitution. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That the President of the late Convention, and
the Secretary thereof, be requested to examine the Articles
of Amendments of the Constitution which have been ratified
and adopted by the people of this Commonwealth, when
the same shall be engrossed, and to authenticate the same
by putting their attestations thereto, as President and Sec-
retary of the said Convention ; and that the Secretary of this
Commonwealth communicate this resolution to the said Pre-
sident and Secretary.
CHAP. XXX.
Resolve granting compensation to the Clerks of the General
Court. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of
372 PLYMOUTH BEACH LOTTERY.
the House of Representatives, respectively, seven dollars
per day, and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate and the
Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, each, the
sum of five dollars, for each and every day they have or may
be employed in that capacity, during the present session of
the Legislature ; and the Grovernor is requested to draw hie
warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XXXL
Resolve on Plymouth Beach Lottery. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That should the Managers of the Plymouth
Beach Lottery, attempt hereafter to proceed further in the
sale of tickets, or the drawing of any class of said lottery,
the Attorney General, or Solicitor General, be, and hereby
is directed to take such legal measures to prevent the same,
as to him, or them, may seem proper.
CHAP. xxxn.
Resolve to pay Thomas Walcutt. June 16th, 1821.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt, a Clerk in the Lobbies, for his assistance of the
Members of the Legislature, thirty two dollars, in full for
his services during the present session of the General Court*
ROLL, No. 85....JUNE, 182L
The Committee on Accounts having examined
the, several accounts they now present.. ..Report,
" That there is now due to the corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their
names, respectively, which, when allowed and paid,
will be in full discharge of tlie accounts, to tlie sev-
eral dates therein mentioned, which is respectfully
submitted.
ELIHU HOYT, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Ashburnham, for supporting sundry paupers, to
February 7th, 1821, 56 00
Amesbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to April
14th, 1821, 58 00
Adams, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
24th, 1821, 122 10
Amherst, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
20th, 1821, 55 72
Alfred, (Maine,) for supporting sundry paupers,
to the time of separation, IT 98
Abington, for supporting sundry paupers, to April
2d, 1821, 23 56
Boston, for supporting sundry paupers, to April
30th, 1821, 5,686 67
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374 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Bellingham, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 26th, 1821, 104 00
Blandford, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
26th, 1821, 57 00
Belchertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1821, 41 00
Bradford, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 21 57
Beverly, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 102 35
Brighton, for supporting a pauper, to June 1st,
1821, 52 00
Brimiield, for supporting a pauper, to June 3d,
1821, 21 00
Brookfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
5th, 1821, 32 00
Chester, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
26th, 1821, 71 40
Carlisle, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
28th, 1821, 21 00
Colraiue, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
24th, 1821, 88 16
Chesterfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
24th, 1821, 51 00
Carver, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 52 00
Concord, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 168 98
Cheshire, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
23d, 1821, 301 70
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 9th, 1821, 1,560 13
Conway, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
23d, 1821, 52 00
Clark, John F. Keeper of the House of Correction
at Worcester, to March 21st, 1821, 22 29
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 875
Douglas, for supporting sundry paupers, to April
- 25th, 1821, 32 17
Duxbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
21st, 1821, 57 1
Dartmouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
28th, 1821, 34 00
Dresden, (Maine,) for the support of John CuUen,
to time of separation, 11 75
Dauvers, for support of sundry paupers, to June
5th, 1821, 498 72
Edgarton, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
20th, 1821, 52 00
Enfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
25th, 1821, 52 00
Falmouth, (Maine, ) for supporting sundry paupers,
to time of separation, 52 50
Great Barrington, for supporting sundry paupers,
to May 30th, 1821, 105 00
Greenwich, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
3d, 1821, 104 6
Granville, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
4th, 1821, 88 00
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
6th, 1821, 389 00
Gill, for supporting Mary Lawson, to May 31st,
1821, 13 00
Greenfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1821, 91 28
Hubbardston, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 27th, 1821, 52 00
Hancock, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
27th, 1821, 19 58
Hanson, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
4th, 1821, ' 65 50
Heath, for supporting a pauper, to January 25th,
1821, "7 85
376 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Hanover, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
8th, 1821, 56 50
Hard wick, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
11th, 1821, 26 00
Ipswich, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
2d, 1821, 50 14
Industry, (Maine,) for supporting a pauper to time
of separation, 13 6
Lanesborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 26th, 1821, 42 00
Longmeadow, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 28th, 1821, 19 00
Lee, for supporting sundry paupers, to May 30th,
1821, 99 9
Leicester, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
2d, 1821, 36 44
Lynn, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
30th, 1821, 184 00
Lenox, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
29th, 1821, 218 49
Leyden, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
26th, 1821, 71 60
Middleborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 1st, 1821, 488 00
Marblehead, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 7th, 1821, 192 11
Montague, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
2d, 1821, 40 00
Montgomery, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 6th, 1821, 27 00
Manchester, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 31st, 1821, 39 00
Marshfield, for supporting of sundry paupers, to
May 19th, 1821, 19 00
Milford, for supporting Bess Corbet, to June 12th;
1821, 166 54
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 377
Milton, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
6th, 1821, 56 00
Marlborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 28th, 1821, 78 00
Nantucket, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
12th, 1821, 62 33
New Bedford, for supporting sundry paupers, to
April 1st, 1821, 309 97
Newbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 584 54
Newton, for supporting sundry paupers, to March
15th, 1821, 9 42
Otis, for supporting sundry paupers, to July 29th,
1820, 26 00
Orleans, for supporting sundry paupers, to Febru-
ary 21st, 1821, 11 56
Pepperell, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
21st, 1821, 104 00
Plymouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
5th, 1821, 143 20
Pelham, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
15th, 1821, 52 00
Palmer, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
5th, 1821, 42- 00
Rehoboth, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
25th, 1821, 179 00
Rochester, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
27th, 1821, 52 00
Russell, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
21st, 1821, 92 16
Robinson, William, Gruardian of Dudley Indians,
for their support, to May 12th, 1821, 81 84
Roxbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 230 90
Rowley, for supporting a pauper, to May 27th,
1821, 21 00
378 PAUPEH ACCOUNTS.
Salem, New, for 'supporting Philip Haven^ and
funeral charges, 29 00
Sandisfieldj for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 28th, 1821, 132 00
Shutesbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 25th, 1821, 104 00
Stockbridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1821, 232 72
Shelburn, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
28th, 1821, 40 45
Sandwich, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
30th, 1821, 38 00
Swausey, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
26th, 1821, 70 14
SheflBeld, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
8th, 1821, 56 56
Southbridge, for supporting London Derry, a pau-
per, to May 18th, 1821, 109 20
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to June 2d,
1821, 2,611 58
Stoughton, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
26th, 1821, 27 00
South Brinifield, for supporting sundry paupers,
to May 25th, 1821, 20 00
Townsend, for supporting sundry paupers, to
April 30th, 1821, 14 00
Taunton, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
21st, 1821, 296 78
tJxbridge, for support of Daniel Jaques, not al-
lowed in former account, 5 00
Westhampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to^
May 23d, 1821, 144 00
Western, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
29th, 1821, 93 88
Westfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821; 78 20
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 379
Washington, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 26th, 1821, 37 14
Worthington, for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 28th, 1821, 42 00
West Springfield, for supporting sundry paupers,
to May 26th, 1821, 153 00
Warwick, for support of sundry paupers, to May
24th, 1821, 38 00
William stown. for supporting sundry paupers, to
May 28th, 1821, 118 59
Westford, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
7th, 1821, 47 00
Worcester, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1821, 76 53
Walpole, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
2d, 1821, - 50 00
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Correc-
tion in Ipswich, for supporting sundry paupers,
to June 4th, 1821, . 304 50
Upton, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
28th, 1821, 24 33
Total, 819,437 52
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Davis, W. Sheriff of Barnstable County, for re-
turning votes, &c. to May, 1821, 9 60
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk County, for sup-
porting poor debtors in the Commonwealth's
Graol, not chargeable to any town, and for at-
tendance nine days upon the trial of James
Prescott, Esquire, to May 25th, 1821, 302 81
Hoyt, Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes, &c. to May 21st. 1821, 16 00
380 SHERIFFS' AND COHONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Worth, Jethro, Sheriff of Dukes' County, for re-
turning votes, &c. to May, 1821, 16 00
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to June 5th, 1821, 60 14
Bourne, TJiomas, Coroner of Norfolk County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to June 1st, 1821, 16 60
Crosby, William, Coroner of Barnstable County,
for taking an inquisition, &c. to June 6th, 1821, 37 30
Hewes, Samuel H. Coroner of Suffolk County,
for taking an inquisition, &c. to June 5th, 1821, 12 76
Lang, William, Coroner of Essex County, for
taking an inquisition on the body of George
Campbell, 15 75
Sampson, Studley, Coroner of Plymouth County,
for taking up and burying a dead body, 5 00
Stowers, Joseph, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking an inquisition, &c. to June 5th, 1821, 17 76
Stevenson, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County,
for taking an inquisition, &c. to June 10th, 1821, 27 93
Total, 8537 65
MISCELLANEOUS AND PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS.
Allen, E. W. for printing Acts and Resolves, to
August 1st, 1821, 16 67
Burditt, J. W. for stationary for the Secretary's
Office, to June 5th, 1821, 54 42
Buckingham, J. T. for printing Acts and Resolves,
to June 15th, 1821, 16 67
Burditt, James W. for books, stationary, &c. to
June 11th, 1821, 134 28
Ballard and Prince, for green bocking, furnished
the Messenger, to June 11th, 1821, 35 00
Bacon, Henry, Assistant Messenger to the Greneral
Court, 19 days, to June 15th, 1821, 38 00
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS. 381
Cutting, Elijah, Assistant Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, 17 days, to June 15th, 1821, 34 00
Dearborn, Benjamin, for repairing the gold stand-
ard balance for the Treasurer, to May, 1821, 5 00
Duraut, William, for cleaning and repairing the
windows of the State House, to June 11th, 1821, 46 50
Gilman, S. K. (Mjaine,) for printing Acts and
Resolves, for 1819, 16 67
Gardner and Russell, for advertising for the Sec-
retary of the Commonwealth, to June 12th, 1821, 16 66
Grant, Moses, for repairing carpets, chairs, &c. at
State House, to June 11th, 1821, 39 67
Kuhn, Jacob, for sundry materials, labor, fuel,
&c. balance in full, to June 12th, 1821, 20 75
Loring, Benjamin, for books and stationary, for
the Adjutant General's Office, to June 9th, 1821, 39 18
Lindsey, Benjamin, for printing Acts and Re-
solves, to May, 1821, 16 67
Manning and Trumbull, for printing Acts and
Resolves, for two years, to January 10th, 1821, 33 34
Rider, Margaret, for 15 days services of her son,
Thomas Rider, as Page to the House of Rep-
resentatives, from May 30th to June 15th, 1821, 15 00
Webster, Charles, for printing Acts and Resolves,
to June, 1821, 16 66
Wheeler, John H. for materials and labor in re-
pairing the State House, to June 11th, 1821, 212 65
West, Richardson and Lord, for books and sta-
tionary, furnished the Secretary of the Com-
monwealth, to June, 1821, 74 00
Young and Minns, for newspapers for Members of
the Legislature, to February 23d, 1821, 18 40
Thomas and Andrews, for three sets, of three vol-
umes each, Massachusetts Laws, delivered the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, 24 00
50
382
MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Yose, Isaac and Son, for hair cloth chair cush-
ings, &c. to Jnne 11th, 1821, 72 00
William Uinsmore, Jason Braman, Thomas Hol-
den, (Constables,) for attendance at the trial of
James Prescott, Esquire, to April, 1821, 40 50
Daniel Stickney, as a witness before a Committee
of the Legislature, on the subject of fees of the
Judge and Register of Probate for the County
of Essex,
James Kimball,
Amos Kimball,
Thomas Hovey,
William Johnson,
John Foster,
Nathaniel Swift,
David Grray,
James Gardner,
Joseph Shed,
Thomas Gage,
Jacob Gerrish,
Jonathan Archer,
Ebenezer Mosely,
Clapp, William W. printer, for newspapers fur
nished the Members, to the end of the session,
Russell, Benjamin, by Russell and Gardner, for
printing for the Government, to June 8th, 1821, 1,015 41
Russell, Benjamin, for newspapers and advertis-
ing, to June 16th, 1821, 100 58
Young and Minns, for publishing Laws, and news-
papers, to June 15th, 1821,
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Total, 82,301 31
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 383
Jldjiitants.
Alleu, Charles, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7tli
Division, to April 30tli, 1821, 10 00
Adams, Gibbens, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to March Sth, 1821, 21 80
Atwood, G. B, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, Sth Di-
vision, to April 26th, 1821, 15 00
Billings, Asahel, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to 7th March, 1821, 17 l6
Burnell, Baxter, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to June 7th, 1821, 15 00
Bryant, Nahum, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January 1st, 1821, 15 63
Collins, Michael, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, Sth
Division, to June 4th, 1821, 18 75
Eells, Samuel, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, Sth
Division, to April 20th, 1821, 18 75
Elder, Norred, 1st Regiment, 4th Brigade, 4th
Division, to January 1st, 1821, 15 11
Higgins, E. H. 3d Brigade, Sth Division, to April
15th, 1821, 15 00
Morrell, Nathaniel, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, to
April 1st, 1821, 15 7
Newell, Luther, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to March, 1821, 15 00
Hathaway, Philip P. Sth Regiment, 2d Brigade,
Sth Division, to June 7th, 1821, 12 SO
Root, Albert A. 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 9th
Division, to February ISth, 1821, 27 84
Richardson, Wyman, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to June 1st, 1821, 21 25
Sayles, Richard, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to
June Sth, 1821, 5 42
Spring, Luther, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to May 1st; 1821, 17 51
384 RESOLVE TO ROLL NO. 85.
Turner, John P. 1st Brigade, 5tli Division, to
June 4th, 1821, 14 11
Tobey, James, 1st Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to December 11th, 1821, 15 00
Whiting, Solon, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to September 19th, 1821, 16 25
Brigade Majors, Mds de Camp, and Brigade garter
Masters.
Sampson, Joseph, Brigade Major, 3d Brigade,
5th Division, to April 1st, 1821, 22 55
Davis, John, Aid de Camp, 7th Division, to June
14th, 1821, 22 32
Stackpole, William, Brigade Quarter Master, to
June, 1821, 34 00
Total, S400 96
Jlggregate of Roll, JVo. 84.
Expense of State Paupers, - - - 19,473 52
" of Militia, ----- 400 96
^^ of Sheriffs and Coroners, - - 537 65
Miscellaneous Expenses, - - - - 2,301 31
Total, S22,713 44
Besolved, That there be allovi^ed and paid out of the
public Treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions and persons' names, respectively ; amounting in the
RESOLVE TO ROLL ]S0. 85. 385
whole to the sum of twenty two thousand seven hundred
and thirteen dollars, and forty four cents, the same being in
full discharge of the accounts and demands to which they
refer.
[Approved by the Governor, June 15th, 1821]
Commons ea\t\\ of iMassachusetts.
SECRETARY'S OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1821.
THE Resolves contained in this pamphlet, have been compared with
the originals, and appear to be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD,
Secretary of Commonwealth.
INDEX
TO THE RESOLVES, PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGINNING MAY THIRTIETH.
AND ENDING JUNE SIXTEENTH, 1821.
Abbot, John, to convey real estate of J. Cogswell, - - - 355
Amendments to the Constitution, _-«--_ 351
Attorney General, to account for balance of money, - - - 358
B.
Bank, New England, to have money paid by J. Wild, - - - 364
Bliss, G. and others, grant to, ------ 363
Bramin, Thomas, to be paid for building Gun House, - - - 360
Brewster, lands in, to be sold, .--_..- 367
C.
Clerks of General Court, their pay, ------ 371
Cogswell, J. real estate of, to be conveyed by Executor, - - 355
Committee of Convention, pay ordered, ----- 360
Committee on Accounts, pay to, - - - - - - 364
Constitution, Amendments to, how to be promulgated, - - - 351
" " to be authenticated, - . - 371
Commissioners on Connecticut line, grant to, - - - - 363
Crane, Daniel, to convey real estate, - - - - - 365
E.
Easton, taxes for town of, altered, - - - - - -355
G.
Gloucester, taxes in, to be collected by J. Mason, - - - 360
Governor's Speech, --------- 342
/ " Message, 357
^puardians of Grafton Indians, to ^ell land, - - - - - 362
^ H.
Harwich, land in, to be sold, ------- 367
Howard, Edwin, his real estate to be conveyed, - - - - 365
INDEX.
I.
Indians, Grafton, Guardians of, to sell land, - - - - 362
L.
Larrabee, B. to have a new note, ------ 355
Legislature, pay of Members of, established, - - - - 354
Lock, Ward, Assistant Messenger of Governor and Council, - - 368
M.
Mason, J. to collect taxes in Gloucester, _ - - - 360
Messenger of General Court, his salary, - • - - - 368
" " " to purchase fuel, . - - - 369
Mott, J. and J. Prentiss, released from a debt to State Prison, - 359
P.
Plymouth County, tax for, - -- - - - - 365
Plymouth Beach Lottery prohibited, ------ 372
Prentiss, J. and J. Mott, to be released of a debt, - - - 359
Q-
Quarter Master General's account settled, - - - - - 363
" " " appropriation for, _ - - - 370
S.
Somerset and Easton, taxes for, altered, ----- 355
State Prison, allowance for, ------- 362
^« " debt to, released, 359
T.
Taxes for Easton and Somerset, altered, - - - - - 355
Tax for Plymouth County, - - - - - - -365
Treasurer to sell deferred stock, ------ 359
" to borrow money, ------- 369
*' to pay over interest, - - - - - - 371
W.
Walcut, Thomas, his pay, -------- 372
Warden of State Prison, grant for, ------ 362
Wild, Jonathan, released from his recgonizance, - - - - 361
" " to pay amount to New England Bank, - - 364
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
CommonUJealrtj ofcJBa^^acIjupett^,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
AVHICn COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO.
Piiljlished agreeably to a Resolve of 16th JanuKi-y, 1812.
y
BOSTON :
PRINTED FOR BENJ. RUSSELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE,
BY RUSSELL AND GARDNER.
18^22.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED
ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JANUARY 9, 1822.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth came down from
the Council Chamber, to the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives, with the following Message from Hi§
Excellency the Governor.
MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
Such is the present tranquil condition of the
United States, such the prevalence of active indus-
try, and such the general indications of prosperity
in this Commonwealth, that few subjects offer them-
selves for consideration, on the present occasion :
but from a recollection of the many blessings by
which we are distinguished, we are incited grate-
fully to recognize the agency of a beneficent pro-
vidence.
388 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
In reviewing the condition and general aspect
of the Commonwealth, you will, I am sure, observe
with complacency, the attention bestowed on agri-
culture. IMie improvements manifested in the cul-
ture of the soil, and in the quality of our various
kinds of stock, have increased the amount of an-
nual production ; which, after yielding an ample
supply for oiu' own consumption, has furnished a
respectable surplus for the purposes of commerce.
To the ordinary motives to agricultural enter-
prize, arising from personal and domestic wants,
and from the certainty of finding a ready market
for surplus produce, there have been superadded,
in the course of the last few years, nmnificent
grants of the Legislature to the respective Agri-
cultural Societies in the State, and the no less
liberal contributions of individual citizens for the
same object. And an impulse has been thus given
to rural economy, that promises to be lasting and
progressive.
By the last census, we are informed that the pop-
ulation of this State, amounts to five hundred and
twenty three thousand, two hundred and eighty
seven persons ; and it may be presumed that more
than seventy five thousand of that number, are ex-
clusively engaged in agriculture. Besides which,
it is well known, that many persons who are enga-u
ged in commerce and manufactures, are among
the most useful and distinguished agriculturalists.
Massachusetts therefore, is essentially an agricul-
tural community.
Since the adoption of the Constitution of the
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 389
United States, the interests of commerce have been
confided exclusively to the General Government;
and the national prosperity is a satisfactory evi-
dence that tlie trust has been understood and duly
administered. But the interests of agriculture and
manufactures may be considered as involved in tlie
exercise of the power to regulate commerce, and
the great mass of the people, who are devoted to
these pursuits, as well as those who are engaged in
commerce, must look to the same government for
a just share of its consideration and regard. Ex-
clusive favors to either, should neither be granted
nor souffht.
By the same census, it is very satisfactory to find^
that notwithstanding the separation of the State of
Maine, and the emigrations which have gone to
people the western States, Massachusetts has expe-
rienced an augmentation of one hundred forty four
thousand and five hundred souls, since the first
census was taken, in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety. From the same source, we
learn that thirty three thousand, three hundred and
sixty one persons are engaged in manufactures ; but
no discrimination is made of the number employed
in the several branches of the general class. But
it is within our own knowledge, that many of the
most' important manufactures are advantageously
increasing. And we may observe, with particular
satisfaction, the growing value of the manufactures
of cotton, and of woolens, of salt, glass, and some
other articles, which must be the more gratifying
to every friend of his country, inasmuch as the im-
390 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
pulse given to manufacturing industry, has sprung,
not from artificial and fugitive causes, but from
the permanent wants and circumstances of the na-
tion, which must ensure their further success and
stability.
The flourishing cpndition of the cotton manufac-
tures, must be contemplated with increased plea-
sure, from the consideration, that the raw material
is the growth of several of the southern States, and
that while an increased intercourse between the
two extremities of the Union must promote the in-
terests of both, the union of all the States, under the
influence of an equable and wise course of policy,
will become more strongly cemented. And thus
the United States, gradually developing their re-
spective resources, and bound together by the
strong ties of interest, will continue to increase in
wealth, in distinction and happiness.
I shall only add here one remark, on a subject
equally connected with agriculture and manufac-
tures. I refer to the raising of sheep. The high
price of wool I am sensible has a tendency to call
the attention of the farmer to the rearing of that
useful animal. But it is apprehended, that until a
plentiful supply of wool is afforded to the manufac-
turers, that branch of industry must continue de-
pressed. The subject is recommended to your
consideration.
In consequence of the death of the Honorable
Timothy Bigelow, a vacancy took place in the
Board of Commissioners appointed under the au-
thority of the act relating to the separation of
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 391
Maine, which vacancy has been filled by the ap-
pointment of the Honorable George Bliss to the
same office. The joint Board has been in session
in the Town of Boston, since the vacancy was filled,
and were for some time assiduously engaged in the
arduous duties of their appointment. The Com-
missioners adjourned in November to meet again
in the month of February next. I shall cause to
be laid before you a representation made to me by
the Commissioners, by which you will be made ac-
quainted with the measures they have thus far pur-
sued, and the course which they propose to follow
in further executing the responsible and difficult
duties assigned them. Should nothing occur to
render the intended surveys needless, the whole of
the ensuing season will not be more than sufficient
to accomplish the several contemplated objects. It
is important to the interests of the Commonwealth
that the right of option guaranteed to it by the pro-
visions of the fifth article of the first section of the
act above mentioned, should be retained and exer-
cised agreeably thereto, as speedily as circumstan-
ces will admit. It would be of less moment to the
Commonwealth that this part of the arrangement
should be speedily adjusted by the Commissioners,
were it not that the duties and obligations towards
the Indians in the State of Maine are still binding
on this State. I flatter myself that nothing on our
part will be wanting to give full effect to the pro-
visions of the act of separation, unless an equitable
compromise can otherwise be effected.
It is not without reluctance that I request the
392 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
attention of the two Houses to the subject of the
State Prison in Charlestown. But such is the con-
dition of that important establishment, resulting, as
I apprehend, from a radical defect tn the original
construction of the prison itself, that some further
legislative interposition seems indispensable. And
* faithfulness to the public interest exacts of me a
communication of such views of the subject, as no
inconsiderable examination and reflection, and the
share I have had in the supervision of that institu-
tion for the last ten years, have suggested.
The points to which I particularly allude, and to
which I wish more especially to invoke your atten-
tion, relate to the number of solitary cells ; to the
dimensions of the sleeping rooms, and the construc-
tion of the workshops. Other objects connected
with the ultimate design of the Legislature in es-
tablishing the prison, will ofifer themselves to your
notice when the subject at large shall be investi-
gated. My remarks will be ciiiefly directed to the
several points I have suggested.
It will, I imagine, be conceded by all who have
been possessed of the means of judging, that most
of the mutinous disturbances which have arisen
among the convicts may be ascribed to one, or to
the union of all the circumstances above mentioned.
The number of cells adapted to solitary confinement
is so limited, that it has sometimes happened that
there have been in the prison a greater number of
convicts, under sentence to suffer solitary confine-
ment, than there were cells to receive them ; so that
it has been physically impossible for the Warden
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 393
to carry into strict effect the sentences of the Courts
of Judicature. Besides which, the paucity of cells
has had a tendency to impair the discipline of
the prison, inasmuch as the municipal government
has been precluded from resorting to solitary con-
finement as a punishment for violations of the laws
of the prison, which has been found from experi-
ence to be the most wholesome mode of punishing
such offences.
In regard to the size of the sleeping apartments,
some of them no doubt were constructed upon the
idea that massive locks and doors would prove suf-
ficient to ensure the safe keeping of the tenants of
the prison. But by a report of the Directors of
the State Prison, dated November nineteenth, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty one, which
will be laid before you, that idea is proved to be
fallacious; and by the same report it will be seen,
that the room in which the late conspiracy overtly
commenced, contained no less than ten convicts.
While such a number of men continue to be thus
placed together, in one dormitory, which, under
the present architectural arrangements of the pri-
son, is unavoidable, combinations and projects for
effecting escapes must be expected. Men of a
restless spirit, rendered desperate by crimes and
restraint, estimate but slightly, any personal dan-
gers that may possibly be encountered in executing
plans of escape. In several insurrections which
have taken place in the prison, since its establish-
ment, it has been satisfactorily proved, that they
resulted from longf previous contrivance and pre-
ss
394 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
paration, and that they included almost every con-
vict in the prison ; many, if not the most of whom,
^vei*e armed or provided with deadly weapons,
which had been forged in the workshops, and of
materials purloined from the Commonwealth, or
their immediate employers. Fortunately, these
insurrections have been suppressed, if not earlier
detected, at the point of execution ; with great
personal hazard, however, to the officers, and
sometimes not without the use of military force,
attended, in one instance, with the loss of the lives
of several of the convicts. But though machina-
tions #)r effecting mischief, are believed usually to
be set on foot in the rooms intended for repose, yet
the daily intercourse of the convicts, in the labora-
tories, in the yards of the prison, and at their
meals, is improved to bring them to maturity. The
single fact that I just mentioned, that in the several
insurrections which have taken place, the prisoners
have been found to be armed with deadly weapons
which had been forged in the workshops, and of
materials obtained by stealth, is a demonstrative
proof of the want of adaption of the several apart-
ments intended both for rest and labor, to the ulti-
mate purposes of the institution.
From the best information I have been able to
obtain by personal inquiry and otherwise, I am led
to conclude that successive repetitions of such enor-
mities as have heretofore occurred, are only to be
avoided by a modification of the prison itself. The
indiscriminate manner of commingling different
classes of character, whether for repose, for meals.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. B§5
or labor, invites and encourages clandestine schemes
of revolt. And although there be no reason to
doubt of the salutary influence of the mvmicipal
laws of the institution itself, in preserving order
and decorum among the tenants of the prison, ge-
nerally, and in deterring some of the number from
engaging actively and voluntarily in combinations
and riots, yet no instance has been cited in which
a convict has aided the officers in quelling opposi-
tion. Such is the power of a sense of common
interest among the convicts, and such the despotism
of opinion constituting a species of self-government
among themselves, that few have the courage, if
they feel the inclination, ever to disclose the secrets
of their fellows. Should not then these strong traits
of character in the human kind be taken into the
account, in adjusting our criminal code, and in the
construction of our prisons and penitentiaries ?
By the remarks I am now submitting to your
consideration, I am far from wishing to derogate
either from the pretentions of the penitentiary sys-
tem, or from the merits of the individuals who pro-
jected the plan of the building at Charlestown.
My only object is to aid as far as possible, in bring-
ing an intricate, and, as it affects this government,
an interesting subject into view, that where errors
have been discovered they may be corrected, and the
true principles on which a beneficial system rests,
may be ascertained. The moral nature of man, so
far as its character has been defined, may afford
probable ground for conclusions in reasoning from
analogy. But under new and untried circumstan-
^96 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
ces, as is the case in the penitentiary system, theo-
retical reasoning may prove delusive ; and the
actual developement of the passions, vinder novel
and complicated associations, may equally disap-
point the calculations of the legislator, and the
hopes of the philanthropist. When the State Prison
was founded, the subject was entirely new. A des-
titution of practical results, at a moment too, when
public opinion had already decided on an ameliora-
tion of the criminal code, led to the assumption of
the most promising theoretical principles ; and the
faults in constructing the edifices, belong to the pe-
riod in which they were reared, and not to the
projectors. The destination of criminals to hard
labor was little understood, and to the extent to
which, in the progress of events it has since been
carried, could hardly have been anticipated. The
great experiment is still in progression, and the re-
sult is only to be learned by experience.
It may here be observed, that if the mischiefs
which have been known to originate from the
causes which have been stated, more especially
from the free intercourse that has necessarily been
permitted from the conformation of the dormito-
ries, yards and work shops of the establishment,
the inference is strong in favor of solitary confine-
ment. If the intercourse and interchange of senti-
ments among the convicts, nourish and heighten that
spirit of restlessness, and eagerness to escape, inci-
dent to a privation of liberty, and at the same time
supply the means of efFectring the purpose, loneli-
ness, by placing the convict Beyond the reach of
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 397
associates and concert, precludes botli the means
and tlie hope of escape. Solitude moreover, would
ensure order and quietness in the prison, and in-
spire stronger hopes of the moral effects of punish-
ment. The causes of the disorders and insurrections
which have taken place at the penitentiary, and
have produced some degree of public disappoint-
ment, I have endeavored concisely to state. By
detecting speculative errors and mistakes, we shall
be the better prepared to adopt a practical course,
and to attain ultimately the desired results. The
penitentiary system has high pretentions to estima-
tion and regard ; and will, I presume, never be
abandoned, until its claims to be allied with hu-
manity and the public good, are practically dis-
proved.
I am aware that measures for placing the prison
in a condition efficaciously to obviate the existing
defects in the construction of it, and to obtain all
the good effects which a well ordered penitentiary
can afford, must be attended with considerable ex-
pense. A hope, however, is indulged that the requi-
site changes may be gradually effected, in a manner
that shall ensure the safety of the prison, and with-
out sensible pressure on the public treasury. But
under the existing arrangements, I am persuaded
that no attention, however assiduous, no watchful-
ness, however intense, can effectually counteract the
keen vigilance of a large number of men, who are
full of health, impatient of restraint, eager for es-
cape, and fearless of danger.
During the recess I have received from the Go-
398 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
vernor of the State of Ohio, sundry resolutions which
had passed the Legislature of that State, " upon the
subject of the proceedings of the Bank of the Uni-
ted States against the officers of the State, in the
United States Circuit Court," with a request that
those resolutions and the report of a Committee of
both Houses of the General Assembly, might be
laid before you.
During the same period, I received two commu-
nications on the subject of a report and resolutions
of the Legislature of Maryland, relative to the ap-
propriation of public lands for the purposes of edu-
cation in those states which have yet received no
such appropriations, one from the Governor of New
Jersey, and the other from the Governor of Vermont,
accompanied with sundry resolutions of the Legis-
lature of each of those states, approving the resolu-
tions of the State of Maryland, requesting me to lay
the same before you, and to solicit your co-opera-
tion. Should the two houses think favorably of the
proposition of the State of Maryland, I shall readi-
ly yield my assent to a measure that appears to be
founded on the principles of equal justice.
Among: the documents which will be now com-
o
municated, is an exhibit of the state of the Treasury
on the first day of the present month. At no period,
perhaps, has the fiscal department of the government
been exhibited in a manner more creditable to the
Commonwealth, or to the administration of its reve-
nue ; as on examination it will be seen that no town
in the state stands debited for any amount of taxes
assessed prior to the year one thousand eight hun-
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 399
dred and twenty. It will likewise he seen that the
whole sum due on warrants, committed to the seve-
ral Sheriffs to collect, most of which the Treasurer
states, have been but lately issued, amounts to about
eight thousand dollars, so that the Commonwealth
has realized all the taxes levied before the above-
mentioned date.
The several documents to which I have referred,
will be laid before you by the Secretary.
J. BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January Wth, 1833.
400 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.^J. KUHN.
CHAP, xxxni.
Governor's Message. January 12th, 1822.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The death of the Honorable Major General Joseph B.
Varnum, has occasioned a vacancy of Major General in the
Third Division of the Militia of this Commonwealth.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council ChanibeVf January IZth, 1822.
CHAP. XXXIV.
Resolve authorizing the payment of S300 to Jacob Kuhij
for Fuel. January 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the General
Court, the sum of three hundred dollars, to enable him to
purchase fuel, and such other articles as may be necessary
for the use of the General Court, together with the Govern-
or's and Council Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasurer's and
Adjutant General's Office, and also for the Land Office ; he
to be accountable for the expenditure of the same.
CHAP. XXXV.
Resolve on pay of Valuation Committee.
January i6th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the several persons,
, COMMITTEE ON VALUATION. 401
members of the Valuation Committee, named in the roll,
the several sums therein annexed to their respective names,
in full compensation for their travel and attendance as mem-
bers of said Committee : And His Excellency the Governor
is hereby requested to draw his warrant on the Treasury
for the payment of said sums accordingly,
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CHAP. XXXVL
Governor's Message. January 17th, 1822.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Repines entativeSf
The Secretary will lay before you, an abstract of the an-
nual return of the Militia, and a return of the ordnance and
military stores, in charge of the Quarter Master General's
Department, together with two communications of the Ad-
jutant General, explanatory of the abstract and return.
The Constitution of the United States provides, that the
Congress shall prescribe the mode in which the Militia of
the several States shall be trained and disciplined. Re-
cently, we find the General Government has directed, that
the system of discipline and manceuvres of the army of the
United States, shall be observed by the Militia. This
change of system, as it ensures uniformity of discipline and
practice in the Militia of all the States, must be approved
by every reflecting mind. But as it renders all preceding
modes of discipline obsolete and useless, such difficulties in
acquiring a knowledge of their duty, must be thrown in the
way of the officers, as their own means will not enable them
to overcome. It is therefore offered to your consideration,
whether a sufficient number of copies of the regulations
should not be provided, and furnished to the officers as
books of instruction have heretofore been furnished, at the
public expense?
I would at the same time observe, that the same regula-
tions require that each regiment of Militia should have a
national standard and a regimental color ; and I would sug-
gest the propriety of having the device on the latter prescri-
bed by the Legislature, and in such a manner as to exhibit
on one side, the insignia of the sovereignty of the Common-
wealth.
It would be needless for me to press on the enlightened
Legislature of a free Commonwealth, an attention to the
Militia, always of importance in a republic, but in our com-
plicated system of government, of infinite magnitude. Mas-
sachusetts has been distinguished for the high character of
LUCY GUSHING. 405
its Militia, not only during, but since the revolution. And
the annals of the late war will attest, that to the prompti-
tude and spirited exertions of a patriotic Militia, the State
was indebted for its protection. The condition of the Militia,
generally, through the State, I presume, was never in all
respects so respectable as at tlie present time, and the mili-
tary experience acquired by the oflBcers, and emulation that
is observable in the ranks, promise still further improve-
ments. Many obstacles, I am aware, oppose themselves at
present to further attainments ; but some of them, 1 should
hope, might be obviated by a revision of the law for regu-
lating the Militia, which has been long contemplated, and
is now recommended to your consideration.
J.BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 17th, 1822.
CHAP. XXXVII.
Resolve autliori'zing Lucy CiisMng, to execute a Qiiit Claim
Deed to Perez Pincin. January 18th, 1822.
On the petition of Lucy Cushing, Executrix of the last
will and testament of Christopher Cushing, late of Scituate,
in the County of Plymouth, Esquire, praying to be authori-
zed and empowered to convey, by a quit claim deed, certain
land named in the petition ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in her said petition, that
the said Lucy Cushing, in her said capacity of Executrix,
be, and she hereby is authorized and empowered, to make
and execute, to Perez Pincin, a quit claim deed of the land
named and described in a bond, given by her late husband,
Christopher Cushing, Esquire, deceased, to the said Perez
Pincin, bearing date the seventeenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
according to the condition thereof.
406 W. EMERSON.— W. HUNNEWELL.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
llesolve on the petition of Moses Emerson,
January 22d, 1822.
On tine petition of Moses Emerson, of Haverhill, in the
County of Essex, yeoman,
Mesolvedf That this Commonwealth do hereby transfer,
release and quit claim, to the said Moses Emerson, liis heirs
and assigns, all the right, title and interest, which has ac-
crued to the Commonwealth, by way of escheat, in and to a
tract of land, of which one William Cobbet, late of said
Haverhill, died seized, and containing about three acres,
as described and set forth in said petition.
CHAP. XXXIX.
Resolve on the petition of Walter Hunnewell.
January 22d, 1822.
On the petition of Walter Hunnewell, of Watertown, in
the County of Middlesex^ praying for leave to make sale of
the'real estate of his ward, Stephen Cook, of said Water-
town, a lunatic ;
Resolved, That the said W^alter, as Guardian of said
Stephen, for reasons set forth in said petition, be, and here-
by is authorized and empowered to make sale of the real
estate of his said ward, as set forth and described in said
petition, at public or private sale ; he the said Walter, first
giving bonds to the Judge of Probate in said County of
Middlesex, with sufficient sureties, to account for the pro-
ceeds of said sale : Provided, however, that the sum for
which the said Guardian should sell the estate of his said
ward, be equal to the sum for which the co-tenant of his
said ward, named in said petition, shall make sale of his in-
terest in the said real estate.
J3. M. FARLEY.— T. PAGE. 407
CHAP. XL.
Resolve on the petition of Benjamin M. Farlep
January 22d, 1822.
On the petition of Benjamin M. Farley, of Hollis, in the
County of Hillsborough, and State of New Hampshire,
Guardian of Lucretia G. Farley, Benjamin M. Farley, Ju-
nior, Sally Farley and Lucy Farley, minors and children of
the petitioner, and heirs at law of Lucretia Farley, decea-
sed, praying for leave to make sale of real estate of his said
minor children ;
Resolved, That the said Benjamin M. Farley, Guardian,
as aforesaid, of his minor children aforesaid, who are heirs
at law of Lucretia Farley, deceased, as aforesaid, for rea-
sons set forth in said petition, be, and hereby is authorized
and empowered to make sale of all the real estate of his said
children, as heirs at law of the said Lucretia Farley, decea-
sed, as set forth in said petition ; and also, all other real
estate situate within the County of Worcester, whereof his
said children are seized, at private sale; he the said Benja-
min M. Farley, first giving bond to the Judge of Probate in
the County of Worcester, with sufficient sureties, to make a
perfect and true inventory of all such real estate, and ren-
der the same to the Judge of Probate of said County of
Worcester, and to account for the proceeds of said sales,
according to the existing provisions of the laws of this Com-
monwealth, relating to minors' estates.
CHAP. XLI.
Resolve on the petition of Colonel Thaddeiis Page, respecting
the discharge of Adjutant Clark. January 22d, 1822.
Whereas Samuel Clark, of Boston, in the County of Suf-
folk, Adjutant in the first regiment, third brigade and first
division of Massachusetts Militia, has been afflicted for two
408 TAXES m BERKSHIKE COUNTY.
years with a mental derangement, anfl still continues in that
state, without any hope of amendment or restoration to the
proper exercise of his faculties. And, whereas the Militia
law of this Commonwealth contains no provision by which
an individual in the above described condition may be dis-
charged from his oflBce ; and whereas, in consequence of the
foregoing circumstances, the first regiment of the third brig-
ade of the first division of Massachusetts Militia is at this
time, and may so continue, deprived of the services of an
important officer ; therefore,
Resolved, That His Excellency the Commander in Chief
be authorized, and he is hereby requested to grant to the
aforesaid Samuel Clark, an honorable discharge from his
oflRce of Adjutant of the aforesaid regiment.
CHAP. XLII.
Resolve remitting Taxes to the Gore, so called, in the Coun-
ty of Berkshire. January 24th, 1822.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in a statement of the Trea-
surer of this Commonwealth, that the sum of sixteen dollars
be remitted to the inhabitants living in a place called the
Gore, lying north of Florida, in the County of Berkshire,
for taxes for the years one thousand eight hundred and twen-
ty, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
CHAP. XLIII.
Resolve on the petition of Stephen Mams, granting 835 75.
January 26th, 1822.
On the petition of Stephen Adams, of Holliston, praying
the allowance of his expenses and trouble in pursuing, ar-
resting and bringing to justice, Michael Martin, a horse
stealer ;
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 409
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Stephen
Adams, out of the public treasury, the sum of thirty five
dollars and seventy five cents, in full of his account for said
services and trouble ; and that His Excellency the Governoc
be requested to dravt^ his warrant on the treasury therefor.
CHAP. XLIV.
Governor's Message. January 19th, 1822.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives ,
Pursuant to a resolution of the Legislature, passed the
fourteenth day of February last, by which the Governor,
with the advice and consent of Council, was authorized to
take such measures as may seem necessary, to adjust and
settle the claim of this State on the General Government,
for expenses incurred during the late war, the Executive
proceeded to examine into the grounds on which the merits
of the claim rested, and to the consideration of the best
measures for bringing the same before the government of the
United States. To obtain a correct view of the principles
which governed the decisions of the Councils of the Com-
monwealth, during the period in which the disbursements
were made, thorough research among a vast accumulation
of documents was undertaken by an Executive Committee,
and the result embodied in as condensed a report as the
complicated nature of the subject would admit. Having
proceeded thus far in pursuing the responsible duties en-
joined by the resolution under which they acted, the Go-
vernor and Council deemed it expedient to transmit a copy
of the report to each of the Senators and Representatives of
this State in Congress, invoking their aid in bringing the
claim to a successful issue. Sufficient time has not elapsed
since the transmission of the copies to the seat of the Gene-
ral Government, to be informed of the coarse the Senators
and Representatives of the State may deem it advisable
further to pursue in prosecuting the claim. In the mea,n
54
410 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.— J. MELISH.
time, I have deemed it proper, and have my own views on
the subject confirmed by the advice of the Council, that a
copy of the report of the Committee, as unanimously ac-
cepted, should be laid before you, for your information.
The Executive, fully sensible of the importance of the
trust committed to their care, will pursue such further mea-
sures as may seem necessary, from time to time, to accom-
plish the objects contemplated by the resolution.
A communication recently received from the Governor of
the State of Kentucky, accompanied by sundry resolutions
of the Legislature of that State, in relation to the appropri-
ation of a portion of the public lands of the United States,
for the purpose of promoting education, and to the right of
the several States in the Union to a part of the same, with
the report of the Committee of the Council, will be laid be-
fore you by the Secretary.
J. BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January I9th, 1822.
CHAP. XLY.
Resolve on the petition of John Melish, January 28th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby authorized to take, for the use of the Com-
monwealth, to be placed in the public offices and lobbies of
the State House, six copies of the latest edition of Melish's •
Map of the United States, at eight dollars and fifty cents
each ; and upon the delivery of the same being certified,^
His Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant on the treasury for the amount of the same.
p. C. BROOKS.—S. WEAVER. 411
CHAP. XLYI.
Resolve allowing for the services of Peter C Brooks and
L. Lawrence, Committee on Plymouth Beach Lottery
concerns. January 29th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the trea-
sury of this Commonwealth to the following persons, who
were appointed a Committee, February ninth, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty one, to examine, in the recess of
the Legislature, into the accounts and concerns of the Ply-
mouth Beach Lottery, so called, namely ; to Peter C.
Brooks, twelve dollars, to Luther Lawrence, twenty dol-
lars, in full for their services aforesaid.
CHAP. XLYII.
Resolve on the petition of Sheffell Weaver,
January 29th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be, and they
are hereby directed to examine the accounts of Sheffell Wea-
ver, as Gruardian to Indians, resident in the Town of Troy,
and allow the same, or such part thereof, as they may deem
just and equitable.
CHAP. XLVIIL
Resolve granting compensation to the Clerk of the Valua-
tion Committee, January 30th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Pelham W. Warren, three
hundred and sixty two dollars, in full for his services, as
Clerk of the Committee of Valuation, for sixty nine days'
attendance^ and eighty four miles travel.
412 D. GREENOUGH.--E. JONES.
CHAP. XLIX.
Mesolve on the petition of David Greenough.
January 3ist, 1822.
Upon the petition of David Greenough, a debtor to the
State Prison,
Resolved, That the Warden and Directors of the State
Prison be, and they hereby are authorized to settle with the
said David Greenough, his account with that institution, upon
the following terms and conditions : That the said Greenough
shall give security to the acceptance of the said Warden and
Directors, within thirty days from tliis date, for the sum of
two thousand dollars, one half payable in four months and
one half in eight months ; and upon receiving such security,
shall discharge the said Greenough from the demand.
CHAP. L.
Mesolve authorizing Eliphas Jones to sell Lands,
January 31st, 1822.
On the petition of Eliphas Jones, Guardian of Mary Tur-
ner Jones and Henry Gardner Jones, minor children of the
said Eliphas Jones, praying that he, or some other person,
may be authorized to sell certain real estate belonging to
said minors, situate in the County of Middlesex ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Eliphas Jones, of Belchertown, in the County of Hamp-
shire be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to sell
and convey, in fee simple, at public or private sale, the real
estate described in said petition, and to make and execute
and deliver a good and sufficient deed of the same ; provi-
ded, that the said Eliphas Jones shall first give bond, with
sufficient sureties to the Judge of Probate for the County of
Middlesex, conditioned that he will account for, and make
payment of, the proceeds of said sale, agreeably to the rules
of law.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.— T. WHITNEY. 413
CHAP. LI.
Governor's Message. February 1st, 1822.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The Secretary will lay before you a letter from the Go-
vernor of the State of Maine, dated the thirtieth of January
last, together with sundry resolutions of the Legislature of
that State, passed the twenty first of March, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty one, and another resolution pass-
ed the twenty ninth of January, of the present year.
J. BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February \st, 1822,
CHAP. LIL
Resolve on the petition of Thomas Whitney and others,
February 1st, 1822.
On the petition of Thomas Whitney and others, inhabit-
ants of the Congregational Parish in the Town of Shirley,
praying that any Justice of the Peace in Middlesex County,
may be authorized to issue a warrant for calling a meeting
of the inhabitants of said parish ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that any
Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Middle-
sex, be, and he is hereby authorized, on application in wri-
ting, made to him by any three of said petitioners, to issue
his warrant, directed to either of the persons applying for
the same, in manner aforesaid, for calling a meeting of the
inhabitants of said parish, qualified by law, to vote in pa-
rish aifairs, at such time and place as he may direct, by
posting up a notice of said meeting, in two public places ia
said town, seven days at least, before said meeting.
414 CALVIN SANGER.— JOHN BREED.
CHAP. LIII.
Resolve granting Compensation to Calvin Sanger, Esquire,
one of the Valuation Committee. February 1st, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Calvin
Sanger, Esquire, one hundred and seventy dollars, being
in full for his attendance and travel, as one of the Commit-
tee on the State Valuation ; and that the Governor be au-
thorized to draw his warrant for the same.
CHAP. LIV.
Resolve on the petition of John Breed. February 2d, 1822.
On the petition of John Breed, of Boston, merchant. Ad-
ministrator on the estate of Ebenezer Breed, late of Charles-
town, deceased;
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, for
the reasons set forth in said petition, make and deliver a
new State Note, to said John Breed, of the same tenor and
date, as the note lost, numbered three hundred and fifty
eight, dated July twenty eighth, one thousand eight hundred
and ten, for the sum of one hundred and fifty eight dollars
and eighty seven cents ; he the said John Breed advertising
said note and making affidavit before some Justice of the
Peace, to the truth of the facts stated in his petition, if he
has not already so done, filing said affidavit in the treasury
office, and giving bonds to the said Treasurer, in the penal
sum of two hundred dollars, with one or more sureties, to
secure the Commonwealth against any loss that may happen
in consequence of the renewal of said note.
W. JERNEGAN.— B. BALDWIN. 415
CHAP. LV.
Resolve on the petition of William Jernegan, referring the
account of S. Mayhew, to the Committee on Accounts,
February 4th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be authorized
and directed to receive and examine the accounts of Simeon
Mayhew, Coroner for Dukes' County, and allow such sum
to William Jernegan, Treasurer for said county, as may
appear to them justly due from the Commonwealth, not-
withstanding the statute of limitation.
CHAP. LVI.
Uesolve on the petition of Benjamin Baldwin.
February 4th, 1822.
Resolved, for reasons set forth in the petition of Benjamin
Baldwin, that there be allowed a further time of two years
from and after the passing of this resolve, to the said Ben-
jamin Baldwin, to complete the payment of his notes due
the Commonwealth, provided said Baldwin shall pay the
interest of said notes annually.
CHAP. LVII.
Resolve on the petition of the Assessor^ of the Town of
Pepperell. February 4th, 1822.
On the petition of the Assessors of the Town of Pepperell,
in the County of Middlesex, praying for authority to ap-
point a Collector of Taxes,
Resolved, for the reasons set forth in said petition, that
416 PEPPERELTL— J. TALBOT.
the said Assessors, and the Selectmen of said town, be, and
they hereby are authorized and empowered to appoint a Col-
lector of Taxes, instead of Joseph E. Wheeler, to levy and
collect the taxes borne on the list made by said Assessors,
for the north part or section of said town, for the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one : Provi-
ded, however, that the Collector so appointed shall give bond,
with sufficient sureties, for the faithful execution of said trust,
before the said Assessors shall commit said list to him; and
the person so appointed, and receiving said list of taxes,
shall have the same power in all respects, to collect the
same, as though he had been chosen and appointed by the
inhabitants of said town, in manner and form as prescribed
by the existing laws of this Commonwealth.
CHAP. LVIIL
Resolve on the petition of Josiah Talbot and others, author-
izing the calling of a meeting of the First Congregational
Parish in Sharon. February 7th, 1822.
On the petition of Josiah Talbot and others, praying that
a warrant may be issued for calling a meeting of the First
Congregational Parish in the Town of Sharon ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that Na-
thaniel Gould, Esquire, be, and he is authorized and em-
powered to issue his warrant, directed to some principal
inhabitant of said parish, requiring him to notify and warn
the freeholders and other inhabitants of said parish, who are
qualified to vote in parish affairs, to meet at such time and
place as shall be named in said warrant, to choose such pa-
rish officers, as parishes are by law, authorized and required
to choose in the months of March and April
LEGISLATURE OF OHIO. 417
CHAP. LIX.
Resolve on a report of a Committee of the Legislature of
OhiL February 7 th, 1822.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred so
much of the communication of His Excellency the Governor,
as related to the report of the joint Committee of both Houses
of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, on the com-
munication of the Auditor of that State, upon the subject of
the proceedings of the Bank of the United States, against
the Officers of the State, in the Circuit Court of the United
States, have had t!ie same under their consideration, and
ask leave to submit the following report.
The questions proposed for consideration by the pro-
ceedings of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
althongh of an interesting nature, are not new. It is a fa-
miliar fact, that soon after the government of the United
States went into operation, a National Bank, with offices of
discount and deposit, in several of the States, was establish-
ed by law; and that, in the course of the discussions which
took place in the legislative bodies, and in tlie executive
councils, the constitutional right of Congress to pass such a
law, was fully examined in all its relations, by men, inti-
mately acquainted with the principles of the constitution,
and eminent for their ability and patriotism. It was then
determined, that this power was vested in Congress by the
constitution, and that the exercise of it was convenient and
necessary to the fiscal operations of the government. This
early construction of the constitution was acquiesced in, and
acted upon, by all the departments of the government, till
the charter of the bank expired by its own limitation. A
short interval only elapsed, before the Secretary of the
Treasury, in an elaborate report made to Congress, resumed
the subject, and urged the institution of a National Bank,
on similar grounds of constitutional right, expediency and
necessity. Another act of incorporation, within a short pe-r
riod after, with a much larger "capital, was granted, under
the operation of which this great question was brought di-
rectly under judicial cognizance. The Supreme Court of
the United States, the ultimate tribunal for the determina-
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418 LEGISLATURE OF OHIO.
tion of all cases arising under the constitution and laws of
the United States, have decided, after full argument upon
all the questions raised, that the power to establish a hank
is vested, by the constitution, in Congress ; and that its seve-
ral branches are exempted from the taxing power of the
States. The constitutional questions, then, having been
thus solemnly determined, in all the forms in which they
can arise, the construction thus given to the constitution ap-
pears to your Committee, to be final, and binding upon the
several States. If the operation of this is found to be in-
jurious to the best welfare of the States, the remedy is to
be found in an amendment to the constitution. The Legis-
lature of this State, however, is not called upon to sanction
any such amendment, but to express its opinion upon the
report and resolutions of the General Assembly of Ohio :
but to comply with the request fully, holding, as your Com-
mittee do, different opinions, would occupy this Legislature
with the details of arguments, better fitted for a judicial than
a legislative body; and could hardly be justified by the
sincere respect which is felt for the Legislature of the State
of Ohio. Satisfied, as ybur Committee are, with the con-
struction which has been so often, and so deliberately given
to the constitution, they do not perceive that any important
end can be obtained, by offering any thing more than the
result of their reflections, in the form of resolutions, which
are herewith respectfully submitted to the consideration of
the Legislature.
Fer Order, WARREN DUTTON.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives,
in General Court assembled, That in their opinion, the
power to establish a National Bank, with branches thereof
in the several States, is vested, by the constitution, in the
Congress of the United States.
Second. Resolved, That the act of Congress, passed on
the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixteen, to incorporate the subscribers to
the Bank of the United States, is a law made in pursuance
of the constitution of the United States.
Third. Resolved, That inasmuch as the constitution of
the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof,
are the supreme law of the land, any thing in the constitu-
tion or laws of any State, to the contrary notwithstanding,
LEGISLATURE OF OHIO. 419
the legislative acts of any State, so far as they prevent or
defeat the operation of such laws, are void.
Fourth. Resolved, That the act of the Legislature of the
State of Ohio, levying a tax upon the branch of the National
Bank, established there, Avith the other measures proposed,
would, if carried into effect, expel from the state such branch,
and defeat the operation of the law, by virtue whereof it was
established.
Fifth. Resolved, That as the judicial power of the United
States extends to all cases arising in law and equity, under
the constitution and laws of the United States, it belongs to
the judicial department, to determine all casxjs arising from
a conflit between the laws of the United States and the laws
of a particular State.
Sixth. Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Legisla-
ture, the proceedings of the Circuit Court of the United
States, for the District of Ohio, against the officers of that
State, do not violate the eleventh amendment to the consti-
tution of the United States.
Seventh. Resolved, 'Thvii the constitutional exercise and
preservation of the judicial power of the United States, is
essential to the safety and prosperity of the Union : And
that, while this Legislature will be ever ready to aiford its
aid to any State, against manifest usurpation, or real en-
croachment upon its rights, it will also yield a reasonable
confidence and support to all the departments of the nation-
al government, so long as they continue in the rightful exer-
cise of their constitutional powers.
Eighth. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be
requested to transmit to the Governors of the several States
of the Union, a copy of the foregoing report and resolutions.
CHAP. LX.
Resolve on Resolutions of Maryland, respecting Public
Lands. February 9th 1822.
The Committee of both Houses of the Legislature, to
whom, at a former session, was referred a message of His
Excellency the Governor, communicating sundry resolu-
420 LEGISL ATUnE OF MARYLAND.
tions of the Legislature of the State of Maryland, relative
to the appropriation of a portion of the public lands of the
United States, in certain cases, to the encouragement arid
support of common schools, and other seminaries of learn-
ing; and to whom, also, was referred that part of the several
communications of His Excellency to both Houses, at the
present session, relating to the same subject, and transmit-
ting sundry resolutions of the Legislatures of the States of
Vermont, New Jersey, and Kentucky, relative to the same,
having, according to order, had the same under considera-
tion, thereupon ask leave, respectfully, to submit the follow-
ing report.
The encouragement and general establishment of common
schools, and the universal diffusion of tlie means of educa-
tion among all the people of this Union, is unquestionably
one of the most interesting and important objects which can
now attract the attention of an American statesman. The
principle upon which the structure of government in these
States, is founded, is that of representative democracy. Go-
vernment is established by the general will, and designed for
the general good. The great body of the people not only vir-
tually hold, but actually exercise a great portion of that pow-
er, which puts in motion all the springs of government. It is
essential therefore, that the great body of the people should
be so far enlightened and instructed, as to enable them to
make a judicious selection of representatives, to inform and
interest themselves in the course and tendency, the justice
and policy of public measures, and to form some just esti-
mate of the character, conduct, and motives of those, to
whom they have confided their political power, and their
civil rights. Rulers also, should at all times be able to feel,
that they may rely with safety and confidence upon the
strength of enlightened public opinion, to sustain them in
the adoption of all such measures, as justice, honesty, and
the best ultimate good of the people may require. In a state
of society and system of government, supported neither by ac-
cumulated wealth, hereditary distinctions, or military force,
a correct and enlightened public opinion alone can be relied
on, to furnish that moral and intellectual power, which is
necessary to give activity and efficacy to public measures,
and thereby to secure the objects of all government, the pro-
tection, liberty, and happiness of the people. But where
LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. 421
so lar?;e a portion of power is necessarily entrusted to the
great body of the community, should the rising generation
be suffered to grow to years of maturity, without education,
and the majority of the people thus become ignorant, stupid,
and depraved, it is quite apparent that, through the arts of
designing and unprincipled men, they would soon become
the victims of intrigue, and the instruments of violence, tt
is quite manifest therefore, that a representative republic
cannot be prosperous and powerful, except among an edu-
cated an<l enlightened people.
These considerations are fully sufficient to awaken a live-
ly interest, and to insure the strictest attention to every pro-
position, which contemplates tlie promotion of the means of
general education. Your Committee, at the same time, are
conscious of the propriety and duty of subjecting the princi-
ples of every measure, which is proposed for the adoption
of the Legislature, to a strict investigation, with a view of
ascertaining whether it rests on the safe grounds of justice
and expediency. They are sensible that this Legislature,
representing the people t)f the Commonwealth, and the
Congress of the United States, whose interposition it is
proposed to invoke upon the present occasion, for the pur-
pose of obtaining the object in question, do themselves exer-
cise but a limited and delegated power, entrusted to them in
certain measures, and for specified purposes; that it is there-
fore necessary to be assured, not only that such object is de-
sirable, but that it is just, practicable, expedient, and within
the authority of those who are called upon to adopt it.
By the report and resolutions of the Legislature of Mary-
land, a claim is made upon Congress, in behalf of the old
thirteen States, together with Maine, Vermont, and Ken-
tucky, formed out of territory which has never been the
property of the United States, to the exclusion of the new
States, for a very large grant of public lands, for the pur-
poses of education. This claim is asserted and urged, as
one, not of favor, but of justice, and one therefore, which, if
well founded, Congress is bound to grant, without regard to
any considerations of convenience or expediency.
There seems to be nothing in the circumstances, under
which the United States acquired their title to these lands,
which can have much influence upon the question. What-
ever may have been the case formerly, their title is now
universally acknowledged; subject, however, to the para-
422 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
mount right of the Ahorigines, where their title has not
already been surrendered. A brief allusion to these cir-
cumstances will be sufficient for the purposes of the present
inquiry. The early grants made by the English government
to the first colonists in North America, were unquestionably
made under a profound ignorance of the geographical cha-
racter and condition of the country. Most of them were
extended in terms to the Pacific, or great Western Ocean.
It was, no doubt, the policy of that government, to make
these grants large and extensive in terms, with the view of
anticipating the progress of other European powers, and
thereby giving greater strength, and a wider extent to their
own claim of sovereignty, over this part of the new world.
The consequence of this utter ignorance of the state of the
country, united to a disposition to make liberal grants, soon
appeared in many conflicting claims and contested bounda-
ries. These, however, except in the immediate vicinity of
actual settlements, were of little importance, because the
lands in dispute were of little or no value. But during the
war, which terminated in the conquest of Canada, in which
the colonists bore an active part, and still more during the
revolutionary Avar, in consequence of the numerous military
expeditions which were sent to the northern and western
frontier, the fertility of soil, and other local advantages of
the Western and North Western Territory, came to be bet-
ter understood, and more duly appreciated. So triumphant
were the arms of America, towards the close of that memo-
rable struggle, and so lofty their pretensions, in consequence
of the great interest which their cause had excited in Europe,
and the consequent aid derived from numerous powerful and
zealous allies, that, at the adoption of the treaty of peace,
the American negotiators were left almost at liberty to dic-
tate their own terms, in regard to boundaries. The conse-
quence was, by prescribing very extensive limits, that in
many points, large tracts of territory were included within
these limits, which were never claimed, and scarcely on any
pretence, however extravagant, could be claimed by any of
the separate States. These tracts, thus ceded by the treaty
of peace, in full sovereignty and property, necessarily be-
longed to all the States jointly, in their aggregate capacity.
After various delays and negotiations, between Congress
and the several States, all those States having claims under
their antient charters, to tracts of land beyond the bounds
LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. 423
of their actual settlements, with a spirit of conciliation and
liberality, highly honorable to them, ceded these claims to
the United States, in nearly every instance, without pecuni-
ary considerations. To some of these cessions, conditions
were annexed; but none which it is necessary to mention,
in connexion with this subject. The object of all these
cessions, seems to have been the same, and was well ex-
pressed by Virginia, in her formal act of cession. This
provides that these lands "shall be considered as a common
fund, for the use and benefit of such of the United States as
have become, or shall become members of the confederation
or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, ac-
cording to their usual respective proportions in the general
charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona
Jlde disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or
purpose whatsoever." The inducement to these liberal ces-
sions of territory, was to raise the credit, and strengthen the
resources of the Union, and thus enable the general govern-
ment to provide the means of paying or securing the debt
incurred by the war, more especially that portion of it,
which was due for military services.
Subsequently, that vast tract of territory included under
the name of Louisiana, and more recently the peninsula of
Florida, were acquired by the United States, by purchase;
and the consideration being paid out of the common trea-
sury, these lands unquestionably became the common pro-
perty of the Union. Your Committee, therefore, do cordially
concur with the Legislature of Maryland, in the proposi-
tion, "that in whatever point of view the public lands are
considered, whether as acquired by purchase, conquest, or
cession, they are, emphatically, the common property of the
Union. They ought to enure, therefore, to the common use
and benefit of all the States, in just proportions, and cannot
be appropriated to the use and benefit of any particular
State or States, to the exclusion of the others, without an
infringement of the principles upon which cessions from
States were expressly made, and a violation of the spirit of
our national compact, as well as the principles of justice
and sound policy."
The Legislature of Maryland proceed to inquire how far
Congress has acted in conformity with the dictates of im-
partial justice, in the appropriations of the public lands ;
and concluding that Congress has not so acted, theieupon
424 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
found a very large claim to these laiuls, in favor of the six-
teen old States, to the exclusion of the new States and Ter-
ritories, which are denominated the favored States. This
claim may be thus stated. By the laws and regulations re-
lating to the survey and sale of the public lands, hitherto
acted on, and now in force, one thirty sixth part, being one
section out of each township of six miles square, and divided
into thirty six sections, is reserved to be appropriated to the
use of schools, within such township. Certain other appro-
priations, though of comparatively small amount, and not
very distinctly stated, are alleged to have been made for
seminaries of learning of a higher grade, assumed by the
Legislature of Maryland, to be in the proportion of one fifth
of the aggregate amount of the reservations for common
schools. It is further assumed, that the same system for
the survey and sale of these lands, will be observed, in all
future time, until every acre of them is sold; an event, of
the certain and speedy accomplishment of which, the Legis-
lature of Maryland seem to entertain no doubt. Taking a
computation, and estimate upon this assumption, in reference
to all the lands of the United States, not only those which
have been surveyed, but including all the unexplored sur-
face of the Northwestern Territory, and the more extensive
and unknown regions of Louisiana, stated to amount to be-
tween four and five hundred millions of acres, the inference
is drawn, that the total of literary appropriations, in the new
States and Territories, will be fourteen million, five hun-
dred seventy six thousand, five hundred and sixty nine and
two thirds acres. At two dollars an acre, the amount in
money, will be twenty nine millions, one hundred and fifty-
three thousand, one hundred and thirty nine dollars and one
third of a dollar. Then considering it as proved, that these
appropriations to the new States and Territories do fur-
nish a valid claim, in justice to the excluded States, to an
equal quantity of land, in proportion to their extent of terri-
tory, the Legislature of Maryland come to the conclusion,
that nine million, three hundred and seventy thousand, seven
hundred and sixty acres of land will be '^^ necessary to do
justice to the States which have not yet had any." Such
is the claim set forth by the State of Maryland, in behalf
of herself and the old States.
Your Committee, in the first place, cannot avoid remark-
ing upon the extraordinary nature and amount of these esti-
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mates and deductions. The boundless and trackless regions
of Louisiana, for instance, which are yet not only unexplo-
red, but over the greater part of which, even the eye of an
American citizen has never wandered, is taken to be a pre-
sent valuable and available fund, out of which, in their
whole extent, reservations may be made; and therefore,
that the old States have a right to claim a quantity of land
proportionate to these reservations, to be set off to them, with-
in the settled States and Territories. Judging of the general
character of that unknown and unexplored country, from
the few portions of it which have been seen, H may be taken
to consist mainly of vast plains, without wood, scantily wa-
tered, and serving only, for a part of each year, to furnish
coarse pasturage to immense herds of wild animals, but
which would be of little value were it even nearer to places
where some settlements have been made. If these lands
can be taken into the account, for the purpose of swelling
the quantity upon which our proportion is to be calculated,
all being taken as it is to be of equal value, we cannot per-
ceive why it would not be equitable to satisfy our claim out
of the same lands. But the grant of a few hundred, or even
a few millions of acres, upon the upper branches of the
Yellow Stone River, along the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains, or even upon the vallies of the Columbia River,
would hardly be regarded as a favor, by Maryland or Mas-
sachusetts, especially if they were under obligation to survey
them, for a century to come. It is also to be considered,
that a great part of the lands stated to belong to the United
States, more especially those beyond the Mississippi, are
still held by the Indian tribes, in full property, from whom
the government must purchase, before they can acquire any
right to sell them.
It seems scarcely necessary to remark upon the extraor-
dinary fallacy of fixing the price of two dollars an acre,
upon those vast tracts of waste and unsettled territory. It
is true that this is, or rather heretofore has been the price
affixed by Congress to the public lands ; but it is to be con-
sidered, that the expenses of surveying, and those attending
the costly machinery of the land office system, are wholly
borne by government; that although two dollars is the gi-oss
price, yet with the credits, and discounts for prompt pay-
ment, it amounts to about three quarters only of that sum,
and more especially, and this circumstance wholly distia-
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426 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
guishes the two cases, that the lands thus sold for two dol-
lars, lie within settled States and Territories, and arc in
immediate and present demand, for the purposes of actual
settlement. And it is this exaggerated estimate, which has
led the Legislature of Maryland to the startling conclusion,
that the grants or reservations in favor of the new States
and Territories, may be estimated to amount in value, to
the enormous sura of nearly thirty millions of dollars. This
sum, we believe, is more than all the monies ever received
from the sales of the public lands, from the commencement
of the grants to the present time, a period of thirty five years
of unexampled activity and enterprize; during which, set-
tlements have been formed, and a population has grown up
upon these territories, with a degree of rapidity entirely
without parallel in the history of the progress of society.
It is, however, truly observed by the Legislature of Ma-
ryland, "that the magnitude of the appropriations which
equal justice requires, cannot be considered as a reasonable
objection to them." But your Committee are of opinion,
that the magnitude of a claim, urged as a demand of right,
furnishes a good reason for bringing it to the test of strict in-
quiry, to ascertain whether it is in truth founded upon those
principles of equal justice, upon which it is asserted.
It is assumed throughout the report under consideration,
that these reservations of land, for the use of schools, are
to be justly regarded as donations or grants, to the several
States and Territories within which they are situated, they
are thus granted for the use and benefit of such States,
and to be applied to state, and not to national purposes.
Supposing this view of the subject correct, in regard to
States already formed, and Territories actually peopled;
upon what just ground can it be extended to the unnumber-
ed States, existing only in anticipation, which may, at some
future time, be formed out of these vacant Territories, in
which a cabin has not yet been erected, and towards which
the boldest of the frontier settlers have yet scarcely made
an approach? A grant implies parties; there must be a party
to receive, as well as a party to convey. Yet our claim can
only be sustained, to the extent asserted, by proving our
right to demand in present possession, an equivalent for
these supposed donations to imaginary States."*
But can these reservations be justly considered as grants
or donations to any State within which they lie? A system
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for the survey and sale of the public lands lias been adopt-
ed, originating in the celebrated ordinance of the twentieth
May, seventeen liundred and eighty five, before the adop-
tion of the present constitution, and modified by sundry acts
of Congress. According to this system, lands intended to
be sold, are surveyed before they are offered for sale, being
actually divided into townships six miles square, and these
subdivided into thirty six sections, each one mile square,
and containing six hundred and forty acres. One of these
sections, in each township, is uniformly reserved and given
in perpetuity for the support of schools in the township.
This plan being adopted and made known, before the town-
ship is offered for sale, it is manifest that every purchaser,
whether he take the whole or part of a township, purchases
his land with this privilege annexed, and pays a full con-
sideration for the privilege, in the price given for the land,
to which such privilege is thus previously annexed. The
United States, as proprietors of a township thus survey-
ed, offer it for sale on these terms ; that if a purchaser, or
company of purchasers, will pay for the thirty five sec-
tions at the price fixed, they shall be entitled to a grant
thereof in fee, and the United States will forever hold the
thirty sixth section in trust, for the use and benefit of such
purchasers and their assigns, for the support of schools.
When land is taken at this ofler, the contract becomes com-
plete, and the United States are bound to execute this trust
with fidelity; and it would be a manifest breach of ftiith, to
compel such purchaser, in any shape, to pay a further equi-
valent for the privilege thus stipulated and paid for. But
it would obviously be compelling such purchaser, thus to
pay again for this benefit, if in consequence of such reserva-
tions, other lands or other funds should be appropriated to
the use of all other citizens of the United States, from the
benefit of which, such purchaser should be excluded. Your
Committee consider these reservations as one of the means
resorted to by the government, to give value to their lands,
and thus to encourage and promote the sale of them. Sup-
pose the United States, upon opening a tract of land for sale,
should stipulate to make certain roads to, and through them;
would the price paid for such roads, be regarded as a gift or
gratuity to the purchasers of the land, who should take it
upon the terms thus offered? Every privilege, benefit and
advantage, which an owner of property annexes to it, prior to
428 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
the sale, and which thus passes with the property, as one of
its incidt^nts and appurtenances, must be considered as a sale
for valuable consideration, and not as a gift or gratuity.
This arrangement, by which a portion of the public lands
sold, is reserved for schools, your Committee consider to be,
in a high degree, wise and judicious. Whilst it serves to
encourage the sale of the hinds, in the first instance, it re-
mains as a growing fund, becoming valuable in proportion
as the occasion for its application arises, by the increase of
families within the township. Still it is a fund, paid for by
the owners of such township, which the government cannot
resume without injustice and breach of faith, and for which,
it would be equally unjust to claim an equivalent from other
funds. It may, perhaps, be asserted, that the annexation
of this privilege to lands, does not enhance their value, and
is not ordinarily taken into consideration by purchasers.
Such an assertion, however, we think would be entirely un-
warranted. It may be very true, that many individuals
buy, without entering into 'any very exact computation of
the value of this privilege, in dollars and cents. But as a
general and known incident annexed to all lands derived
from the public, as a general encouragement to settlers, pro-
ceeding from places where the advantages of school educa-
tion are known, enjoyed, and appreciated, its effect is pro-
duced in that general aggregate of the judgments of men,
which constitutes the market price, and fixes an average
estimated value to such property. It is probable, therefore,
that by enhancing this market price, and raising the general
estimate of public lands, by the reservation of the school
lot, a full equivalent is obtained, for every acre thus set
apart, and reserved as a trust fund.
The Legislature of Maryland appear to have anticipated
this objection, and endeavor to answer it, by stating "that
this increase of value has not been an exclusive benefit to
the Atlantic States, but a benefit common to all the States,
eastern and western, whilst the latter still enjoy exclusively
the advantage derived from the appropriations of lands for
literary purposes.'' But why, we ask, should it have been
the exclusive benefit to the Atlantic States? These States
were not the exclusive owners of these lands; they were the
common property of all the people of the United States. If,
therefore, the proceeds of these lands, thus raised in value,
go into the common treasury of the United States, and thas
LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. 429
ennre to the benefit of the whole people, precise and exact
justice is done to all parties. It is not to be forgotten, that
an individual does not cease to be a citizen of the United
States, by becoming a purchaser of its lands. It is the
common case of an aggregate corporation, entering into a
contract of sale with one of its members. As an individual,
he pays into the common treasury a full equivalent for the
property purchased; as a member of such corporation, he
enjoys his full proportion of it, according to his share in its
capital.
But whatever may be considered to be the relation sub-
sisting between the United States and the purchasers of any
township, resulting from the school reservation, it seems
quite manifest, that such reservation cannot be regarded as
a grant to any State, or to the people of any State. The
State Governments have no control over them, and can
make no dispositi(m of them. It appears to have been taken
for granted, that the purchasers must necessarily be the set-
tlers of the public lands. But it is obvious, that a citizen
of Maryland or Massachusetts may as well be the purchaser
of these townships; and as the reservation enures to the
benefit of the purchasers, and their assigns, this benefit
would be extended to such persons as effectually, as if they
were citizens of the State or Territory, within which such
lands might lie.
Your Committee would suggest another consideration
which presents itself to their minds, as one of great weight,
and which must reduce the claim in question to a very
small proportion of its alleged amount, were it in other re-
spects well founded. If the school reservation can in any
respect be considered as a grant or donation, it can only be
so considered, to the extent to which lands have been actu-
ally sold, under the present system. Certainly where a
township has been sold, with this privilege annexed. Con-
gress cannot with good faith, revoke it. But where the
rights of purchasers have not intervened. Congress has an
unquestionable right to alter this system for the survey and
sale of public lands, to recall the standing proposals now
by law made to purchasers, without breach of faith, and to
propose such other terms, as policy and expediency may
dictate. This, in some instances. Congress has done. In
some of the early grants, that to the Ohio Company, and J.
C. Symmes, a like reservation was made for religions ob-
430 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
jects. Subsequently, this reservation was discontinued ; and
no one ever thought of imputing to Congress a breach of
faith in this particular, nor was any claim ever advanced,
in consequence of this reservation, in behalf of the old
States. Indeed, it is perfectly obvious, that the present
system of sale is governed by considerations of expediency,
and is one which Congress may discontinue at any moment.
Should this now be done, what would become of all that
part of the claim of the old States, founded upon a compu-
tation of the four hundred million acres, not yet sold, sur-
veyed, or explored.
If, then, this claim were well founded, it could only be
practically asserted at the present time, to the extent of that
proportion of lands, which have been reserved upon sales
actually made. Because, should Congress discontinue the
accustomed reservation, and order a sale of the whole thirty
six sections in each township, the old States would enjoy
their full proportion of this common property, in the pro-
ceeds of the sales, thus brought into the public treasury.
Considering these school reservations, beyond townships
actually sold, as altogether contingent, depending upon the
will and judgment of Congress, and to be aff'ected by vary-
ing views of policy, your Committee cannot but regard, with
extreme surprize, the language of the Legislature of Mary-
land, in which they speak of the whole fourteen million,
five hundred and seventy six thousand acres, being the ag-
gregate of what these reservations will be, throughout the
whole of the unsurveyed territory of the United States, as
land which <'has already been given to the favored States
and Territories," and thereupon to found a demand for an
immediate allowance of a proportionate amount in behalf
of the excluded States.
Your Committee, however, are far from entertaining a
doubt of the purity and uprightness of the motives, in which
this proposition originated. On the contrary, they firmly
believe that the Legislature of Maryland, in the claim
which they have advanced, and those of the other States
which have given it their sanction, have been actuated by
an honest, but very ardent desire to promote a highly inter-
esting and laudable object, that of education; but through
the zeal and earnestness with which this object has been
pursued, they have been led to overlook the unsoundness of
the principles upon which this extraordinary claim is as-
LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. 431
serted. But the allowance of this claim, looking as it avow-
edly does, for large donations to some of the States, to the
exclusion of others, if not fully established, and clearly
shewn to rest upon principles of strict right, as a debt due
from the favored to the excluded States, would be a palpa-
ble violation of the dictates of impartial justice, so eloquently
and powerfully urged by the Legislature of Maryland.
Your Committee ask leave to call the attention of the Le-
gislature to one more topic arising out of the subject com-
mitted to them, which is, the ratio upon which it is proposed
to distribute the lands among the old States, should they be
granted by Congress, in pursuance of this claim. The Le-
gislature of Maryland propose, that they should be distri-
buted among these States in proportion to their respective
superficial extent. This rule seems not only to be entirely
arbitary, and founded on no principle of equity, but repug-
nant to the general spirit and design of the cessions of the
respective States, and a violation of the express condition
upon which cessions were made by Virginia, namely, that
these lands should enure to the benefit of all the States,
^^ according to their usual respective proportions in the gen-
eral charge and expenditure." This was the language used
during the existence of the confederation, and was at that
time entirely appropriate. It is not now strictly accurate to
speak of these lands as the common property of the States;
but conformably to the spirit and principles of the present
constitution, they are rather to be regarded as the property
of the people of the United States, directly and fully repre-
sented in Congress. According to these principles, upon the
present system, the proceeds of lands are brought into the
treasury, and enure to the benefit of the citizens, in the exact
proportion in which they contribute to the general charge ;
therefore, the lands, if distributed, must equitably follow
the same proportions.
It is hardly to be presumed, however, that it is seriously
in contemplation to grant the land itself to the sixteen States,
respectively. Should eight or ten millions of acres be thus
granted, with liberty to the several States to dispose of them,
as they might think fit, it is very certain that so many sellers
coming into the land market at once, would not only depre-
ciate the value of their own lands, but entirely derange the
present system of land sales, by the United States, and di-
vert that source of revenue from its present channel, for
432 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
many years to come. To avoid this ruinous system, it
would, probably, be proposed to pay in cash, a certain pro-
portion of the proceeds of the sales of public lands. But in
this case, it would be necessary to replace the same sum
from other funds, so that in point of fact, it would be quite
immaterial whether these sums were paid out of those pro-
ceeds specifically, or from any other public monies, being
in either case, a general charge on the treasury. Whether
land therefore, or money, be distributed, no other equitable
rule of proportion can be followed, than that of contribution
to the general charge, because in either case, the amount
thus taken, must be replaced by such contribution. Nor
does it appear of the slightest importance whether those
who are entitled to receive, happen to be closely settled on
a small surface, or thinly scattered over an extensive terri-
tory. Extent of surface, therefore, can furnish no safe or
equitable rule of distribution. But it is, perhaps, easy to
perceive the error, in which this proposed ratio of distribu-
tion arose, and to trace it to that general delusion, if the
expression may be indulged, in which this extraordinary
claim itself originated. The aggregate of these school re-
servations, being a portion of each township surveyed, for
sale, must of course, be in exact proportion to the number
of these townships. As a benefit promised to purchasers,
this was the just proportion. Had such reservation been
designed principally as a gift or gratuity, to inhabitants
or settlers, independent of their interest in the lands, a dif-
ferent proportion would naturally have presented itself.
This circumstance throws additional light upon the nature
and character of these reservations, as incidental merely to
the grants to which they were annexed, and of couse, co-
extensive with them.
Such are the views, which your Committee have felt it
their duty to submit to the Legislature, relative to the most
important question, arising out of this subject. The further
claim, founded on the suggestion that donations of lands
have been made to certain States, for the support of semi-
naries of learning of a higher grade, may perhaps stand on
a footing somewhat different. Seven townships appear to
have been granted for this purpose to several States and
Territories, and others may have been granted, of the cir-
cumstances attending which, and the considerations upon
which they were made; your Committee have not been able
LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND. 433
to obtain precise and satisfactory information. They are,
however, so unimportant in point of amount, as not mate-
rially to aifect the general question. If the reservations of
tlie thirty sixth part of the public lands, for the support of
schools, are not of a character to sustain the present claim
in behalf of the old States, the proposition of the State of
Maryland must entirely fail. A general desire to promote
the great object of school education, will not be sufficient to
justify an affirmative decision on this proposition. It is a
question of strict right, between parties having adverse in-
terests, the decision of which, may involve consequences
deeply affecting the future peace and harmony of the Union.
The form in which this claim is made, as well as the claim
itself, appears calculated to awaken jealousy and discord.
Some are denominated the favored, and others the excluded
States. The latter are represented to be powerful, having
one hundred and sixty nine Representatives in Congress ;
the former feeble, having only seventeen Representatives.
The question is ultimately to be decided by these Repre-
sentatives, having themselves an interest in the question.
As a question between parties thus situated, it becomes an
imperious duty to waive all considerations of interest, poli-
cy and expediency, and to decide only upon those unerring
principles of justice, which can alone ensure harmony and
safety. The question, whether Congress has power, and
whether under any circumstances, it would be advisable to
exercise it, in making appropriations for the encouragement
and support of schools and other seminaries, for the common
use and benefit of all the people of the Union, is one of an
entirely different character, upon which your Committee
feel confident, that the Legislature of Massachusetts will
be ready to act with promptness and liberality, whenever
that question is distinctly presented.
Your Committee would have felt more entire confidence
in the result of their inquiries, had not opinions of an oppo-
site character been expressed by those, for whose judgment
they entertain the highest deference and respect. This cir-
cumstance has induced them to examine the subject with all
the attention which other engagements would permit, and to
assign the reasons which have influenced them, at much
greater length than would otherwise have been proper. But
believing that the proposition of the Legislature of Mary-
land cannot be sustained upon just and satisfactory grounds,
57
434 LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.
and that the adoption of it by this Legislature, would be
attended with consequences highly injurious to the harmony
and best interests of the Union, they ask leave to recom-
mend the adoption of the subjoined resolutions. All which
is respectfully submitted.
For the Committee,
LEMUEL SHAW.
Resolved, That the public lands of the United States are
justly considered to be the common property of the Union,
an«l that no state can justly claim any exclusive appropria-
tion of them.
llesolvcd, That the reservation of certain lots of lands in
townships offerecl for sale by the United States, for the sup-
port of schools in such townships, in pursuance of standing
laws, cannot justly be considered as a donation to the States
within which such lands are situated, and cannot, therefore,
entitle any other State to demand any land or other dona-
tion by way of equivalent.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be request-
ed to transmit copies of the foregoing report and resolutions,
to the Governors of the several States, with a request that
they will communicate the same to the Legislatures thereof,
respectively ; also to each of the Senators and Representa-
tives of this Commonwealth, in Congress.
CHAP. LXL
Report of the Committee of Valuation. February 9th, 1822.
To the Honorable Senate, and Honorable
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ^
The Coittmittee appointed by an order of the General
Court, passed the fifteenth day of June last, convened at the
State House, in Boston, on the seventh day of November
last, attended by Pelham W. Warren, Esquire, whom they
had elected a Clerk to keep a journal of their proceedings,
VALtFATION. 435
and proceeded to perform the duties required by said order.
After examining the returns of the Assessors of the several
towns and districts in the Commonwealth, made in pursu-
ance of an act, passed on the thirteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
one, entitled, " an act to ascertain the rateable estate within
this Commonwealth," and correcting such returns as appear-^
ed to them informal, imperfect or erroneous, the Committee
proceeded to estimate the several items of taxable property
according to their true value, from the best information in
their power to obtain.
Your Committee have not in any instance imposed the
penalty of twenty five per centum in addition to the aggre-
gate of the taxable property of any town, on account of the
neglect of the Assessors to make and return perfect lists of
the taxable property therein, as they were authorized to do,
although in the opinion of your Committee, there were im-
perfect and informal returns.
The journal of the Committee, which is herewith submit-
ted, will furnish a complete history of their proceedings.
In exercising the discretionary powers with which they
were invested, the Committee have endeavored to proceed
with great caution ; and they believe they have decided with
integrity, after due deliberation.
They submit the following apportionment of the sum of
one thousand dollars on the several towns and districts ia
this Commonwealth, as the ratio by which, in future, they
are to be assessed, for the consideration of the honorable
Legislature.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN PHILLIPS; Chairman.
436
VALUATION.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on iglOOO, includ.
Polls, at li mill each.
9,480
143
Boston,
Chelsea,
3,585,568 00
17,169 93
331 66
1 73
9,623
3,602,737 93
333 39
COUNTY OF ESSEX.
2,800
Salem,
486,935 84
47 30
889
Dan vers.
60,674 23
6 71
561
Ipswich,
27,250 32
3 25
807
Newbury,
47,958 97
5 46
1,507
Newburyport,
137,940 00
14 47
1,325
Marblehead,
67,340 17
7 95
1,229
Lynn,
34,494 91
4 90
137
Lynnfield,
5,623 20
0 70
855
Andover,
49,413 68
5 66
1,003
Beverly,
51,184 76
6 03
460
Rowley,
21,788 82
2 62
500
Salisbury,
22,437 10
2 74
695
Haverhill,
37,540 45
4 36
1,514
Gloucester,
47,991 49
6 52
196
Topsfteld,
20,511 20
2 11
430
Amesbury,
20,217 21
2 44
412
Bradford,
19,341 93
2 33
344
Methuen,
16,367 75
1 96
214
Boxford,
15,237 54
1 67
126
Wenham,
6,626 73
0 77
291
Manchester,
11,646 45
1 47
182
Hamilton,
10,824 79
1 23
150
Middleton,
6,593 34
0 81
163
Saugus,
7,514 07
0 91
258
Essex,
15,381 47
1 75
342
West Newbury,
18,960 83
2 19
17,390
1,267,797 25
138 31
COUNTY OP J
^IIDDLESEX.
254
Acton,
9,647 74
1 24
308
Ashby,
11,010 05
1 43
178
Bedford,
9,600 82
1 12
VALUATION.
MIDDLESEX CONTINUED.
437
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on JglOOO, includ.
Polls, at IJ mill each.
317
Billerica,
17,283 72
2 01
202
Brighton,
15,666 56
1 69
130
Burlington,
6,684 12
0 79
110
Boxborough,
4,813 86
0 59
746
Cambridge,
61,828 88
6 59
159
Carlisle,
7,153 90
0 87
1,312
Charles town.
110,916 48
11 83
402
Chelmsford,
15,993 98
2 02
411
Concord,
26,463 39
2 96
344
Dracut,
13,372 89
1 70
152
Dunstable,
6,450 97
0 80
231
East Sudbury,
11,200 78
1 34
472
Framingham,
22,572 41
2 71
435
Groton,
24,500 25
2 82
282
Holliston,
15,130 71
1 76
375
Hopkinton,
16,933 41
2 06
264
Lexington,
15,311 32
1 76
164
Lincoln,
9,819 04
1 11
244
Littleton,
10,191 79
1 27
467
Maiden,
19,622 00
2 44
454
Marlborough,
24,150 76
2 79
324
Medford,
30,507 84
3 19
204
Natick,
10,487 39
1 24
491
Newton,
25,407 43
2 99
348
Pepperell,
12,269 13
1 61
425
Reading,
14,747 43
1 95
196
Sherburne,
12,094 92
1 37
207
Shirley, '
7,046 74
0 94
293
South Reading,
9,263 51
1 14
176
Stoneham,
5,228 21
0 72
235
Stow,
10,502 40
1 28
312
Sudbury,
15,988 34
1 89
221
Tewksbury,
8,739 89
1 11
362
Townsend,
10,439 42
1 47
215
Tyngsborough,
7,407 43
0 97
443
Waltham,
27,212 64
3 14
381
Watertown,
27,800 83
3 02
289
West Cambridge,
13,507 87
1 63
309
Westford,
15,467 04
1 88
43S
VALUATION.
MIDDLESEX CONTINUED.
oil.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on ^looo, includ.
Poils,at 1| mill each.
192
403
Weston,
Wilmington,
Woburn,
17,601 29
8,554 88
16,490 54
1 98
1 05
2 06
14,722
793,085 00
92 28
COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
80,539 85
18,243 10
12,024 92
25,800 00
14,767 75
13,352 30
13,480 02
19,248 43
9,105 63
16,964 46
17,132 45
12,678 37
13,294 55
12,535 43
20,012 35
18,734 31
12,521 15
14,144 58
18,282 39
12,000 00
15,344 56
6,292 30
19,851 03
14,000 00
9,525 77
17,070 98
18,973 53
12,072 53
7,956 23
15,792 42
4,720 27
14,303 83
753
Worcester,
452
Sutton,
322
Winch en don,
494.
Mendon,
276
Milford,
388
Oxford,
362
377
229
Royalston,
Spencer,
Oakham,
421
Westminster,
444
Leominster,
292
Bolton,
332
283
Templeton,
Western,
455
309
Sterling,
Princeton,
254
Southborough,
333
Holden,
403
Hard wick.
249
374
Milbury,
Harvard,
199
Northbridge,
394
Petersham,
405
219
388
429
Dudley,
West Boylston,
Shrewsbury,
Uxb ridge,
203
New Braintree,
208
Gardner,
365
Grafton,
154
Dana,
297
Wes thorough^
8 26
2
30
1
54
3
02
1
72
1
69
1
73
2
27
1
15
2
13
2
19
1
56
1
68
1
53
2
45
2
12
1
49
1
76
2
22
1
42
1
92
0
86
2
35
1
85
1
17
2
10
2
31
1
47
1
01
1
95
0
65
1
72
V /^- A-
VALUATION.
439
WORCESTER CONTINUED.
Polls.
To^vns.
Aggregates.
Pay on ;g'000, includ.
Pol IS, at U mill t-ach.
278
Lunenburgh,
14,908 89
1 74
334
Hubbardston,
13,519 72
1 70
438
Lancaster,
19,399 15
2 38
286
Douglas,
9,872 67
1 31
124
Ward,
7,080 75
0 82
537
Brookfleld,
26,099 83
3 11
288
Ashburnbam,
11,384 52
1 44
247
Upton,
8,239 45
1 10
184
Berlin,
7,169 04
0 92
307
Rutland,
19,296 01
2 16
400
Sturbridge,
20,136 34
2 37
155
Pax ton,
6,944 08
0 85
393
Fitchburg,
14,390 68
1 86
540
Barre,
26,149 19
3 12
499
Charlton,
28,000 00
3 23
205
Boylston,
10,590 05
1 25
303
Athol,
12,196 69
1 53
244
Phillipston,
9,586 18
1 22
269
Northborough,
11,449 67
1 41
268
North Brookfield,
12,748 59
1 44
247
Southbridge,
11,866 30
1 42
293
Leicester,
17,046 50
1 95
17,852
849,439 79
101 99
COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE.
Amherst,
Belch ertown,
Greenwich,
Enfield,
Granby,
Curamington,
Northampton,
West Hampton,
Pelham,
Williamsburg,
Worthington,
Plainfield,
Ware,
19,879
14
17,022
07
7,299
31
8,230
67
8,674 76 1
9,085
78
37,774 46 1
8,704 90
8,925
40
11,848
14
12,615
58
9,061
93
7,725
51
2 45
2 35
0 92
03
13
19
38
05
22
45
54
14
09
440
VALUATION.
HAMPSHIRE CONTINUED.
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on glOOO, includ.
Polls, at 1^ mill each.
280
Southampton,
9,233 06
1 24
186
Norwich,
6,924 81
0 89
253
South Hadley,
9,326 10
1 21
214
Hatfield,
16,823 01
1 81
170
Middlefield,
8,779 70
1 04
156
East Hampton,
5,166 74
0 70
162
Goshen,
7,167 24
0 87
318
Chesterfield,
11,676 64
1 51
331
Had ley,
18,055 05
1 94
6,190
260,000 00
32 15
837
830
547
375
380
155
364
294
99
149
321
435
273
264
423
441
161
107
6,455
236
489
476
182
COUNTY OF HAMPDEN.
Springfield,
West Springfield,
Westfield,
South wick,
Granville,
Tolland,
Blandford,
Chester,
Russell,
Montgomery,
Longmeadow,
Wilbraham,
Ludlow,
Palmer,
Brimfield,
Monson,
South Brimfield,
Holland,
53,405
15
36,741
24,616
13,817
13,020
59
91
90
37
5,902
13,358
89
33
9,266 46
3,760 43
3,038 98
12,636
36
16,388 76
8,209 86
9,092 77
18,314 28
18,293 30
6,420
4,352
69
17
270,637
20
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN.
5
99
4
50
3
00
1
78
1
72
0 75
1
73
1
26
0 48
0
49
1
60
2
10
1
14
1
20
2
26
2
28
0
81
0
55
33 64
Buckland,
7,499 28
1 02
Colraine,
17,081 93
2 25
New Salem,
15,824 76
2 12
Orange,
9,718 81
1 14
VALUATION.
441
FRANKLIN CONTINUED.
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on igiooo, inciud-
Polls, at ii mill each.
299
Greenfield,
19,336 92
2 16
270
Whateley,
9,850 55
1 28
189
Leverett,
5,689 05
0 79
232
Wendell,
6,667 77
0 94
382
Conway,
18,675 64
2 23
247
Heath,
6,519 62
0 95
271
Charlemont,
7,603 94
1 08
201
Barnardstown,
8,197 02
1 02
411
Deerfield,
21,894 32
2 56
154
Hunderland,
7,957 40
0 84
225
Shelburne,
9,345 85
1 17
201
Rovve,
5,467 30
0 79
281
Warwick,
11,757 85
1 47
226
Shutesbury,
6,125 23
0 89
181
Gill,
6,424 25
0 85
236
Montague,
8,778 54
1 »4
214
Leyden,
8,317 61
1 06
348
Northfield,
17,428 14
2 07
240
Hawley,
6,848 84
0 97
405
Ashfield,
13,249 83
1 78
72
Ervin's Grant,
1,821 94
0 27
6,668
258,082 39
32 84
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
437
Adams,
141
Altbrd,
91
New Asliford,
222
Becket,
438
Great Barrington,
270
Cheshire,
60
Clarksburgh,
190
Dal ton.
209
Egremont,
95
Florida,
180
Hinsdale,
256
Hancock,
306
Lanesborough,
342
Lenox,
58
16,047
81
5,153
18
3,023
04
8,588
25
18,429
55
14,148
16
1,821
63
7,305
86
6,308
88
1,959
94
7,055
36
10 269
74
15,162 49
12,591
27
2 08
0 67
0 40
1 09
2 29
1 66
0 25
0 94
0 87
0 31
0 89
1 28
1 80
1 63
442
VALUATION.
BERKSHIRE
CONTINUED.
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on glOOO, includ.
Polls, at IJ mill each.
4.30
New Marlborough,
13,430 04
1 84
91
Mount Washington,
2,785 89
0 38
11
Boston Corner,
250 06
0 04
387
Lee,
11,569 26
1 60
247
Otis,
5,671 84
0 87
164
Peru,
7,002 96
0 88
697
Pittsfield,
29,852 77
3 70
220
Richmond,
11,634 03
1 36
410
Sandisfield,
16,197 45
2 05
187
Savoy,
4,394 92
0 66
544
Sheffield,
20,894 30
2 67
328
Stockbridge,
15,520 67
1 87
317
Tyringham,
9,475 11
1 32
268
Windsor,
7,215 04
1 04
165
Washington,
4,464 06
0 64
425
Williamstovvn,
19,472 32
2 36
11
Grore, West of Do.
442 48
0 06
290
West Stockbridge,
8,533 40
1 18
8^29
316,671 76
40 68
211
1077
805
375
587
242
224
300
227
322
394
420
377
305
198
259
286
COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
Brookline,
25,931 50
2 63
Roxbury,
76,913 00
8 41
Dorchester,
59,574 57
6 33
Milton,
24,680 95
2 76
Weymouth,
26,996 92
3 28
Stoughton,
8,469 79
1 12
Sharon,
9,057 49
1 15
Canton,
12,695 12
1 59
Foxborough,
7,735 75
1 03
Braintree,
15,031 23
1 82
Franklin,
15,524 75
1 97
Randolph,
16,251 21
2 08
Quincy,
24,345 00
2 64
Walpole,
15,099 02
1 81
Medfield,
9,579 56
1 17
Bellingham,
10,634 50
1 34
Needham,
12,147 34
1 51
VALUATION.
443
NORFOLK CONTINUED.
Polls.
Towns,
Aggregates.
?ay on glOOO, inciud.
Polls, at IJ mill each.
129
Dover,
8,486 65
0 94
386
Med way.
17,242 37
2 13
616
Wrenthani,
22,898 87
2 96
600
Dedham,
36,095 39
4 10
272
Cohasset,
11,869 18
1 47
8,612
467,260 16
54 28
COUNTY OF
BRISTOL.
1,060
Taunton,
43,226 52
5 42
610
Seekonk,
20,448 68
2 72
672
Attleborongh,
24,879 16
3 20
607
Fairhaven,
28,375 14
3 42
441
Freetown,
12.361 38
1 75
868
New Bedford,
102,930 49
10 40
236
Wellington,
8,426 21
1 11
245
Somerset,
8,265 35
1 10
425
Swansey,
11,407 70
1 65
269
Mansfield,
7,337 68
1 06
397
Easton,
14,363 12
1 88
350
Troy,
12,019 40
1 59
603
Relioboth,
19,317 19
2 61
236
Raynham,
8,786 78
1 13
369
Norton,
16,700 86
2 03
233
Berkley,
8,245 37
1 07
161
Dighton,
4,883 12
0 67
621
Westport,
20,971 42
2 79
800
Dartmouth,
25,635 43
3 48
9,203
398,581 00
49 08
COUNTY OF ]
PLYMOUTH.
956
Plymouth,
45,813 31
5 48
342
Kingston,
14,296 84
1 74
255
Plympton,
7,735 97
1 07
188
Halifax,
6,138 70
0 82
1,314
Bridgewater,
56,187 70
6 95
1,152
Middleborough,
40,709 88
5 33
231
Carver,
7,820 88
1 03
444
319
189
309
817
VALUATION.
PLYMOUTH CONTINUED,
Polls.
Towns.
Aggregates.
Pay on ^1000. includ.
Polls, at li mill each.
780
Rochester,
22,935 91
3 20
216
Ware ham,
7,409 50
0 99
639
Uuxbnry,
22,982 53
2 84
401
MarshJSeld,
19,527 96
2 33
717
Scituate,
35,800 19
4 25
303
Pembroke,
12,438 00
1 55
220
Hanson,
7,690 46
1 01
28
Hull,
3,437 25
0 34
652
Hin^^ham,
31,073 41
3 73
422
Abini^ton,
19,862 35
2 17
266
Hanover,
13,300 28
1 58
8,982
372,161 12
46 41
DUKES' COUNTY.
Edgarton,
Chilmark,
Tisbury,
8,807 02
10,842 14
9,423 77
29,072 93
COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE.
24,426 10
23,884 25
25,418 65
14,525 12
7,796 64
7,822 32
5,705 28
8,671 50
5,832 55
3,013 03
4,606 04
3,627 18
7,800 90
616
Sandwich,
568
Falmouth,
901
Barnstable,
493
Yarmouth,
439
Dennis,
327
Brewster,
402
Harwich,
406
Chathau!,
359
Orleans,
173
Eastham,
344
Wellfleet,
286
Truro,
418
Provincetown,
5,732
143,129 56
COUNTY OF NANTUCKET.
3,040 I Nantucket, | 190,000 00
1 26
1 24
1 30
3 80
3
09
2 97
3
60
2
03
35
18
11
38
05
0
53
0 92
0 75
1
31
21 27
19 88
PROBATE LAWS— STATE PRISON. 445
CHAP. LXII.
Resolve graniivg compensation to Messieurs Doolittle and
Bliss, Committee on Probate Laws. February 11th,
1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the Honorable Mark Doolittle, the sum
of fifteen dollars, and to the Honorable George Bliss, the
sum of six dollars; which sums are in full for their services
and expenses in attending, in the recess of the General
Court, to revise the probate laws, and preparing a bill on
that subject.
CHAP. LXIII.
Resolve granting S3000, for the use of the State Prison.
February 11th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the public treasury,
for the use of the State Prison, the sum of three thousand
dollars, to be drawn from the treasury by the Warden of
said prison, in such sums as the Directors thereof shall
from time to time direct; and His Excellency the Governor,
with the advice of Council, is hereby requested to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer for said sums accordingly.
CHAP. LXIV.
Resolve authorizing John Whiting, to make sale of Estate,
in the County of Berkshire. February 12th, 1822.
Whereas the Treasurer has communicated to the Legisla-
ture, that there is a small estate in the County of Berkshire,
446 JOHN WHITING— WILLIAM JONES.
which was mortgaged to tlie Commonwealth, as collateral
security for the payment of two notes, amounting to two
hundred and fifty two dollars, sixty cents, the possession of-
which has been sued for and recovered, and is under the
care of the Honorable John Whiting, who thinks the same
might be disposed of to advantage : Therefore,
Resolved, That John Whiting, of Great Barrington, be,
and he is hereby appointed the Agent of this Commonwealth,
with authority to sell and convey, by good and sufficient
deed or deeds, all the right, title and interest which the
Commonwealth has in said estate, at public or private sale,
as he may see fit, and at a credit not exceeding three years ;
the said Agent to account with the Treasurer of this Com-
monwealth, for the time being, for the proceeds of the sale
of said estate, or any part thereof, after deducting his ac-
count of expenses attending the same ; which account the
said Treasurer is hereby authorized to audit and settle with
the said Agent, in behalf of this Commonwealth.
CHAP. LXV.
Ilesolvefor the relief of William Jones.
February I2th, 1822.
On the petition of William Jones, of Lunenburg, in the
County of Worcester, representing that in his capacity of
Executor of the last will and testament of Thomas Ham-
mond, late of Shirley, in the County of Middlesex, decea-
sed, he was duly licensed to sell the real estate of said
deceased, for the payment of his debts ; and that in pursu-
ance of said license, he sold said estate, having previously
given notice of said sale, agreeably to the requirements of
the law in such cases made and provided ; but that he has
failed and neglected to file in the probate office his affidavit
that he had given such notice ;
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said William Jones be authorized and allowed to file in the
probate office, for the County of Middlesex, his affidavit,
that he had given said notice, at any time within 'two months
MIDDLESEX COURT OF SESSIONS. 447
from the time of passing this resolve ; and the same, when
so filed, shall be taken and received in all cases whatsoever,
as evidence of said notice, to all intents and purposes, as it
would have been taken and received, had it been filed with-
in the time prescribed by law.
CHAP. LXVI.
Resolve authorizing the Court of Sessions of the Comity of
Middlesex, to issue warrants for the election of a Regi-
ster of Deeds. February 13th, 1822.
Whereas doubts have existed as to the power of the Court
of Sessions to issue warrants for the election of Register of
Deeds, in the event of such oflBce being vacated by death ;
Resolved, That the Court of Sessions for the County of
Middlesex be, and they are hereby authorized to issue war-
rants to the several towns within said county, fixing the
time for the election of a Register of Deeds for said County
of Middlesex, and that said authority be extended to recei-
ving the returns, and declaring the election of such officer.
CHAP. LXVll.
Resolve allowing Thomas W. Ward 872 ^Q, for apprehend-
ing a convict. February 14th, 1822.
Resolved, For reason set forth in the petition, that there
be allowed and paid to Thomas Walter Ward, Sheriff of
the County of Worcester, seventy two dollars and ninety six
cents, for expenses incurred by him, in advertising, pursuing
and apprehending Hiram Read, a convict, who escaped
from the house of correction, in the County of Worcester, in
November last ; and His Excellency the Grovernor is re-
quested to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the pay-
ment of the same.
448 SELECTMEN OF MILFORD.
CHAP. LXVIIl.
Resolve making valid the acts of the Selectmen and Consta-
ble of Milford. February 14th, 1822,
On the petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Milford,
Resolved, That the proceedings of the oflBciating Select-
men and Constable of the Town of Milford, in calling the
meeting of the inhabitants of said town, on the first Monday
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty one, shall be deemed and taken to be as
valid and eflPectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the said
acting Selectmen and Constable, had been legally chosen
at the meeting of said inhabitants, in March, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
CHAP. LXIX.
Resolve on the pet'tion of Hannah McDonald.
February 14th, 1822.
Whereas it is represented by the petition of Hannah Mc-
Donald, of Paxton, in the County of Worcester, that she is
the widow of Archibald McDonald, late of said Paxton,
deceased, that said Archibald was possessed of some per-
sonal property, and some real estate, as described in said
petition, that said Archibald was an alien, made no will,
and left no issue, kindred, or other heir :
Resolved, That the Commonwealth do hereby grant to
said Hannah McDonald, and her assigns, one undivided
third part of all the real estate, wliich was purchased by
said Archibald in his life time, and which hath accrued to
the Commonwealth; and the Judge of Probate for said
County of Worcester, is hereby authorized, on the applica-
tion of said Hannah, to issue his warrant to cause the said
third part to be set oflp to the said Hannah in the same man-
ner as her dower would have been set off, had said Archi-
bald died seized of said real estate to his own use.
MILITIA BOOKS. 449
Bpsolved, further, That the Attorney and Solicitor Gene-
ral be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
deQiand and receive of William D. Wheeler, Administrator
of the estate of said Archibald McDonald, the bi^lan* e of
the personal property left by said Archibald, if any, vvhicli
hath accrued to this Commonwealth, being the amount of
said personal property, subject to the payment of the debts
of the said Archibald, and the distributive proportion of the
same, to which said widow is entitled, and all such allow-
ances out of the same, which may be made to her by the said
Judge of Probate, pursuant to law.
And the Attorney and Solicitor Greneral, or either of them,
shall be, and hereby are authorized to cause a sale to be
made of all the residue of the above described real estate,
subject to the grant herein before made, and to execute good
and sufficient deed or deeds thereof to convey the same to
the purchaser, in the name of the Commonwealth, io such
manner as they may judge best, and to pay the proceeds
thereof into the Treasury of this Commonwealth,
CHAP. LXX.
Mesolve to furnish Officers of Militia with Militia Books.
February 16th, 1822.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, with. the
advice of Council, be, and he is hereby authorized to cause
to be procured, for the use of the Militia of this Common-
wealth, a corapend of the ^« Rules and Regulations for the
Field Exercise and Manoeuvres of Infantry," ordered by a
resolution of Congress, to be observed by the Militia of the
United States; provided, that the cost of each copy shall
not exceed the sum of one dollar.
Resolved, That when such compend shall be procured,
the Adjutant General be, and he is hereby authorized to
cause one copy to be delivered to each Major General, and
to each of his staff; to each Brigadier General, and to each
of his staff; to each field officer, and the Adjutant of every
regiment of infantry, and to each Captain of every com-
pany of infaatry ; which copies shall be carefully preserved
59
450 W. POTTER.— COUNTY TAXES.
by the aforesaid officers respectively, and shall be by them,
respectively, delivered over to their successors.
CHAP. LXXI.
Resolve on the petition of William Potter and others, Inn-
holders and Victuallers, in the County of Essex.
February 18th, 1822.
Whereas the licensed innholders, taverners, and victual-
lers, of the County of Essex, have, under the act, entitled
<^ an act laying a tax upon retailers of spiritous liquors, and
other persons," passed on the twenty first day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, paid the sum of eight dollars, annually, on obtaining
their respective licenses ; and whereas the same descriptions
of licensed persons in the other counties of the Common-
■\vealth, have, under the said act, paid the sum of four dollars
only for their respective licenses ; Therefore,
Mesolved, That the Treasurer of said County of Essex
be, and he hereby is authorized to refund to each of said inn-
holders, taverners, and victuallers, of the County of Essex
respectively, the sum of four dollars, for each of the years
in which they have paid the said tax ; and that the same
shall be allowed him as a good charge against the Common-
wealth in any future account; and the Treasurer of the
Commonwealth, is hereby directed to allow the same on
settlement with him accordingly. •
CHAP. LXXII.
Resolve granting County Taxes. February 18th, 1822.
"Whereas the Treasurers of the following counties have
laid their accounts before the Legislature for examination,
which accounts have been examined and allowed; and
TOWN OF COLRAINB. 451
whereas tlie Clerkk of the Courts of Sessions for said coun-
ties, have exhibited estimates made by said Courts, of the ne-
cessary charges which may arise within the said counties,
the year ensuing, and of the sums necessary to discharge
the debts of said counties :
Resolved, That the sums annexed to the counties contain-
ed in the following schedule, be, and the same are hereby
granted as a tax for each county respectively, to be appor-
tioned, assessed, paid, collected, and applied for the pur-
poses aforesaid, according to law.
County of Hampden, five thousand dollars, - - -
County of Berkshire, four thousand dollars, - - -
County of Worcester, nine thousand dollars, - . -
County of Suffolk, thirty five thousand dollars,
County of Dukes' County, six hundred dollars.
County of Barnstable, two thousand nine hundred and ninety
dollars, -
County of Bristol, three thousand five hundred dollars.
County of Franklin, three thousand dollars, - - _
County of Norfolk, four thousand dollars, . - -
County of Essex, three thousand five hundred dollars.
County of Hampshire, two thousand dollars, - - -
County of Middlesex, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
County of Plymouth, ten thousand dollars, - _ -
CHAP. Lxxni.
Resolve referring the Petition and Account of Colraine to
the Committee on Accounts. February 18th, 1822.
Resolved, That the petition of the inhabitants of Colraine,
together with the account of said town, for the expenses in-
curred in the relief and support of William Newhouse, a
pauper, be referred to the Committee on Accounts, with in-
structions to allow the whole or such part thereof as may
appear to be justly due to said town, considering the said
Newhouse as a State pauper, conformably to the laws of
this Commonwealth.
gj.ooo
09
4,000
00
9,000
00
35,000
00
600
00
2,990
00
3,500 00
3,000
00
4,000
00
3,500
00
2,000
00
8,500
00
10,000
00
452 WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
CHAP. LXXIV,
Resolve, inaking Grants to, and Pensioning several Wound->
ed Solders. February 18th, 1822.
Resolved, that there be allowed and paid out of the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Nathan F. Tilton, of Lou-
den, New Hampshire, fifty dollars, to pay his expenses
incurred by a wound received on the second of October,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty, while on military
duty, and the further sum of fifty dollars per year, for four
years, from the passing of this resolve.
Also, to Eli Shattuck, of Pepperell, for a wound received
while on military duty, in Captain Butcliff's company, on
the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, in a sham fight, whereby he lost his right eye, and
otherwise was much injured, one hundred and fifty two dol-
lars in full, for expenses and loss of time.
Also, to John Q. Adams, of Groton, for a wound received
on the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty one, by a blank cartridge in his thigh, while on milita-
ry duty, under the command of Captain L Rock wood, thirty
dollars, it being the amount of his doctor's and nursing bill.
Also, to William Jennings, of Boston, twenty five dollars
per year, during life, in addition to fifty dollars as hereto-
fore granted on account of wounds received while on milita-
ry duty, whereby he lost one arm and the use of the other.
Also, to Isaac Noyes, of Sudbury, a soldier in Captain
William Rice's company, for a wound received, October,
one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, by a musket while
on duty, in his right shoulder, whereby eighteen or twenty
pieces of bone was extracted, and his arm so disabled as to
be of but little use, the sum of fifty dollars, which is to be
in full for damages received.
<
HERRING POND INDIANS. 453
CHAP. LXXY.
JHesolve respecting the Herrirg Pond Tribe of Indians.
February 20th, 1822.
On the memorial of the Overseers of the Herring Pond
Tribe of Indians, stating that there are demands existing
against said tribe, which cannot be paid by their ordinary
revenues :
Resolved, That John Thomas, of Kingston, and Charles
J. Holmes, of Rochester, in the County of Plymouth,
Esquires, be, and they hereby are authorized to receive and
examine any and all demands now existing against said Her-
ring Pond tribe of Indians ; and to allow such of them as shall
appear to them to be just and legal; and that the said John
Thomas and Charles J. Holmes be, and they hereby are au-
thorized and empowered to sell at public vendue, so much
of the land belonging to said tribe, as shall be necessary
to raise a sum sufficient to pay the demands against said
tribe, which shall be allowed by them as aforesaid, and
to defray the expenses and their charges for services in set-
tling said demands, and making said sale ; and any further
sura not exceeding twenty five dollars over and above said
demands, expenses and charges ; and to make and execute
a good and sufficient deed or deeds of the same ; and that
they apply the proceeds of such sale or sales, as they shall
make, to the payment of said demands, and pay over to the
Overseers of said tribe, the balance, if any, remaining in
their hands, after deducting their charges and expenses
aforesaid, to be examined and allowed by said Overseers ;
providedf that said John Thomas, and Charles J. Holmes,
shall, previous to any such sale, give bond to the Treasurer
of this Commonwealth, in the sum of two thousand dollars,
with a sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the
Judge of Probate, for the County of Plymouth, conditioned,
that they will apply and make payment of the proceeds of
said sale or sales according to the directions of this resolve.
454 GOVfiRNOR'S MESSAGE.
CHAP. LXXVI.
Governor's Message, February 20th, 1822.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of KepresentativeSf
The Secretary will lay before you sundry resolutions of
the Legislature of the State of Ohio, which have been com-
municated to me, by the acting Governor of that State, on
the subject of the Maryland report and resolutions, relative
to school lands.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February 20fA, 1822.
CHAP. LXXVII.
Mesolve relating to the Employment of a Military Store
^ Keeper, February 20th, 1822.
Resolved, That the resolve of the sixteenth of June last,
for the employment of a military store keeper, which will
expire with the termination of the present session of the
Legislature, be continued in force until the further order of
the Legislature.
CHAP. LXXVllI.
Meport and Resolves respecting Lotteries.
February 21st, 1822.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred
the Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Coun-
cil, of the City gf Washington, in the District of Columbia,
LOTTERIES. 455
praying that they may be authorized by law, to sell, within
this Common wealth J the tickets of certain lotteries granted
by Congress, for the benefit of that city ; to whom also was
referred the petition of Gilbert and Dean, and others, pray*
ing for a law to license venders of lottery tickets within this
Commonwealth, have had the subject severally referred to
them, under consideration, and ask leave to submit the fol-
lowing report.
The government of this Commonwealth, in every period
of its history, has considered it among its most important
duties to guard the morals of the people, by removing as far
as possible all temptations to vice. And in the present
constitution, this salutary vigilance seems to be prescribed as
among the principal means of attaining the end of all good go-
vernment, the happiness of the people. Hence, every species
of gambling has been studiously discountenanced and pro-
hibited, under heavy penalties, as wholly inconsistent with
the republican virtues of industry, economy and sobriety.
Upon the question, whether lotteries exert a pernicious
influence upon public morals, there now exists but little dif-
ference of opinion, among those who have considered the
subject with proper attention. They have indeed been
sometimes granted by our Legislature for the benefit of use-
ful institutions, and the encouragement of public enterprizes ;
often with great reluctance, and always with an anxious
care to secure the scrupulous appropriation of their proceeds
to the objects intended to be aided by them; an anxiety and
vigilance which this Legislature cannot but be aware have
not always been attended with success. How far it may be
consistent with a strict morality to promote a good object
by means, which will probably, or certainly, injure the best
interests of the community at large, it is not necessary here
to inquire; but your Committee cannot but remark, that the
decision must rest upon the same principles, and may be
supported by the same reasons which have in other coun-
tries been adduced to justify the licensing of more odious,
but not more mischievous kinds of gambling.
In England, the lottery for all purposes but that of raising
a public revenue, has long since been prohibited, and is
stigmatized in several acts of parliament, as a "common
and public nuisance." But even considered in the plausi-
ble light of a source of revenue, its expediency has been
often and severely questioned^ as well by statesmen as by
456 LOTTERIES.
moralists ; and mauy attempts, and some very .recently,
have been made in parliament to abolish this income from
the vice and misery of the people. In all the large cities of
Europe, where lotteries have been tolerated, they have been
ascertained to be among the most fruitful sources of poverty,
misery and crime; among the most powerful obstacles to the
progress of improvement among the lower classes ; among
the most enticing delusions to cheat the hopes of the igno-
raat and unwary; have been found to lead their victims
into every species of gambling, and to consume, in these
fallacious speculations, those resources of the poor which
should have been expended in the support and comfort of
their fiimilies.
Wliile the first object of a free government is the happi-
ness of its subjects, and that happiness must essentially de-
pend upon establishing correct principles and moral habits
among the people, it can never be the duty of the Legisla-
ture to encourage any project, whose tendency is to render
any portion of its citizens discontented with their situation,
and with the ordinary means of acquiring property, raise in
the poor the deceitful expectation of suddenly rising to opu-
lence, to lead them to despise the pursuits of honest labor,
and to look to other sources than their own merit and indus-
try for bettering their condition. It may be true, that these
evils have not as yet resulted from lotteries in this Common-
wealth, yet when it is known from documents of unques-
tionable authority, that such has been their tendency and
certain effect in other governments, the common feelings of
humanity, as well as considerations of just public policy,
should urge the Legislature to guard their fellow citizens
against all temptation to engage in this delusive game of
chances.
It is stated in one of the petitions under consideration,
that while lotteries are authorized by other States, funds
will be sent out of the Commonwealth, by those who choose
to engage in such speculations, and thus the provisions of
the law be evaded.
Upon this, your Committee would remark, that admitting
the statement to be true, it shews only that the provisions
of the law are not adequate to reach and remedy every part
of the existing evil. This is in some measure true of all
preventive statutes, and is especially so of all laws inten-
ded to repress the diffejieut species of gambling. Stilly
LOTTERIES. 457
however, from the expenses of remote agency and other
causes, the spirit of speculation thus indulged will usually
extend only to the affluent; the numher of adventurers will
be very small. A distrust of the faithful management of
strangers, the distance of the place of drawing, and other
circumstances of suspicion, which will always attach to a
foreign lottery, will protect many from the danger, who
would enevitably yield to a nearer temptation. The pro-
perty of a few may indeed be diminished by the unequal
chances of this fascinating game, but the loss will fall on
those who are best able to sustain it, while that part of the
community who most need the protection of the laws, the
industrious, laboring poor, the honest and unwary in the
humbler classes of society, will almost without an exception
be secured from the delusion. Upon every view, then, of
this important subject which has occurred to your Commit-
tee, they cannot but express their full approbation of the
policy recently adopted by this Legislature, of forbidding,
under any shape or pretence whatsoever, this species of ad-
venture to the people of this State. And although the Le-
gislature and people of this Commonwealth would promptly
and cheerfully embrace every fit opportunity of testifying
their respect for the corporation of the capital of our country,
yet as our own citizens are precluded, by the existing laws,
from any advantage which might be supposed to arise from
a lottery scheme, it can need no elaborate reasoning to jus-
tify the Legislature for declining to extend this facility to
ihe citizens of other States.
From the necessary moral effect of this prohibition, your
Committee cannot doubt that important benefits have already
resulted to the laboring class of the community. That part
of the avails of their industry, which may formerly have
been expended in the unequal chances of the lottery, will
be appropriated, since this temptation has been withdrawn,
to the immediate comfort, or reserved for a future provision
for their families. They are learning to exchange an un-
certain prospect for a solid advantage ; and when the labor-
ing poor shall, under the sanction of the Legislature, be led
to prefer the permanent security of the Institution for Sa-
vings to the deceitful hopes of the lottery, they must find
their advantage in present comfort, and future competency —
the moral habits and productive industry of the community
will be strengthened and advanced, and the Legislature will
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458 JACOB ZWEARS.
have the satisfaction of knowing that they have thus per-
manently promoted the happiness and honor of the Com-
monwealth.
Your Committee, then, being satistied, that lotteries, how-
ever carefully guarded, must ever produce great evils, and
considering the existing laws of the Commonwealth in this
behalf, as sound in principle, and salutary in their operation,
ask leave to submit the following resolves.
By order of the Committee*
JOHN GLEN KING.
Jiesolved, That it is inexpedient to grant the prayer of
said petition and memorial.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be request-
ed to communicate to the honorable the Mayor of the City
of Washington, a copy of these resolves, and the report ac-
companying the same.
CHAP. LXXIX.
Resolve on the petition of Jacob Zwears.
February 21st, 1822.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the public Treasury of this Com-
monwealth, to Jacob Zwears, the sum of one hundred and
eighteen dollars, in full for the principal and interest of a
certain note, called a bounty note, signed by H. Gardner,
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, for ten pounds, lawful
money, and dated February twentieth, one thousand seven
hundred and seventy seven ; and that one third thereof be
charged to the State of Maine.
PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 459
CHAP. LXXX.
Resolve allowing Jacob ICuhn SlOO. February 21st, 1822.
Mesolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the General
Court, the sum of one hundred dollars, for his services in
attending upon the Committee of Valuation, during their
late session.
CHAP. LXXXL
Resolves providing for the Publication of the Laws of this
Coinmonwealth. February 22d, 1822.
Resolved, That it is expedient to procure for the use of
the Commonwealth, either by contract or subscription, a
new compilation of the statute laws, passed since the adop-
tion of the present Constitution ; that such compilation should
embrace all public acts of a general nature, and those appli-
cable to the Commonwealth at large, although the same may
have been repealed, except those which have wholly ceased
to have any influence and effect upon existing rights, and
those which are of no interest and importance in illustrating
the history and progress of the law ; such repealed acts,
however, may be printed in a distinct type, smaller than that
of the text, generally, and such repeal indicated by suitable
marginal references.
Resolved, That in the compilation of the general laws,
all private and special acts be omitted, except some few
which may be of peculiar interest and importance ; that the
acts of each Legislature be divided into chapters, each act
being one chapter, numbered in regular series from Mie be-
ginning taJjSjfe end of each political year, without regard to
sessions ; me numbers of each chapter to be expressed iu
figures, and not in numerical letters as heretofore practised ;
that where any one act is enlarged, restrained, repealed, or
modified; by any other act; such connection shall be careful-
460 PUBLICATION OF LAWS.
ly and accurately indicated by suitable marginal references.
That there be prefixed to such compilation of the general
laws, the Constitution of the United States, together with
all those amendments thereto, which have been constitution-
ally adopted ; also the Constitution of this Commonwealth,
with the amendments thereto ; and in reprinting the original
Constitutions, all those parts thereof which have been re-
scinded or modified, shall be indicated by references to the
articles of amendment effecting such modification.
Resolved^ That such compilation, ought to include an
exact list of all the acts, public and private, which have been
passed by this Commonwealth, in chronological order, ex-
pressing the title of each act at length, with its number as a
chapter, and a reference to the volume and page of this
edition, when the same is printed, if embraced therein ; such
list to be in a small type, and close form. And as tiiis
edition of the laws is intended to be of the highest authority,
it is expedient, to ensure perfect accuracy, that the title of
every act, and the text of every act printed in this edition,
should be compared with the original manuscripts in the
Secretary's office ; that a full, complete and accurate analy-
tical index of the whole matter of this edition be prepared
and annexed to the same, with suitable references to the
text ; that this edition be printed in volumes of the royal
octavo size, on good paper, in a form as close and compact
as conveniently may be, consistently with clearness and dis-
tinctness, with a view to embrace all the matters which may
be necessary and useful, in as small a compass, and cheap
a form as practicable.
And whereas the special and private acts passed since the
commencement of the present government, to .lune, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, have
been compiled and published, under the authority of the
Legislature, in throe volumes.
Resolved, That all the private and special acts passed
subsequently, and not included in the compilation of the
general laws contemplated in the foregoing resolutions, be
published separately, as nearly as conveniently may be, in
conformity with said three volumes, and be numbered as a
continuation of the said collection of the special laws here-
tofore published.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint two able
PUBLICATION OF LAWS. 461
and discreet persons, learned in the law, to be Commissioners
for revising and superintending the publication of the laws,
upon the plan stated in the foregoing resolutions ; and the
said Commissioners shall be authorized to subscribe for nine
hundred copies of the laws, provided the same can be pro-
cured at a reasonable rate, be prepared in conformity with
the directions and under the general superintendance of such
Commissioners, and under the immediate care of an editor
appointed or approved by them ; or said Commissioners
may, if in their judgment it may be done upon terms more
advantageous to the Commonwealth, appoint a suitable
editor and fix his compensation, and contract for the execu-
tion of said work, to the number of nine hundred copies, at
the expense and for the use of the Commonwealth ; and in
such contract, said Commissioners shall be authorized to
provide, that the publishers thus contracting, may print a
number of sets of said work for sale, at a reasonable rate, to
be fixed by said Commissioners, in their agreement with
such publisher.
Resolved, That the number of copies of the laws hereby
provided for, well bound and lettered in plain sheep skin
binding, shall, when completed, be delivered to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, who, upon the certificate of said Com-
missioners that the work has been executed in all respects
to their satisfaction, is hereby authorized to give his receipt
therefor ; and the same shall and may be distributed under
the direction of the Secretary, in the following manner, that
is to say : To each town, district and plantation, to each
County Clerk, and each Register of Probate, for the use of
their respective Courts, one set; to each Judge of the Su-
preme Judicial Court, Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney
and Solicitor General, one set ; to His Excellency the Gro-
vernor. His Honor the Lieutenant Grovernor, and each mem-
ber of the Council, Senate, and House of Representatives
for the present year, one copy ; to the President of the
United States, for the use of Congress, five copies ; to the
Governor of each State and Territory, one copy; to the
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States and the
District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, one copy
each ; and to the several learned societies and seminaries,
to whom the laws published for the use of the Common-
wealth, by the authority of the standing resolutions, are di-
rected to be sent, the numbers so directed; that there be
462 COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS.
placed, for the use of the General Court and public officers,
in the Council Chamber, three copies ; in the Senate Cham-
ber, five copies ; in the House of Representatives, and Lob-
bies appurtenant, fifteen copies ; and in the public offices in
the State House, one copy each ; and all the remaining co-
pies of said work, shall be preserved by the Secretary, to be
subject to the future disposal of the Legislature.
CHAP. LXXXII.
Resolve on the petition of the inhabitants of the Town of
Colraine. February 22d, 1822.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the inhabitants of the Town of Colraine,
one hundred and seventy five dollars and eighty nine cents,
in full for supporting William Newhouse, from the thir-
teenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighteen, to the third day of January,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty two.
CHAP. LXXXIII.
Resolve for paying the Committee on Accounts.
February 22d, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee appoint-
ed to examine and pass on accounts presented against this
Commonwealth, for their attendance on that service, during
the present session, the sum of one dollar per day, in addi-
tion to their pay as members of the Legislature... .viz. :
Elihu Hoyt, forty four days, - - 844 00
Robert Rantoul, forty three days, - 43 00
Jonas Sibley, forty four days, - - 44 00
Jonathan Allen, thirty two days, - - 32 00
and ApoUos Tobey, twenty days, - - 20 00
TOWN OF FOXBOROUGH. 4G3
CHAP. LXXXIV.
Mesolve making valid Parish Meetings, in Foxborough.
February 22d, 1822.
Whereas heretofore, all meetings in the Town of Foxbo-
rough, for parish purposes, have been called by warrants,
signed by the Selectmen, and whereas doubts have been
entertained of the legality of such meetings.
Resolved, That all meetings of a parochial nature, which
have heretofore been holden in said Town of Foxborough,
in pursuance of warrants issued by the Selectmen of said
town, shall be deemed legal meetings, and the proceedings
and votes had at said meetings, shall be good and valid :
Provided, that nothing in this resolve shall be so construed
as to affect any suit or process instituted before the passing
of the same.
CHAP. LXXXV.
Mesolvefor the relief of John Robbins and Samuel Baxter.
February 22d, 1822.
Whereas it appears by the books in the Secretary's office
of this Commonwealth, that certain small balances, appear
to the credit of John Robbins and Samuel Baxter, for mili-
tary services, in the fourteenth regiment, during the revolu-
tionary war; and whereas it is represented that said Robbins
and Baxter died more than twenty years ago, leaving heirs,
but no administration was ever granted on their estates :
Therefore,
Resolved, That upon the application to the Secretary and
Treasurer of the Commonwealth, of the heirs, or next of kin
of said Robbins and Baxter, or either of them, or any per-
son duly authorized by them, producing the certificate of
the Judge of Probate for the County of Barnstable, that they
are so heirs, or next a kin, that no administration has ever
been granted on the estates of said Robbins and Baxter, ov
464 CLERK.— CHAPLAINS.
either of tbeiii, and that they died more than twenty years
ago; and complying with all the requisites set forth in a re-
solve on the subject, passed on the eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, the said balances shall be paid unto such heirs or
their agents, lawfully authorized to receive the same, in the
same manner as is provided in said resolve, and as the same
would have been payable to an executor or administrator of
such soldiers, duly appointed, any thing in said resolve,
limiting the time within which such application should be
made to the Secretary and Treasurer, to the contrary not-
withstanding.
CHAP. LXXXVL
Resolve for payment of Clerk, in the Adjutant GeneraVs
Office. February 22d, 1822.
Resolvedf That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Second Clerk, in
the Adjutant GreneraPs OflGce, three dollars a day for his
services, considering the period thereof as extending to the
close of the present session of the General Court.
CHAP. LXXXVII.
Resolve for paying the Chaplain of the Senate and Chaplain
of the House of Representatives, February 23d, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Reverend John
Pierpoint, Chaplain of the Senate, and the Reverend Wil-
liam Jenks, Chaplain of the House of Representatives, sixty
dollars each, in full for their services in said office; the pre-
sent political year.
TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN. 465
CHAP. Lxxxvni.
Resolve to pay Ward Lock. February 23d, 182r2.
Hesolved, That there be allowed and paid from the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant Mes-
senger to the Governor and Council, two dollars for each
and every day he has been, or may be employed in that
capacity, during the present session of the Council.
CHAP. LXXXIX.
Resolve for paying Clerk of the Senate, and Clerk of the
House of Representatives. February 23d, 1822.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate, and the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, respectively, six dollars
per day; and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate, and to
the Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, each,
the sum of four dollars for each and every day's attendance
they have been, or may be employed in that capacity, during
the present session of the Legislature ; and the Governor is
requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XC.
Resolve on the petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of
Charlestown. February 23d, 1822.
On the petition of the inhabitants of the Town of Charles-
town, relative to the claim of Lechmere Point Corporation,
the Proprietors of the Canal Bridge, or Prison Point Ham
Corporation, to levy and take certain tolls ;
Resolved, That the Attorney and Solicitor General, seve-
rally, be, and hereby are authorized, upon the application
of the petitioners, or other persons; and if in their judg-
ment; reasonable and probable cause be shewn therefor, to
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466 T. WALCUTT— STATE PRISON.
file an information in the Supreme Judicial Court, against
the said corporations, or either of them, for the purpose of
trying and deciding the right of said corporations, or either
of them, to assert the said supposed claim, and to prosecute
the same to final judgment and execution.
CHAP. XCI.
Resolve for payirg Thomas Walcutt^ a Cleric in the
Lobbies. February 23d, 1822.
Mesolved, That there be allowed and paid to Thomas
Walcutt,' a Clerk in the Lobbies, for the assistance of the
Members of the Legislature, one hundred dollars, in full
compensation for his services during the present and all
previous sessions of the General Court; and His Excellency
the Governor, with the advice of Council, is hereby request-
ed to draw his warrant on tlie treasury for that sum.
CHAP. XCIL
Mesolve granting money for the rejiairs of the Yard of the
State Prison. February 25th, 1822.
Resolved, That the yard of the State Prison, in Charles-
town, be enlarged, on the western side, by extending the
same, not less than one hundred, nor more than five hun-
dred feet from its present line: That in making this altera-
tion, provision should be made for introducing a canal into
the yard, so that loaded boats may enter the same: That
the said wall shall be commenced as soon as the season will
admit; that the Governor shall be requested to employ a
skillful architect to lay out a plan of the work, to contract
for, under the sanction of the Executive, and to superintend
the same ; and that the sum of ten thousand dollars be ap-
propriated for this purpose, and that His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice of Council, is hereby authorized
and requested to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for these
sums, at such times, and in such portions as may be wanted.
ROLL, No. 86 JANUARY, 1822.
The Committee on Accounts, having examined
the several accounts they now present Report,
That there is now due to the several corporations
and persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to
their names respectively ; whicli, when allowed and
paid, will be «n full discharge of the said accounts,
to the dates therein mentioned ; which is respect-
fully submitted.
E. HOYT, Per Order,
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Amesbury, for supporting Moses Kinniston, to
January 1st, 1822, 32 40
Amherst, for supporting Robert, Jane and Polly
Richardson, to January 7th, 1822, 78 20
Attleborough, for supporting sundry paupers to
January 1st, 1822, 284 73
Ashburnham, for supporting Sukey Franklin and
Henry Stenigue, and four children, to January
17th, 1822, 66 04
Adams, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
10th, 1822, 150 00
Andover, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st; 1832, 189 37
468 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Abington, for supporting Antonio Julio and Major
Humble, to January 23d, 1822, 61 10
Blandford, for supporting Samuel Walker, Abiel
Brewster and Little Brewster, to January 5th,
1822, 88 25
Belfast, (Maine,) for supporting sundry paupers,
to March 15tli, 1820, 113 00
Belchertown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 10th, 1822, 88 00
Billerica, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 15th, 1822, 126 55
Beverly, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1822, 130 47
Brookfield, for supporting Thomas Erving, to Jan-
uary 7th, 1822, 6 81
Barre, for supporting Samuel La Steel, to Janua-
ry 7th, 1822, 46 80
Brimfield, for supporting John Shelburne, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1822, 28 80
Boxford, for supporting Mehitable Hall, to Janu-
ary 13th, 1822, 49 00
Bradford, for supporting Joshua L. Meserve, to
January 1st, 1822, 27 65
Bridgewater, for supporting John F. Byrne, to
January 30th, 1822, 48 75
Barnstable, for supporting Joseph Thompson, to
January 19th, 1822, 7 20
Braintree, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 26th, 1822, 87 65
Burlington, for supporting Thomas Hardman and
John A. Pasco, to January 29th, 1822, 98 60
Boston Board of Health, for supporting John Rin-
gey, William Barner and Abner Thayer, to
February 3d, 1822, 9 90
Boston, for supporting sundry paupers, to Novem-
ber 30th, 1821, 4482 93
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 469
Buckland, for supporting George Reniff, to Febru-
ary 6th, 1822, 100 64
Chester, for supporting James Butolfe and wife,
Benjamin Powers and Clarisa Hardy, to Feb-
ruary 5th, 1822, 99 50
Conway, for supporting Martha McMurphey, to
January 1st, 1822, 80 13
Colraine, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 15th, 1822, 129 60
Charlton, for supporting Peter Dustree, to Janua-
ry 12th, 1822, 35 70
Cheshire, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 9th, 1822, 184 50
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to Janua-
ry 7th, 1822, 29 88
Concord, for supporting George Spencer and An-
drew Kelley, to January 20th, 1822, 15 42
Chelmsford, for supporting Catharine McLane,
Charles H. Goodrich and Elizabeth Goodrich,
to January 1st, 1822, 101 15
Cohasset, for supporting William Harris, to De-
cember 1st, 1821, 30 20
•Canton, for supporting John Cole, Thomas Fal-
lesall and Dennis Hazel, to January 16th, 1822, 63 35
Chelsea, for supporting Mary Weeks, to January
26th, 1822, 13 50
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 19th, 1822, 1535 30
Cambridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 26th, 1822, 1813 46
Chatham, for the support of Israel Johnson, to
June 13th, 1821, 10 00
Chesterfield, for the support of sundry paupers, to
January 25th, 1822, 63 00
Clarksburgh, for supporting Rispard Hill; to Jan-
uary 17th, 1822, 13 05
470 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Deerfielfl, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1822, 179 30
Dracut, for supporting Richard Baker, to January
16th, 1822, 68 93
Dighton, for supporting Hannah Tew, to January
24th, 1822, 10 80
Dorchester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 23d, 1822, • 117 52
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 22d, 1822, , 668 24
Dedham, for sundry paupers, to January 22d,
1822, and Elizabeth Murry, to her death and
funeral expenses, 36 31
East Sudbury, for supporting Bess Corbett, and
Robert Brobston, to May 10th, 1821, 13 00
Essex, for sundry paupers, to January 9th, 1822, 138 91
Egremont, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4th, 1822, 209 53
Fairhaven, for supporting Dorcas Smith, Sarah
Carr and two children, to January 1st, 1822, 152 97
Framinghara, for supporting Lucy Green, to Jan-
uary 20th, 1822, 23 40
Falmouth, Edward Edwards, to January 13th,
1822, 48 90
Freetown, for supporting Abigail, Jemima, Maria
and Jane, Indians, to January 15th, 1822, 178 70
Fitchburg, for supporting Charles Conner, to Jan-
uary 5th, 1822, 5 40
Gill, for supporting Sarah Lyon and Mary Law-
' son, to January 15th, 1822, 78 60
Groton, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
10th, 1822, 173 70
Greenfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 12th, 1822, 37 26
Gardner, for supporting John Brinkham, to Janu-
ary 6th, 1822, 49 08
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 471
Great Barringtou, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 9th, 1822, 145 00
Granville, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 109 60
Grafton, for supporting Isaac Newman, to the time
of his death, and funeral expenses, 3^^ 36
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 512 81
Had ley, for supporting Allen and wife, to Decem-
ber 30th, 182!, 98 36
Hubbard ston, for supporting Abner Hybra, to
November 25th, 1821, 23 01
Hancock, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 6th, 1822, 34 80
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk, for supporting
paupers in gaol, 231 79
Haverhill, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 2d, 1822, 145 99
Hard wick, for supporting Hannah Morgan, to
January 14th, 1822, 28 80
Heath, for supporting Mary Dewandalier, to Jan-
uary 25th, 1822, 27 00
Hamilton, for supporting Olive Cook, to April 6th,
1822, 52 00
Hopkinton, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 21st, 1822, 186 92
Hanson, for supporting Eliza Jack, to January
28tb, 1822, 30 73
Harlem, (Maine,) for supporting William Youl-
ing, to March 15th, 1820, 12 00
Industry, (Maine,) for supporting Sherburn Fogg,
to March 20th, 1820, 14 57
Ipswich, for supporting John Obrion, to February
2d, 1822, 31 70
Kittery, (Maine,) for supporting sundry paupers^
to March 20th, 1820, 28 88
472 PAUPER ACCOUNTS,
Lee, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
15th, 1822, 130 50
Leyden, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 5th, 1822, 102 55
Lenox, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
9th, 1822, 188 97
Littleton, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 14th, 1822, 74 10
Lanesborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 4th, 1822, 94 95
Longmeadow, for supporting Cynthia Melross and
Edmund Bothe, to January 21st, 1822, 66 50
Lynn, for supporting sundry paupers, to Decem-
ber 31st, 1821, 182 27
Marshfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 21st, 1821, 43 20
Maiden, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
20th, 1821, 47 75
Montague, for supporting Edmund Potter and
wife, to January 1st, 1822, 58 27
Medford, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 48 00
Monson, for supporting Rhoda Secham Martha
McKea, and Fidelia, a daughter, to January
1st, 1822, 177 50
Milton, for supporting Archibald McDonald, John
J. Myers, and James Bowman, to January 23d,
1822, 99 63
Mendon, for supporting Susannah Nichols, to
February 19th, 1822, 18 75
Marblehead, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 17th, 1822, 267 78
Mansfield, for supporting James Howard, to his
death, and funeral charges, 7 00
Middleborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 14th; 1822, 186 49
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 473
Medfield, for supporting George Turner, to No-
vember 25th, 1821, 49 70
Marlborough, for supporting Joseph Waters, to
the time of his death, and funeral charges, 37 59
Nantucket, for supporting paupers, to January
1st, 1822, 176 37
Norwich, for supporting Ruth Sanford, to Janua-
ry 8th, 1822, 47 63
North Brookfield, for supporting sundry paupers,
to January 1st, 1822, 30 02
Newton, for supporting Joseph Prichard, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 49 15
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1822, 1070 87
Newbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 863 35
Northampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to
February 1st, 1822, 445 14
Northfield, for supporting Amos Kibey, to Janu-
ary 20th, 1822, 50 90
Natick, for supporting John White, to January
14th, 1822, 8 00
New Gloucester, (Maine,) for supporting sundry
paupers, to March 15th, 1820, 21 00
Overseers of Marshpee Indians, for supporting
sundry Indians, to January l2th, 1822, 305 10
Plymouth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 16th, 1822, 142 66
Palmer, for supporting William Mendon and
Phebe Mendon, to January 15th, 1822, 54 90
Pittsfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4th, 1822, 242 17
Quincy, for supporting William Oliphant, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 49 20
Roxbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 31st, 1822, 315 07
62
474 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
E-ussell, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry, 1822, 169 20
Reboboth, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4tb, 1822, 243 26
Rutland, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 7th, 1822, 58 10
Rowley, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 6th, 1822, 66 11
Richmond, for Susannah Winston and Samuel
Hill, to February 11th, 1822, 99 00
Sheffield, for support of sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1822, 314 88
Shirley, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1822, 172 65
Seekonk, for supporting paupers, to January 2d,
1822, 102 35
South Brimfield, for supporting Jonathan Hill, to
January 7th, 1822, 29 49
Somerset, for supporting William Eliot, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1822, 49 00
Springfield, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 3d, 1822, . 271 96
Swansey, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 12th, 1822, 119 10
South Reading, for supporting Thomas Melbourn,
to January 25th, 1822, 50 30
Spencer, for supporting sundry paupers to Janua-
ry 16th, 1822, 191 93
Stoughton, for supporting William B. Sarcant, to
January 5th, 1822, 30 10
Sandwich, for supporting Ester Raymond and Ma-
son Raymond, to January 9th, 1822, 57 60
Southbridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 7th, 1822, 117 70
Sunderland, for supporting Garrat Dicker and
William Russell, to January 7th; 1822, 55 26
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 475
Stockbridge, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 1st, 1821, 270 20
Southwick, Greorge Read, for his support, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 79 72
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
2d, 1822, 2252 28
Somerset, for supporting Ruth Hill, to January
12th, 1822, 7 50
Shelburne, for supporting Mary Bates and Eliza-
beth Lane, to January 14th, 1822, 46 36
Saugus, for supporting Joseph Clarenbole, to Jan-
uary 29th, 1822, 27 00
Sharon, for supporting John H. KolhofF, to Janu-
ary 31st, 1822, 48 76
Tyringham, for sundry paupers, to January 5th,
1822, 322 90
Tisbury, for supporting Martin Lawson and Emo-
ry Jones, to April 30th, 1821, 23 56
Topsfield, for supporting Fillis Easte and Nancy
Porter, to January 24th, 1822, 71 26
Troy, for supporting Paul Archer, to September
10th, 1821, 2 32
Tewksbury, for supporting Nathaniel Ingersol, to
January 23d, 1822, 31 55
Taunton, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 31st, 1821, 308 23
Uxbridge, for supporting Phillis Jenks and child,
to January 7th, and Jack Moore, to the time of
his death, and funeral charges, 120 00
Vassalborough, (Maine,) for supporting sundry
paupers, to March 15th, 1820, 12 00
Wareham, for supporting William Long, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1822, 49 00
Westport, for supporting Henry Pero, to Decem-
ber 25th; 1821, 17 07
476 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
"West Cambridge, for supporting John Montgome-
ry, to February 7tli, 1822, 8 00
Westhampton, for supporting John Uuckey, and
other paupers, to January 3d, 1822, 120 25
West Springfield, for supporting James Aldrich
and Hannah Shivey, to January 15th, 1822, 55 00
West Stockbridge, for sundry paupers, to January
1st, 1822, 147 47
Worcester, for supporting William Joblin and Jo-
nas Brooks, to January 1st, 1822, 55 18
Westdeld, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, and funeral charges for Jacob
Winslow, 162 94
Walpole, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 12th, 1822, 58 00
Wade, Thomas, Master of the House of Correc-
tion, in the County of Essex, for supporting
sundry paupers, to January 14th, 1822, 395 00
Warwick, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 4th, 1822, 60 80
Williamstown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 7th, 1822, 159 97
Wiscasset, (Maine,) for supporting sundry pau-
pers, to March 15th, 1820, 75 00
Weaver, Sheffield, Gruardian to Troy Indians, to
January 5th, 1822, 224 91
Watertown, for supporting George Bowen, Re-
becca Bowen and George Taylor, to January
25th, 1822, 99 11
Westborough, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 16th, 1822, 121 73
West Newbury, for supporting Sophia Patten, to
February 2d, 1822, 2 92
Waterville, (Maine,) for supporting Abigail Odin,
to March 20th, 1820, 11 90
Westbrook, (Maine,) for supporting sundry pau-
persj to March 20th, 1820, 37 96
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS. 477
Wrentham, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1822, 99 89
Westford, for supporting Ephraim Spalding, to
January 4th, 1822, 30 60
Yarmouth, for supporting Thomas Peters, to Jan-
uary 27 th, 1822, 48 60
828,076 41
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Mason, Benajah, Coroner for Bristol County, for
taking inquisition, to February 5th, 1822,
Kingsbury, Aaron, Coroner for Norfolk County,
for taking inquisition, to December, 1821,
Pyncheon, John, Coroner for Hampden County,
for taking inquisition, to August, 1821,
Spear, Daniel, Coroner for Norfolk County, for
taking inquisition, to January, 1822,
Clough, Elias, Coroner for Essex County, for ta-
king inquisition, to January, 1822,
Johnson, Jonathan, Coroner of Middlesex Coun-
ty, for taking inquisition, to January 24th, 1822,
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking inquisition, to January, 1822,
Rhodes, William, Coroner of the County of Essex,
for taking inquisition, to January 1822,
Kempton, Thomas, Coroner, for Bristol County,
for taking inquisition, to September, 1822,
Bowen, Nathan, Coroner for Essex County, for
taking inquisition, to July 23d, 1821,
Ward, Thomas W., Sheriff of Worcester County,
to June, 1821,
Bartlett, Bailey, Sheriff of Essex County, to May,
1821,
Leonard; Horatio, Sheriff of Bristol, to June, 1621,
21 40
20 56
22 90
17 90
17 96
17 23
79 40
17 65
22 50
19 15
6 40
28 10^
6 40
478 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Brown, Henry C, Sheriff of Berkshire, to June,
1821, 19 20
Jernegan, William, Treasurer of Dukes' County,
for paying for taking inquisition on the bodies
of strangers, by the Coroners of said county, 36 54
Wellington, Ebenezer, Coroner for the County of
Norfolk, for taking an inquisition on the body
of a stranger,
Dutch, Daniel, for summoning witnesses,
Bridges, Moody, for summoning witness.
White, Grilman, Coroner for the County of Essex,
to taking inquisition on the body of a stranger,
19
06
1
50
5
04
17
26
S396 15
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Courts Martial and Courts of Inquiry,
Sumner, William H., Adjutant Greneral, for the
expenses of a Court of Inquiry, held at Boston,
June 25th, 1821, whereof Colonel Lusher Gay,
was President, 84 73
Cunningham, Ephraim, Brigade Major, 2d Brig-
ade, 6th Division, for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Grardner, June 6th, 1821, whereof
Colonel Jared Weed, was President, 180 65
Heard, Nathan, Junior, for expenses of a Court of
Inquiry, held at Worcester, October 30th, 1821,
whereof Colonel Nymph as Pratt, was President, 99 51
Heard, Nathan, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brig-
ade, 6th Division, for expenses of a Court Mar-
tial, held at Sutton, November 6th, 1821, whereof
Colonel David Lathe, was President, 112 50
Gilbert, Thomas, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, for expenses of a Court Martial, held
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 479
at Heath, December 4th, 1821, whereof Colonel
James Shepard, was President, 606 28
81,083 67
Jlids-de- Camps, Brigade Majors and Quarter Masters.
AlleD, Alfred, Brigade Quarter Master, 2d Brig-
ade, 1st Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Bliss, Greorge, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
4th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Butterfield, Joseph, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1822, 30 00
Brigham, Moses, Major of Artillery, 1st Brigade,
6th Division, to January, 1822, 20 00
Cobb, G. W., Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 5tli
Division, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Clark, Alanson, Brigade Quarter Master, 2d Brig-
ade, 4th Division, to January 1st, 18S2, ' 15 00
Coburn, Samuel A., Biigade Quarter Master, 2d
Brigade, 3d Division, to January 1st, 1822, 15 00
Cunningham, Epliraim M., Acting Brigade Major,
2d Brigade, 6th Division, to January, 1822, 10 06
Day, Robert, Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 4th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Day, Benjamin, Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 2d Division, to January, 1822, 15 GO
Edwards, Elisha, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to January 1st, 1822, 15 00
Fisher, Freeman, Brigade Major, 2d, Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 15th, 1822, 27 50
Felton, Sheton, Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 6th Division, to January 1st, 1822, 15 00
Fairbanks, Stephen, Brigade Major, 3d Brigade,
1st Division, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
480 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Gibbs, A. H., Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 1st Division, to January 22d, 1822, 15 00
Gibbs, A. H., Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1822, 15 00
Gilbert, Thomas, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January 1st, 1822, 15 00
Hubbell, Calvin, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1822, 30 00
Heard, Nathan, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brig-
ade, 6th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Hopkins, Thomas, Aid-de-Camp, 7th Division, to
January, 1822, 15 00
Jaques, Samuel, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brig-
ade, 3d Division, to December, 31st 1821, 37 05
Kendall, J. H., Brigade Quarter Master, 2d Brig-
ade, 6th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
King, Amos, Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 7th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Hobart, Thomas, Brigade Quarter Master, to Jan-
/ uary, 1822, 15 00
Low, Joseph L., Brigade Quarter Master, 2d Brig-
ade, 2d ])i vision, to January, 1822, 15 00
Phinney, Elias, Brigade Quarter Master, 1st Brig-
ade, 3d Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Sampson, Joseph, Brigade Major, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 1st, 1822, 11 25
Smith, John, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
2d Division, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Kice, Caleb, Aide- de- Camp, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 6 50
Thayer, Samuel M., Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
1st Division, to September 15th, 1821, 10 00
Thayer, Minot, Aid-de-Camp, 1st Division, to
to January 15th, 1822, 88 20
Varnum, B. F., Aid-de-Camp, 3d Division, to Jan-
uary 15th, 1822, 31 35
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
481
Wilder, Nathaniel, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st
Brigade, 5th Division, to January, 1822,
15 00
iS626 91
Adjutant Accounts.
Atwood, G. B., 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to December 1st, 1821,
Ary, James, (Maine,) 6th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
10th Division, to March 15th, 1820,
Bishop, H. W., 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision to January 15th, 1822,
Barrett, Benjamin, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1822,
Bryant, Nathan, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1822,
Bailey, Holeway, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade 7th
Division, to January 15th, 1822,
Bailey, Calvin, Artillery, 3d Brigade, 1st Division,
to June 1st, 1821,
Blood, Charles, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January, 1822,
Bliss, William, Acting Adjutant, 1st Regiment,
1st Brigade, 4th Division, to January 26th,
1822,
Bancroft, William A., 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
3d Division, to January, 1822,
Bradley, Charles, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 2d Divi-
sion, to February 1st, 1821,
Bent, James, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion, to February 4th, 1822,
Bryant, Nahvm, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to July 11th, 1821,
Gushing, Ned, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 10th, 1822;
63
8 91
20 10
15 00
29 75
18 44
15 00
12 00
15 00
15 00
30 00
16 25
30 00
7 92
15 00
482 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Cooliilge, Nathaniel, 3(1 Re^^iment, 1st Brigade,
4th Division, to January, 1822, 15 OO
Collimore, Horace, 2cl Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 20th, 1822, 10 00
Clap, William, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Clement, Jesse, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 1st, 1822, 27 37
Curtis, Alfred, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1822, 43 00
Day, Alfred, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 1st Division,
to July 31st, 1821, 7 80
Elders, Norred, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to time of discharge, 10 00
Everett, Charles, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January 15th, 1822, 10 00
Field, David H., 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 1st, 1822, 10 00
Frizzel, Enoch, (Maine) 6th Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 10th Division, 10 11
Fuller, John H. B., Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Forward, Robert, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4tli
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Fisher, Calvin, Junior, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 21st, 1822, 7 50
Frost, Elisha, Junior, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Gales, Abraham, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d
Division, to Januijry, 1822, 15 00
Goss, Clark, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th Divi-
sion, to January 11th, 1822, 7 50
Goodspeed, Elias, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 30 00
Hubbell, Stoddard, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 483
Hamlin, Joseph, 2d Ilegiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to July 1st, 1821, 7 50
Hamlin, Chauncey, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Hitchcock, Augustus, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 12th, 1822, 8 75
Haramat, Charles H., Artillery, 3d Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 29th, 1822, 15 00
Kimball, Charles, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 15th, 1822, 15 00
Lester, Charles F., 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to November 15th, 1821, 26 95
Lincoln, Asa, 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4tli Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 15 00
Lobdell, Thomas, Junior, Artillery, 3d Brigade,
1st Division, to January, 1821, 7 50
Miles, Josiah, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 15 00
Mead, William, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 7th Divi-
sion, to June 3d, 1821, 6 25
Mann, Ebenezer, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Morse, Moses L., 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Newell, Luther, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to time of discharge, 8 00
Newhall, Joseph W., 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to February 16th, 1822, 15 00
Ormsby, Abraham, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 20th, 1822, 30 00
Osborn, Richard, Junior, 5th Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 2d Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Partridge, William W., 1st Regiment, 2d Brig-
ade, 4th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Paige, Thaddeus, 1st Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st ^
Division; to January, 1822, 30 00
484 MILITAUY ACCOUNTS.
Rodgers, D. W., 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Root, Albert A., 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to February 15th, 1822, 15 00
Saxton, William B., Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 15 00
Sayles, Richard, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion to January 8th, 1822, 8 75
Shepherd, Amos, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Sargent, Patten, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January, 1822, 11 30
Sanford, Sewall, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January, 1822, 30 00
Tucker, Seth, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 1st Division,
to February, 1822, 15 00
Tucker, Samuel, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 6th Divi-
sion, to January, 1822, 4 58
Taylor, Henry, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 15 00
Taylor, James, 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January, 1822, 7 50
Thompson, Arad, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
Townshend, Daniel, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
2d Division, to January, 1822, 23 75
Town, John, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 2d Division,
to January, 1822, 24 76
Thompson, Samuel, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to February 18th, 1822, 15 00
Upton, Stephen, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 2d Divi-
sion, to January, 1822, 17 41
Wright, David, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 4th Divi-
sion, to January, 1822, 15 00
Wright, Simeon W., 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
7th Division, to January, 1822, 15 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
485
Wild, Jonathan, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 9th^ 1822, 15 00
I8l;094 65
Hauling Artillery.
Adams, Nahum, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January, 1822, 5 00
Baker, Timothy M., 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to
January, 1822,
Baldwin, Henry, 3d Division, to January, 1822,
Brown, Aaron, 3d Division, to January, 1822,
Curtis, Edward, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to
January, 1822,
Clark, Ellis, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to Janu-
ary, 1822,
Chadbourn, Thomas, 1st Brigade, 2d Division,
to January, 1822,
Clarke, Leonard, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to
January, 1822,
Center, William, Junior, 1st Brigade, 2d Divi-
sion, to January 1822,
Ensign, Thomas, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, to
January, 1822,
Higgens, Freeman, 3d Brigade, 5th Division, to
January, 1822,
Hartshorn, Samuel, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, to
January, 1822,
Holland, Nathaniel, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to
January, 1822,
Hooper, Jacob, 2d Division, to January, 1822,
Harris, King, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to Janu-
ary, 1822, 7 50
20 00
6 67
7 00
5 00
9 00
7 50
5 00
9 00
5 00
9 00
7 50
5 00
10 00
486 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Jones, Frederick W., 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to
January, 1822, 5 00
Johnson, John, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 13 00
Kingsbury, Ebenezer, 2d Brigade, 1st Division,
to January, 1822, 8 75
Lynn, William, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 8 00
Laughton, Hannibal, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to •
January, 1822, 5 00
Lobdell, Thomas, Junior, 3d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion, to January, 1822, 30 00
Nichols, John, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822,
Nash, Micah, 5th Division, to January, 1822,
Nesmith, Adam, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822,
Somes, Samuel, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822,
Shavr, John, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janua-
ry, 1822,
Stone, Joseph, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janu-
ary, 1822,
Sampson, John, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822,
Taylor, Charles, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, to
January, 1822,
Turrell, Vincent, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to
January, 1822,
Williams, Samuel, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January, 1822,
8316 92
12 00
7 50
16 00
14 00
20 00
30 00
7 50
1
5 00
1
8 50
1
8 50
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS, &c. 4S7
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Allen, Phineas, for publishing laws, &c. to Janu-
ary, 1822, 48 42
Allen, E. W., for publishing laws, &c. to August,
1821, 25 17
Agricultural Society, for sundry expenses, in rai-
sing seed and plants, and by experiments made
by said society, in the public Garden, at Cam-
bridge, and for printing and engraving, &c. in
full, for 1821, 1000 00
Ballard and Wright, for Newspapers, for govern-
ment, and advertising, to January 9th, 1822, 53 56
Bradford, William A., for writing for the govern-
ment, 6 00
Boston Board of Health, for repairs, at Rainsford
Island, and wood, &c. furnished the keeper, 318 55
Bird, Abraham, for labor and materials, on State
House, 58 00
Blaney, Henry, for labor and materials, on State
House, 60 56
Burditt, James W., for Stationary, &c. furnished
the government, 231 57
Bradley, Samuel, for materials for repairs on the
State House, 30 42
Bacon, Henry, Assistant Messenger to the Gene-
ral Court, to February 23d, 1822, 186 00
Chase, Warren, Assistant Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, to February 23d, 1822, 88 00
Clapp, William W., for publishing laws, &c. to
January 1st, 1822, 18 16
Cushing, Thomas C, for publishing the laws, to
June, 1821, 16 67
Committee to examine the Treasurer's account for
the last year. viz. :
John Welles, - - - - - - - 14 00
Robert Rantoul, - - - - - - 14 00
488 PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS, &c.
John Hooper, 14 00
Thomas Harris, 14 00
William Hilliard, - - - - - - 14 00
Cutting, Elijah W., Assistant to the Messenger of
the General Court, 104 OO
Hennio and Phelps, for publishing the laws, to
January, 1822, 16 67
Douglas, Francis, heirs, (Maine,) for advertising
the sale of unimproved lands, 6 25
Durant, William, for labor and materials, for the
State House, 41 87
Hastings, W., for publishing the laws, to Decem-
ber 15th, 1821, 16 67
Hobart, Moses L., Keeper of Rainsford Island,
for his salary, to February, 1822, 44 44
Hawes, Frederick, for his attendance as a witness
before a Committee of the House, 4 80
Hale, Nathan, for publishing the laws, to Feljru-
ary, 1822, and for Newspapers to the General
Court, to January 9th, 1822, 102 05
Loring, Josiah, for Stationary furnished the go-
vernment, 131 05
Lincoln, Amos, Junior, for repairs on the State
House, 18 80
Low, John v.. Assistant to the Messenger of the
General Court, to February 23d, 1822, 80 00
Mann, H. and W. H., for publishing the laws, to
January, 1822, 25 00
Palfrey, Warwick, Junior, for publishing the
laws, to May, 1821, 16 33
Parker, William, for Paper furnished the govern-
ment, to February, 1822, 27 00
Pickering, Octavius, and Gardner, William, for
three hundred copies of the Trial of Judge
Prescott, 300 00
RESOLVE TO ROLL NO. 86. 489
Russell and Gardner, for printing for the govern-
ment, to February 14th, 1822, 1557 24
Rider, Margaret, for the services of her son, as
Page to the House, February 23d, 1822, 40 00
Spurr and Homes, for going express, by order of
the House of Representatives, 36 00
Shepard, Thomas M., for publishing laws, &c. to
May 31st, 1821, 19 17
Tufts, William, for writing for the government, 13 50
Whipple, Solomon S., for his attendance as a wit-
ness, before a Committee of the House, 4 80
Wheeler, John H., labor and materials, on the
State House, to February 16th, 1822, 178 30
84,965 13
Aggregate of Roll No, 86.
Expenses of State Paupers, 28,076 41
^^ of Sheriffs and Coroners, 396 15
" of Courts Martial, 1,083 67
" of Aids-de-Camp, Brigade Majors, 1 ^^^ q .
and Quarter Masters, 5
•• of Adjutants, 1,094 65
^i of Hauling Artillery, 316 92
" of Printers and Miscellaneous, 4,965 13
Total, 836,559 84
Jiesolved, That there be alloM^ed and paid out of the pub-
lic treasury, to the several corporations and persons men-
tioned in this Roll, the sums set against such corporations'
and persons' names respectively, amounting in the whole
to Thirty Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Fifty Nine
Dollars, and Eighty Four Cents, the same being in full
discharge of the accounts and demands to which they refer.
[Approved by the Governor, February S.'Jrf, 1822.]
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SECRETARY'S OFFICE, MAY 22, 1823.
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That the Resolves, passed at the session of the
Leg-islature, begmning Januai-y 9th, and ending February 23d, 1822, have been
compared with the originals in this office, and appear to be correct,
ALDEx\ BRADFORD,
Secretary of the Commonwealtk.
INDEX
TO RESOLVES FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1822,
A.
Adams, Stephen, allowance to, - - - - - - 408
B.
Baldwin, Benjamin, allowed further time to pay the State, - - 415
Bank of United States, report on doings iu Ohio, - - - 417
Baxter, Samuel, and another, relief for, - - - - - 463
Breed, John, administrator, to hare a new note, - - - 414
C.
Chaplain to Senate and House, pay of, ----- 464
Charlestown, petition of, as to tolls, ---.-- 466
Clark, S., an Adjutant, discharged, - . - - - - 407
Clerk in Adjutant General's Office, allowance to, - - - 464
Clerks of Senate and House of Representatives' pay, - - - 465
Colraine, account allowed, - - - - - - 451, 461
Committe on Accounts, __.---- 462
Cashing, Lucy, to execute a deed to P. Pinchin, - - - 405
Emerson, Moses, allowed land which belonged to the State, - 406
Essex, Innholders to hare fees returned, ----- 450
Farley, B. M., to sell real estate of his children, - - - 407
Foxborough, records of, made valid, - - - - - 463
G.
Governor's Message, - - - - 387,400,404,409,413,454
Gore in Berkshire, taxes remitted, ------ 408
Greenough, David, debt to State Prison, ----- 412
INDEX.
H.
Herring Pond Indians, Committee to settle their accounts, - 453
Hunnewell, Walter, to sell land of his ward, - - - - 406
Innholders in Essex, to have fees returned, - _ - - 450
Jones, Eliphaz, to sell land of minors, - . _ _ - 412
Jones, William, notification made valid, - - - _ - 446
K.
Kuhn, Jacob, granted 8300, to purchase fuel, &c. - - - 400
" allowed SI 00 for services, 459
L.
Laws of the State, new edition, ------ 459
Locke, Ward, Assistant Messenger, ----- 465
Lottery, Plymouth Beach, Committee on, - - - - 411
Lotteries of other States discountenanced in this State, - - 454
M.
Maryland resolutions respecting public lands for schools, - - 419
Mayhew, Simeon, his account allowed, - - - - - 415
McDonald, Hannah, to have estate of her husband, - - - 448
Melish's Maps, Secretary to purchase, ----- 410
Milford, records made valid, ^ ----- - 448
Militia, books to be purchased for, ------ 449
Military Store Keeper to be employed, ----- 454
o.
Ohio, report on the doings of, respecting U. States Bank, - - 417
P.
Pensions to persons wounded on military duty, - - - 452
Pepperell, Collector of Taxes for, ------ 415
Plymouth Beach Lottery, Committee on, - - - - 411
Probate Laws, Committee on, allowance to, - - - - 445
R.
Register of Deeds for Middlesex, Court of Sessions to issue pre-
cepts for choice of, - -- - - - - - 447
Robbins, John, and another, for relief of, - - , - 463
INDEX.
S.
Sanger, Calvin, allowance to, - - - - - - - 414
Sharon, Meeting in First Parish, to be called, - - - - 416
Shirley, Meeting of Parish in, to be called, - - - - 413
State Prison, grant for use and expenses of, - - - - 445
*' yard to be extended, ------ 466
T.
Taxes for several counties, ------- 450
V.
Valuation Committee, allowance to, ----- 400
*' . report and apportionment of, - - - - - 434
" Clerk of, compensation, - - - - - 411
W.
Ward, T. W., allowance to, - 447
Weaver, SheflFel, Guardian to Indians, ----- 411
Whitney, Thomas, and others, of Shirley, to call meeting, - - 413
Whitney, John, to sell land of State, 445
Wolcott, Thomas, grant to, 466
Z,
Zwears, Jacob, allowance to, --_-■_ 458
\.^-
.)
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
Commontoealtl) of 4HSa^^at&u^ettiS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
AVHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OP MAY,
AND ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th January, 1812,
boston:
PRINTED FOR BENJ. RUSSELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE,
BY RtJSSELL AND GARDNER.
1822.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
FOR THE POLITICAL YEAR 1822....23.
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN BROOKS, ESQUIRE,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, ESQUIRE,
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
COUNCIL.
HON. SAMUEL CROCKER,
" RICHARD SULLIVAN,
^^ THOMAS GREENLEAF,
« DANIEL NOBLE,
" WILLIAM READ,
" SAMUEL PORTER,
ii ABRAHAM HOLMES,
i' JOSEPH LOCKE,
" JONAS KENDALL.
ALDEN BRADFORD, ESQUIRE,
SECRETAEY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,
HONORABLE NAHUM MITCHELL,
TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
SENATE.
HONORABLE JOHN PHILLIPS,
PRESIDENT.
SUFFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. John Phillips, Hon. Lemuel Shaw,
Thomas H. Perkins, Joseph Tilden,
Jonathan Hunewell, Benjamin RusselL
ESSEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Nathaniel Hooper, Hon. Hobart Clark,
Robert Rantoul, Benjamin Osgood,
John Glen King, Edward S. Rand.
f MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
Hon. William Austin, Hon. John Abbot,
Joel Cranston, Timothy Walker.
Levi Thaxter,
PLYMOUTH DISTRICT.
Hon. Cushing Otis, Hon. Nathaniel M. Davis.
BARNSTABLE DISTRICT.
Hon. Elijah Cobb.
SENATE. 493
BRISTOL AND UUKES^ COUNTY DISTRICT.
Hon. Oliver Starkweather, Hon. Jethro Dogget.
Thomas Rotch,
NANTUCKET DISTRICT.
Hon. Walter Folger, Jun.
WORCESTER DISTRICT.
Hon. Aaron Tufts, Hon. Nathaniel Jones,
Salem Town, Jun. Stephen P. Grardner.
Benjamiu Adams,
HAMPSHIRE DISTRICT.
Has. Lewis Strong, Hon. Joseph Strong, Jun,
BERKSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Lemuel MoflBt, Hon. Jonathan Allen.
HAMPDEN DISTRICT.
Hon. Jonathan D wight, Jun. Hon. James Fowler.
H FRANKLIN DISTRICT.
Hon. Elihu Hoyt, Hon. Thomas Longley.
NORFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. Benjamin Reynolds, Hon. Lewis Fisher.
John Ruggles,
SAMUEL F. LYMAN, ESQ. Clerk.
JOHN FARRIE, JUN. ESQ. Assistant Clerk
REV. JAMES WALKER, Chaplain.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
HONORABLE LEVI LINCOLN,
SPEAKER.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Boston^ Lynde Walter,
John Cotton,
Chelsea,
Gedney King,
Enoch Silsby,
George W. Otis,
Jonathan Phillips,
Heman Lincoln,
Francis C. Gray,
Theodore Lyman, Junior,
Henry Bass,
Francis J. Oliver,
Daniel Webster, «
Samuel L. Knapp,
Jesse Putnam,
Thomas L. Wiuthrop,
Samuel Billings,
Jacob Hall,
Otis Everett,
Nathaniel P. Russell,
William Goddard,
Joseph Jenkins,
Pliny Cutler,
Samuel T. Armstrong,
George W. Brimmer,
Joseph H. Adams.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
495
Ameshury^
Andover,
Beverly,
JBoxford,
Bradford,
Danvers,
Essex,
Gloucester,
Hamilton,
Haverhill,
Ipswich,
Lynn,
Lynnfield,
Manchester,
Marblehead,
Methuen,
Middleton,
JVewbury,
JSTewburyport,
West JSTewbury,
Rowley,
Salem,
COUNTY OF ESSEX.
David Lowell.
Salisbury,
Saugus,
Thomas Davis.
Jesse Kimball, Junior.
William Sutton.
William W. Parrott.
Moses Wingate.
Ezra Mudge.
John Prince,
Benjamin Knight.
Stephen Barker.
Josiali Little.
Abner Wood,
Stephen W. Marston.
Joseph Peabody,
John Osgood,
Samuel Endicott,
Stephen Phillips,
Leverett Saltonstall;
John Andrews,
Michael Webb,
John Derby, Junior,
Joseph Howard,
Theodore Eames.
Ephraim Morrill.
496 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Topsfield,
Wenham.
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
Acton,
Ashby,
Bedford,
Billerica,
Brighton,
Burlington,
Cambridge,
Carlisle,
Charlestown,
Chelmsford,
Concord,
Dracut,
Dunstable,
East Sudbury,
Framingham,
Groton,
Holliston,
Hojpkinton,
Lexington,
Lincoln,
Littleton,
Maiden,
Marlborough,
Medford,
JSTatick,
Newton,
Pepperell, •
Heading,
Sherburne,
Shirley,
Samuel Whiting.
Nathaniel Champney.
William Hilliard.
Seth Knowles,
John H. Brown.
Philemon R. Russell.
Jonathan Perham.
John Reyes.
Micah M. Ratter.
Charles Train.
Luther Lawrence.
Joseph Valentine.
Timothy Wakefield; Junior.
HOUSE OF REPRiSSENTATIVES.
497
South Blading,
StoneJiam,
Stoiv and Boxhorougli,
Augustus Tower.
Sudbury,
Tewkshury,
Jesse Trull.
Townsend,
Tyngshoroughy
H^althanif
Luke Fisk.
Watertown,
West Cambridge,
Westford,
Weston,
George W. Smith.
Wilmington,
Woburn,
John Wade.
COUNTY OF
WORCESTER.
Ashburnham,
Athol,
JBarre,
Berlin,
Bolton,
Boylston,
BrooJcfield,
Seth Field.
Charlton,
Samuel Hall.
Dana,
Douglas,
Benjamin Cragin.
Dudley,
Fitchburg,
Gardner,
Grafton,
HardwicTc,
Harvard,
Holden,
Hubbardston,
Lancaster,
Leicester,
John Hobart.
66
498 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Leominster,
Lunenburg,
Men don,
Milford,
Milbury,
J\*ew Braintree,
JSTorthhorough,
JSTorthbridge,
J\rorth Brookfield,
Oakham,
Oxford,
Paxton,
Petersham,
Princeton,
Phillipston,
Rutland,
Shrewsbury,
Southhorough,
Southbridge,
Spencer,
Sterling,
Sturbridge,
Sutton,
Templeton,
Upton,
Uxbridge,
Ward,
Westborough,
West Boylston,
Western,
Westminster,
Winchendon,
Worcester,
Daniel Thiirbev.
Perley Hunt.
Joel Bryant. ^
Fortunatus Harrington.
Edward Phillips.
Jonas Sibley.
Bezaleel Taft, Junior.
Levi Lincoln,
Abraham Lincoln,
William Eaton.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 499
Jlmherstf
Belchertown,
Chpsterfieldf
Cummingtdny
Easthampton,
Enfield,
Granby,
Goshen,
Greenwich,
Hadley,
Hatfield,
Middlefield,
JVorthampton,
JSTorwich,
Pelham,
Plainfield,
South Hadley,
Southampton,
Ware,
Westhampton,
Williamsburg,
Worthington,
COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE.
Aaron Merrick.
James Whitman.
Robert Dawes.
Thaddeus Clap.
Charles P. Phelps.
Nathaniel Fowle.
Asahel Chapman.
Joseph CummingS; Junior.
Aaron Fisher,
Josiah Mills.
COUNTY OF HAMPDEN.
Blandford,
Brimfield,
Chester,
Granville,
Holland,
Longmeadow,
Ludlow,
West Springfield,
Montgomery,
Palmer,
Russell,
Stephen Pynchon.
Francis Stebbins.
Luke Parsons.
Clark McMaster.
600 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
South Brim field)
Southwick,
Springfield)
Wilbraham,
Tolland,
Westfield.
Alvin Needham.
Joseph Forward.
Thomas Dickman.
Henry Hamilton.
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN.
Ashfield,
Bernardstorif
Bucklandf
Charlemont,
Colerain,
Conway,
Deerfieldy
Gill,
Greenfieldf
Hawley,
Heath,
Leverett,
Leyden,
Montague,
JV'ew Salem,
JVorthfield,
Orange,
Howe,
Shelburne,
Shutesbury,
Sunderland,
Warwick,
Wendell,
Whately,
Ervin's Grant.
Samuel Pierce.
Solomon Smead.
George Mowry.
Varney Pearce.
Solomon Read.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 501
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
Adams,
Alford,
Beclcet,
Cheshire,
Clarksburg,
Dalton,
ICgremont,
Florida,
Great Barrington,
Gore,
Hancock,
Hinsdale,
Lanesborough,
Lee,
Lenox,
Monroe,
Mount Washington,
jyew Ashford,
JV*ew Marlborough,
Otis,
Peru,
Pittsfield,
Hichmond,
Sandisfield,
Savoy,
Sheffield,
Stockbridge,
Tyringham,
Washington,
West Stockbridge,
Williamstown,
Windsor,
Zoar.
William E. Brayton.
Francis Fisk.
Benjamin Rogers.
John Young.
John Nye, Junior.
Daniel Williams.
Benjamin Sheldon.
William C. Jarvis.
Nathan Pierson, Junior.
Josiah Walcott,
Joseph Sears.
Eli Ensign.
George Whitney.
Silas Rewee.
Charles A. Dewey.
502 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
Sellingham^
JBraintree,
Brookliney ^
Canton f
Cohasset,
Dedham,
Dorchester,
foxborough,
Franklin,
Medfleld and Dover,
Milton,
Medway,
JS*eedham,
^uincy,
Handolph,
Roxhury,
Sharon,
Stoughton,
Walpole,
Weymouth,
Wrentham,
Attleborough,
Berkley,
Dartmouth,
Dighton,
Easton,
Fairhaven,
Freetown,
Mansfield,
JS*ew Bedford^
Minot Tbayer.
Johu Robinson.
John W. Ames.
Henry Gardner.
Barney Smith.
George Barber, Junior.
Ebenezer Seaver.
Christopher Webb,
Levi Bates.
Josiah J. Fiske.
COUNTY OF BRISTOL.
Ebenezer Daggett.
Caleb Anthony.
Hercules Cushman.
Benjamin Lincoln,
John A. Parker,
William Hathaway,
John Nye.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
503
JSTortorif
,
Raynham,
Godfrey Robinson.
Rehobotkp
Seekonkf
Calvin Martin.
Somerset,
Edward Slade.
Swansey,
John Mason.
Taunton f
Cromwell Washburn
Troy,
Robert Miller.
Westport,
Wellington,
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH.
Mington,
Bridgewater,
Carver,
Duxhury,
Seth Sprague.
Halifax,
Hanover,
Melzar Curtis.
Hingham,
Joseph Richardson.
Hanson,
Thomas Hobart.
Hull,
Kingston,
John Gray.
Marshjield,
Elisha Phillips.
Middleborough,
Seth Miller, Junior.
^orth Bridgewater,
Pembroke,
Plympton,
Plymouth,
Barnabas Hedge,
William Jackson,
Zaccheus Bartlett.
Rochester,
Joseph Meigs.
Scituate,
Wareham,
West Bridgewater.
604 HOUSE OF REPREBENTATIVEB.
COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE.
Barnstablef
BrewsteTf
Chatham^
Dennis,
Eastham,
Falmouth,
Harwich,
Orleans,
Provincetown,
Sandwich,
Truro,
Wellfleet,
Yarmouth,
Chilmark,
Edgarton,
Tisbury,
Nymphas Marston.
Samuel Freeman.
Daniel Comings.
James Crowell.
DUKES' COUNTY.
"William Jernegan.
COUNTY OF NANTUCKET.
jyantucket, Barker Burnell.
PELHAM W. WARREN, Clerk.
REV. WILLIAM JENKS, Chaplain-
JACOB KUHN, Messenger to the General Court.
ELIJAH W. CUTTING, .Assistant Messenger.
THOMAS P. RIDER, Fage to the House,
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF MAY,
AND ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND SIOHT
HtTNDRED AND TWENTY TWO.
GOVERNORS SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JUNE 3, 1822.
At noon, agreeably to assignment, the two Houses assem-
bled in Convention, when His Excellency the Governor
came in, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attended
by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable
Council, and the Officers of State ; and delivered the
following
SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
IN meeting the two Houses in conformity to
ancient usage, it is with great satisfaction I have
it in my power to observe, that nothing affecting
the essential interests of the Commonwealth, has
occurred since the last session of the late Legisla-
ture, to require special consideration on this occa-
67
506 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
sion. The complicated concerns of society, how-
ever, are continually furnishing new subjects for
legislative regard. We are, besides, in possession
of great and numerous blessings, which have been
vouchsafed to us by a beneficent Providence, and
which, while they call for our devout gratitude,
claim our watchful care to preserve. Among the
blessings which our duty as citizens, and as public
agents, calls on us to guard with solicitude, we
may reckon our civil and religious liberties, which
are guaranteed to us and our posterity, in the fullest
extent, by a constitution of government framed by
the wisdom of our fathers, and recently confirmed
by the sovereign act of the people. It may, it is
conceived, be assumed as a truth, that our consti-
tutional rights and liberties, are so full and com-
plete, as to admit of no accession. If this position
be well founded, it suggests to us the danger of
attempting changes in our system of jurisprudence,
and the solemn duty of preserving, unimpaired,
our inestimable acquisitions. Having acquired
every thing valuable to us as men, as citizens, and
as christians, we are pressed by the most weighty
considerations, to provide for their continuance.
If, as we fondly imagine, we^have reached a high-
er degree of freedom than has fallen to the lot of
other nations, it behoves us to maintain, with dig-
nity and firmness, our lofty preeminence ; not suf-
fering ourselves, by supineness, or the prevalence
of selfish passions, to hazard an untimely and ig-
nominious fall. In connexion with these reflections,
the result of the late revision of the Constitution in
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 507
the Convention, and in the primary assemblies of
the people, in the several tovi^ns, presents an auspi-
cious aspect. The termination of that interesting
review, evinces the sober and discriminating cha-
racter of our fellow citizens : it proves that when
the public mind is well informed, there is little
danger to be apprehended, in questions involving
their interests, from levity and caprice ; that the
freemen of Massachusetts, being practical men,
duly appreciating their own rights, are not to be
induced lightly to abandon principles and practi-
ses which have hitherto yielded them prosperity
and safety. It goes, moreover, to obviate one of
the most serious objections that has been urged
against free governments — a tendency to instabil-
ity and vacillation. With the knowledge of the
course of human affairs possessed by those who
hear me, no induction of argument is necessary to
shew that the prosperity and happiness of the State,
as connected with public liberty, can be secured
only by an inflexible adherence to the principles
of the Constitution ; and a recurrence to those
principles, which bind together our dearest inter-
ests, can never be more seasonable than at the
opening of a new political year. The statesman,
thence regulating his course, will be conducted in
safety, through his future deliberations, to the best
results.
In examining the Constitution, it is observable,
that many of its most important provisions contem-
plate a safe distribution of power in the several
constituent departments of government. If scru-
50^ GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
pulous care is employed in defining the limits of
power assigned to the Executive branch of govern-
ment, and in proscribing standing armies as dan-
gerous to liberty, the history of our ancestors,
antecedently to, and after their leaving Europe,
and that of their descendants, till the close of the
revolution, sufficiently developes the source of their
peculiar sensibiHty on these subjects, and justifies
the cautious exactness in delineating the bounda-
ries of delegated authority, which appears in the
Constitution. But these are not the only sources
of danger to freedom. Its pillars may be secretly
undermined, as well as overthrown by open vio-
lence. The form may remain after the spirit has
become extinct. The framers of the Constitution
were aware that a compact on parchment merely,
however definite its checks and provisions, would
prove an insufficient preservative to a free govern-
ment, should the people become indifferent to their
own safety, and sink into a state of ignorance and
profligacy. Hence in the Bill of Rights it is de-
clared, that a frequent recurrence to the first prin-
ciples of the Constitution, and a constant adherence
to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance,
industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary to
preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain
a free government. That virtue is the vital prin-
ciple of a republic, though a trite observation, is
one, nevertheless, that can hardly be too often re-
peated. The people, constituting the great source
of power, should the public mind become corrupt,^
the government will suffer corresponding degene-
GOYERNOR'S SPEECH. 509
racy ; the character of a people necessarily infusing
itself into their political institutions. In relation to
ourselves, therefore, and as we would wish to trans-
mit to future generations the blessings of that go-
vernment we have derived from our ancestors, all
the means that patriotism and legislative wisdom
can devise, should be brought into action, to main-
tain the purity of the public mind, to quicken and
invigorate the moral sense, and to encourage the
practise of all the personal and social virtues.
Among the means of effecting these momentous
objects, education is one of the most influential.
To this point the language of the Constitution is
clear and emphatic, when it affirms that '^know-
ledge generally diffnsed among the people, is ne-
cessary for the preservation of their rights and
liberties." Ignorance is destructive both of liberty
and good morals. In nothing was the piety, the
good sense, and the patriotism of the fathers of
New England more conspicuous, than in their early
care to provide for the instruction of children and
youth. The least reflection is sufficient to satisfy
every thinking mind, that the rights of self-govern-
ment are not to be preserved unless they are known
and duly estimated — and that, destitute of mental
culture, men are incapable of sustaining a high
and honorable independence. In proportion as
ignorance prevails among a people, they are dis-
qualified to judge of the nature and extent of their
rights and privileges, whether civil or religious ;
and in the same proportion are liable to become
the dupes of cunning, or the dependents of power.
510 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
What motives, then, are wanting to induce the
citizens of our happy country to cherish our litera-
ry institutions ? To the efficacy of our colleges,
Massachusetts is indebted, under the benediction
of Heaven, for her distinguished rank as a com-
munity. Her liberty, her constitution, her laws,
her prosperity, and her fame, have resulted from
the wisdom of her sons, elicited and matured under
the genial influence of literature and science ; while
her town schools, in which her sages and states-
men have commenced their career of glory, are
calculated to awaken the youthful intellect, to in-
spire a sense of character, and prepare the great
mass of the people for understanding and defend-
ing their rights.
It p-ives me much satisfaction that I am able to
lay before you, gentlemen, a report of the Board of
Commissioners, appointed agreeably to the provi-
sions of the act relating to the separation of the
District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper, and
forming the same into a separate State, by which
it appears that the Board have unanimously agreed
upon a settlement, assignment, and division of all
the military stores, ordnance, and other personal
property belonging to the Commonwealth, to a
portion of which, the State of Maine is entitled, as
specially set forth in an agreement signed by the
Commissioners, and dated the twenty fifth of May,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, which
accompanies the report. The report further states,
that in execution of the duties assigned them,
under the fifth and sixth articles of the first section
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 511
of the act of separation, the Commissioners have
taken the necessary measures for a survey of that
part of the pubhc lands, lying between the Penob-
scot River, on the west, and Schoodic River and
Lake, on the east, and extending north from the
northerly line of the Bingham lottery land, so call-
ed, so far as to complete four ranges of townships,
each range of six miles in width, to be examined
and surveyed for the purpose of dividing and set-
ting off so much thereof, as may be necessary to
satisfy by assignment, at the election of Massachu-
setts, from the part falling to the Commonwealth,
the sum of thirty thousand dollars, according to the
provisions of the fifth article of the first section of
the act of separation.
The survey and examination of these lands
have been assigned to ^he Honorable Silas Holman
and Lathrop Lewis, as a Committee of the Board,
and under particular instructions for the govern-
ment of their conduct in executing their trust:
The instructions make a part of the report of the
Commissioners, and a copy of the same, with the
other documents already mentioned, will be laid
before you by the Secretary. It is particularly
gratifying to observe, that a hope is expressed by
the Commissioners, that the assigning and settling
off to the State of Maine, so much of the lands aU
lotted to Massachusetts, as shall be of the value of
thirty thousand dollars, and a division of the resi-
due within the limits before mentioned, and of all
the reserved lots in the State of Maine, may be
accomplished in the course of the present year.
512 GOTERNOR'S SPEECH.
You will perceive, gentlemen, that although
full power is given by the act of separation to the
Commonwealth, and to the State of Maine, no
provision exists to authorize the delivery of per-
sonal property in the hands of the Treasurer, and
of the Adjutant General, and Acting Quarter Mas-
ter General, and for which they are respectively
responsible to the Agents of the State of Maine,
who have been specially appointed to receive the
same. Nor does it appear that any authority is
vested in the Governor to issue his warrant, with
the advice of the Council, for any sum awarded to
the State of Maine, from the Treasury of the Com-
monwealth, after an adjustment of all the liabilities
and indemnities contemplated in the act of separa-
tion. The subject is recommended to your early
consideration, as it is understood that the Agent
from the State of Maine will soon be here to re-
ceive the dividend belonging to that State. Seve-
ral other subjects will be communicated to you
hereafter, by special messages. And it will be
highly grateful to me, gentlemen, to concur with
you in your efforts to promote the honor and hap-
piness of the Commonwealth.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, June. Sd, 1822.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it please your Excellency ^
THE Senate of Massachusetts has received
with great satisfaction, the communication which
your Excellency has been pleased to make to both
branches of the Legislature, at the opening of the
public business of the present session. Just, com-
prehensive, and discriminating views of constitu-
tional liberty, of the principles of social order, and
the rights and duties of the citizens of a free Com-
monwealth, must command the highest respect and
attention from those who are entrusted with the
duty of legislating for their fellow citizens; and the
Senate cannot avoid recording them with peculiar
interest, when illustrated by long experience, care-
ful reflection, and a thorough knowledge of the
origin and structure of our admirable system of
social polity.
The Senate participates in the satisfaction ex-
pressed by your Excellency, that no subject has re-
cently occurred, requiring the special consideration
of the Legislature. A period of great political inter-
est and excitement, is usually one, either of actual
suffering, or of imminent danger. The absence,
therefore, of all causes of considerable political in-
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514 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
terest, is, perhaps, one of the best proofs of general
tranquillity, safety and prosperity. It is probably
true, that that state of civil and social liberty is the
most perfect, in which the operation, and even the
existence of government, is the least felt and
observed. In such a condition, every citizen, se-
cure in all his just rights, actually enjoying the
protection of government, and scarcely conscious
of its restraints, will pursue with cheerfulness and
alacrity, those occupations and employments, for
which his inclination and abilities have best fitted
him. No condition of society can be imagined,
better calculated to cherish the growth of the libe-
ral and useful arts, to promote the successful culti-
vation of all moraland intellectual excellence, and
to encourage and sustain every effort of high and
honorable enterprize. But yet, in a state of soci-
ety, thus prosperous and tranquil, little remains for
the legislator and statesman, but to adhere steadily
to those principles of piety, justice, honesty and
frugality, which can alone preserve and perpetuate
the blessings of liberty and social order. These
considerations, whilst they inculcate a lesson of
sobriety and moderation, and admonish those to
whom the public interests of the community are
confided, of the danger of great and violent inno-
vations, ought not to deter them from observing
and gradually introducing all those improvements,
which the progress of society, in all its depart-
ments, and the developement of new sources of
industry and activity, must, from time to time,
naturally suggest.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 515
The result of the late revision of the Constitu-
tion of this Commonwealth, by a numerous con-
vention of the people, embracing* many of its most
experienced and clistinguished citizens, is full of
interest and instruction. It is remarkable that a
Constitution, framed under circmnstances so pecu-
liar and apparently inauspicious, should have em-
braced, in so eminent a degree, all the features of
a free and energetic government. In making a
just estimate of the nature and principles, the merits
and defects of our Constitution, it cannot be forgot-
ten that the establishment of a free Commonwealth,
founded througliout upon the principles of repre-
sentative democracy, was a new and untried ex-
periment. It is true, that it was not formed in
haste. Several years elapsed between the com-
mencement and completion of the bold and happy
design. INIany propositions were made and dis-
cussed with great learning and ability, both in de-
liberative bodies, and among the people at large ;
and thus the principles of our Constitution were
digested and matured, before they were embodied
in the actual form of government which was event-
ually adopted. But the Commonwealth, during
that whole period, was laboring under the pressure
of a severe, and, in many respects, a calamitous
war. The people were just emancipated from the
operation of what they could not avoid regarding
as an arbitrary and oppressive government. Under
these circumstances, an excessive jealousy in the
grant and distribution of even just and necessary
powers, if it could not be justified, was, at least.
516 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
naturally to be expected. It is, however, alike a
subject of admiration and of gratitude, that the
framers of our excellent Constitution, uninfluenced
by the force of temporary circumstances, firmly
and steadily pursuing the best lights which the
science of government could at that period afford,
were principally solicitous to provide for an exact
and practical responsibility, to secure a safe distri-
bution and regular exercise of power in the go-
vernment which they established, without yielding
to that timidity which would have greatly impair-
ed its force, by injudicious restraints on its author-
ity. Their theories have now borne, and borne
triumphantly, the test of long and severe experi-
ment. The most critical investigation of the Con-
stitution, has been able to discern nothing absolute-
ly wrong in its principles, or in any considerable
degree injurious in its operation. The people of
this Commonwealth cannot have regarded, without
deep interest and solicitude, the great number of
alterations in their Constitution proposed, and the
very small number actually adopted. This consi-
deration is well calculated to silence the complaints
of ^ cavillers, and to resist a restless love of change,
by shewing how much easier it is to indicate faults
and defects, than to demonstrate to the satisfaction
of cautious and considerate men, any real and sub-
stantial improvements. It may also well inspire
new confidence and satisfaction, by affording the
most convincing proof, that neither plausible theo-
ries, nor appeals to interest, prejudice, or passion,
will induce a reflecting and high minded people.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 517
lig'htly to change the essential principles of a Con*
stitution, under which they have so long enjoyed
liberty and safety.
The Senate cordially concurs in the sentiments
which your Excellency has been pleased to express
upon the interesting subject of general education.
The vital importance of ample and general provi-
sions, for the free education of the whole rising
generation, without any distinction, can scarcely be
too often or too earnestly pressed upon the consi-
deration of the government and people of this
Commonwealth. The privilege of enjoying the
means of education, and of the culture and im-
provement of the mind, is at all times, and under
every form of society, to be regarded as a distin-
guished blessing. But the general diffusion of
knowledge, among all classes of people, is the es-
sential and indispensable basis of a representative
republic. The town school is the only proper in-
troduction to the town meeting. A representative
republic, to be vigorous and energetic, must com-
bine and embody, in a good degree, the aid of
public opinion, and the force of the public will.
To effect this object, the right of suffrage should
be liberally and frankly extended to the great
body of the active and industrious classes of socie-
ty. But the right of suffrage can never be wisely
or safely extended to uneducated and unenlighten-
ed men. Where such is the predominating cha-
racter of the people, there must necessarily exist a
populace, alike subject to infatuation and to impo-
sition, incapable of appreciating their own rights.
518 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
and unfit to be intrusted with those powers, whiqh
might enable them to affect the rights of others.
Such a people is utterly incapable of enjoying
or exercising the high privilege of self government,
and can only be restrained by the rude hand of
physical force. The means of general education,
therefore, and the blessings of free government, are
to be regarded as indissolubly connected. An ig-
norant people cannot long enjoy free government ;
and an enliglitened people cannot permanently be
enslaved.
The various other subjects, both of a private
and general nature, which your Excellency has
been pleased to communicate for the consideration
of the Legislature, will receive the early and dili-
gent attention of the Senate. The Senate will be
happy to concur with your Excellency in all mea-
sures, which may have a tendency to improve and
ameliorate the laws, to advance the prosperity, and
promote the best interests of the Commonwealth.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
May it please your Excellency y
THE House of Representatives participate
in the sentiments which you have expressed, in re-
lation to the general prosperity of our country, and
to the excellence of institutions, calculated, as ours
are, not to confer distinction on a few, but to se-
cure the rights and promote the happiness of the
whole people. They feel it to be both a privilege
and a duty, to dwell on the contemplation of these
blessings ; not as a ground of vain boasting, or a
temptation to sit down and enjoy them in indolence,
but as a motive to humble gratitude, and to the
utmost diligence in preserving and difHising them.
Our civil institutions, having their origin in the
peculiar character of our ancestors, so justly and
highly valued, and naturally tending to perpetuate
it, ought to be extended with the growth, and
adapted to the changes of society. If they are n,«)t
improved, while every thing else is improvmg
around us, so as always to bear an equal propor-
tion to the means and wants of the community,
they are not faithfully transmitted; and more than
this must be done, if we would pay any part of the
debt of gratitude, which we owe to those from
whom we inherit them.
520 ANSWfiR OF THE HOUSE.
None of these institutions can be regarded with
more complacency than those estabUshed for the
pubUc instruction of youth ; which at once enlight-
en their understandings and exalt their moral cha-
racter; connect them early with each other, by
those ties of friendly feeling, which are the lightest
and most graceful, and yet among the strongest
bonds of society ; inspire them with that deep sense
of their perfect equality and mutual dependence, so
appropriate to our condition ; and cherish among
them the habits of deliberation, order and dili-
gence, which distinguish the inhabitants of New
England, and lie at the very foundation of our
prosperity.
To preserve all our institutions in their original
purity and vigor, to provide new restraints on
frauds, as the increase of wealth offers new tempt-
ations to it, to facilitate the means of internal in-
tercourse, which are at the same time the evidence
and the instruments of continual improvement, and
to exercise the whole of that paternal control wise-
ly devolved on our State Government, are duties
requiring the constant attention of the Legislature.
In discharging them, while we shall not shrink
from the responsibility of our situation, nor hesi-
tate to maintain the privileges conferred on us by
our constituents, for their benefit, we shall take
care not to transgress the limits assigned us by the
ConstitutioUj or to encroach on those rights and
liberties, which the people derive from a still high-
er source. We shall recollect, also, that govern-
ment is established for practical purposes, and that
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 521
convenience and utility are not to be sacrificed to
mere speculation, nor the usages and establish-
ments, with which the people are familiar, and un-
der which they have been so prosperous, to be light-
ly changed, in compliance with any new theory, or
in imitation of the example of any other State.
It is gratifying to recur to the proof, which our
fellow citizens have recently given of their attach-
ment to the spirit, and even to the letter of our
venerable Constitution; for it is only by forms
and rules, that the abstract principles of justice
can be applied to the regulation of human con-
duct; and to overleap forms, is often the first step
to ov^erleaping principles.
We learn, with no little satisfaction, the progress
made by the Commissioners of this Commonwealth
and the State of Maine, in the discharge of their
duties. The harmony which has attended their
proceedings, is a just topic of congratulation; and
we flatter ourselves that it is an omen of much
friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse. The
further communications which may be received
from you on that subject, shall be the objects of
our earliest attention.
The House of Representatives find pleasure in
reiterating to your Excellency, the assurance of
their entire confidence, and of the peculiar satis-
faction it gives them to be associated in the per-
formance of their public duty, with one, who on so
many important occasions has pledged himself to
the service of his country, and by whom that
pledge has been always so honorably redeemed.
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522 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
CHAP. I.
Gentlemen of Vie Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Ilepresentativesy
The Secretary will lay before you conimunicatioas I
have lately received from the Governors of the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, and Ohio, accompanied by sundry
resolutions of the Legislatures of those States respectively.
On the twenty third of February last, a bill was present-
ed to me, that had passed the two branches of the Legisla-
ture, entitled ^^ an act to repeal all laws heretofore made for
the inspection of gunpowder/"' As I conceived that the
public had an interest in the manufacture of gunpowdei>
and that that interest would be affected unfavorable by a
repeal of the law, without a substitute, and as, more espe-
cially, no provision was made in the bill for the recovery of
fines and penalties which might have been incurred by a
breach of the provisions of the existing law, my signature
was withheld. The consequence of which is, that it did
not become a law ; as its passage in both branches of the
Legislature took place the day of their prorogation. The
manufacture of gunpowder, however, is becoming, or rather
has already become, of so much consideration, both as an
article of commerce for exportation, and of domestic con-
sumption, as to be entitled to legislative attention. That
the existing law is not adapted to the present circumstances
of the Commonwealth, is readily admitted: But that sub-
stantial benefits have been derived from some of its provi-
sions, there can be little doubt. Under the inspection, the
materials of which powder is composed, have been of a bet-
ter quality, and the manner of manufacturing them has been
improved. The citizens of the State, who are the principal
consumers, have been supplied with better powder, and the
character of it has risen in mercantile estimation, as an ar-
ticle of export. In no article of commerce, is deception
more easily practised, than in powder: And even the im-
perfect mode of inspection that has been in use since the
existence of the law in question, has raised its character,
and saved the purchasers, in some degree at least, from im-
position.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 523
In the course of the last winter, I requested the Adjutant
General, the acting Quarter Master General, to examine
into the state of the manufacture of gunpowder, and its value
as an article of export, and to report to me a statement of
facts, together with such remarks on the subject generally,
as might occur to him in the prosecution of his inquiries.
That oflBcer, to whose care the public magazines for the
safe keeping of gunpowder is entrusted, has made his re-
port, a copy of which, for the information of the Legisla-
ture, will herewith be laid before you.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber., June 5th, 1822.
CHAP. II.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House ^Representatives,
In the month of February last, a resolution was passed,
authorizing, under the sanction of the Executive, an enlarge-
ment of the yard of the State Prison, on the western side ;
and in pursuing the objects contemplated in the resolution,
a skilful architect was appointed to lay out a plan of the
work, to contract for and superintend the same. The pro-
secution of the work was commenced as early in the season
as was practicable, and is continued with as much dispatch
as consists with a faithful construction of the wall, under
contracts, it is believed, as favorable to the Commonwealth,
as could have been obtained.
In order to insure, as far as possible, a due execution of
|he intentions of the government, a Committee of the Coun-
cil has been appointed, to which, in the recess of the Board,
was assigned a supervision of the undertaking.
The Committee, having thus far fulfilled the objects of
their appointment, on the fourth instant made a report, em-
bracing a more distinct view of the subject of the resolution
than could have been obtained at an earlier period. A copy
of the report will herewith be laid before you.
524 PAY OF MEMBERS.
The condition of a portion of both the north and south
walls of the prison yard is such, as, in the opinion of the
Executive, to require a reconstruction, as regards the safety
of the prison. The subject is recommended to your con-
sideration.
The Honorable Major Greneral Salem Towne, Junior,
having resigned, and been discharged from his office, a
vacancy of Major General has thereby occured in the sixth
division of the militia.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber., June 6i/i, 1 822.
CHAP. 111.
Resolve providing for the pay of the Members of the Legis-
lature. June 6th, 1822.
Resolved, That there b#paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to each member of the Council, Senate and
House of Representatives, two dollars for each and every
day's attendance the present session, and the like sum for
every ten mile's travel from their respective places of abode
to the place of the sitting of the General Court, at every
session thereof. ,l7id be it further resolved, that there be
paid to the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the
House of Representatives, each, two dollars per day for
each and every day's attendance, in addition to their pay
as members.
CHAP. IV.
Resolve on the petition ofApollos Johnson. June 7th, 1822.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the public Treasury of this Com-
monwealth, to ApoUos Johnson, the sum of forty dollars, in
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STATE PRlSOlsr.— D. A. WHITE. 525
full for his own services, and the services of those who acted
with him, in apprehending and securing Daniel Sawin, Ju-
nior, for trial, for passing counterfeit bills of the Union
Bank, in Boston.
CHAP. V.
Hesolve granting 810,000, for the State Prison. ,
June 7th, 1822.
On the representation and petition of Gamaliel Bradford,
Esquire, Warden of the State Prison,
Mesolvpd, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury, to the Warden of the State Prison, for the
use of the said prison, ten thousand dollars, in such sums
and at such times as the Directors thereof may order ; and
His Excellency the Grovernor, with the advice of the Coun-
cil, is hereby authorized and requested to draw a w.arrant
or warrants for the same accordingly.
/
CHAP. Vl.
Resolve on the petition of D. A. White, Esquire.
June 8th, 1822.
On the petition of Daniel A. White, Esquire, stating that
the Essex Agricultural Society were unavoidably prevented
from filing the certificate prescribed by the act, entitled "an
act for the encouragement of agriculture and manufactures,"
in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, within
the month of October last, but that they have since duly
filed such certificate :
Therefore resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition,
that His Excellency the Governor be authorized to issue
his warrant to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, upon
526 MASSACHUSETTS TERM REPORTS.
the certificate aforesaid, in like manner as if the certificate
aforesaid had been filed in the Secretary's Office witbia the
said month of October.
CHAP. VII.
Resolve on the petition of Tertius Taylor. June 7tb, 1822.
Resolved^ That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to Tertius Taylor, a soldier in the tenth
Massachusetts regiment, commanded by Colonel Marshall,
in the American revolutionary army, twenty four dollars
and ninety nine cents, in full of balance his due, as appears
on the army books in the Secretary's Office.
CHAP. VIll.
Resolve to purchase Massachusetts Term Reports.
June 8th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be,
and he hereby is authorized and directed forthwith to pur-
chase so many of the volumes of reports of the decisions of
the Supreme Judicial Court, at a rate not exceeding three
dollars a volume, as may be necessary to furnish all towns,
and the several officers of the Commonwealth, which have
not been furnished with them, and by law are entitled to the
same : And His Excellency the Governor is hereby autho-
rized and requested to draw his warrant on the Treasury
for the amount of such purchase.
J. GREEN.— W. PIERCE. 527
CHAP. IX.
Resolve on the petition of Joshua Green, June 8th, 1822.
On the petition of Joshua Green, of Wendell, in the
County of Franklin, administrator on the estate of Joel
Bent, late of said Wendell, deceased, praying to be autho-
rized to convey by deed, to Morris Lincoln, of Barre, in the
County of Worcester, a certain tract of land situate in said
Barre, containing about ten acres, pursuant to an agreement
made by said Bent in his lifetime, to said Lincoln :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that said
Joshua Green be, and he is hereby fully authorized and
empowered to convey by deed to the said Morris Lincoln,
his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid land; which deed, when
duly executed by said Green, shall be as valid and effectual
to all intents and purposes, as if the said Bent had conveyed
the same in his lifetime: The said Green accounting, as
administrator of said Bent, for the sum paid to him for said
tract of land, as part of the personal estate of said Bent, ac-
cording to law.
CHAP, X.
Resolve on the petition of Washington Pierce.
June 8th, 1822.
On the petition of Washington Pierce, of Weston, in the
County of Middlesex, guardian of Horatio N. Lamson, of
the same Weston, a spendthrift, praying for license to sell
and pass deeds to convey the real estate of said Horatio N,
Lamson, situate in said Weston :
Resolved, For the reasons set forth in the said petition,
that the said Washington Pierce, guardian of said Horatio
N. Lamson, be, and he hereby is authorized and empower-
ed to sell and convey the real estate of the said Horatio,
in said petition mentioned, consisting of an undivided moic-
528 MARY RING^.
ty of two tracts of land, with the appurtenances, situate in
said Weston ; one tract containing about sixteen acres, near
the public meeting house, and adjoining the great county
road; the other a tract of pasture and tillage land, adjoining
the road leading to the north part of said Weston, and con-
taining about nine acres, subject to the dower of Abigail,
formerly the widow of Isa^c Lamson, deceased, now the
wife of Isaac Warren, of Charlestown; and to give and
pass good and sufficient deeds of all the right, title and in-
terest of the said Horatio in and to the same: Provided, the
said Washington Pierce first give bond, with sufficient sure-
ties, to the Judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex,
or his successor in said office, that he will observe the rules
and directions of law for the sale of real estates by guar-
dians ; and the proceeds of said sale, shall be put at inter-
est, on good security, for the said Horatio N. Lamson's
benefit, and the same to be accounted for according to law.
CHAP. XL
Resolve on the petition of Mary Ring. June 8th, 1822.
On the petition of Mary Ring, of Salisbury, in the Coun-
ty '-f Essex, mother of Nathaniel Ring, Samuel M. Ring,
and Joseph Ring, minors, having no guardian, praying for
leave to sell at private sale, certain real estate, situated in
said Salisbury, on the north side of Pewen River, (so call-
ed,) and adjoining the same, devised to the said minors by
the last will of Abner Ring, deceased :
Resolved, That the said Mary Ring, for the reasons set
foith in said petition, be, and she is hereby authorized and
empowered to sell, in manner prayed for, the real estate
described in said petition, and make and execute a sufficient
deed of the same, and the proceeds of said sale to vest in
other real estate, or put the same at interest for the use of
said minors, as may in her opinion most conduce to their
benefit; provided, the said Mary first give bond, with suffi-
cient sureties, to the Judge of Probate for said County of
Esse*, with conditions, that within three months from the
D. STEBBINS.—TOWN OF DALTON. 529
time of the sale of such estate, she will file in the office of
said Judge of Probate, a true account of said sale, and that
she will vest the proceeds thereof in other real estate, for
the benefit of said minors, or otherwise account to them for
the same and interest, whenever thereto legally required.
CHAP. XII.
Resolve on the petition of Daniel Stebbins and Wife.
June 8th, 1822.
On the petition of Daniel Stebbins, and Elizabeth Gr.
Stebbins, his wife, praying that some person may be au-
thorized to sell certain real estate of Elizabeth Long and
Charles Long, situate in Newburyport, in the County of
Essex, the same having been conveyed to the said Eliza-
beth and Charles, minors, by their mother, the said Eliza-
beth G. Stebbins, previous to her intermarriage with the
said Daniel :
Resolved, For the reasons set forth in said petition, that
Anthony Knapp, of said Newburyport, be, and he hereby
is authorized and empowered to sell and convey, in fee sim-
ple, at public or private sale, the real estate described ia
said petition, and to make, execute and deliver a good and
sufficient deed of the same : Provided, that the said Antho-
ny shall first give bond, with sufficient sureties, to the Judge
of Probate for the County of Essex, conditioned that he will
account for, and pay over the proceeds of said sale, to such
guardian or guardians of said minors^ as shall be hereafter
appointed.
CHAP. XIIL
Resolve on the petition of the Town of Dalton.
June 10th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Committee on Accounts be, and they
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530 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
hereby are directed and empowered to consider and pass
upon the accounts of the Town of Dalton, in the County of
Berkshire, against the Commonwealth, for the support of
Phoabe Veets, and allow so much thereof as may appear to
be justly due, notwithstanding the statute of limitation.
CHAP. XIV.
Getlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives ,
By the report of the Commissioners, which was laid be=
fore you on the third instant, it appears that a division of
the military stores and ordnance, belonging to the Com-
monwealth, to a portion of which the State of Maine is en-
titled, has been made and agreed upon, conformably to the
provisions of the act for separating the District of Maine
from Massachusetts Proper, &c.
From a survey that was taken the last year, under the
authority of the government, a large proportion of the muni-
tions of war deposited in the several arsenals of the State,
was found and reported by the persons having charge of
that business, to be in a decaying condition; many of the
articles which are little liable to deterioration, are in a state
of perfect soundness, and with proper care will continue to be
fit for use for a long time. These, it is presum^^d, the public
interest requires should be retained and preserved. But on
the contrary, it is suggested, whether it would not be for the
interest of the Commonwealth to dispose of all such imple-
ments as are decaying or are of a perishable nature, at pub-
lic auction. Some of them, though intended for military
purposes, are convertable to other uses, and would now,
probably, sell for something near their value ; but which, if
much longer retained, will become useless. 1 shall readily
concur with you in any course you may think proper to
adopt on this subject, which is submitted to your consid-
eration.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council ChambeVyJune llfft, 1822.
DANIEL HOWARD. 531
CHAP. XV.
Resolve on the petition of J). Howard^ Agent of West
Bridgewater. June 12tli, 1822.
On the memorial and petition of the Honorable Daniel
Howard, of West Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth,
stating that the Towns of North Bridgewater and West
Bridgewater, were both set off from Bridgewater, and in-
corporated into several and distinct towns, previous to the
last tax act, and that no provision is made for assessing on
their respective inhabitants, their respective proportions of
the state and county taxes, but that warrants have issued
both from the state and county Treasurers, for assessing on
the Town of Bridgewater alone, the whole tax which ought
by law, and the principles of the valuation, to be paid by
the three Towns of Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, and
North Bridgewater; Therefore,
Hesolved, That the respective Towns of West Bridge-
water and North Bridgewater, are hereby respectively au-
thorized and empowered to assess upon their respective
inhabitants, agreeably to the provisions of the last tax act,
their respective proportions of the state and county taxes
which are now required to be assessed on the Town of
Bridgewater : Provided, that the said Towns of Bridgewa-
ter, West Bridgewater and North Bridgewater, shall have
first mutually agreed upon and settled the proportion which
each ought to pay; and such assessments, when made, they
may commit to their own respective Collectors, in due form
of law, to collect and pay over to the state and county
Treasurers respectively ; which Treasurers shall have pow-
er and authority to receive the same, and pass it to the cre-
dit of Bridgewater: and in case either of said towns, or
Collectors, shall be remiss or delinquent in paying such
assessments, when agreed upon and made as aforesaid, the
said Treasurers are respectively hereby authorized and em-
powered to enforce such payment by due process of law, as
is provided in other cases of delinquent towns or collectors.
532 ¥. FAULKNER.— TOWN OF BEVERLY.
CHAP. XVL
Resolve on the petition of Francis Faulkner.
June 12th, 1822.
On the petition of Francis Faulkner, of Billerica, Esquire,
and Ann Faulkner, his wife, and James R. Faulkner, pray-
ing for license to sell certain real estate, devised to the said
Ann during her life, with the remainder to her children, by
James Robbins, late of Watertown, in the County of Mid-
dlesex :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said James R. Faulkner be, and he hereby is authorized
and empowered to sell and make deeds to convey all the
real estate devised and bequeathed by the said James Rob-
bins, by his last will and testament, to the said Ann and
her children as aforesaid ; he, the said James R. Faulkner,
previous to making sale thereof, giving bond to the Judge
of Probate for the County of Middlesex, to his satisfaction,
to put out the proceeds of said sale on interest, and to pay
over the interest and income thereof, annually, to the said
Ann during her life; and both principal and interest to those
who shall be legally entitled to the same thereafter; in all
things relating to said sale, conforming to the provisions of
law relating to the sale of real estate by guardians of mi-
nors, so far as the same may be applicable.
CHAP. XVII.
Mesolve on the petition of the Selectmen of the Town of
Beverly. June 12th, 1822.
On the petition of the Selectmen of the Town of Beverly,
praying that the election of Jonathan Grriffin, as a Collector
of Taxes for said town, for the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty, be declared valid :
JResolved, That for reasons set forth in said petition, the
doings of the Town of Beverly, in the election of the said
TREASURER TO BORROW MONEY. 533
Jonathan Griffin, as a Collector of Taxes, for the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and hereby
are declared valid and effectual in law, in all respects, as if
he had been chosen at the regular time ; provided, that no
suit or suits now pending in any court or courts in this Com-
monwealth, shall be affected by the passing of this resolve.
CHAP. XVIII.
Resolve authorizing the Treasurer to borrow Money.
June 12th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby authorized and directed to borrow of any
of the banks in Boston, or within this Commonwealth, any
sum not exceeding eighty five thousand dollars, that may,
at any time within the present year, be necessary for the
payment of the ordinary demands made on the Treasury;
and that he pay any sum he may borrow, as soon as money
sufficient for the purpose, and not otherwise appropriated,
shall be received into the Treasury.
CHAP. XIX.
Resolve to deduct from the valuation of the Town of Dudley,
the amount of the polls and estates of certain persons set
off from Dudley, and annexed to the Town of Southbridge.
June 13th, 1822.
Resolved, That the sum of seven cents on the thousand
dollars, as apportioned by the valuation, be taken from the
Town of Dudley, and added to that of Southbridge.
534 LEONARD M. PARKER.
CHAP. XX.
Resolve authorizing Leonard M. Parker to convey the
Real Estate of his minor children. June 14th, 1822.
On the petition of Leonard M. Parker, of Charlestown,
in the County of Middlesex, father of Martha Lincoln Par-
ker, Elizabeth Waldo Parker, and Sarah Rebecca Parker,
minors, under the age of eight years, representing among
other things, that he and his late wife, Martha Parker, now
deceased, were seized in fee in her right, as one of the
children and heirs of the late Honorable Levi Lincoln, of
one sixth part of certain real estate, in common and undivi-
ded with the other heirs of said Lincoln, situated partly in
the Towns of Oakham and Spencer, in the County of Wor-
cester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, partly in the
Town of Columbia, in the County of Washington, partly in
the Town of Grarland, in the County of Penobscot, partly
in the Township letter E, in the County of Oxford, all in
the State of Maine, and partly in the Town of Concord, in
the County of Essex, and State of Vermont: And further
representing that he is seized and entitled to the rents and
profits of the said undivided sixth part of the premises
aforesaid, during his natural life, as tenant by the courtesy ;
and that his said minor children are seized thereof in fee,
IS heirs at law of their mother, the said Martha Parker,
and praying that he may be authorized to make sale there-
of, or such part of the same, as may be for the interest of
said minor children:
Resolvedy That the said Leonard M. Parker, for the rea-
sons set forth in said petition, be, and he is hereby author-
ized and empowered to sell and convey, by sufficient deeds,
the right and interest of his said minor children, as heirs at
law of the said Martha Parker, deceased, in any part, or
all the real estate aforesaid, situated within this Common-
wealth, either at public or private sale; and he is also here-
by authorized, so far as the authority and assent of this
government may be available for that purpose, in like man-
ner to sell and convey the right and interest of his said mi-
nor children, as heirs at law as aforesaid, in any part, or
all the real estate situated in the States of Maine and Ver-
CHARLES G. LORING. 535
mont, as set forth in said petition: Provided, he the said
Leonard M. Parker first give bond, with sufficient sureties
to the Judge of Probate of the County of Worcester, to file
in the office of the said Judge of Probate, a true account of
all the sales that may be made of any of the lands mention^
ed in this resolve, within six months from the time or times
at which said sales may be made; also to account to his said
minor children, when legsflly required, for the net proceeds
of such sales, with one fourth part of the usual rate of in-
terest on the same, unless the said Leonard M. Parker shall
vest the whole or part of the proceeds of said sale, in other
real estate situated within this Commonwealth, for the ben-
efit of his said minor children, which he is hereby author-
ized and empowered to do; and in which case, he is only
to account in manner aforesaid for as much of the proceeds
of said sale, as may not be vested in other real estate for
the benefit of said children ; and in case the said Leonard
M. Parker shall vest the whole or any part of the proceeds
of sales made in pursuance of this resolve, in other real
estate, for the benefit of his said minor children, he is to
take deeds thereof to himself, to the use of himself for life,
with the reversion in fee to his said minor children.
CHAP. XXI.
Resolve on the petition of Charles G. Loring.
June 14th, 1822.
On the petition of Charles Gr. Loring, of Boston, in the
County of SuflPolk, guardian of Isabella Stevenson, Joshua
Thomas Stevenson, Hannah Elizabeth Stevenson, Mary
Ann Francis Stevenson, Margaret Stevenson, Francis Ca-
leb Loring, Sarah Francis Loring, and Izannah Elizabeth
Loring, all of said Boston, minors, under tlie age of twenty
one years, representing that each of the said minors is seized
in fee of the reversion, after the death of Mary Grreely, of
one twenty eighth part of a certain tract of land, situate in
said Boston, and that it is for the benefit of said minors,
that their respective estates in said land should be sold, and
536 H. CAPEN AND E. OCCUCHA.
the proceeds to arise therefrom invested in good securities.,
in order that the interest to accrue thereon may be paid to
the said Mary Greely, during her life, and the principal,
after her decease, be distributed among the said minors, or
their legal representatives :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Charles Gr. Loring, guardia^n as aforesaid, be, and he
hereby is authorized, in his said capacity, to sell and con-
vey, and make and execute a good and sufficient deed of
release and quit claim of all the right, title, interest, and
estate, Vi^hich the said minors or either of them have or has
in and to the said tract of land, upon his first giving bonds
to the Judge of Probate for the said county, to be approved
of by him, for the faithful performance of his, the said Lo-
ring's duty, as guardian as aforesaid, in the sale of the said
minors' estates in said lands, and the investments of the
proceeds to arise therefrom in the manner, and for the pur-
poses above mentioned; and to render an account of his
doings to the said Judge of Probate, within three months
from the day of said sale : And such deed or deeds, so to be
made by the said Charles G. Loring, in his said capacity,
shall have the same effect in law, as if the same had been
made by the said minors, were they of full age.
CHAP. XXII.
Resolve on the petition of Hannah Cajpen and Elizabeth
Occucha. June 14th, 1822.
On the petition of Hannah Capen and Elizabeth Occu-
cha, Indian women, and heirs of David Capen, late of
Christiantown, on Martha's Vineyard, praying that some
suitable person may be authorized to sell at public auction,
the land which descended to them from their grandfather,
the late David Capen :
Resolved, That the Honorable Matthew Mayhew, of
Chilmark, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell at public
auction, all the real estate t;Jiat has descended to the said
ADJ. GENERAL.— CONTINGENT FUND. 537
Uannah Capen and Elizabeth Occucha, grand daughters
of the late David Capen, of Christiantovvn, deceased, the
wood and brush land excepted, and to make and execute a
good and sufficient deed of the same; provided, that the said
Matthew Mayhew first give bond, with sufficient sureties,
to the Judge of Probate for the County of Dukes' County,
to observe and perform all the duties and requirements of
law, imposed on guardians, executors and administrators, in
sales of real estate ; and j^T'Ovided, also, that he pay over to
the said Hannah and Elizabeth, the proceeds of said sale,
at such time, and in such proportion, as the Judge of Pro-
bate shall direct, holding the same in trust, for the use of
said Hannah and Elizabeth; and when the said proceeds
ghall be exhausted, shall make up, and settle his account
with the said Judge of Probate, who is hereby authorized
to receive, settle and allow the same.
CHAP. XXIII.
Resolve on the petition of the Adjutant General, S^c.
June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Adjutant and Acting Quarter Master
General be, and he is hereby authorized to employ one
Clerk in his office, in addition to the one now provided by
law ; and that His Excellency the Governor, with the ad-
vice of Council, be requested, from time to time, to draw
his warrant on the Treasury for a sum not exceeding two
dollars a day, for the time such Clerk shall be actually
employed.
CHAP. XXIV.
Resolve for Contingent Funds. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the pub-
lic treasury, to the Secretary of the Commouwealtb? such
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538 STATE PRISON YARD.— CLERKS.
sums of money, as from time to time, shall appear to His
Excellency the Grovernor, with the advice of Council, to be
necessary for the service of government, and to be disposed
of as the Governor and Council may direct; the amount there-
of not to exceed one thousand dollars, and the Secretary of
the State shall account to the Legislature for the same ; and
His Excellency the Governor is authorized to draw his war-
rants therefor : Provided, however, that the sum of one hun-
dred and forty six dollars and thirteen cents and one half
cent shall be, and hereby is appropriated to make good a
like sum, which was drawn from the treasury, over and
above the sum appropriated by a resolve of the twenty fourth
of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve establishing
a contingent fund.
CHAP. XXV.
Resolve for enlarging State Prison Yard. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That for the purpose of completing the work
of enlarging the State Prison Yard, and the erection of a
wall to enclose the same, as provided by a resolve of the
last session of the last General Court, passed February the
twenty fifth ; and also for reconstructing of such portion of
the old wall as it may be necessary to rebuild, for the per-
manent security of the prison, the further sum of eleven
thousand four hundred and seventy seven dollars be, and
hereby is appropriated ; and that His Excellency the Go-
vernor, with the advice of Council, is hereby authorized
and requested to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the
same, at such times, and in such portions as may be wanted.
CHAP. XXVI.
Resolve for paying Clerks. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
MESSENGER.— MILITARY STORES. 539
Commonwealth, to the Clefk of the Senate, and the Clerk of
the House of Representatives, and to the Assistant Clerk of
the Senate, each the sum of six dollars for each and every
day's attendance they have been, or may be employed in
that capacity, during the present session of the Legislature ;
and that there be paid to the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, the additional sum of two dollars for each and
every day he may be so employed, in consideration of his
having performed the whole clerical duty of that House ;
and that the Grovernor is requested to draw his warrant
accordingly.
CHAP. xxvn.
Resolve to pay the Messenger. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, in full for his services as
Messenger to the General Court, and for his care of the
state house, including those services mentioned in a resolve
passed on the nineteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the year
commencing the thirtieth day of May last, one thousand
dollars, payable quarter yearly : And His Excellency the
Governor, with the advice of Council, is requested to draw
his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XXVIII.
Resolve authorizing the Governor to sell or exchange cer-
tain Military Stores. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Council, be, and hereby is autho-
rized and empowered, from time to time, to cause to be sold
or exchanged, such military stores, belonging to the Quar-
540 COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS.
ter Master General's department, as may be found to be
unserviceable or in a state of decay, or which, in the opin-
ion of the Governor and Council, it may be for the interest
of the Commonwealth, should be so sold or exchanged.
CHAP. XXIX.
Resolve to pay Committee on Accounts. June 14th, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee appoint-
ed to examine and pass on accounts presented against this
Commonwealth, for their attendance on that service during
the present session, the sum of one dollar per day, in addi-
tion to their pay as members of the Legislature, viz. :
Elihu Hoyt, fifteen days, - - - Sl5
Robert Rantoul, fourteen days, - - - 14
Jonas Sibley, fifteen days, - - - 15
Minot Thayer, fifteen days, - - - 15
Charles P. Phelps, nine days, - - - 9
CHAP. XXX.
Resolve for carrying' into effect certain stipulations in the
agreement of the Commissioners, appointed under the act
for erecting the District of Maine into a separate State.
June 15th, 1822.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
is hereby authorized and empowered to draw his warrant on
the treasury, for the sum of fifteen thousand, eight hundred,
eighty eight dollars and fifty cents, in favor of such person
as may be duly authorized by the State of Maine to receive
the same, in pursuance of an agreement entered into by the
Commissioners on the part of Massachusetts and Maine,
DISTRIBUTION OF MILITARY STORES. 541
under the act for erecting the District of Maine into a sepa-
rate State.
liesolved, That the Treasurer of this Commonwealth be,
and he is hereby directed and required to deliver over to
the said Commissioners, all the notes, bonds and securities,
contained in certain schedules, marked B i^ C, made on
the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty ;
aud that the Agent in the Land Office be also directed to
deliver over to said Commissioners, all notes, bonds, con-
tracts and securities in his possession in the Land Office, as
they stood on the thirtieth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, for the
purpose of a division of the same, according to an agreement
by them made, on the twenty fifth day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two,
the said Commissioners being accountable to the Treasurer
of the Commonwealth, for the safe return of two third parts
in value thereof to said Treasurer, after a division of said
notes, bonds, contracts and securities as aforesaid, shall
have been made by said Commissioners, according to the
tenor of their agreement.
Resolved, That the State of Maine shall be entitled to
have and receive all such sums of money, dues, claims and
demands belonging to said Commonwealth, from the Trea-
surers of the several counties now within the State of
Maine, Justices of the Peace, Clerks of the several Courts,
County Attornies for the several counties now in said State,
and also from any person or persons, who have holden said,
offices; and also all monies, dues and demands from any
person or persons, now or heretofore Sheriffs or Gaolers of
any county of said State, for fines, forfeitures, and bills of
cost in criminal prosecutions ; and the said officers or per-
sons as aforesaid, are hereby directed and required to pay
over all such sums of money, dues, claims, and demands as
aforesaid, to such person or persons, as may be authorized
by the said State of Maine to receive the same, they giving
receipts therefor.
Resolved, That the Adjutant General of this Common-
wealth be, and he is hereby directed and required, to deli-
ver over to such person as may be duly authorized by the
State of Maine, to receive the same ordnance, arms, and
military stores, which were assigned and set out by Benja-
min J. Porter and Silas Holman, bearing date the seven-
542 LAND FOR GUN HOUSE.
teenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty two, and ratified by the Com-
missioners, the same day; the said agent or person thus
authorized by said State of Maine, giving to the Adjutant
General his receipt therefor, when so delivered.
Mesolved, That the State of Maine and its officers, shall
and may have and use the name and authority of the said
Commonwealth, and the proper officers thereof, in prosecu-
ting and collecting any of said notes and securities, contracts,
debts, dues, claims, or demands, so divided or assigned to
said State, but at the sole and proper risk and charge of said
State.
Resolved, That all of said notes and securities, as divi-
ded, and the said monies, dues, claims, and demands, as
assigned by the said Commissioners, to the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and State of Maine, respectively, shall
be taken as they are, at the sole risk of the party who shall
receive them, without claim or challenge on the other party.
CHAP. XXXI.
Resolve authorizing the Adjutant General to receive con-
veyance of Land, June 15th, 1822.
Resolved, That the Adjutant General and Quarter Master
General be, and he hereby is authorized to accept of a con-
veyance of a lot of land, situate on the west line of the five
acre lot, in the Town of New Bedford, which the said
town have purchased and appropriated for a public parade
ground, according to the terms of a lease of the same, made
to Alden Bradford, Esquire, in trust for the use of the Com-
monwealth, so long as it shall be wanted for the purpose of
an Artillery Gun House to stand thereon ; which lease is
dated the eleventh day of June now current: said lot to be
accepted in lieu and instead of another lot of land, which is
bounded westerly by Sixth Street, in said town, and which
the said town conveyed to the said Alden Bradford,' in trust
for the Commonwealth, by their lease dated the seventh day
of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun-
JACOB KUHN.—WARD LOCK. 543
dred and thirteen, to be used for the purpose of a gun house,
until the town shall provide another suitable place for the
same, and remove the gun house, at their own expense.
Be it further resolved, That the Adjutant General be,
and he hereby is authorized to release to the said Town of
New Bedford, all the right and title which the Common-
wealth has of, in and to, the lot of land situate in Sixth
Street aforesaid, and which was conveyed to the Common-
wealth, by the lease last mentioned.
CHAP. XXXU.
*
Resolve in favor of Jacob Kuhn, to purchase Fuel.
June 15th, 1822.
Resolved f That there be paid out of the public Treasury
of this Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the
General Court, the sum of one thousand dollars, to enable
him to purchase fuel, and such other articles as may be ne-
cessary, for the use of the General Court, together with the
Governor and CounciPs Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasu-
rer's, and Adjutant General's Office, and also for the Laud
Office; he to be accountable for the expenditure of the same.
CHAP. XXXIII.
Resolve to pay Ward Lock. June 15tli, 1822.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid from the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant Mes-
senger to the Governor and Council, two dollars for each
and every day he has been, or may be employed in that ca-
pacity, during the present session of the Council.
ROLL No. 87 MAY, 1822.
The Committee on Accounts having examined the se-
veral accounts they now present.. ..Report,
That there is now due to the corporations and persons,
hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their names respective-
ly ; which, when allowed and paid, will be in full discharge
of the accounts to the several dates therein mentioned: which
is respectfully submitted.
ELIHU HOYT, Per Order.
Adams, for supporting Freeman Blackly, Sarah
Hewitt, Susanna Camp, Philina Hill, Ann
Briggs' girl, and Anny Briggs' boy, to May
31st, 1822, ' 85 00
Amherst, for supporting Jane Richardson and
Polly Richardson, to April 8th, 1822, 35 40
Brighton, for supporting John J. Baker, to June
1st, 1822, 46 80
Beverly, for supporting Morris Nash, Rowland
Robinson, Dolly Claxton, John Kelly, Mary
Watson, William Williams, and John Pollard,
to June 1st, 1822, 120 46
Bradford, for supporting Joshua L. Alsars, to
June 1st, 1822, 19 42
Bellingham, for supporting Nathaniel Freeman
and wife, to May 26th, 1822, 93 60
PAUPEU ACCOUNTS. 545
Belcliertown, for supporting Pliebc Butler, Chari-
ty Porter, Peter Stanley, Elizabeth Porter and
child, to June 1st, 1822, 53 00
Brewster, for supporting Nancy Caper, to May
1st, 1822, 30 60
Boston City, for supporting sundry State paupers,
to April 30th, 1822, 5255 67
Barnstable, for supporting Joseph Thompson, to
June 8th, 1822, 18 00
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to May
28th, 1822, 18 90
Chesteriield, for supporting Rachel Polly and Sa-
rah Polly, 32 40
Carver, for supporting Martin Grrady, to June 1st,
1822, 46 93
Cummington, for supporting John Sampson, to
May 25th, 1822, 64 42
Concord, for supporting John Troop Case, Samu-
el Pratt, Amos Gr. Thompson, Alexander Mack-
beth, and Joshua Marcy, to June 1st, 1822, 143 11
Cheshire, for supporting Mary Diamond, Polly
Cooper, Ephraim Richardson, Noel Randell,
Betsey Granderson, Thursey Jones, and two
children, to May 23d, 1822, 121 64
Colrain, for supporting Lydia Cromack, Unice
Cromack, Sally Cromack, Emmery Cromack,
Samuel Doan, Charles O'Neal, and William
Newhouse, to May 22d, 1822, 89 10
Chelsea, for supporting Mary Weeks, to June
9th, 1822, 17 10
Charlestown, for supporting sundry State paupers,
to June 7th, 1822, 1257 26
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
11th, 1822, 411 77
Dalton, for supporting Phebe Veets, to March
16th, 1822, 57 05
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546 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Duxbury, for supporting Peter Williams and Sam-
uel Cooper, to May 21st, 1822, 93 60
Dartmouth, for supporting Benjamin Mills, Han-
nah Day, Susanna Day, Mary Stillwell and
child, Nancy Smith, Francis Freeman, and
Ann Carter, to May 28th, 1822, 134 99
Dedham, for supporting John Ashley and Samuel
Sawyer, to April 9th, 1822, 9 63
Edgartown, for supporting Emanuel Salvars, to
May 20lh, 1822, 46 80
Enfield, for supporting Deborah Buttei'worth, to
May 20th, 1822, 47 10
Framingham, for supporting Daniel Campbell, to
May 31st, 1822, 24 00
Granville, for supporting Simon Hoffman, Sally
Steward, Samuel Grallup, and Mary Gallup,
to June 4th, 1822, 77 00
Great Barringtou, for supporting Isaac Hoose,
Mary Hoose, Clarissa Lindsley, Lucy Foster,
Dorcas Webster, and Jacob Kider, to May
30th, 1822, 92 57
Greenwich, for supporting Lot Lee, Jerusha Ri-
der, and Penelope Hamman, to May 26th, 1822, 104 37
Groton, error in former allowance, for supporting
State paupers, to January 10th, 1822, 100 00
Greenfield, for supplies to Samuel Freeman, and
Judith Young, to January 10th, 1822, 8 01
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
9th, 1822, 394 86
Hanson, for supporting Eliza Jack, to June 4th,
1822, 16 20
Hamilton, for supporting Allice Cook, to April
6th, 1822, 47 70
Hancock, for supporting Hannah Wisner, to May
30th, 1822, 18 52
Hubbardston, for supporting Abner Hibra, to May
34th, 1822, 23 40
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 547
Holliston, for supporting Stephen Jejfferson, to
May 5th, 1822, 12 73
Lee, for supporting Jonathan Manchester, Richard
Sraallman, Lucy Fuller, and Toin Peters, to
May 21st, 1822, 69 80
Lenox, for supporting Tabitha Lewis, Mary Da-
vis, Mary Fuller, Moses M. Graw, Maria Pal-
mer, Thomas Dennison, and William S. Sweet,
to May 22d, 1822, 106 71
Longmeadow, for supporting Edmund Booth, and
Cynthia Milross, to 9th and 20th May, 1822, 38 05
Leyden, for supporting Arnold Clark, Tacy Ful-
ler, Ruth Abel, Joseph Abel, and others, to
May 5th, 1822, 54 40
Middleborough, for supporting John Fitsgould,
Robert Wilson, Abigail Simons, Elizabeth
Briggs, and Elizabeth Quite, to May 1st, 1822, 68 79
Montague, for supporting Edward Patten and wife,
to May 21st, 1822, 36 00
Milton, for supporting Archibald McDonald, John
G. Myers, and James Bowman, to June 5th,
1822, 51 30
New Marlborough, for supporting widow Susan-
nah Smith, to May 25th, 1822, 6 94
Newbury, for supporting sundry State paupers, to
June 1st, 1822, 691 22
New Bedford, for supporting sundry State pau-
pers, to April 1st, 1822, 386 21
Newburyport, for supporting sundry State pau-
pers, to June 1st, 1822, 448 80
Northampton, for supporting Moses Hunt's wife,
Sharicame Hunt, (her daughter,) Mrs. Bur-
roughs, and her three children, Elizabeth
Knapp, John Cockran, Caroline Robbins, Mi-
chael O'Neal, John O'Brian, William Council,
Thomas Cannon, and his wife, and Russell
Edward, to June 1st, 1822, 136 60
548 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Pelham, for supporting William Banks, and Har-
riet Whipple, to May 15th, 1822, ■ 46 80
Palmer, for supporting William Mindine,. and
Phebe Mindine, to June 4th, 1822, 36 00
Plymouth, for supporting George W. Prince, Dan-
iel W. Bush, Andrew S. Richardson, Sarah
Scott, James Reed, Elizabeth Sheppard, Rachel
Decane, and John Roop, to June 6th, 1822, 129 74
Roxbury, for supporting Prince Loffas, Jane Lan-
ders, Robert Clue, Frances Williams, John
Smith, and Emanuel Swasie, 143 30
Rowley, for supporting AUi Collins, Edward
Els worth, Elisha Fields, and her child, to May
27th, 1822, 28 60
Rochester, for supporting .Oin Kelley, to May
27th, 1822, 46 80
Rehoboth, for supporting John Soloman, wife and
two children, Nancy Hill, Rosanna Freeman,
and child, Lavina Mason, Lucy Kelley, Di-
nah Kelley, and Susanna, an Indian, to May
31st, 1822, 170 10
Rowe, for supporting Betsy Carpenter, to April
3d, 1822, " 39 20
Robinson, William, as Guardian to the Dudley
Indians, for their support, to May 12th, 1822, 94 12
Russell, for supporting John Newton, and his
- wife, Sally Harrington, and Mary Stebbius, to
May 28th, 1822, 75 60
Stockb ridge, for supporting John Morrison, Aruba
Morrison, Samuel Rathburn, Hannah Rath-
burn, Margery Curtis, Mary Rice, Seely Put,
Hannah Perkins, Sarah Hulbert, and Eli An-
drews, to June 1st, 1822, 231 41
Sandisfield, for supporting Richard Dickson, to
May 28th, 1822, 46 80
Shelburn, for supporting Mary Bates, and Eliza-
beth Lane, to May 27th, 1822, 26 60
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 549
West Springfield, for supporting Hannah Sliivay,
to May 25th, 1822, 33 44
Somerset, for supporting Ruth Hill, and Polly
Hill, to May 25th, 1822, 17 10
South Brimfield, for supporting Jonathan Hill, to
May 29th, 1822, 15 69
Swansey, for supporting James Garnet, to June
1st, 1822, 63 51
Sunderland, for supporting William Russell, to
March 1st, 1822, 3 78
Sheffield, for supporting William Brown and wife,
Abijah Bonaparte Foust, a child, and Daniel
Jackson, to June 5th, 1822, 101 30
Sandwich, for supporting Esther Raymond, and
Mason Raymond, to May 30th, 1822, 36 00
Shutesbury, for supporting Peter Jackson, and
Sarah Jackson, to May 25th, 1822, 93 60
Salem, for supporting sundry State paupers, to
June 2d, 1822, 1810 17
Saugus, for supporting Joseph Clarrenbole, to
June 4th, 1822, 16 20
Taunton, for supporting sundry State paupers, to
May 31st, 1822, 231 71
Wortbiugton, for supporting Peter Staunton, to
May 28th, 1822, , 46 80
Westford, for supporting Ephraim Spaulding, to
June 6th, 1822, 18 00
Woburn, for supporting Hannah Sina, to June
1st, 1822, 5 20
Ware, for supporting John Upham, to June 5th,
1822, 15 00
Western, for supporting Daniel Mundell, and
Harriet Trim, to May 28th, 1822, f 8 00
Worcester, for supporting Jonas Brooks, William
Joblin, Elijah Pease, Nathan Arnold, and John
Francis, to June 1st, 1822, 58 29
550 SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Williamstown, for supporting Asahel Foot, wife,
and two children, James Law, Rachel Galusia,
and John G. Henderson, to May 27th, 1822, 97 85
Whately, for supporting Capt. Benjamin Mather,
to December 2lst, 1821, 55 14
West Hampton, for supporting John Gray, and
Jenny his wife, Lemuel Calver, and Mary his
wife, and Garnel Decker, to May 22d, 1822, 90 00
Westfield, for supporting Matthew Smith, Ste-
phen Newbury, Theodosha Grillet, John M.
Berry, Caleb Weller, George Gipson, and
Hannah Gipson, 109 99
Washington, for supporting James Robbins and
wife, Nancy Robbins, and George, the sou of
James Robbins, 98 60
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Wellington, J., Coroner of Middlesex County, for
taking inquisition to March 12tli, 1822, 13 10
Hoyt, Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes, to May 20th, 1822, 8 00
Hall, Joseph, Sheriff of Suffolk County, for sup-
porting poor debtors, in goal, not chargeable to
any town, to June 4th, 1822, 36 77
Davis, Wendell, Sheriff of Barnstable County,
for returning votes, to May, 1822, 4 80
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
ta.king inquisitions, to June 4th, 1822, 65 44
Bartlett, Eli, for burying a dead body, found on
Cat Island, to June 1st, 1822, 5 00
Kempton, Ephraim, Coroner of Bristol County,
for taking inquisition, to March 20th, 1822, 14 26
Gray, John, Coroner of Plymouth County, for ta-
king inquisition, to May 27th, 1822, 16 72
PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS, &c. 551
Thatcher, Harrison, Coroner of County of Wash-
ington, Maine, for taking inquisition, March
14th, 1820, 19 45
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Correc-
tion in Ipswich, Essex County, for supporting
Adelaide Huldah Hicks, John Squires, James
Mingo, Josiah Bennington, Mary Beels, Jo-
seph Raudell, and Abraham Mason, to June
3d, 1822, 353 47
PRINTERS' AND MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
*
Russell & Gardner, for paper and printing, for
the several oflBces, and for printing Laws of the
Commonwealth, to Juae 13th, 1822, 939 33
Clapp, W. W., for supplying the Evening Gazette
to members of the Geueral Court, to June 13th,
1822, 35 60
Buckingham, J. T. for supplying the Galaxy to ',
the members of the Valuation Committee, and
of the General Court, to May 25th, 1822, 38 57
Burrell & Hersey, for publishing the laws of the
Commonwealth, in the Haverhill Gazette, to
January 1st, 1822, 16 67
Brigham, E., for hack hire, for the Governor and
Council, to May 22 d, 1822, 6 00
Bacon, Henry, Assistant Messenger to the General
Court, twenty days, to June 15th, 1822, 40 00
Colby, John, Junior, for the loss of a horse, 63 00
Chase, Warren, Assistant Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, twenty days, to June 15th, 1822, 40 00
Cutting, Elijah W., Assistant Messenger to the
General Court, twenty days, to June 15th,
1822, 40 00
Durant, William, for repairs on the State House,
to Juue 11th, 1822; 45 50
552 PRINTERS' ACCOUNTS, &c.
Richardson & Lord, for stationary, &c. for Secre-
tary's Office, to June 4th, 1822, 74 18
Lindsey, Benjamin, for publishing laws of the
Commonwealth, in the New Bedford Mercury,
to June 1st, 1822, 16 67
Cushing, Thomas C, for publishing laws in the
Salem Gazette, 16 67
Allen, E. W., for publishing laws of the Com-
monwealth, in the Newburyport Herald, and
other printing, to August 1st, 1821, 41 83
Russell, Benjamin, for supplying the Centinel to
the members of the Valuation Committee, and
sundry advertisements, to February 23d, 1822, 81 56
Rider, Margaret, for her son's service as Page to
the House of Representatives, to June 15th,
1822, 16 00
Kuhn, Jacob, for sundry materials, labor, fuel,
and balance in full, to June 11th, 1822, 137 31
Shepard, Thomas W., for printing laws of the
Commonwealth, in the Hampshire Gazette, &c.
to May 29th, 1822, 18 67
Webster, Charles, for printing acts and resolves
of the Commonwealth, to May 25th, 1822, 16 66
Young & Minns, for supplying the Palladium to
the members of the Valuation Committee, and
sundry advertisements, to June 4th, 1822, 56 60
Copeland, and others, Constables, for attendance
on the General Court, to June 7th, 1822, 16 00
Hill, Sumner, for opening South Meeting House,
election day, to June 1st, 1822, 10 00
True & Green, for publishing laws, &c. to Febru-
ary 23d, 1822, and furnishing the American
Statesman to members of the Legislature, 38 98
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 553
Brigade Majors^ and Aids-de-Camp.
Scott, John, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 2d Divi-
sion, to January 1st, 1822, 56 38
Sibley, Jonas L., Aid-de-Camp to Major Greneral
of the 6th Division, to June 1st, 1822, 27 06
Twining, Thomas, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
7th Division, to June 4th, 1822, 16 22
Courts Martial.
Cobb, D. G. W., Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 5th
Division, for expense of a Division Court Mar-
tial, holden at New Bedford, February 26th,
1822, whereof Brigadier General Shephard
Leach was President, 580 55
Edwards, Elisha, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, 4th ^
Division, for expense of a Division Court Martial,
holden at Springfield, April 17th, 1822, whereof
Colonel Joseph M. Forward was President, 283 25
Sumner, William H., Adjutant General, for ex-
pense of a General Court Martial, holden at
Sandwich, February 13th, 1822, whereof Brig-
adier General James Appleton was President, 1332 49
Sumner, William H., Adjutant General, for ex-
pense of a General Court Martial, holden at
Concord, April 3d, 1822, whereof Brigadier
General M. M. Rutter was President, 339 69
Sumner, William H., Adjutant General, for expense
of a General Court Martial, holden at Dedham,
April 3d, 1822, whereof Major General John
Whiting was President, 675 06
73
554 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Expense of Hauling Artillery.'
Harrison, John, 2d Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 9 00
Lincoln, Henry, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 2 25
May, Joseph, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 10 00
Morse, Lyman, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 5 00
Perry, Lemuel, 2d Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 6 00
Stetson, Robert, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 10 00
Shiverick, .Nathaniel, 3d Brigade, 5th Division,
to January, 1822, 11 00
Tucker, Joel, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1822, 11 80
Adjutants^ Accounts.
Adams, Gibbins, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 30th, 1822, 13 33
Billings, Asahel, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to April 7th, 1822, 18 03
Burnell, Baxter, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 4th Divi-
sion, to June 7th, 1822, 17 49
Bosworth, Stephen, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
7th Division, to March 11th, 1822, 30 00
Collins, Michael, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to June 4th, 1822, 22 07
Carey, Leonard, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade^ 6th
Division, to February 1st, 1822, 15 00
AGGREGATE OF ROLL NO. 87 555
Dickinson, Philo, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to
April 1st, 1822, 30 00
Hutchins, Joseph, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to March 19th, 1822, 12 50
Merril, Nathaniel, Artillery, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to June 1st, 1822, 13 33
Richardson, Wyman, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to June 1st, 1822, 17 58
Spring, Luther, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to May 21st, 1822, 17 31
Sturdivant, 1. A., Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 5th Divi-
sion, to June 1st, 1822, 17 50
Tucker, Seth, Artillery, 1st Brigade, Ist Division,
to May 7th, 1822, 4 07
Whiting, Solon, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to February 21st, 1822, 21 25
Williams, William, (Maine) to the time of their
separation, 13 06
Sales, Richard, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, to June
10th, 1822, 6 30
Thompson, Charles, (Maine) 3d Regiment, 1st
Brigade, 11th Division, 58 70
Aggregate of Roll No. 87.
Expense of State Paupers, 15,574 46
i' of Courts Martial, 3,21104
" of Brigade Majors and Aids, 99 66
" of Adjutants, 327 52
i( of Hauling Artillery, 65 05—3,703 27
" Sheriffs and Coroners, 537 01
" Printers and Miscellaneous, 1,805 80
S21,620 54
556 RESOLVE TO ROLL NO 86. s
Unsolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this Roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions' and persons' names respectively, amounting in the
whole to the sum of Twenty One Thousand, Six Hundred
and Twenty Dollars, and Fifty Four Cents, the same being
in full discharge of the accounts "and demands to which
they refer.
{Approved by the Governor, June 14th, 1822-3
Cjoiadmonwealth oi Massaclmsetts.
/
SECRETARY'S OFFICE, AUGUST 7, 1822.
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That the Resolves, passed at the session of the Legis-
lature, begining May the twenty ninth, and ending June fifteenth, eighteen hundred
and twenty two, have been compared -with the originals in this office, and appear to
be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
INDEX
TO RESOLVES, PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGINNING MAY 29,
AND ENDING JUNE 15, 1822.
A.
Accounts, Committee on, their pay, 540
" Roll No. 87, 544
Adjutant General, allowed additional Clerk, - . - . 537
" " to receive conveyance of land, - - - 542
B.
Beverly, Selectmen of, petition, 5S&
" Collector of Taxes, 532
Bridgewater, West and North, taxes, how to be assessed, &c. - 531
C.
Capen, H. and E. Occucha, their petition, - . - . 536
Clerks of General Court, their pay, 538
Committee on Accounts, their pay, 540
Commissioners of Massachusetts and Maine, their report, and
division of property, &c. ---,--- 540
Contingent Fund provided, 537
D.
Dalton, Town of, account for support of a pauper, - - - 529
Dudley, Town of, taxes, 533
E.
Essex Agricultural Society, premium for, 525
Faulkner, F. and A., their petition, 532
G.
Governor's Speech, -.-. 505
" « Answer to, 513,519
" Message, 522, 523, 530
INDEX.
Governor to sell or exchange Military Stores, - - . - 539
Greene, Joshua, petition, 527
H.
Howard, D., Agent for West Bridgewater, petition, - - - 531
J.
Johnson, Apollos, petition, 524
L.
Long, Charles and Elizabeth, minors, 529
Loring, C. G., his petition, 535
M.
Members of Council, and of General Court, their pay fixed, - 524
Messenger of General Court, salary, 539
" " " to purchase fuel, &c. - - - 543
" Assistant of Governor and Council, _ . _ 543
Military Stores, Governor to exchange or sell, - - - - 539
O.
Occucha, E. and H. Capen, their petition, ... - 536
P.
Parker, L. M., his petition, ------- 534
Pierce, Washington, petition, 527
Prison, State, gl 0,000 voted for, - 525
« " Yard rebuilt, 538
R.
Reports, Massachusetts, to be purchased, 526
Ring, Mary, petition, - 528
S.
Secretary to purchase Term Reports, . , - - - 526
" to keep account of Contingent Fund, - - - 537
Southbridge, taxes for, 533
Stebbins, D. and wife, petition, 529
T.
Taylor, Tertius, petition, .-..--. 526
Treasurer to borrow money, - - 5SS
■ W.
White, D. A., petition, - ' 525
RESOLVES
THE GENERAL COURT
Commontoealti) ofclHla^^atlju^ett^,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OP JANUARY, AND
ENDED ON TUESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th January, 1812.
BOSTON :
PRINTED FOR BENJ. RUSSELL, PRINTER TO THE STATE,
BY RUSSELL AND GARDNER.
1823.
RESOLVES
OF THE
GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY,
AND ENDED ON TUESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JANUARY 1, 1823,
The two Houses being in Convention, the Secretary of the Common-
wealth came down from the Council Chamber, to the Senate and
House of Representatives, with the following Message from His
Excellency the Governor:
MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
V
I EMBRACE the present moment to offer you my con-
gratulations on the commencement of a new year, and on
your reassembling to engage in the important duties of
legislation.
Although no form of government is so rational in it-
self, nor so well calculated in its operations to render a
people happy, as is that of a representative republic, yet
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558 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
there is none that demands greater wisdom and integrity
in its administration. The public interests require contin-
ual watching; and the changes which time and the pro-
gress of civilization and the arts gradually effect, are to
be met aud provided for with discriminating care. That
Massachusetts should have sustained an honorable career
from the humble condition of an obscure colony, through
the lapse of two centuries, and under various forms of ju-
risprudence, to her present elevated standing, in point of
population and wealth, of learning and the arts, is to be
referred, under the favor of Divine Providence, to the ju-
dicious adaptation of her laws to the multifarious wants
and circumstances of the people. Different degrees of
increase and prosperity, indeed, have marked different
periods of her progress ; but, under events and aspects
the most inauspicious, improvements have never been sta-
tionary. An invincible progression in numbers, and in
moral and political strength, has never ceased to encour-
age her hopes and indicate her course. Recently, how-
ever, under the present order of things, a freer scope has
been afforded for developing her moral and physical
faculties.
A short time only had elapsed after the first founders
of Massachusetts had begun their settlements, before po-
litical and commercial jealousies on the part of the British
government became apparent ; and at every period of her
colonial existence, her interests were sacrificed to the ava-
ricious and domineering spirit of her parent country. But
a course of conduct thus selfish and oppressive, though
desigqed to impede the growth of the colony, and to
insure its dependence on, and subservience to Great
Britain, ultimately defeated its own purposes. Subjected,
as the colonists were, to the unbending rigor of the colo-
nial system, a limited commerce only was allowed them ;
and even the stinted share of traffic they were permitted
to prosecute, was encumbered with regulations far less
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 559
calculated to remind them of their filial relation, than of
their inferiority and suhjection. Incentives to extensive
enterprize were thus denied to her merchants ; and the
accumulation of capital, which a liberal commerce only
can effect, was rendered impracticable. But while made
to feel the weight of power, and to submit to the humilia-
tion of colonial restrictions, they were led by a very na-
tural train of thought, not merely to investigate the
nature of magna charta and the constitution of England,
but the broad principles of all legitimate governments,
founded on the natural rights of men ; and ultimately to
form an estimate of the value of self control. In the mean
time, habits of industry and economy were formed, and
the skilful management of their circumscribed interests
was acquired ; and thus the colonists became fitted for
acting their part well as subjects, and to sustain with
honor the separation that awaited them.
But the acquisition of independence failed to fulfil the
public anticipations. The States, by mighty and united
efforts, had become independent and free. Peace soon
disclosed truths which had hitherto been but partially
believed, that the boasted union of the States under the
confederation, had resulted from the pressure of common
danger, and that something was yet wanting to complete
the revolution, and ensure the general welfare. The
vital defect, nevertheless, was long felt and deplored, be-
fore the national will ordained a remedy. The beneficial
effects, produced almost instantaneously by the opera-
tions of the national government, were wonderful and
incalculable. The sudden restoration of public and pri-
vate credit, the animation given to enterprize and indus-
try, in the various branches of political economy, and the
general amelioration in the condition of the people, which,
I presume, are in the recollection of most of you, were
occurrences which transcended the hopes of the most san-
guine. Massachusetts shared largely for a while in these
560 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
results. But the regular order of peaceful commerce, was
destined to derangement. A long series of astonishing
phenomena ensued, involving the destruction of govern-
ments, the extiuction of nations, and a change in the habits
and occupations of a large proportion of the human family
in the civilized world. The citizens of this State, obser-'
vant of the character of the times, and yielding to the
allurements of emolument attached to the neutral flag,
availed themselves freely of their neutral rights. The
preternatural excitement however, effected in one branch
of enterprize, left others to languish ; and commerce, after
suffering unexampled vexations from the belligerents, was
driven from its ordinary channels in times of peace, and,
eluding the sober calculations of the experienced mer-
chant, became the subject and the victim of chicane and
speculation.
But notwithstanding an incalculable accumulation of
wealth under the American flag whilst its neutral charac-
ter was maintained, it was not until since the late war,
that terminated with so much glory to our nation, that
the individual States have been permitted freely to ex-
plore and cultivate their respective resources. And it is
worthy of remark, that although more than seven years
of peace have elapsed, yet time scarcely sufficient has
been allowed to surmount the embarrassments necessari-
ly arising from an abrupt transition from a state of war to
a state of peace, and from a spirit of deep speculation and
adventure, which had been generated by the peculiar
circumstances of the times. From causes to which it is
needless now to advert, Massachusetts has felt less se-
verely, or with greater facility recovered from those em-
barrassments, than some of her sister States, although her
maritime position and vocations expose her to the deepest
suffering on the occurrence of foreign war.
Erom every just consideration, therefore, she ought to
cherish a love of peace ; it being a condition most con-
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 561
genial to her moral feelings, and most favorable for the
cultivation of her means of enjoyment and greatness.
The fisheries, one of her great sources of subsistence and
emolument, must, in a time of war, be annihilated ; al-
though in a time of peace, they give lucrative employment
to thousands of the hardiest of men, and constitute the
greatest and most permanent nursery of seamen for our
gallant navy, which is the pride of the United States, and
the support of their commerce and honor abroad.
The martial energies of our country have never been
questioned ; and her ability to sustain the arts of peace,
is now fully demonstrated. To you. Gentlemen, as re-
presenting the feelings of the people, the appeal may be
safely made as to the result of the experiment in this
Commonwealth. The enemies of the revolution repre-
sented us as possessing, neither the intellectual, nor the
moral, nor the physical elements, for constituting and
supporting an independent government. But what are
the facts? Our naval and military triumphs, our com-
merce, which, under the fostering care of a paternal gov-
ernment, has spread over the world, and is now gladdening
the human heart in every clime ; and above all, the con-
tentment, the good order and social happiness, enjoyed
by more than ten millions of free citizens, give the answer.
Among the public evidences of the success that has
attended the exertions of the people of this State in inter-
nal improvements, and which are sure pledges of continu-
ed prosperity, we may refer to the general aspect of the
country, as connected with agriculture and rural economy,
to the number and admirable structure of our bridges, to
the goodness of the roads in every part of the State, and
to the various and expensive canals and locks on the
Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, and more especially
the Middlesex Canal, that unites the latter with the
waters of Boston Harbour. If it were necessary to adduce
further proofs of the successful enterprize and industry of
562 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
the citizens of this community, we might also refer to
their navigation and tonnage, which are now presumed
to be exceeded in amount by only one State. And it is
apprehended that we should not deviate materially from
the reality, in assuming, that, with a population equal to
about one twentieth part of the population of the United
States, Massachusetts contributed, in the year just ended,
nearly one fourth part of the whole amount of revenue,
derived from commerce, to the national treasury. While
these considerations serve to evince the importance of the
commerce of this State to the Union, it should induce us
to appreciate our resources, and by every possible eflfort to
augment their value.
W hile the distinguishing results now noticed are pri-
marily derived from the fisheries, and from other natural
advantages peculiar to our local situation, it is cheerfully
conceded that those advantages are called into more ef-
fective operation by the powerful energy of the United
States' code of commercial law. The coincidence of the
means of raising revenue, and of giving an impulse to na-
tional industry, is happily illustrated in the existing tariflP.
If our national commerce be extensive, if the products of
our agriculture are furnished with a ready market, and if
our manufactures are multiplying and improving with a
rapidity hitherto unknown, we can scarcely too highly
appreciate the wise policy of the national government:
unless the authority of facts and experience be discarded,
we cannot hesitate to acknowledge its soundness and effi-
ciency. And although the existing laws respecting com-
mercial revenue may be, and unquestionably are, sus-
ceptible of a more perfect adaptation to the manufacturing
interest, and might be made, in point of revenue, more
productive, yet the strongest conviction rests on my mind,
^^ that the interest of every part of the Union requires that
this subject should be touched with the greatest caution,"
and not without a clear foresight "of the effects to be
produced by the slightest change.'^
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 563
The facilities for sustaining extensive manufactures
are scarcely less distinguishing for this community, than
are our advantages for commerce. Facts are fully illus-
trative of this truth. By recurring to the laws of the
Commonwealth, it is found, that one hundred and forty
nine acts have, at different times, passed the Legislature,
and are now extant, for incorporating manufacturing
companies, with- an aggregate capital amounting to more
than sixteen millions of dollars ; and it is presumed to be
within your knowledge that nearly all these establish-
ments are now in successful operation. In reviewing the
diversified concerns of the people of the Commonwealth,
1 feel entire confidence that your deliberations will result
in measures calculated to promote their best interests.
By the provisions of an act, passed the sixteenth day
of February last, entitled " an act to establish the Glou-
cester Canal Corporation," the Governor, with the advice
of the Council, was empowered, under circumstances
therein named, to authorize the Treasurer of the Com-
monwealth to subscribe for a number of shares in the
capital stock of said corporation. In pursuance of which,
after due examination, authority has been given to the
Ti*easurer to subscribe for thirty shares in said stock, in
the name of the Commonwealth, and to pay the assess-
ments made thereon according to law. Cutting a can^^l
as proposed by the corporation, promises to be of great
advantage to the coasting trade of the Commonwealth,
and the safety of its citizens who are engaged in prose-
cuting the same. A report of the Committee of Council
on this subject will be herewith laid before you.
In conformity to the several resolutions of the twenty
fifth of February and the fourteenth of June last, for en-
larging the yard of the State Prison, and for erecting a new
wall, the work was commenced as early in the season as
practicable, and prosecuted with assiduity, until, from the
approach of the cold, it was deemed for the interest of the
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564 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Coranionvvealtli that the work should bo discontinued.
The State Prison still has claims to the attention of the
Legislature ; and I flatter myself that the additional light
which experience is daily throwing on the subject of peni-
tentiaries and penitentiary discipline, will enable you to
adopt such improvements in both as shall secure the
safety of the Prison, and give better promise of reforma-
tion in the convicts. In the course of the last year, dis-
orders similar (o those which were perpetrated in the
year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, have
occurred, with the additional enormity of setting on fire
several workshops; in suppressing which, one of the con-
victs (a leader in the insurrection) lost his life.
By recent accounts from Europe, and some of the
prisons in the neighbouring States, a machine, denomi-
nated ^^ the tread or stepping mill," has been introduced
into some of the penitentiaries, as a mode of employing
convicts. How far this new description of punishment
may have answered the expectations of those who have
had recourse to it, I have not been sufficiently informed
to assert. It is favorably spoken of; and on a subject that
has hitherto disappointed, in some measure, at least, the
hopes of the humane every where, every hint indicating
improvement seems to merit consideration. Referring
you, gentlemen, to that part of my communication to the
Legislature on the. tenth of January last, relating to the
State Prison, I recommend the subject at large to your
consideration.
Since the last session, I have received from the Gov-
ernor of South Carolina, sundry resolutions of the Legisla-
ture of that State, on the subject of an amendment to the
constitution of the United States, proposed by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Pennsylvania, for limiting the power
of Congress to incorporate a bank or other monied insti-
tution in the District of Columbia.
1 have likewise received from the Governor of North
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Carolina, several resolutions of the Legislature of that State,
relating to the resolutions of the Legislature of the State of
Maryland, proposing an appropriation of public lands for
the purposes of education. These communications, to-
gether with the documents before mentioned, will be laid
before you by the Secretary.
In concliffeion, I should feel myself wanting in respect
to you, gentlemen, and to my fellow citizens generally,
were 1 to omit expressing, on this occasion, the heartfelt
satisfaction that has been derived to me from the reitera-
ted expression of their confidence. To one who had
devoted the first moments of manhood to the service of
his country and the cause of freedom, such tokens of re-
membrance and regard, are peculiarly grateful ; and they
have been more precious to me, not only as they indicated
a generous approbation of humble efforts to be useful, but
have sanctioned the immortal principles which originated
and perfected the revolution. But conscious that the claims
of nature to exemption from the care and anxieties of offi-
cial responsibility cannot be resisted with impunity, I
deem it an imperative duty to announce my determination
lo decline being considered a candidate for re-election to
the office of chief magistrate; devoutly imploring the bene-
diction of Almighty God on all the interests of the Com-
monwealth, and tendering to you, fellow citizens, my sin-
cere wishes for your personal happiness. \
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 1, 1823.
566 GOVERNOU^'S MESSAGE.— Z. MOREY.
CHAP. XXXIV.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of liejpresentatives :
The Commissioners under the act of June nineteenth, one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for separating the
District of Maine, in prosecuting the duties assigned them,
have caused the requisite surveys of certain tracts of land
to be made, to enable them to make a division of the same;
and having made a division, the Commissioners set oflF, by
metes and bounds, so much of the land falling to the share
of the Commonwealth by the division, as in their estima-
tion is of the value of thirty thousand dollars.
It hence results that the option is now presented to the
Legislature, contained in the fifth article of the first section
of the act above mentioned.
The report of the Commissioners, and snndry documents
which accompany it, exhibit the course pursued by the
Commissioners, and the process by which they arrived at
their final result, in dividing the lands surveyed, either un-
der their direction, or by the authority of the Common-
wealth heretofore, and in setting off to the State of Maine,
from the moiety falling to Massachusetts, so much land as
in their estimation amounted to the sum above mentioned.
The several documents appertaining to the report, and
which constitute a part of the same, will be laid before you
by the Secretary.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 6th, 1823.
CHAP. XXXV.
Hesolve on the petition of Zilpha Morey.
January 8th, 1823.
On the petition of Zilpha Morey, of Tyringham, in the
County of fierkshire^ Administratrix on the estate of Jesse
JOSEPH STANTON. 567
Morey, late of said Tyringham, deceased, praying to be au-
thorized to convey, by deed, to Roger Moore, of said Tyr-
ingham, a certain tract of land, situate in said Tyringham,
containing about four acres, pursuant to an agreement made
by said Jesse Morey, in his lifetime, to said Moore:
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Zilpha Morey be, and she is hereby fully authorized
and empowered to convey, by deed, to said Roger Moore,
his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid land ; which deed, when
duly executed by said Zilpha, shall be as valid and effectu-
al, to all intents and purposes, as if the said Jesse Morey
had conveyed the same in his lifetime.
CHAP. XXXVI.
Resolve on the petition of Joseph Stanton.
January 14th, 1823.
On the petition of Joseph Stanton, Guardian of Betsey
Herrick, Aaron Uerrick, Henry Herrick, and Eunice Her-
rick, minor children and heirs at law of Moses Herrick,
late of Norwich, in the County of Hampshire, deceased, re-
presenting that one Jonathan Herrick, by his deed, bearing
date the twenty fifth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventeen, conveyed to the said Moses Her-
rick, and one Thomas Herrick, certain lands, lying a part
thereof, in said Norwich, a part in Montgomery, in the
County of Hampden, and the residue in Becket, in the
County of Berkshire, and praying that he may be empower-
ed to convey to the said Jonathan Herrick, a part of said
lands, whereof the said Moses Herrick died sole seized :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Joseph Stanton be, and he is hereby authorized and
empowered to convey to the said Jonathan Herrick, his
heirs and assigns, by a good and sufficient deed of convey-
ance, the right and interest of said minor children in the
lands so conv^ed to the said Moses Herrick and Thomas
Herrick, by the said Jonathan Herrick, by his deed before
mentioned, and whereof the said Moses Herrick died sole
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568 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
seized as aforesaid, upon condition that the said Jonathan
Herrick acquit and discharge the estate of the said Moses
Herrick, of and from all claims he now has,, or may have,
upon the same, or upon the said Thomas Herrick, by virtue
of any covenant or covenants of the said Moses Herrick and
Thomas Herrick, or either of them, to reconvey said lands,
or to account to the said Jonathan Herrick therefor.
CHAP. XXXVII.
Gentlemen of the Senate^ and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :
The annual return of the militia, and a return of the ord-
nance, and ordnance and military stores now in the arsenals
of the Commonwealth, together with a report made by the
Adjutant General, accompanying these returns, on the sub-
ject of the militia generally, will be laid before you by the
Secretary. The report will shew the amount of sales of
sundry articles of stores disposed of under the authority of
the Executive, by virtue of the resolution passed on the four-
teenth day of June last. It has not been deemed for the
public interest that a sale of the remainder of the articles
which are considered useless, should be forced, from an ap-
prehension that many of them may shortly be in demand in
commerce, and the avails of their sale may be greater than
at the present moment could be realized.
At the last session, 1 stated to the two Houses that all the
military stores contemplated by the act for the separation of
Maine, had been divided between the Commonwealth and
that State, by the Commissioners acting under the authority
and agreeably to the provisions of that act. I have now to
state, for the information of the Legislature, that the divi-
dend allotted to Maine, has been delivered to an Agent of
the Executive of that State, duly authorized to receive the
same.
By the act passed on the twenty first of February last,
the Governor was required to prescribe the uniform for the
militia of the Commonwealth, except that portion thereof
David greenough. 569
whose uniforms are regulated by the laws of the United
States.
Perceiving, on a full examination of the act, that no com-
pulsory means were provided for giving complete efficacy to
its provisions, 1 hesitated in complying with that enactment
relating to uniforms.
But finding that the militia, from every section of the
Commonwealth, were expecting and importuning a fij;Jfil-
ment of the intentions of the Legislature, 1 proceeded to
make arrangements for establishing an uniform for the
whole of the militia. In doing which the strictest regard
was paid to neatness, simplicity and economy, and to the
introduction of such distinctive modes and badges, as should
designate different grades of officers, and the several des-
criptions of troops. To render the whole as little expensive
as possible, you will perceive by the order of the twenty
second of August last, containing the arrangement, a copy
of which will be herewith laid before you, that many of its
provisions «are prospective, and that perfect uniformity in
some of the corps may possibly not be effected under five
years from the first Tuesday of May next. It would be un-
necessary for me, gentlemen, to add, that some legislative
sanction is requisite to give entire efficacy to these regula-
tions.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 14th, 1823.
CHAP. XXXVIIl.
Resolve on the petition of David Greenough.
January 15th, 1823.
Whereas by a resolve of the thirty first of January,
eighteen hundred and twenty two, the Warden and Direc-
tors of the State Prison were authorized to settle with the
said David Greenough, a debtor to the said prison, on cer-
tain conditions, and the said Greenough having by his peti-
tion requested a further time to fulfil the same :
liesolvedf That the Warden and Directors of the State
570 JUSTICES OF COURT OF SESSIONS.
Prison be, and they are hereby authorized, at any time
within two years from the passing of this resolve, to receive
the sum of two thousand dollars, and the interest which
may accrue thereon, from the first of July, eighteen hun-
dred and twenty twO;, in full discharge of the said demand.
CHAP. XXXIX.
Resolve on the petition of the Justices of the Court of Ses-
sions in Worcester County. January 17th, 1823.
On the petition of the Justices of the Court of Sessions in
the County of Worcester, representing, that, under an order
of the late Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county,
Samuel Allen, Esquire, Treasurer of said county, has paid
to the Keeper of the House of Correction in Worcester, for
the support of state convicts confined therein, the sum of
two hundred and seventy two dollars and four cents, and
praying that the same may be reimbursed to the said coun-
ty by the Commonwealth :
Resolved^ That there be allowed to the County of Wor-
cester, the said sum of two hundred and seventy two dol-
lars and four cents, and that His Excellency the Oovernor
be, and he is hereby empowered and requested to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, in favor
of the said Samuel Allen, for the said sum ; the said Allen
to be held accountable to the said County of Worcester
therefor.
CHAP. XL.
Representation from George W. Coffin, relative to Eastern
Lands. January 17 th, 1823.
The Committee of both Houses that were appointed to ex-
amine the accounts of George W. Coffin, Esquire, Agent of
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION U. S. 571
the Land Office, have examined his account of proceedings
from June, eighteen hundred and twenty, to the present
time; wherein he has received, in securities and money, the
sum of five thousand and sixty two dollars and four cents,
and has paid the Treasurer, in securities and money, to-
gether with payments fur postage, and other charges, inclu-
ding the amount due said Agent for services, the sum of five
thousand and sixty five dollars and forty three cents; and
there appears to he a halance due to said Agent, of three
dollars and thirty nine cents, all of which appears to be
rightly cast and well vouched.
JONATHAN DWIGHT, Per Order.
Therefore resolved, That said Agent be, and he hereby
is discharged from the sum of five thousand and sixty two
dollars and four cents, which has been received as above
mentioned; and said Agent is hereby authorized to carry
the balance due him, of three dollars and thirty nine cents,
to a new account.
CHAP. XLI.
Resolve respecting a proposed Amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States. January 17th, 1823.
The Committee of both Houses, to whom was referred so
much of the message of His Excellency the Grovernor, as
relates to a proposed amendment to the constitution, limit-
ing the power of Congress to incorporate a bank, or other
monied institution, to the District of Columbia, proposed by
the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, with the deci-
sion of the Legislature of the State of South Carolina there-
on, having, according to order, had the same under consid-
eration, thereupon ask leave to report:
It appears that the proposed amendment has been already
acted upon, and decided by the Legislature of this Com-
monwealth, upon the original proposition of the State of
Pennsylvania, by a resolution, passed twenty first of Janu-
arv, eighteen hundred and twenty, by which the Legisla*
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572 AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION U. 8.
ture expressed their non-concurrence in the proposed amend-
ment. Your Committee are of opinion, that the Legislature,
having once acted definitively on the proposed amendment,
have no further power on tiie subject, unless upon a new
and original proposition, submitted to them by some other
State, or brought forward in this Legislature. It becomes,
therefore, unnecessary, at present, to express any opinion
upon the merits and principles of the proposed amendment;
although, were the question an open and original one, the
Committee would have no hesitation in expressing their en-
tire concurrence in the decision heretofore made.
Perceiving by a reference to the above cited resolve, that
no order was passed providing for communicating the deci-
sion of the Legislature of this Commonwealth on the propo-
sed amendment, to the other Slates, and to Congress, and
believing that such communication is proper and necessary
for tlieir information and government, respectively, the
Committee recommend the adoption of the following reso-
lution.
L. SHAW, for the Committee,
Whereas the Legislature of this Commonwealth, by a re-
solution passed on the thirty first of January, A. D. eighteen
hundred and twenty, having considered the amendment to
the constitution of the United States, proposed by the Le-
gislature of the State of Pennsylvania, in the words follow-
ing, to wit: — ^'Congress shall make no law to erect or
incorporate any bank or other monied institution, except
within the District of Columbia ; and every bank, or other
monied institution, which shall be established by the au-
thority of Congress, shall, together with its branches and
offices of discount and deposit, be confined to the District of
Columbia:'' and thereupon having, decided not to concur in
the said proposed amendment.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be request-
ed to transmit a copy of this resolution to the Executives
of the several States of the Union, with a request, that the
same may be communicated to the Legislatures thereof;
also to the President of the United States, with a like re-
quest that the same be communicated to Congress, for their
information, respectively.
JONATHAN WILD, JUN. 573
CHAP, XLIl.
Jlesolve on the petition of Jonathan Wild, Junior.
January 22d, 1823.
On the petition of Jonathan Wild, Junior, praying that
he may be authorized to sell certain real estate of Eli Hay-
ward, a person non compos mentis, situate in Braintree, in
the County of Norfolk:
liesolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Jonathan Wild, Junior, the legal Guardian of said Eli
Hayward, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered
to sell at public sale, the real estate mentioned in said peti-
tion, the same being a tract of pasture land, in said Brain-
tree, of about four acres; and to make, execute and deliver
to the purchaser, or purchasers thereof, a good and sufficient
deed of the same, in fee simple: Provided, that the said
Jonathan Wild shall give public notice of such sale, by
posting up advertisements at two public places in said town,
fourteen days at least previous to such public sale ; and that
the said Jonathan shall first give bond, with sufficient sure-
ties, to the Judge of Probate for the County of Norfolk, con-
ditioned, that, within three months from the time of the sale
of such estate, he will file in the office of said Judge of Pro-
bate, a true account of said sale, and that he will account to
the said Judge of Probate for the proceeds thereof and in-
terest, whenever thereto legally required.
CHAP. XLIIL
Resolve respecting the Second Precinct in Boylston^ Ster-
ling and Uolden. January 22d, 1823.
On the petition of Robert B. Thomas and others, in be-
half of the Second Precinct in Boylston, Sterling and
Holden, setting forth, that for several years after the incor-
poration of the Town of West Boylston, no meetings of the
members of said precinct or parish have been held, distinct
574 GOVERNOH'S MESSAGE.
from meetings of the inhabitants of said town, and praying
that authority may be given for calling a regular and legal
meeting of the inhabitants and members of said parish or
precinct:
Resolved, That any Justice of the Peace for the County
of Worcester, on the application of ten or more of the mem-
bers of said precinct or parish, being the Second Precinct
in Boylston, Sterling and Holden, which was incorporated
by an act passed on the fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, to
be made within one year from this date, be, and lie hereby
is authorized to call a meeting of the memoers of said pre-
cinct, for the purpose of choosing oificers, and transacting
such other business as may regularly come before them;
and for this purpose such Justice is authorized to issue his
warrant, directed to any one of such applicants, requiring
him to summon and warn a meeting of the members of said
precinct, at such time and place as shall be therein speci-
fied.
CHAP. XLIV.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :
In compliance with the request of the Senate, of the
twenty first instant, I would observe, that on examining the
records of Council, 1 find, that by virtue of the authority
derived from the act of February twenty sixth, eighteen
hundred and fourteen, in addition to an act, entitled an act,
in addition to an act, granting a lottery for the purpose of
completing the locks and canals at Amoskeag Falls, in the
State of New Hampshire, three Managers were appointed
and empowered by the provisions of the said act, to sell
and draw six classes of said lottery, to be appropriated
agreeably to the provisions of the second section of this act.
But it appears that the drawing of the said classes has not
been completed, and that one of them is now before the
public, and in a course of drawing.
ROBERT CROSBY.— LUCINDA POOL. 575
A report from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, ac-
companied by a letter from the Chairman of the Managers,
contains all the information I at present possess on the sub-
ject of the Senate's inquiries.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January 25th, 1823.
CHAP. XLV.
Resolve on the jt^tition of R. Crosby.
January 28th, 1823.
The Committee of both Houses on Eastern Lands, to
'whom was committed the petition of Robert Crosby and Jo-
seph Kinsman, praying that some person or persons may be
authorized to convey to them four thousand acres of land,
in conformity to a contract made by Samuel Reddington
and Moses Greenleaf, the Agents of the Commonwealth,
with Ichabod Thomas, and by said Thomas assigned to
said petitioners, have had the same under consideration, and
ask leave to report the following resolve :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
petition and papers accompanying the same, be referred to
the Commissioners appointed under the act of separation of
Maine from Massachusetts proper, to act upon and decide
in such manner as to them may appear to be just and equi-
table.
CHAP. XLVL
Resolve on the petition of Lucinda Pool.
January 28th, 1823.
On the petition of Lucinda Pool, of Wellington, in the
County of Bristol, spinster, setting forth that James C.
Holt; late of said WelUn|;ton, raariuer, died a short time
576 EASTERN LANDS.
since, possessed of a small personal estate, and without any
heir, and praying* for tlie reasons therein stated, that the
right of the Commonwealth to such personal estate may he
granted and released to her:
Hesolvedj That all the right, title and interest of the
Commonwealth in and to the personal property left by the
said James C. Holt, be, and the same is hereby assigned,
granted and released to the said Lucinda Pool; and the
Administrator of the estate of said Holt is hereby author-
ized to account with, and pay over to said Lucinda Pool,
the balance of said personal property in his hands, in the
same manner as he would have been authorized to pay the
same to this Commonwealth, had this resolve not passed:
Provided, that the amount of such personal property shall
not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars; and provided
further, that this resolve shall not affect or impair the right
or claim of any person to the said property, or any part
thereof, other than that of the Commonwealth.
CHAP. XLVII.
Report and Resolve of the Committee of loth Houses on
Eastern Lands. January 30th, 1823.
The Standing Committee of both Houses on Eastern
Lands, to whom was referred the message of His Excellen-
cy the Grovernor, accompanying the report of the Commis-
sioners appointed under the act for separating the District
of Maine from Massachusetts proper, have had the same
under consideration: And whereas it appears by said re-
port, that said Commissioners have made a division of a
certain portion of the lands in the State of Maine; and in
conformity to the fifth article of the lirst section of the act of
separation, have set off, by metes and bounds, so much of
said land as has fallen to the share of this Commonwealth,
in the division, as in their estimation is of the value of thir-
ty thousand dollars : And whereas by said fifth article and
first section of said act, it is provided that this Common-
wealth shall assign the same to the State of Maine, or in
lieu thereof, may pay the sura of thirty thousand dollars at
EASTERN LANDS. 577
its election, which election of the said Commonwealth shall
be made within one year from the time that notice of the
doings of the Commissioners on this subject, shall be made
known to the Governor and Council ; and if not made with-
in that time, the election shall be with the State of Maine.
The Committee therefore ask. leave to report the following
resolves: Which are respectfully submitted.
JONATHAN D WIGHT, Per Order.
Resolved, That the doings of the said Commissioners be,
and they are hereby approved and confirmed, and that the
documents and other papers in relation thereto, be placed
on file in the Land Office.
lie it further resolved, That the Treasurer of the Com-
monwealth, for the time being, together with George W.
Coffin, Esquire be, and they are hereby appointed as Agents,
with power and authority to cause to be sold, at public auc-
tion, in the City of Boston, and convey, by good and suffi-
cient deeds, so much of said land set oflT as aforesaid, as
will raise the sum of thirty thousand dollars, after deduct-
ing all expenses : Provided, however, that no part of said
land shall be sold unless the whole of said sum is raised in
money, or good securities, payable in annual instalments, at
the Treasury Office of this Commonwealth, with interest an-
nually; and said Agents are hereby directed to give notice,
in the public newspapers, of the time and place of said sale,
allowing sufficient time for distant purchasers to attend said
sale, and make report of their doings at the first session of
the next General Court.
Be it further resolved, That said Agents be, and they are
hereby authorized to sell, at public sale, at such time or
times, place or places, as they may designate in the adver-
tisements published by them in the public newspapers
aforesaid, all the residue of the said lands so set off as
aforesaid, after raising the above sum of thirty thousand
dollars, and also all the lands, reserved lots, and islands,
which have fallen to the share of this Commonwealth in
the division aforesaid, with authority to make and execute
good and sufficient deeds thereof, for such consideration as
they may be able to obtain, and complete the sale of the
same, if practicable, before the close of the present year.
Be it further resolved. That the said Agents be, and they
are hereby directed to give notice to all persons who have
578 LYUIA ROWELL.
unsettled contracts for the purchase of any of th& public
lands that have fallen to the share of this Commonwealth,
that unless they pay the balances due thereon, before the
first day of July next, said contracts shall then be declared
null and void, and free for sale to any other person or
persons.
Jlnd be it further resolved, That said Agents be, and they
are hereby authorized, in connexion witii such Agent as
may be appointed by the State of Maine, to sell and con-
vey a small tract or parcel of public land in the Town of
Portland, with the buildings thereon, upon such terms and
conditions as said Agents may judge reasonable.
CHAP. XL VIII.
Resolve on the petition of Lydia Howell.
January 30th, 1823.
On the petition of Lydia Rowell, of Salisbury, in the
County of Essex, legal Guardian of Moses Rowell, a mi-
nor, praying that she may be empowered to sell, at public
or private sale, the undivided share of the said Moses in
certain real estate in said Salisbury, consisting of a mill
site, and heretofore occupied as a forge, the said Moses de-
riving his title to said estate partly by descent, and partly
by purchase:
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Lydia Rowell be, and she is hereby authorized and
empowered to sell at public or private sale, the share and
interest of the said Moses Rowell in said real estate, and
make and execute a good and sufficient deed thereof to the
purchaser or purchasers of the same, in fee simple: Provi-
ded, that the said Lydia first give bond, with sufficient sure-
ties, to the Judge of Probate for the County of Essex, con-
ditioned, that within three months from the time of the sale
of said estate, she will file in the office of the said Judge of
Probate, a true account of said sale, and that she will ac-
count with the said Moses for the proceeds thereof and in-
terest, whenever thereto legally required.
SELECTMEN OF DUDLEY. 579
CHAP. XLIX.
Resolve on the petition of the Selectmen of Dudley,
February 4th, 1823.
Whereas the Commissioners of this Commonwealth, with
Commissioners on the part of the State of Connecticut, dur-
ing the last year, perambulated and run the boundary line
between the two States, the final establishment and settle-
ment of which was not agreed to by the Commissioners on
the part of the State of Connecticut ; and whereas it appears
that there are several persons, with their estates, which, by
the runnins: of said line are within this Commonwealth, over
whom the State of Connecticut attempts to exercise jurisdic-
tion :
Therefore resolved, That this Commonwealth will pro-^
tect the persons and property aforesaid, in the free enjoy-
ment of their rights, privileges and immunities, of citizens
of this Commonwealth, against all attempts of the State of
Connecticut to exercise jurisdiction over them; and that they
will defend, at the expense of this Commonwealth, a suit
now pending in the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden.
in Worcester, in the County of Worcester, in which Peter
Richards, of Dudley, is plaintiff, and Stephen E. Tift is
defendant; which suit was commenced in consequence of
the Town of Thompson, in the State of Connecticut, having
taxed the said Richards, and by their Constable, Stephen
E. Tift, aforesaid, distrained the goods and chattels of said
Richards, for the satisfaction of the same.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, with the
advice and consent of Council, be, and he hereby is empow-
ered and requested to appoint one person, as Agent of this
Commonwealth, to prosecute said suit against said Stepheu
E. Tift to final judgment.
77
580 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGli:.
CHAP. L
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :
The Treasurer of the Commonwealth having rendered an
exhibit of the state of the Treasury on the first day of the
present month, the Secretary will lay the same before you.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, January Sth, 1823.
CHAP. LI.
Resolve for paying the Members of the Legislature.
February 7th, 1823.
Resolved) That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to each member of the Senate and House
of Representatives, two dollars for each and every day's at-
tendance the present session, and the like sum for every ten
miles travel from their respective places of abode, to the
place of the sitting of the General Court; and also to each
member of the Council, two dollars for each day's attend-
ance at that Board, at every session thereof during the pre-
sent political year, subsequent to the session of June last,
and the like sum for every ten miles travel from their re-
pective places of abode, to the place of the sitting of the
General Court.
Jtnd be it further resolved, That there be paid to the Pre-
sident of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, each, two dollars for each and every day's
attendance the present session, in addition to their pay as
members.
TRUSTEES OF LEICESTER ACADEMY. 581
CHAP. LII.
Resolve respecting the edition of the General Laws,
February 8th, 1823.
Resolved, That the present members of the Honorable
Council, the Senate and House of Representatives, who
were not members of the Legislature the last political year,
be, and hereby are authorized to receive, and the Secretary
of the Commonwealth to deliver one copy each, of the laws
of this Commonwealth, now publishina;, agreeably to a re-
solve passed Febi'uary twenty second, eighteen hundred
and twenty two.
Resolved, That whenever the said edition of the General
Laws be completed, and delivered into the Secretary's Of-
fice, pursuant to the aforesaid resolve, all accounts for the
expenses of said work, being laid before the Governor and
Council, and by them approved and allowed, His Excel-
lency, witii advice of Council, be, and he is hereby author-
ized to draw his warrant on the Treasury, for the payment
thereof.
r
CHAP. LllL
Resolve on the petition of the Trustees of Leicester
Academy. February 8th, 1823.
Whereas the Trustees of Leicester Academy, in the
County of Worcester, by their petition, have represented
the occasion of aid to the funds of that institution ; and
have further represented, that one Archibald McDonald,
late of Paxton, in said County of Worcester, was seized
and possessed of a small estate, consisting of about thirty
acres of land, with a small house and barn thereon, situate
in Paxton aforesaid, and two pews in the gallery of said
Paxton Meeting House; and that the said Archibald was
a foreigner, and has died intestate, and without heirs,
whereby the said estate escheated to, and became the pro-
582 FUNERAL EXPENSES OF S. PYNCHON.
perty of this Commonwealth, and now belongs thereto, ex-
cept one third part thereof, which heretofore, by a resolve
of the General Court, has been granted to the widow of the
said McDonald; and the said Trustees hav« requested that
the residue of said estate may be granted to them in trust,
for the benefit of said institution, and the promotion of the
interests of learning and instruction therein :
Therpfore resolved, That the Commonwealth do hereby
grant, assign and transfer to the corporation of the Trustees
of Leicester Academy, all the right, title and interest which
hath accrued to the Commonwealth in and to the said real
estate, of wJiich the said Archibald McDonald died pos-
sessed, in Paxton aforesaid, except the third part thereof,
which the Commonwealth had heretofore granted to Han-
nah McDonald, the widow of said Archibald, as aforesaid :
Provided, that this resolve shall not aflFect or impair the
right or claim of any person to the said estate, or any part
thereof, oth^r than that of this Commonwealth.
CHAP. LIV.
Resolve to pay the Funeral Expenses of Stephen Pynchon,
Esquire, a Member of the Legislature,
February 10th, 1823.
Resolved, That the sum of eighty dollars be paid out of
the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Mr. Jacob Kuhn,
Messenger of the General Court, in order to defray the ex-
penses of the last sickness and funeral expenses of Stephen
Pynchon, Esquire, late a member of this House; and that
His Excellency the Governor be requested to draw his
warrant for that sum on the Treasurer.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 58B^
CHAP. LV.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Executive, by a
resolution of the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred
and twenty one, such measures have from time to time been
pursued, as seemed best calculated to effect the contemplated
object.
And it is with much satisfaction that I have it in my pow-
er to lay before you a communication from the Honorable
James Lloyd and the Honorable Elijah H. Mills, Senators
of the Commonwealth in Congress, from which you will
perceive that a reference has been made by the President
of the United States, of the claim of this State against the
United States, for disbursements for the services of the mi-
litia, during the late war, to the department of the Treasu-
ry. The act of the President will at the same time be laid
before you by the Secretary, together with the memorial of
the members of Congress from Massachusetts and Maine,
therein referred to, dated the tw enty sixth of March, eight-
een hundred and twenty two.
I will further observe, that the vouchers and documents
to support that part of the claim for which eleven thousand
dollars were advanced by the Executive of the United
States, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, are now
under examination at the Treasury Department; and that
hitherto no expense has been incurred in conducting the
business under said resolution. But an opportunity being
now offered for presenting the whole claim to the consider-
ation of the National Executive, whatever course may be
adopted by the Legislature, for the future prosecution of
that important concern, some pecuniary provision for that
purpose will be required.
In addition to the documents already referred to, I have
just received a note, addressed by the Senators of Massa-
chusetts and Maine, to the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the same States in Congress, and the answer
of the latter to the same, relating to the course to be pursii-
584 COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS.
ed in prosecuting the claim, which will be likewise laid be-
fore you by the Secretary.
JOHN BROOKS.
Council Chamber, February 10th, 1823.
CHAP. LVl.
Hesolve to pay the Committee on Accounts.
February 10th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee appoint-
ed to examine and pass on accounts presented against this
Commonwealth, for their attendance on that service during
the present session, the sum of one dollar per day, in ad-
dition to their pay as members of the Legislature — viz. :
Elihu Hoyt, thirty eight days, thirty eight dollars ; Robert
Rantoul, thirty eight days, thirty eight dollars ; Jonas Sib-
ley, thirty eight days, thirty eight dollars ; Minot Thayer,
thirty eight days, thirty eight dollars; Charles P. Phelps,
thirty eight days, thirty eight dollars.
CHAP. LVII.
Resolve for delivering Term Reports to the Police Court
of the City of Boston. February 10th, 1823.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be authorized and
directed to deliver to the Clerk of the Police Court, in and
for the City of Boston, for the use of said court, one set of
the Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court:
Provided, the same are in the Secretary's Office, and can be
furnished without any further purchase of said Reports, at
the expense of the State, and are not already ordered to be
delivered to the towns, or other public corporations, or offi-
cers.
COUNTY TAXES. 585
CHAP. LVIIl.
Estimates of County Taxes for 1823. ,
February 10th, 1823.
Whereas the Treasurers of the following counties have
laid their accounts before the Legislature for examination,
which accounts have been examined and allowed; and
whereas the Clerks of the Courts of Sessions for said coun-
ties, have exhibited estimates made by said courts, of the
necessary charges which may arise within said counties the
year ensuing, and of the sums necessary to discharge the
debts of said counties :
Resolved^ That the sums annexed to the counties contain-
ed in the following schedule, be, and the same are hereby
granted as a tax for each county, respectively, to be appor-
tioned, assessed, paid, collected and applied for the purpo-
ses aforesaid, according to law, viz. :
County of Essex, five thousand dollars, - - - S5000
County of Middlesex, six thousand dollars, - 6000
County of Worcester, six thousand dollars, - 6000
County of Plymouth, six thousand, four hun-
dred and fifty dollars, ------- 6450
County of Bristol, three thousand, five hundred
dollars, ----- 3500
County of Berkshire, four thousand dollars, - 4000
County of Hampshire, five thousand dollars, - 5000
County of Hampden, five thousand dollars, - - 5000
County of Franklin, three thousand dollars, - 3000
County of Barnstable, four thousand dollars, - 4000
County of Norfolk, four thousand, five hundred
dollars, - .---/- 4500
586 CLAIMS AGAINST UNITED STATES.
CHAP. LIX.
Resolve for making repairs on the State House.
February 11th, 1823.
Resolved, That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars
be appropriated for repairing the terrace of the New State
House, to be under the direction, and at the disposal of Ja-
cob Kuhn, Messenger of the House, he being accountable
for the expenditure of the same; and that His Excellency
the Grovernor, with the advice of Council, be authorized to
draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the payment of the
same, or any part of the same, whenever the account shall
be presented.
CHAP. LX.
Resolve respecting Claims against the United States,
February 11th, 1823.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, by and
with the advice of Council, be, and he is hereby authorized
to appoint an Agent, or Agents, in behalf of the Common-
wealth, as soon as he shall deem it necessary to make such
an appointment, to proceed to Washington, for the purpose
of stating, prosecuting and advocating the claims of the
Commonwealth upon the United States for expenditures
for militia services during the late war, and to perform all
such services, in reference to such claims, under the instruc-
tions of the Executive, as the circumstances of the said
claim, and the course adopted in regard to the same, by
the officers of the United States government, may from time
to time require ; and to provide for the payment of such
Agent, or Agents, and for such other expenses incident to
the case, as may arise in the statement and prosecution
thereof.
Resolved, That the Governor be authorized to draw his
warrant on the Treasury for the sum of one thousand dol-
lars, for the purposes aforesaid.
QUARTER MASTER GENEl^AL. 587
CHAP. LXI.
Resolve malnn§; appropriation for the Qiiarter Master
GeneraPs Office. February 11th, 1823.
Resolved, Tliat the sum of five thousand, five hundred
dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the use
of the Quarter Master GreneraPs Department, for the pur-^
pose of repairing the public buildings, and defraying the
expenses of that department; and that His Excellency the
Governor, by and with the advice of Council, be requested
to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the same, for
such sums, and at such periods, as the public service shall
require, in favor of the Adjutant General, for the applica-
tion of which he is to be accountable.
CHAP. LXIl.
Resolve on the petition of the Selectmen of Dresden.
February 11th, 1823.
On the petition of the Selectmen of Dresden, in the State
of Maine,
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this Common-
wealth, to the Town of Dresden, in the State of Maine, the
sum of one hundred sixty seven dollars and seventeen cents,
in full, for the support of Thomas Doughty, and his family,
to the fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and-iwenty; and a further sum of
thirteen dollars and eighty seven cents, in full, for the sup-
port of John Cullen, to the same time, being State Pau-
pers ; amounting in the whole to the sum of one hundred
eighty one dollars and four cents.
78
588 PAY OF CHAPLAINS.— STATE PRISON.
CHAP. LXUI.
liesohe to pay Chaplains. February 11th, 1823.
Kesolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Reverend
James Walker, Chaplain of the Senate, and to the Rever-
end William Jenks, Chaplain of the House of Representa-
tives, sixty dollars each, in full, for their services the pre-
sent political year. Also,
Kesolved^ That there shall be allowed and paid out of
the public Treasury, to the gentleman who shall preach the
Election Sermon, in May next, iifty dollars ; and that His
Excellency the Governor be authorized to draw his war-
rants on the Treasury for said sums.
CHAP. LXIV* •
Resolve making an ^Appropriation for the State Prison.
February 11th, 1823.
Mesolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury, for the purpose of finishing the new wall
at the State Prison, in Charlestown, the sum of three thou-
sand, three hundred and thirteen dollars and forty six
cents; and His Excellency the Governor, with the advice
and consent of the Council, is requested, and he is hereby
authorized to draw his warrant accordingly.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury, for the use of the State Prison, the sura
of three thousand dollars, to be drawn from the Treasury,
by the Warden of said prison, in such sums as the Gover-
nor, with the advice of Council, shall, from time to time,
direct; and His Excellency the Governor, with the advice
of the Council, is requested to draw on the Treasury for
the said sum accordingly.
PAY OF CLERKS.— C. JEWETT. 589
CHAP. LXV.
Resolve for jpayins:; the Clerks of the two Houses.
February 11th, 1823^.
Jipsolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate, and to the
Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, six
dollars per day: and to the Assistant Clerk of the Senate,
the sum of five dollars per day, for each and every day's
attendance they have been, or may be employed in that ca-
pacity, during the present session of the Legislature; and
that there be paid to the Clerk of the House of Represent-
atives, the additional sum of two dollars for each and every
day he may be so employed, in consideration of his having
performed the whole clerical duty of that House ; and that
the Governor is requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. LXVL
Resolve for paying Ward Lock. February 11th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid from the Trea-
sury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant Mes-
senger to the Governor and Council, two dollars for each
and every day he has been, or may be employed in that ca-
pacity, during the present session of the Council.
CHAP. LXVII.
Resolve on the petition of Caleb Jewett and others.
February 11th, 1823.
On the petition of Caleb Jewett, William Sylvester, Ele-
azer Colburn, William Churchill, and Daniel Foster, pray-
ing payment for services and expenses in exploring and
590 C. JEWETT AND OTHERS.
laying out a road through the land known by the name of
the Bingham Kennebec Purchase:
Resolved, That if the devisees in trust of the estate of
William Bingham, deceased, or any person or persons,
acting under them, or in their behalf, shall advance and
pay to the said Caleb Jewett, and others, the sum of six
hundred and ninety one dollars, to be accepted by them,
in full satisfaction for said services and expenses, the
Agent of this Commonwealth shall allow and endorse the
same on the bond heretofore given by, or in behalf of
said devisees, conditioned for the performance of certain
settling duties on said lands, heretofore sold by this Com-
monwealth, to said Bingham.
ROLL No. 88... JANUARY, 1823.
The Committee on Accounts having examined the sev-
eral accounts they now present.. ..Report,
That there is now due to the several corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their names,
respectively; which, when allowed and paid, will be in full
discharge of the said accounts, to the dates therein men-
tioned: Which is respectfully submitted.
ELIHU HOYT, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Amesbury, for supporting Moses Keniston, to Jan-
uary 7th, 1823, 847 70
Amherst, for supporting Samuel Bateman and
wife, and Jane and Polly Richardson, to De-
cember 30th, 1822, 86 40
Attleborough, for supporting James Walker, Jenet
Anderson, Peggy Taylor, Margaret Allen and
two children, and five children of John Mont-
gomery, viz. : Mary, Margaret, Eleanor, Wil-
liam, and Martha, to January 1st, 1823, 329 47
Alford, for supporting Sylvia C. Glinn, Henry
Glinn, and Lorenzo Griinn, to December 23d,
1822, 77 90
Aiidover, for supporting Patrick Callahan, Sukey
Hornsby, MaJ^ia^ Davis, Thomas Barker, wife
592 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
and one child, and Eliza Seamore, to January
1st, 1823, 145 87
Ashburnham, for supporting Sukey Franklin,
Henry Stirrigas, wife and four children, to
January 4th, 1823, lf4 80
Adams, for supporting Freeman Blakely, Sarah
Hewit, Susanna Camp, Philina Hill, and Ann
Briggs, to January 3d, 1823, 125 55
Abington, for supporting Major Humbell, to Jan-
uary 23d, 1823, 46 80
Beverly, for supporting Morris Nash, Dolly
Claxton, Lemuel Hammond, William War-
dell, Duncan Camerlan, and James Walker,
to January 1st, 1823, 64 62
Barre, for supporting Rhoda Forsbury and Sam-
uel Lee, to January 7th, 1823, 56 40
Billerica, for supporting Walter Carr, James
Dunn, John M'Key, wife, and four children,
to January 2d, 1823, 160 24
Great Barrington, for supporting Isaac Hoose,
Mary Hoose, Clarisa Lindsey, Lucy Porter,
Dorcas Webster, and Ann Hewit, to January
1st, 1823, 159 50
Belchertown, for supporting Phebe Butler, Char-
ity Porter, and Eliza Porter, to January 10th,
1823, 69 10
Braintree, for supporting Ann Gowith and three
children, Titus, a black man, Abram Farns-
worth, wife and three children, to January 1st,
1823, 277 20
Bradford, for supporting Joshua L. Alces, to Jan-
■ uary 1st, 1823, 27 52
Buckland, for supporting George Keniffe, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 42 30
Barnstable, for supporting Joseph Thompson, to
January 12th, 1823, 27 90
Burlington, for supporting Johu A. Fashe and
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 593
Thomas Hardman, to January 15th, 1823, 90 00
Boston Commissioners of Health, for supporting
Francis Waverly, Andrew Scott, and Jonathan
Walker, to January 1st, 1823, 2 70
Brimfield, for supporting John Skelbrian, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1823, 46 80
Braintree, for supporting Hannah Brown, to Au-
gust 2d, 1822, 12 84
Colrain, for supporting Lydia, Sally, Eunice, and
Emery Cromack, Samuel JDean, William New-
house, Charles O'Neal, and Peter C. Hart, to
January 1st, 1823, 187 20
Clarksburg, for supporting Polly Grover, alias
Mitchell, to June 18th, 1822, 17 55
Cheshire, for supporting Polly Cooper, Noel Ran-
dell, Betsey Grandison, Ephraim Richardson,
Molly Dimond, Thusey Jones and child, to
January 9th, 1823, 202 8d
Chester, for supporting John Warner, George
Battolph and wife, Benjamin Powers, and Cla-
risa Hardy, to January 5th, 1823, 191 70
Chelmsford, for supporting Catharine M. Linna,
Charles H. Goodrich, Eliza Goodrich, and
Thomas H. Millar, to January 1st, 1823, 135 30
Charlton, for supporting Peter l)etree, to January
12th, 1823, 46 80
Chesterfield, for supporting Rachel and Sarah
Polly, to January 1st, 1823, 54 00
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to Janu-
ary 7th, 1823, 28 80
Conway, for supporting Sally M'Murphy, Han-
nah M'Neil, and Martha M'Murphy, to January
1st, 1823, 147 57
Cambridge, for supporting sundry State Paupers,
to January 19th, 1823, 1528 45
Cummington, for supporting John Lamson. to Jan-
uary 4th, 1823, 33 80
594 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 20th, 1823, 2045 99
^City of Boston, for supporting sundry paupers, to
November 30th, 1822, 5177 75
Deerfield, for supporting Daniel AUis, Livina
Witherell, Ansell Witherell, Ardelia Wither-
ell, D wight Wells, and Benjamin Munn, to
December 31st, 1822, 177 48
Duxbury, for supporting Peter Williams and Sam-
uel Cooper, to August 1st, 1822, 23 50
Dracut, for supporting Moses Freeman, to Janu-
ary 10th, 1823, 44 16
Duxbury, for supporting Eleazer Simmons and
Cyrus Simmons, to January 17th, 1823, 184 96
Dorchester, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 21st, 1823, 152 38
Dighton, for supporting Hannah Tew, to January
' 24th, 1823, 46 38
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
uary 21st, 1823, 785 96
Egremont, for supporting Benjamin Dailey, Eliz-
abeth Darby, Charity Woodbeck, lieuben Van-
gildor, Jerind Kline, Harriet Kline, and Albert
Kline, to January 7th, 1823, 244 40
Essex, for supporting Ira Percival, Robert Jarret,
Beniah Crocker, and Catharine Hall, to Janu-
ary 15th, 1823, 130 15
Fitchburgh, for supporting Charles Connor, to
September 28th, 1822, 34 20
Fairhaven, for supporting Darius Smith, Sarah
Carr and two cliildren, to January 1st, 1823, 145 60
Freetown, for supplying Abigail, an Indian, and
Jemima, AbigaiPs daughter, to January 15th,
1823, 115 20
Framingbam, for supporting Daniel Campbell, to
January 24th, 1823, 25 54
Greenfield, for supporting Charles Nelson, Sam- ^
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 595
uel Freeman, and Mary Lawrence, to Decem-
ber 9th, 1822, 10 75
Granville, for supplying S. Gallup, S. Stewart,
and S. Hoffman, to January 1st, 1823, 65 69
Gloucester, for supporting E. Dawsill, D. Paul,
J. Shefton, T. Hale, J. Francis, J. Morton,
A. Jeneling, N. Jeneling, M. Jeneling, B. Lo-
roque, R. Blood, J. Hilliard, G. Gardner, B.
Lang, E. Dade, R. Day, M. Wright, wife and
four children, J. Long, J. and D. Fitzgerald,
to January 8th, 1823, 494 50
Groton, for supporting Richard Brenton, Sarah
Wright, Mary Rolfe, Eunice Bentervot, Jona-
than PuUand, and Joseph Robbins, to January
10th, 1823, 257 40
Gill, for supporting Stephen Rockwood, to Janu-
ary 12th, 1823, 24 94
Gardner, for supporting John Brinkman, to Janu-
ary 6th, 1823, 46 80
Grafton, for supporting Polly Johns, Elethore
Johns, Oliva Johns, Lucy Johns, Sarah Phil-
lips, 2d, and child, Deborah Brown's child,
and Nathaniel Keys, to January 27th, 1823, 117 03
Hadley, for supporting Friday Allen, and Rebec-
ca, his wife, to December 31st, 1822, 58 37
Hanson, for supporting Hugh Kairn's wife, and
J. Kairn, G. Kairn, A. Kairn, and J. M.
Kairn, to December 4th, 1822, 27 50
Hanover, for supporting Mary A. Tufts and Eli-
za Jack, to January 8th, 1823, 51 40
Haverhill, for supporting William Tapley, Ma-
ria Peasley, Sarah Ann Peasley, John Brown
and wife, Margaret Carrol, and James M'Cale,
to January 1st, 1823, 139 78
Hatfield, for supporting Mary Ann Vansoick, to
January 27th, 1823, 8 50
79
596 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Hardwick, for supporting Haiinab Morgan, to
January 14tli, 1823, 46 90
Hopkinton, for supporting Daniel Frazier, Mary
Saunders, and William Boyden, to January
1st, 1823, 140 40
Lee, for supporting J. Manchester, R. Smallman,
L. Fuller, T. Peters, A. S. Sheperdson, L.
Sheperdson, C. Sheperdson, A. Sheperdson,
Junior, and L. Sheperdson, to December 31st,
1822, 224 74
Lanesborough, for supporting R. Jackson, A.
Bennet, E. Foot, and Lucy Grorman, and oth-
ers, to January 4th, 1823, 154 17
Leyden, for supporting Arnold Clark, Tacy Ful-
ler, Ruth and Joseph Abel, to December 30th,
1822, 114 58
Lenox, for supporting T. Lewis, M. Davis, M.
Fuller, Moses M'Graw, M. Palmer, Thomas
Dennison, and Cato Williams, to January 8th,
1823, 182 06
Lynn, for supporting John Ballis, Ester Thomas,
Nancy Carter, Nancy Carter, Junior, Mary
Haley, Peggy Hawley, Henry Smith, Char-
lotte Benson, Peggy Carroll, John Gawdey,
and James Proctor, to November 30th, 1822, 264 24
Littleton, for supplying John Putman and Jacob
Thompson, to January 14th, 1823, 93 60
Milbury, for supporting Moses Merrill, to July
2d, 1822, 4 76
Maiden, for supporting Henry Harding, John
Perry, Peggy Butler, and John Campbell, to
January 1st, 1823, 12 46
Medford, for supporting Dorothy Linueu, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 46 80
1\larshfield, for supporting Samuel Holmes^ to
December 23d, 1822, 46 8Q
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 597
Mancliestev, for supporting Abraham Grioss, to
October 6tb, 1822, 20 30
Marblehead, for supporting Mary Card, Francis
Bridge, James Eastband, Albin Rose, Richard
Parker, John Battest, John Balm, Patrick Kee-
van, Samuel Smith, Mary Smith, Eliza Kee-
van, Samuel Hammond, James Keevan, and
John Jenkins, to January 17th, 1823, - 320 51
Montague, for supporting Edward Porter and
wife, to December 31st, 1822, 28 80
Milford, for supporting Andrew and wife, Joel
Day, and Ariel Bragg, to January 4th, 1822, 34 50
Milton, for supporting John J. Myers, Archibald
M'Donald, and James Bowman, to January
22d, 1823, 89 10
Middleborough, for supporting John Fitzgerald,
Robert Wilson, Abigail Simons, Eliza Briggs,
and Eliza Quites, to January 15th, 1823, 152 09
Marshfield, for supporting John Baker, to De-
cember 23d, 1822, 390 10
Middleborough, for supporting Mary Thomas, an
Indian, to December 15th, 1821, 33 80
Mendon, for supporting sundry paupers, to De-
cember 31st, 1822, 360 88
Newbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to Jan-
nary 1st, 1823, 857 10
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers, to
January 1st, 1823, 72115
Newton, for supporting Joseph Prichard, John
Wilkins, and Bradbury Brown, to January 1st,
1823, * 56 80
Norwich, for supporting Ruth Sanford, to Janu-
ary 8th, 1823, 46 80
Northampton, for supporting Moses Hunt, wife
and (laughter, Mrs. Burrows and three child-
ren, John Cockran, Caroline Robins, William
Partridge, Joseph Barrett, Thomas Flood, Pe-
598 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
ter Stam aud wife, Peter Patterson, James
Hammond, and John Stickler, to January 1st,
1823, 250 77
New Braintree, for supporting Samuel Tracy, to
January 14th, 1823, 14 40
North Bridgewater, for supporting James Dorrin,
to January 17 th, 1823, 45 90
North Brookfield, for supporting Esther Johnson,
to January 7th, 1823, 47 70
Nantucket, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 286 12
Overseers of Marshpee Indians, to January 11th,
1823, 309 40
Orange, for supporting L. A. Wood, wife, and two
children, to December 29th, 1822, 20 20
Pepperell, for supporting Robert B. Munchin,
David Smith, and Benjamin Smith and family,
to December 30th, 1822, 184 40
Plymouth, for supporting James Reed, Rachel
Decane, Elizabeth Shepard, Sarah Scott, and
John M. Ross, to January 16th, 1823, 143 85
Palmer, for supporting William and Phebe Man-
den, to January 15th, 1823, 57 60
Pittsfield, for supporting Polly Thurston, Mary
Hawley, and Thomas Skeen, to January 4th,
1823, 141 41
Quincy, for supporting William Oliphant, to Au-
gust 2d, 1822, 27 45
Russell, for supporting Sally Harrington, Mary
Stebbins, and John Newton and wife, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 109 13
Roxbury, for supporting Prince Loffas, Robert
Clue, Jane Sanders, Francis Williams, John
Smith, and Laura Cooper, to January 3d, 1823, 133 83
Richmond, for supporting B.oxana Winston, Sam-
uel Hill, Susan Darling and her five children,
viz. : Samuel, Betsey, Amos, Hannah, and Sa-
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 599
rah Ann, to January 7th, 1823, 153 19
Rowley, for supporting Elle Collins, Eliza Hicks
and child, James JSroadbent, and Charles Con-
ner, to January 5th, 1823, 85 81
Rehoboth, for supporting John Solomon, wife and
two children, Nancy Hill and child, Roxana
Freeman and child, Louisa Mason, Lucy Kel-
ly, Susanna, an Indian, and Dinah Kelly, to
December 27 th, 1822, 243 00
Raynhani, for supporting John Douglas, to May
4th, 1822, 18 00
Reading, for supporting James Lewis and Debo-
rah Atcherson, to January 18th, 1823, 18 50
Sandisfield, for supporting Richard Dickson and
wife Philis, Jonathan Bolles, Mary Ann and
Electa Willcox, and Eliza Williams, to De-
cember 25th, 1822, 182 86
SheflBeld, for supporting Thomas O'Brian, Henry
Armsdor, Molly Bows, Hannah Rowe, Henry
Desaut, Lucy and Henry Freeman, Daniel
Jackson, Dalilah and Levi, alias Dick and
William Ranney, to January 8th, 1823, 338 50
Springfield, for supporting Michael Smith, John
Lloyd, Daniel Hartong, Thomas Kilby, Tabi-
tha Hall, and Eunice Price^ to January 3d,
1823, 300 80
Shelburn, for supporting Mary Bates and Eliza
Lane, to January 14th, 1823, 46 40
Sutton, for supporting William Metcalf, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 16 46
South Brimfield, for supporting Jonathan Hill, to
January 13th, 1823, 8 10
Sturbridge, for supporting Dorothy and Samuel
Weldon, to January 6th, 1823, 35 10
Sandwich, for supporting Esther Raymond and
Mason Raymond, to January 3d, 1823, 60 30
Stockbridge, for supporting John Morrison.. Orzu-
600 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
ba Morrison, Samuel Rathburn, Harriot Rath-
burn, Margery Curtis, Mary Rice, Suby Peet,
Sarah Hulbert, Hannah Perkins, Anna Hewitt,
and Rebecca, a black, to December 1st, 1822, 215 15
Somerset, for supplying Ruth Hill, Polly Hill,
and William Elliot, to January llth, 1823, 106 20
Stow, for supporting Thomas Jones and John
Dunn, to January 10th, 1823, 47 44
Spencer, for supporting Thomas Humphreys and
children, and Susan Cowland, to January 16th,
1823, , 96 73
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to January
1st, 1823, 1785 11
Sharon, for supporting John H. Kolhoif, Marga-
ret Henly, Jane Dolanson and three children,
to January 17th, 1823, 89 70
Saugus, for supporting Joseph Clarenbole, to Jan-
uary 17th, 1823, 29 19
Swansey, for supporting Martin Hunsnip, Diada-
mia Boston, Elisha Mason, and Hannah Rob-
in, to January llth, 1823, 92 40
Shirley, for supporting Mary M'Kinsey, Hannah
Grray and two children, and William Shearer,
to January 1st, 1823, 157 30
Seekonk, for supporting Jane Watson and child,
Tilley Peck, and Philis Watson, to January
2d, 1823, 111 23
Stoughton, for supporting William Barber Sar-
gent, to January 19th, 1823, 48 60
Taunton, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 342 78
Tyringham, for supporting Hannah Harrison,
Betsy and Aurelia Harrison, Henry Patson,
Richard Gardner and wife, David McNeil, and
Asa Thompson, to January 1st, 1823, 285 90
Tewksbury, for supporting Nathaniel Ingerson, to
January 9th, 1823, 45 00
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 601
Troy, for supporting William Lee, Tisby Simons,
Ruth Sachemore, Jonas Tucker, Wheaton Bai-
ley, wife, and three children, to January 1st,
1823, 173 26
Topsfield, for supporting Phillis Esty, and Nancy
Porter, to January 24th, 1823, 93 60
Upton, for supporting Elbridge Gerry Farrier, to
January 16th, 1823, 31 63
Uxbridge, for supporting Phillis Jenks' child, to
January 8th, 1823, 26
Wenham, for supporting Pompey Porter, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 38 70
Ward, for supporting Stephen Palotte, to Septem-
ber 25th, 1822, 5 79
Westhampton, for supporting Lemuel Calvin and
wife, John Gay and wife, and Garnet Decker,
to January 1st, 1823, 144 00
Worcester, for supporting Jonas Brooks, William
Joblin, and Olive Mundell, to January 1st,
1823, 56 25
Westfield, for supporting Matthew Smith, John
N. Berry, Theodosia Gillet, Stephen Newbury,
Phebe Rose, Caleb Garrow, Hannah Gibson,
and George Gibson, to January 1st, 1823, 166 68
Walpole, for supporting Eliza Ellis, and Jane
Walker, to January 1st, 1823, " 70 00
West Springfield, for supporting James Aldrach,
and Hannah Shevy, to December 21st, 1822, 54 00
Westford, for supporting Ephraim Spaulding, to
January 1st, 1823, 26 75
West Stockbridge, for supporting Lucy Lane,
James C. Riggs, and Ransom H. Riggs, to
January 1st, 1823, 140 40
Wade, Thomas, Keeper of the House of Corrrec-
tion, for supporting sundry paupers, in Essex
County, including what was allowed by the
Court of Sessions, to January 6th, 1823, 441^ 62
602 SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
AYare, for supporting John Upham, to January
5th, 1823, 36 52
William stown, for supporting Rachel Galusha,
Asahel Foote, wife, and two children, James
Law, and John Gr. Hendersoll, to January 1st,
1823, 172 08
Westfield, for supporting Esther Berry, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 27 51
West Cambridge, for supporting Thomas Baker,
wife, and one child, to May 13th, 1822, 29 90
Warwick, for supporting Patty Julius Sesar and
her two children, to October 4th, 1822, 74 10
Watertown, for supporting Rebecca Brown, Rob-
ert Saunders, Samuel Latch, Anna Latch, and
William Mirick, to January 1st, 1823, 234 45
Westborough, for supporting John Donavon, and
Dinah, a black, to January 16th, 1823, 93 60
Washington, for supporting James Robins and
wife, to December 20th, 1822, 53 48
Wrentham, for supporting John Knight, John and
Thomas Kennedy, and Daniel McLane, to
January 1st, 1823, 107 80
West Newbury, for supporting Sophia Patten,' to
January 1st, 1823, 5 00
Yarmouth, for supporting Thomas Petters, to
February 3d, 1823, 47 70
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Austin, Nathaniel, Sheriff of Middlesex County,
to January 1st, 1823, 29 07
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking inquisitions to January 7th, 1823, 169 40
Badger, Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking inquisitions to February 6th, 1823, 13 20
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS. 603
Brown, Henry C, Sheriff of Berkshire County,
to January 1st, 1823, 61 20
Baker, John, 2(1, Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk
County, to October 29th, 1822, 18 75
Bryant, Nathaniel, Coroner of Lincoln County,
to August 29th, 1822, 22 37
Crane, Elijah, Sheriff of Norfolk County, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 15 25
Davis, Wendall, Sheriff of Barnstable County,
for distributing laws and returning votes, to
January 4th, 1823, 16 50
Dingley, James, Coroner of Plymouth County, to
January 13th, 1823, 18 41
Hoyt, Ephraim, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
circulating an act dividing the Commonwealth
into Congressional Districts, and for returning
votes for Members of Congress, to January 1st,
1823, 29 50
Hewes, Samuel H., Coroner of Suffolk County, to
January 1st, 1823, 25 52
Hayward, N., Sheriff of Plymouth County, to
January 1st, 1823, 26 27
Hewes, Samuel H., Coroner of Suffolk County, to
January 23d, 1823, 13 62
Hobart, Samuel, Coroner of Plymouth County, to
July 10th, 1822, 48 83
Johnson, Jotham, Coroner of Middlesex County,
to January 24th, 1823, 27 44
Lyman, Joseph, Sheriff of Hampshire County, for
returning votes, and distributing laws, &c., to
January 1st, 1823, 52 50
Lang, William, Coroner of Essex County, to
January 9th, 1823, 16 20
Leonard, Horatio, Sheriff of Bristol County, to
January 9th, 1823, 19 50
Mason, Benajah, Coroner of Bristol County, to
July 24th, 1822, 70 65
80
604 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Pike, Joseph, Coroner of Essex County, to Janu-
ary 7th, 1823, 15 00
Pease, Isaiah ©., Sheriff of Dukes' County, for
distributing laws, and returning votes, to Janu-
ary 23d, 1823, 21 35
Richardson, Eleazer C, Coroner of Essex Coun-
ty, to January 28th, 1823, 25 74
Rhodes, William, Coroner of Essex County, to
January 31st, 1823, 21 83
Spear, Daniel, Coroner of Norfolk County, to
January, 1823, 25 22
Sprague, William, Coroner of Worcester County,
to June 19tb, 1822, 22 39
Ward, Thomas W., Sheriff of Worcester County,
to January 1st, 1823, 37 00
Withington, Ebenezer, Coroner of Norfolk Coun-
ty, to January 27th, 1823, 18 76
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Aids-de-Camj), Brigade Majors, and Quarter Masters,
Butterfield, Joseph, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade,
9th Division, to January 21st, 1823, 37 91
Cobb, G. W. D., Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 15th, 1823, 54 17
Cunningham, Ephraim M., Brigade Major, 2d
Brigade, 6th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 56
Coffin, Timothy G., Aid-de-Camp to Major Gen-
eral 5th Division, to January 30th, 1823, 161 25
Edwards, Elisha, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
4th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 54
Eisher, Freeman, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 28th, 1823, 38 50
MILITARY ACCOUJSTS. 605
Fairbanks, Stephen, Brigade Major, 3d Brigade,
1st Division, to January 15th, 1823, 37 50
Gilbert, Thomas, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade,
4th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 54
Gribbs, A. H., Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 54
Hopkins, Thomas, Aid-de-Camp to the Major
General 7th Division, to January 1st, ^823, 23 61
Heard, Nathan, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brig-
ade, 6th Division, to January 15th, 1823, 38 21
Hubbel, Calvin, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 54
Root, Robert R., Acting Brigade Major, 1st Brig-
ade, 7th Division, to September 4th, 1821, 9 58
Rice, Caleb, Aid-de-Camp to Major General 4tli
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Richardson, Wyman, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
3d Division, to January 26th, 1823, 23 36
Sampson, Joseph, Brigade Major, 3d Brigade,
5th Division, to January, 1823, 37 64
Smith, John, Junior, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
2d Division, to September 1st, 1822, 23 20
Scott, John, Brigade Major, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, ^o January 15th, 1823, 38 21
Stickney, John, Aid-de-Camp to Major General
2d Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Thayer, Minot, Senior, Aid-de-Camp to Major
General 1st Division, to February 8th, 1823, 25 50
Twining, Thomas, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
7th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 25 22
Taylor, Henry, Brigade Quarter Master, 2d Brig-
ade, 7th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 17 05
Wilder, Nathaniel, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
5th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 36 54
Winslow, Benjamin, Brigade Quarter Master, 2d
Brigade, 1st Division, to February 8th, 1823, 15 00
606 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Adjutants.
Allen, Andrew J., Acting Adjutant, 1st Regiment,
3d Brigade, 1st Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 61
Attwood, G. B., 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th
Division, to December 30th, 1822, 24 92
Brigham, Moses, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 9 58
Bayley, HoUaway, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 15th, 1823, 24 00
Burr, Samuel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 38 67
Baker, Walter, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to January 21st, 1823, 29 5^
Bryant, Nathaniel, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Blood, Charles, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Burnell, Baxter, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 4th Divi-
sion, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Bent, James, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Divi-
sion, to February 4th, 1823, 24 49
Cushing, Ned, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 22 47
Chauncy, Hamblin, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to January 15th, 1823, 15 00
Curtis, Alfred, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Clement, Jesse, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Chester, Chapin W., 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade
4th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 11 11
Collamore, Horace, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade^
5th Division, to January 20th, 1823, 24 17
Cobb, David, Junior, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade,
5th Division, to January 30th, 1823, 40 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Dyer, Samuel N., Acting Adjutant, Artillery, Ist
Brigade, 5th Division, to January, 1823,
Egleston, Thomas, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Everett, Charles, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January 15th, 1823,
Fuller, John B. H., Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 3d Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823,
Forward, Robert, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4tli
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Field, David H., 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Fessenden, Sewall, 1st Regiment, 3d Brigade,
5th Division, to January 21st, 1823,
Fisher, Calvin, Junior, Artillery, 1st Brigade, to
January 2lst, 1823,
Green, Joseph W., Artillery, 1st Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823,
Goss, Clark, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th Divi-
sion, to January 11th, 1823,
Gibbens, George M., 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade,
1st Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Gragg, Moses, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to April 9th, 1822,
Hamblin, Joseph, 2d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Hitchcock, Augustus, Artillery, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 12th, 1823,
Hubbell, Stoddard, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Haskell, Joseph, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 5th Divi-
sion, to January 1st, 1823,
Hathaway, Philip P., 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade,
5th Division, to January 1st, 1823,
Hedge, Isaac L., 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 1st, 1823,
IngersoU, David P., 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade^
t
607
30
00
16
67
24
05
23
67
23
61
23
67
38
52
15
00
30
00
23
89
23
67
20
00
23
72
15
00
23
67
30
00
32
19
39
17
608 MILITARY ACCOUJSTS.
7tli Division, to January 1st, 1823, 20 67
Kimball, Charles, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 15th, 1823, 24 70
Miles, Isaiah, 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th Di-
visioQ, to January 1st, 1823, 23 65
Mann, Ebenezer, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Mosely, Thomas M., Artillery, 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, to December 26th, 1822, 7 50
Newton, Isaac, Junior, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
4th Division, to January 4th, 1823, 42 49
Ormsby, Abraham, Junior, 1st Regiment, 2d Brig-
ade, 5th Division, to April 2d, 1822, 2 28
Osborn, Richard, Junior, 5tli Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 2d Division, till discharged, 11 11
Partridge, William W., 1st Regiment, 2d Brig-
ade, 4th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Rogers, D. W., 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Saxton, William B., Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to January, 1823, 15 00
Sampson, Joseph, Acting Adjutant, Artillery, 3d
Brigade, 5th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 25 62
Sheldon, Israel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to January 1, 1823, 38 67
Sewall, Sanford, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Townshend, Daniel, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade,
2d Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 61
Tucker, Samuel, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January, 1823, 23 67
Taylor, Henry, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Thompson, Arad, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th
Division, to January 8th, 1823, 23 90
Tuck, Daniel, Artillery, 2d Regiment, 3d Brig-
ade, to January 1st, 1823, 30 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS 609
Wild, Jonathan, Junior, 3d Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 1st Division, to January 9th, 1823, 23 89
Wright, Simon W., 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 7th
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 67
Walcott, James, Junior, 4th Regiment, 1st Brig-
ade, 6th Division, to January 1st, 1823, 38 67
Hauling Artillery.
Adams, Nahum, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 7 77
Adams, Cyrus, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 10 00
Brown, Eli, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to January,
1823, for 1821 and 1822, 30 00
Burghardt, Coomed, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 6 00
Bradberry, Ebenezer, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 20 00
Brown, Aaron, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, . 5 00
Baldwin, Henry, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, for
1821 and 1822, to January, 1823, 21 67
Curtis, Edward, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 5 00
Clark, Ellis, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to January
1st, 1823, 9 00
Center, William, Junior, 1st Brigade, 2d Division,
to January 1st, 1823, 10 00
Colby, John, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, to January
1st, 1823, 20 00
Clark, Leonard, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 5 00
Fowler, Sabina, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 8 00
610 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Fowles, Isaac, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 30 00
Goodman, Ithamer, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 16 67
Holland, Nathaniel, 2d Brigade, 6th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 7 00
Holbrook, Sylvius, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, for
1821 and 1822, to January, 1823, 15 00
Harrington, Elisha, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 10 00
Hartshorn, Samuel, 2d Brigade, 1st Division^ to
January 1st, 1823, 10 00
Harrison, John, 2d Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 12 00
Harris, King, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 5 00
Jackson, Francis, 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to
January, 1823, 30 00
Joy, William, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1823, 22 50
Jones, Frederick William, 2d Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 5 00
Kemball, Edmund, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to
January, 1823, 10 00
Lobdell, J. J., 3d Brigade, 1st Division, to Janu-
ary 1st, 1823, 20 00
Mason, Jonathan B., let Brigade, 2d Division, to
January, 1823, 10 00
Morse, Lyman, 1st Brigade, 6th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1823, 5 00
Nash, Micah, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 8 75
Nichols, John, 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to Jan-
uary, 1823, 10 00
Peirce, John, 1st Brigade, SdDivision, to January
1st, 1823, 15 00
Broads, John S., 1st Brigade, 2d Division, to Jaa-
uary, 1823^ 10 00
PRINTERS ACCOUNTS, &c. 61 i
Robbins, Loring, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, , 6 00
Snow, Nathaniel, Captain Sea Fencibles, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 36 00
Tucker, Joel, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary, 1823, 11 00
Tobey, John, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 3 00
Vinson, John, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 8 75
Williams, Samuel, 2d Brigade, 4th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 14 50
Walker, Hezekiah, Junior, 1st Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January, 1823, 12 00
Wood, Nathaniel, 1st Brigade, 5th Division, to
January 1st, 1823, 10 00
Courts Martial and Courts of Inquiry.
Hubbell, Calvin, Junior, Brigade Major, 2d Brig-
ade, 7th Division, for expenses of Division Court
Martial, holden at Pittsiield, November 27th,
1822, whereof Colonel Daniel Collins was Pre-
sitient, 152 20
Sumner, William H., for expenses of a General
Court Martial, holden at Greenfield, October
22d, 1822, whereof Brigadier General David
Mack, Junior, was President, 431 67
PRINTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
Allen, Phineas, for publishing the laws, &c. to
January 1st, 1823, 16 67
81
6i2 PRINTERS ACCOUNTS, &c.
Burrell & Hersey, for publishing laws, to January
1st, 1823, 16 67
Ballard & Wright, for publishing laws, and fur-
nishing newspapers to the members of the Gen-
ral Court, to June I5th, 1822, 65 73
Bradford, William J. A., for writing in the Secre-
tary's oflBce,»to February 4th, 1823, 13 50
Ballard & Prince, for sundry cloths, &c. to Jan-
uary 17th, 1823, 98 48
Bradbury, Samuel, for sundry articles of hard-
ware, to February 5th, 1823, 26 45
Blaney, Henry, for repairs on the State House, to
January 13th, 1823, 79 48
Bacon, Henry, as Assistant Messenger to the (ren-
eral Court, to February 8th, 1823, 76 00
Burditt, James W^., for stationary, to February
4th, 1823, 203 25
Bradford, Alden, for one volume of the History of
Massachusetts, to February 6th, 1823, 3 00
Committee for examining the Treasurer's Accounts,
viz. : — Hon. Benjamin Reynolds, 14 00
" Robert Rantoul, 14 00
" Jonas Sibley, 14 00
John Cotton, Esq. 14 00
56 00
Boston Commissioners of Health, to January,
1823, 504 61
Clap, William W., for publishing laws and re-
solves, to January 29th, 1823, 19 41
Cummings & Hilliard, for furnishing blank books,
&c. to January 1st, 1823, 79 15
Chase, Warren, for assisting Messenger to the
General Court, to February 8th, 1823, 76 00
Cutting, Elijah W., for assisting Messenger to the
General Court, to February 8th, 1823, 72 00
Durant, William, for repairing and cleaning wia-
dows, &c. to December 28, 1822, 39 00
PRINTERS ACCOUNTS, &c. 613
Field, Bariium, for publishing laws, &c. to Jan-
uary 7th, 1823, 16 66
Hi)bart, Moses L., compensation to Island Keeper, 44 40
Do. Do. for wood, to February 1st, 1823, 60 00
Hale, Nathan, for furnishing newspapers to the
members, to June 15th, 1822, 46 09
Low, John v., for assisting Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, to February 8th, 1823, 68 00
Newell, Luther, Deputy Sheriff, for summoning
witnesses in the trial of James Prescott, to
January, 1823, 1 30
Dennio & Phelp*, for publishing laws, &c. to Jan-
uary 1st, 1823, 16 67
Perkins, Thomas H., paid for the model of a Step-
ping Mill, 29 09
Russell & Gardner, for furnishing newspapers to
the members, to February 8th, 1823, 22 08
Rider, Thomas, Page to the House of Represen-
tatives, to February 8th, 1823, 42 50
Russell, Benjamin, for publishing reports on S.
Stone's petition, supplying newspapers, &c. to
October 19th, 1822, 17 06
Richardson & Lord, for stationary, to February
1st, 1823, 40 00
Russell & Gardner, for paper and printing for the
several oifices, and for printing laws of the Com-
monwealth, to February 5th, 1823, 938 11
Massachusetts Agricultural Society, for sundry
expenses in raising seed and plants, and for ex-
periments made by said Society, in the public
garden at Cambridge, under the direction of the
late William D. Peck, Esquire, 598 00
True & Green, for furnishing newspapers to the
members of the General Court, to June 15th,
1822, 6 24
Thompson, James, for smiths' work, to December
22d, 1822, 26 38
614 PRINTERS ACCOUNTS, &c.
Vose, Isaac & Sons, for repairing cushions, &c.
to May 18th, 1822, 101 00
Wells & Lilly, for printing the Agricultural So-
ciety's Journal, No. 2 vol. 7 — 3 vol. 7, 400 00
Willis, Nathaniel, for furnishing the members with
newspapers, to February 23d, 1822, 8 00
Wheeler, John H., for sundry repairs on the State
House, to February 4th, 1823, 229 95
Young & Minns, for publishing laws and furnish-
ing newspapers to the members, to January 1st,
1823, 23 87
Aggregate of Roll JSTo. 83.
xpens(
is of State Paupers,
of Sheriffs and Coroners,
28,810 16
831 47
a
of Courts Martial,
583 87
'a
a
of Aids de Camp, Brigade Majors,
and Quarter Masters,
of Adjutants,
of Hauling Artillery,
I 872 51
1,385 90
510 61
a
of Printers and Miscellaneous,
4,180 75
S37,175 27
Hesolvedf That there be allowed and paid out of the
public treasury, to the several corporations and persons
mentioned in this Roll, the sums set against such corpora-
tions' and persons' names respectively, amounting in the
whole to Thirty Seven Thousand, One Hundred and Seven-
ty Five Dollars, and Twenty Seven Cents, the same being
in full discharge of the accounts and demands to which they
refer.
[,ipproved by the Governor, February 10th, 1823.]
Boston, April 29th, 1823.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That the Resolves contained in this pamphlet, passed
by the Legislature, at the session in January and February, one thousand eight
hundi'ed and twenty three, have been compared with the originals, and appeal"
to be correct.
A. BRADFORD, Secretary of the Common-wealth,
INDEX
TO RESOLVES PASSED JANUARY ..ND FEBRUARY, 1823.
A.
Academy, Leicester, release of land to, 581
Accounts, Committee on, allowance to, 584
Adjutant General, appropriation for, 587
B.
Bojlston, Second Precinct in, to choose officers, - - - 573
C.
Chaplains of the General Court, allowance to, - - - - 588
Claim on United States, Agent to be appointed to present, - 586
Clerks of General Court, allowance to, 589
Coffin, G. W., Agent of Eastern Lands, accounts settled, - 570
Committee on Accounts, allowance to, - - - - - 584
Commissioners on Eastern Lands, report, and land to be sold, - 576
Connecticut, dispute fith, about lands, ----- 579
Constitution of United States, proposed amendment respecting
Banks, rejected, - -- 571
Crosby, R., to have land by consent of Commissioners, - - 575
D.
Dresden, Selectmen of, allowance to, 587
Dudley, citizens of, to be protected in dispute with Connecticut, 579
G.
General Court, pay to Members of, 580
Governor's Message, - - - 557, 566, 568, 574, 580, 583
Greenough, David, debt to State Prison, released in part, - 569
H.
Hayward, Eli, non compos, land to be sold, - - - - 573
Herrick, Betsey, and others, minors, their estate to be spld, - 567
INDEX.
J.
Jewett, Caleb, and others, Surveyors, &c. - - - - 589
L.
Lands in Maine to be sold to amount of 830,000, - - - '576
Laws, new edition of, distribution and payment, - - - 581
Legislature, pay for Members of, 580
Leicester Academy, release of land to, - - - - - 581
Lock, Ward, Assistant to Messenger of Governor and Council, 589
M.
Morey, Zilpha, authorized to sell real estate, - - - - 566
P.
Police Court to have Term Reports, 584
Pool, Lucinda, estate of Holt granted her, - - . - 575
Pynchon, Stephen, funeral expenses allowed, - - - - 582
R.
Reports, Term, allowed to Police Court of Boston, - - - 584
Rowell, Lydia, Guardian, authorized to sell real estate, - - 578
Stanton, Joseph, authorized to sell real estate, . . - 567
State Prison, appropriation for, . . i - - - 588
State House, repairs on, to be made, 586
States, United, Agent to be appointed to present flaim on, - 586
T.
Taxes, granted for several counties, 585
W.
Wild, Jonathan, to sell real estate of E. Hay ward, - - - 573
Worcester County, allowance to, of 55200, . _ . - 570
G
p
RESOLVES
OF
THE GENERAL COURT
OF THE
Commontoealtl) of dllSa^^acliUjSettji.
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MAY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, ONE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE.
Published agreeably to a Resolve of 16th January, 1812.
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY TRUE AND GREENE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.
1823.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
OF THE
COMMON WE \LTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
FOR THE POLITICAL YEAR 1823 24.
HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM EUSTIS, ESQUIRE,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
LEVI LINCOLN, ESQUIRE,
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
COUNCIL.
HON. EBENEZER FISHER,
« WILLIAM P. WALKER,
' THOxMAS WESTON,
' SOLOMON SMEAD,
« NA.THAN CHANDLER,
" ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
" DAVID CUMMINS,
* JESSE PUTNAM,
" MARCUS MORTON,
ALDEN BRADFORD^ ESQUIRE,
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
HONORABLE NAHUM MITCHELL,
TREASURER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
8S
SENATE.
HONORABLE NATHANIEL SILSBEE,
PRESIDENT.
SUFFOLK DISTRICT.
Hod. Thomas H. Perkins, Hon. Samuel Hubbard,
Peter C. Brooks, Thomas L. Winthrop,
Benjamin Gorham, George Sullivan.
ESSEX DISTRICT.
Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, Hon. Aaron Lummus,
John Prince, William W. Parrott,
Nathan Noyes, Moses Wingate.
MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
Hon. William Austin, Hon. John Wade,
Levi Thaxter, John Keyes.
Joel Cranston,
PLYMOUTH DISTRICT.
Hon. Seth Sprague, Hon. Joseph Richardson.
BARNSTABLE DISTRICT.
Hon. Braddock Dimmick.
SENATE. 619
BRISTOL AED DUKES^ COUNTY DISTRICT.
Hon. Oliver Starkweather, Hon. John Mason.
James L. Hodges,
NANTUCKET DISTRICT.
Hon. Jethro Mitchell.
WORCESTER DISTRICT.
Hon. Benjamin Adams, Hon. Nathaniel Jones,
Stephen P. Gardner, Nathaniel P. Denny.
Aaron Tufts,
HAMPSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Joseph Strong, Junior, Hon. Lewis Strong.
BERKSHIRE DISTRICT.
Hon. Jonathan Allen, Hon. George Hull.
HAMPDEN DISTRICT.
Hon. James Fowler, Hon. John Mills.
FRANKLIN DISTRICT.
Hon. Elihu Hoyt, Hon. Thomas Longley.
NORFOLK DISTRICT.
Hon. John Ruggles, Hon. Josiah J. Fiske.
Sherman Leland,
PAUL WILLARD, ESQ. Clerk.
JOHN FARRIE, JR. ESQ. Assistant Clerk.
REV. JAMES WALKER, Chaplain.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
HONORABLE WILLIAM C. JARVIS,
SPEAKER.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.
Boston. William Phillips,
William Sullivan,
John Welles,
John T. Apthorp,
Samuel Cobb,
Joseph Coolidge,
William Prescott,
William Tudor,
Nathan Appleton,
John Cotton,
Samuel Swett,
Eni>ch Silsby,
George W. Otis,
Jonathan Phillips,
Joseph Austin,
Heman Lincoln,
Franris C Gray,
Theodore Lyman, Junior,
Pliny Cutler,
Otis Everett,
William Goddard,
Cyrus Alger,
Robert Fenelly,
John A. Haven.
Chelsea J Zachariah Hall.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 6S1
Ameshury,
Andover,
Beverly,
^oxford,
Bradfordf
JDanoerSf
GhnLCRSter,
HamUton,
Haverhill,
Ipswich,
LynUf
Lynnfieldf
Manchestpr,
Marblehead,
COUNTY OF ESSEX.
Stephen Barker,
Amos Spaulding.
Robert Rantoul,
Thomas Davis,
Pyam Lovett,
Oliver Obear.
Solomon JLow.
Ebenezer Shillaber,
John Page,
Nathan Poor,
Nathaniel Putnam.
Winthrop Sargent, 3d.
Enoch Foote,
John Choate,
Joseph Farley.
Ezra Mudge,
Rufus Parrott,
John L. Johnson,
James Phillips,
Thompson Burrell,
Eleazer C. Richardson,
Nathan R. Martin,
Benjamin Knight,
John Sparhawk,
Asa Hooper,
William Elliot.
622
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Methuen,
Stephen Barker.
Middleton,
Ezra Nichols.
J^ewbury,
Moses Little.
JSTewhuryport,
John Merrill,
i
John Coffin.
Howley,
Thomas Grage,
Salevfif
Gideon Barstow,
Joseph Ropes,
John Osgood,
'
Timothy Bryant,
Michael Webb,
John Andrews,
Nathaniel Frothingham
Salisburyf
Ephraim Morrill.
Sau^us,
Jonathan Makepeace.
Topsjieldy
Ephraim Wildes.
Wenham,
West J^Tewbury,
Joseph Stan wood.
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
Acton,
Francis Tuttle.
J-shby,
John Locke.
Bedford,
William Webber.
Billericay
Samuel Whiting.
Brighton^
Francis Winship.
Burlington,
Cambridge,
Levi Farwell.
Carlisle^
John Heald.
Charlestown,
Seth Knowles,
Thomas Harris,
Philemon K. Russell,
John H. Brown,
James K. Frothingham,
,
Richard Devens.
Chelmsfordf
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
63^
JDracnt,
Dunstable,
East Sudbury,
Framingham.
GrotoUf
Holliston^
Hopkinton,
Lexington^
Lincoln,
Littleton,
Maiden^
Marlborough.
Medford,
JS*atickf
JS/'ewton,
Pepperell,
Reading,
Sherburne,
Shirley,
South Reading,
Stoneham,
Stow and Boxborough,
Sudbury,
Tewlcsbury,
Townsend,
Tyngsborough,
ifalthamp
Watertown,
West Cambridge,
83
Daniel C. Abbot.
Josiah Cumraings.
Micah M. Rutter.
Charles Train.
Joseph Valentine,
Nathan Chandler.
Joel Smith.
Jonathan Manning.
Nathan Nichols,
Cotton Sprague.
Silas Felton.
Abner Bartlett,
Dudley Hall.
Joseph Jackson.
Abel Jewett.
Edmund Parker,
George Flint.
Calvin Sanger.
John Hart.
Peter Hay.
Augustus Tower.
Abel Wheeler.
Aaron Warren.
Luke Fiske,
Charles Lyman.
Abijah White.
Thomas Russell.
624 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Wesfford,
Weston,
Wilmington^
Wohiirn,
Jesse Minot.
Nathan Hobbs.
Marshall Fowle.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER.
AsJiburnham,
JLthol,
JBarre,
Berlin,
Bolton,
Boylston,
Brookjield,
Charlton,
Dana,
Douglas,
Dudley,
Fitchhurg,
Gardner,
Grafton,
Hardwick,
Harvard,
Holden,
Hubbardston,
Lancaster,
Leicester^
heominster,
Lunenburg,
Mendon,
Millford,
Milbury,
JVew Braintree,
JVorthborough,
JS/'orthbridge,
James Humphreys.
Lyman Sibley.
Amos Sawyer.
Bernard Nurse.
Aaron White.
James Boomer.
ApoUos Johnson.
John Brown.
Joseph Downe, ji.
Cyrus Leland.
Joseph Stone.
Calvin Haskell.
Samuel Daman,
Jacob Fisher.
Daniel Thurber,
Jonathan Russell^
fesek. Pitts.
Perley Hunt.
Asa Waters.
David \V ait.
James Keyes.
HOUSE OF UEPRESENTATIVES. 625
jYorth Brookfieldf
Oakham,
Oxford,
Paxforif
Peter sham y
Princeton^ ,
Royalstun,
Phillipston,
Rutland,
Shrewsbury,
Southborough.
Southbridge,
Spencer,
Sterling,
Sturbridge,
Sutton,
Templeton,
Upton,
Uxbridge,
Ward,
Westhorough,
West Boylston,
Western,
Westminster, Jonas Whitney,
Timothy Doty.
Winchendon, Isaac Morse.
Worcester, Abraham Lincoln,
William Eaton,
Samuel Harrington.
COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE.
Amherst, Isaac Bobbins.
Charles Henshaw.
William Cravviord.
Hutchins Hapgood.
Ephraim Myrick, jr.
Squire Davis.
Dexter Fay.
Oliver Hooker.
Rufus Adams.
James Wilder,
Luther Rugg.
Elisha Hale,
Abner Chase.
Benjamin Reed.
Bezaleel Taft, jr.
6S6
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SpJrhertowjif
Chesterfield^
Cummington^
EasthamptoUf
Enfield^
Granhy.
Goshen,
Greenwich f
Hadley,
Hatfield,
Middlefield,
jyTorthamjpton,
JYorwich,
Pelham,
Plainfield,
South Hadley,
Southamptonf
Ware,
JVesthampton,
Williamsburg,
Wbrthington,
James Whitman.
Alvin Rice,
Thadeus Clap.
KpUraim ichards,
Nathaniel Cooledge, jr.
Moses Porter.
Nathaniel Fowle,
Samuel Kirkland,
John Hamlen,
Josiah Bardwell,
Joseph Kingsley, jr.
Jonah Brewster.
COUNTY OF HAMPDEN.
Blanford,
Brimfield,
Chester,
Granville,
Holland and S, Brimfield,
Monson,
Holland,
Longmeadow,
iMdlowy
Alanson Knox.
John Wyles.
Horace Smith.
Joel Root.
Alvin Needham.
LutUer C^ter.
HO^SE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 6S7
West Springfield,
Luke Parsons,
Joaathaa E. Ferre,
Alfred Flower,
Daniel Merrick.
Montgomery,
Orea Parks.
Palmer,
Mussell,
South Brimfieldf
Southivickf
Gideon Stiles.
Springfield,
Justice Willard.
Wilhraham^
Tolland,
Samuel Hamilton.
Westfield,
Alfred Stearns,
Elijali Arnold.
COUNTY OF FRANKLIN.
^shfield,
Dimock Ellis.
Benfiardston^
Buckland,
Charlemont,
Sylvester Maxwell.
Colerain,
Robert L. M'Latlen
Conway,
Deerfieldj
Rufus Saxton.
Gill,
Greenfield,
Hawley^
Heath,
Bphraim Hastings.
Leverett,
Leyden,
Monroe,
Montague^
JYew Salem^
Varney Pierce.
^''orthfield,
/
Orange,
Parley Barton.
628 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Howe,
Shelhurne,
Shutesbury,
Sunderlandf
Warwick^
Wendell,
Whately,
Ervih^s Grant,
John Thomas.
Caleb Mayo.
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
*AdamSf
Alford,
Beckett
Cheshire,
Clarksburg,
Dalton,
ICgremont,
Florida f
Great Barrington,
Gore,
Hancock,
Hinsdale,
Lanesbo rough,
Lee,
Lenox,
Mount TVashinglon,
J\*ew Ashford,
^ew Marlborough^
Otis,
Peru,
Richmond Brown,
William E. Brayton.
George Conaut.
Francis Fiske.
David Carson.
Levi Hare.
Benjamin Rogers.
Rodman Hazard.
Truman Tyrrel, jr.
John Nye, jr.
I.. Bassett.
Daniel Williams,
William P. Walker.
Solomon Kasson.
Samuel Picket.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
629
Pittsjield,
Michmovd, .
Sandisjield,
Savoy, *
Sheffield,
Stock Bridge^
Tyringham,
Washington f
West Stockhndge,
Williamsioivrif
Windsor,
COUNTY
Bellingham.
Biminfree,
Brookline,
Canton,
Coh asset,
Dedham,
Dorchester,
Foxborough,
Frank 'in,
Medji(4d and Dover,
Miltuny
Medway,
JVecdhanif
Qui lie y,
William C. Jarvis,
Samuel M. VIcCay,
Daniel B. Bush,
Orin Goodrich.
Nathan Pierson, jr.
Ja!>ez Bosworth.
William Ingraham.
Moses Stocking.
Isaac Curtis, jr.
Silas Uevvee.
Abraham Williams.
Luther Plumb.
Keycs Danforth.
John Forbes.
OF NORFOLK.
Amos Hill.
Minot Thayer.
John Robinson.
Jonathan Leonard.
William Ellis.
Abner Ellis,
Plijiy Bingham.
Henry Gardner.
John Sherman.
Lewis Fisher.
William Felt.
William Pierce,
Barney Smith.
Seneca Barber.
Edward Miller.
630 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mandolph,
Moochury,
Sharon,
Stoughtorif
Walpole,
TVeymovthf
Wrentham,
Attlehorough,
Berkley,
Dartmouth,
Dighton,
Easton,
Fairhaven,
Freetown,
Mansfield,
J^ew Bedford,
J^orton,
JRaynham,
Rehohothf
Seekonic,
Somerset,
Seth Mann,
Luther Thayer.
Ebenezer Seaver,
Abijah Draper,
Paul Gore,
Isaac Davis,
Samuel Hewtfs.
Enoch Hewins.
John Drake.
Harvey Clap.
Levi Bates.
Jairus Ware.
COUNTY OF BRISTOL.
Ebenezer Daggett.
Thomas Almy.
William Wood.
Howard Lothrop.
Joseph Tripp,
James Taber,
Noah Stoddard.
Hercules Cushman,
Job Morton.
Solomon Pratt.
Lemuel Williams, jr.
Thomas Rotch,
John A. Parker,
William Hathaway,
Robert Daggett.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
631
Sivanzey,
Benanuel Marvel.
Taunton,
Cromwell Washburn
Troy,
William B. Canedy.
TVestport,
Wellington,
Joseph Gooding.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH.
Mington,
Bridgewater,
Carver,
Duxbury,
Isaiah Alden,
Samuel A. Frazer.
Halifax,
Thomas Drew, jr.
Hanover,
Reuben Curtis.
Hingham,
Jedediah Lincolu;
John Leavitt,
Isaiah Wilder.
Hanson,
Thomas Hobart.
Hull,
Kingston,
John Sever.
Marahfield,
Joseph Clift Jr.
Middleborough,
Isaac Stevens.
J^orth Bridgewater,
Howard Carey
Pembroke,
Plympton,
Plymouth,
Barnabas Hed§e.
Rochester,
Philip Crandon.
Scituate,
Charles Turner.
Wareham,
West Bridgewater.
COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE.
Barnstable,
Jonas Whitman,
Benjamin Hallet,
William Lewis.
84
633 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Brewster,
Chatham,
Dennis,
Eastham,
Falmouth,
Harwich,
Orleans,
Provincetown,
Sandwich,
Truro,
Wellfleet, .
Yarmouth,
Chilmaric,
Edgarton,
Tisbury,
Isaac Foster.
Samuel Freeman.
Thomas Fish,
Francis Weeks.
Mathan Underwood.
Russell Freeman,
Elisha Pope,
Benj. Burgess.
Reuben Arey.
James Crowell.
DUKES' COUNTY.
William Jernegan.
COUNTY OF NANTUCKET.
JVantucket, Gideon Folger,
Uezekiah Barnard^
PELHAM W. WARREN, Clerk.
REV. WILLIAM JENKS, Chaplain.
JACOB KUHN, Messenger to the General Court.
ELIJAH W. CUTTING, Assistant Messenger.
THOMAS P. RIDER, ^age to the House.
RESOLYES
TxENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MAY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, ONE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
REPRESENTATIVES' CHAMBER, JUNE 4, 1823.
Jit noon., agreeably to assignment., the two Houses assem.'
bled in Convention, when His Excellency the Governor
came in., preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk., and attended
by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable
Council, and the Officers of State ; and delivered the
following
SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I congratulate you on the return of this Anniversary,
on this assemblage of the several branches of Government
and on the blessings of health, peace and prosperity which
634 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
it has pleased God to continue to us. Honored by the suf-
frages of our fellow-citizens and entering on the several
duties assigned to us by the Constitution, we should bear
constantly in mind, that to preserve and promote the inte-
rest and happiness of the great body of the people, is the
sole object of our appointment and the only legitimate end
of all good government.
The change of political sentiment evinced in the elec-
tions of the present year forms a new era in the history of
this Commonwealth. By the free suffrages of her enlight-
ened and independent citizens, this ancient and respectable
state is restored to the confidence of her sister states and
to her just influence in the national councils — has resumed
her station as an efficient member of the confederacy, and
added strong guarantees to its energy and permanency.
The long continued opposition to the federal govern-
ment, but more especially the measures pursued in this
state during the eventful and critical period of the late war,
the withholding from the General Government, the consti-
tutional means of defence — the paralising influence exer-
cised over the means and agents of that Government, which
occasioned double sacrifices of life and treasure ; while the
citizens of other states were exerting their utmost energies
against a common enemy, when a gallant army and navy
were covering themselves with glory, and retrieving, and
establishing on an imperishable basis, the national charac-
ter on the ocean and on the land, — at this portentous cri-
sis, when our liberties and independence were at hazard —
an unhallowed spirit of party was permitted to prevail over
the vital interests of the country — an authorised combina-
tion was formed, and meetings held in a neighbouring state
which, whatever may have been the professed object, had
the certain effect of encouraging the enemy, of discourag-
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 635
ing and impairing the means and resources of the country,
and of alienating the minds of the citizens from " that uniiv
of government," which, in the emphatic language of Wash-
ington, " constitutes us one people, is the main pillar in the
edifice of our real independence, the support of our tran-
quility at home, our peace abroad, of our safety, of our pros-
perity, of that very liberty which we so highly prize." —
These measures and this course had cast a reproach on the
good name of the state, which is now disavowed and re-
moved. Massachusetts is at length restored to the Ame-
rican family. Her character is redeemed in the estimation
of the patriots of our own country and of every statesman
in Europe. The rising generation, who could have had no
agency in this disloyal course appear to have taken an hon-
orable and an earnest interest in its disavowal.
That this is a just cause of joy and congratulation will
be admitted by all honest, independent minds, to whatever
political party they may have been attached, by every one
who takes an interest in the reputation of his native state,
who appreciates the virtue of his ancestors, who traces in
the history of our glorious revolution the dear bought fame
of their descendants, and who values the precious legacy
which they have transmitted to posterity.
This review of the past is not intended to renew conten-
tions or to rekindle animosities which have too long disturb-
ed the public mind, still less to revive a spirit of party, the
decline of which is favored by the circumstances of the
country and by the very liberal spirit which appears to
pervade the community ; but that from the past, useful les-
sons may be derived to direct the future — that we may be
induced to cultivate a spirit of concord, to cherish a love
of country, to look to the confederacy as the ark of our po-
litical safety, to extend to the General Government a pro-
per confidence, to m,aintain the constitutional powers and
636 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
riffhts of the State Governments in their full extent, to frame
and administer the laws with a single eye to the public
good, and to render equal justice to all men.
The anxious eyes of enlightened Statesmen in every
quarter of the globe are directed to observe the progress
of civil liberty in this country. Our education and habits,
acquired in our primary schools, where the children of al^
have equal access to the means of knowledge and informa-
tion and in which the moral force of the whole community
is brought forth, furnish a cement to the physical strength
derived from the labours of the husbandman, the mechan-
ic, the mariner and the manufacturer, and hold together
the humble, the middling and the rich in one indissoluble
bond of mutual interest. This keystone of our political
arch, laid by our venerable Ancestors, sustained them in
all their conflicts, carried us triumphantly through the
''evolutionary war, became a substitute for means and re-
sources deemed indispensable by other nations, and remains
to us a column of strength unknown in ancient or modern
times.
The bill of rights, which makes a part of our Constitu-
tion, declares, that
" A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of
t' the Constitution, and a constant adherence to those of pi-
'' ety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugal-
'' ity, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages
" of liberty, and to maintain a free government."
The same instrument provides, that
" Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused
" generally among the body of the people, being necessary
" for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as
" these depend on spreading the opportunities and advan.
" tages of education in the various parts of the country and
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. ' 637
" among the different orders of the people, it shall be the
" duty of the Legislatures and Magistrates in all future pe-
" riods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of
^' literature and the sciences, and all the seminaries of them,
" especially the University at Cambridge ; public schools
" and grammar schools, in the towns ; to encourage private
*' societies and public institutions by rewards and immuni-
" ties, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, com-
" merce, trades, manufactures and the natural history of
" the country ; to countenance and inculcate the principles
" of humanity and general benevolence, public and private
" charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality
" in their dealings, sincerity, good humour and all social
" and generous affections among the people."
By recurring to these principles, which in their nature
and origin are democratic, which form the basis and true
conservative power of all our constitutions, both state and
federal, observing the injunctions and cherishing the libe-
ral and generous sentiments here inculcated, the several
branches of government will, with the blessing of heaven
on their endeavors, fill their respective circles of duty sat-
isfactorily to themselves and acceptably to their constitu-
ents.— The example of wisdom and moderation exhibited
by the distinguished citizen, who has retired to the walks
of private life, after having filled the Chair of State for the
last seven years, in a manner which has added lustre to his
revolutionary fame, falls with peculiar force on his imme-
diate successor.
On a first accession to the government and in a session,
which convenience and custom have rendered short, it will
not be expected that many subjects will be proposed or
acted upon. The multiplication or alteration of the laws
should be avoided as far as public convenience will admit-
638 GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
Instances will, however, occur, requiring the interposition
of the Legislature, of which they will judge.
The Militia, the great bulwark of our defence, deserving
at all times attention and support, is, at this period, enti-
tled to peculiar consideration. Experience has taught us,
that in wars between European nations the maritime
rights of this country are disregarded, and we have been
compelled to support them by force. From present ap-
pearances there is great reason to apprehend the same
course and the same consequences : to be prepared for
them is a dictate of sound policy. The national govern-
ment will provide the means of protection on the ocean,
and is making annually valuable additions to our stock of
military knowledge by a well regulated academy, and it
remains with the States to cultivate and improve their Mi-
litia. It may be affirmed without fear of contradiction,
that the population of the United States from the first set-
tlement of the country to the present day, has never afford-
ed five thousand native citizens who will voluntarily enlist
in the regular service, in time of peace, unless there is a
well-founded expectation of immediate hostilities. This
circumstance, so illustrative of the abundant means of re-
warding labor and enterprise and of raising our youth to
higher destinies, admonishes us of the necessity of cher-
ishing a spirit of discipline among the great body of the
people, and proves at the same time, that the militia is, in
the first instance at least, our right, our only efficient arm
of defence.
The state of the Treasury will necessarily command at-
tention. When it shall be ascertained, the Legislature
will be enabled to determine whether any reduction in the
expenditures is required.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. 639
An adjustment of the claim of this Commonwealth on
the government of the United States for services rendered
bj- the Militia during the late war, must be of great impor-
tance to our finances. When it shall have been examined
a statement will be made, in order that the Legislature
may judge of the expediency of any further proceedings
on their part.
In all measures for the promotion of the common inter-
ests, I shall, at all times, be happy to co-operate.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
85
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
May it please your Excellency,
The Senate unite most cordially "with your Excel-
lency in the grateful recognition of the distinguished bles-
sings, which this Commonwealth is permitted to enjoy.
Fully concurring with your Excellency in the principles
upon which the government of this Commonwealth ought
to be administered, this branch of the Legislature will
adopt with firmness and independence, the wisest and best
measures, as far, as may be, in the just confidence, that an
intelligent and high minded people will consider the duties
of this body best discharged, when the general interest is
most extensively secured.
It is truly a subject of congratulation for the people of
this state, that the administration of its government is
avowedly in unison with that of the nation ; and while the
great body of the people of the Commonwealth regret that
it has ever been otherwise, they rejoice in the satisfaction,
now felt, that all differences in sentiments, in feelings and
interests, between this state and the nation, are in course
of amicable coincidence and adjustment.
The Senate cannot but concur with your Excellency in
the eminent utility of an occasional review of the past.
They sincerely believe that your Excellency, in adverting
to certain events connected with the late war, which now
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 641
unfortunately make a part of the history of this state, has
done it with an honest desire, that " from the past, useful
lessons may be derived to direct the future," for the pub-
lic good. When therefore the events are spoken of, let
them be regarded as an historical monument for the ad-
monition of those in whom the people confide, that a peri-
od of accountability will arrive, when they who advise,
must respond for the skill and judgment, with which they
have directed the affairs of state. Let them be regarded
also as a monument for the instruction of the people ; that
implicit confidence in any man, or set of men, is the sur-
render of a freeman's birth right, — freedom of opinion and
of suffrage — that the affairs of government are not beyond
the comprehension of the people, and it is their duty to
themselves and their children, calmly and honestly to in-
vestigate the tendency and consequences of all important
measures. And while the people profit in the contempla-
tion of this monument, they will perceive many reasons
for reciprocal forbearance and forgiveness among them-
selves ; they will remember that no human being is always
right ; that the frank disavowal of error is manly ; and that
those men only are inconsistent, whose actions are at var
riance with their principles.
In the spirit of harmony and union which so happily
prevails in the nation, there is reason to believe that the
people of this state, especially the rising generation, will
ardently unite in cherishing national feelings, national pride
and an exalted sense of national honor ; commingling how-
ever with these and maintaining, a just sense of the digni-
ty and welfare of this commonwealth.
A recurrence to the fundamental principles of the con-
stitution is at all times useful ; and in fulfilling this duty at
the present time, the Senate are gratified in acknowledg-
642 ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
ing the constitutional obligation of cherishing, in an espe-
cial manner, the Univerity at Cambridge ; so early the ob-
ject of solicitude and munificence with the founders of this
Commonwealth ; so justly the object of pride and venera-
tion with their descendants. But the obligation of chel*.
ishing primary schools and other seminaries of learning
and religion, is not less imperative on the legislature of
this state.
In the recollection of the many virtues which rendered
your immediate predecessor eminent among patriots, a just
tribute of gratitude and respect will be paid by all hearts
throughout the Commonwealth. Amidst the conflicts of
party, his counsels breathed the spirit of moderation, and
his voice was ever on the side of the nation's honor. His
services, like the influence of his manners, will be long felt
and remembered in this Commonwealth ; but in no in-
stance more eminently, than in the conduct of our military
institutions. Coinciding with him, as your Excellency
does, in the high importance of maintaining the militia as
the only safe means of defence and security, the Senate
with great pleasure anticipate that its efficiency and its in-
fluence on the morals, the habits of order and subordina-
tion which have marked its progressive improvement, will
exalt its offices still higher a§ objects of honorable ambi-
tion to the rising generation. ,
In respect to the fiscal concerns of this Commonwealth,
it is considered that they who bear the taxes have the right
to exact of their Representatives and agents, that the ex-
penditures of public monies shall never be of doubtful ex-
pediency; and this body will watch over this object of
legislation with fidelity and with due regard to that wise
frugality which is enjoined by the constitution.
ANSWER OF THE SENATE. 643
The Senate will be ever ready to co-operate with your
Excellency in any measures for the public good. Among
the various objects of interest, none is of more moment to
the fiscal concerns of the Commonwealth, than the early
adjustment of the claim on the United States for services
rendered by the militia during the late war. It is hoped
that objections hitherto made to the allowance of these ex-
penditures, will be considered as removed, and that the
general government of the Union, will perceive a proprie-
ty in making an early and amicable arrangement of the
subject with this Commonwealth.
In reiterating their assurances of cordial co-operation
with your Excellency in all measures for the public good,
the Senate beg leave to superadd, that they shall emulate
the firmness and independence with which, it is confidently
believed, your Excellency will discharge the various and
arduous duties of the office, to which you have been elect-
ed by the free suffrages of a free and sovereign people.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
May it please your Excellency^
The House of Representatives reciprocate your
Excellency's congratulations on the return of this our an-
niversary and its concomitant blessings ; and we trust, that
in the discharge of the duties assigned to us by our con-
stituents, vi^e shall have a single eye to the interest and
happiness of tl\e people.
The change of political sentiment, evinced in the late
elections, forms indeed a new era in the history of our
Commonwealth : It is the triumph of reason over passion ;
of patriotism over party spirit. Massachusetts has return-
ed to her first love, and is no longer a stranger in the
Union. And it is with peculiar pleasure we recognize in
her chief Magistrate,' one who contended first for the free-
dom and independence of these States, and afterwards for
the continuance of their sovereignty and existence as a na-
tion, and whose whole life has been devoted to his country*
We rejoice that though during the last war, such meas-
ures were adopted in this state, as occasioned double sa-
crifice of treasure and of life, covered the friends of the
nation with humiliation and mourning, and fixed a stain on
the page of our history, a redeeming spirit has at length
arisen to take away our reproach, and restore to us our
good name, our rank among our sister states, and our just
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. 645
influence in the Union. And while we rejoice that the ris-
ing generation, who could have had no agency in these
measures, appear to have taken so earnest and so honour-
able an interest to redeem our character ; we rejoice also
that our redemption has come while most of those whose
heads were bowed down with affliction, are yet in exis-
tence, and can once more look up and behold the cheering
light which shines on their native state.
Though we would not renew contentions or irritate wan-
tonly, we believe that there are cases when it is necessary
we should " wound to heal." And we consider it among
the first duties of the friends of t)ur national government?
on this return of power, to disavow the unwarrantable
course pursued by this state, during the late war, and to
hold up the measures of that period as beacons ; that the
present and succeeding generations may shun that career
which must inevitably terminate in the destruction of the
individual, or the party, who pursues it ; and may learn
the important lesson that, in all times, the path of duty is
the path of safety ; and that it is never dangerous to rally
around the standard of our country.
With your Excellency, we are sensible that the eyes of
the world are on Americans, noting the progress of civil
liberty. In no part of our country is a prouder display of
the means of knowledge and information, than in Massa-
chusetts ; nor are the effects less strikingly exhibited in
the intelligence and moral habits of the people. Jt is
therefore both our duty and our pleasure, to foster all our
literary institutions, especially our " public schools, and
grammar schools in the towns," as enjoined upon us in the
bill of rights. And we trust the foundations of literature
. and the sciences ', of religion and morality, which have
been laid so broad and deep by our venerated ancestors
646 ANSWER OF THE HOUSE.
will not be undermined or removed until long after we,
and our children, and their posterity, for ages yet to come,
shall have slept with our fathers.
The House of Representatives appreciate the wisdom
and moderation of your Excellency's predecessor, who is
followed to his retirement with the gratitude of this whole
people. They will never forget his personal sacrifices and
services in the war of the revolution ; and the sacrifice of
a son, who bore up his name in " the late war that termi-
nated with so much glory to our nation." We are sensi-
ble of the expediency of a short session at this time ; and
the inexpediency at all times of a needless alteration or
multiplication of the laws. But we shall endeavor to inter-
pose in such cases as may require our attention.
The sentiments of your Excellency concerning the mili-
tia, are deserving of particular attention. Impressed with
the importance of the subject, at an early day of the ses-
sion, a committee was raised to deliberate and report on it ;
and in due time we shall give it that attention and support,
which it is entitled to at all times, and especially the pre-
sent. The battles of Lexington, Bunker-Hill, Bennington,
and New-Orleans, will forever remain recorded monuments
that the militia is the bulwark of our defence.
The House of Representatives will make due enquiry
into the state of the Treasury, and the expediency of a
reduction in the expenditures.
There is no subject connected with the finances of the
State, which excites a more general and lively interest,
than that of an adjustment of the claims of this Common-
wealth, on the government of the United States, for ser-
vices rendered by the militia, during the late war ; and,
we shall be happy to co-operate with your Excellency in
this, and all measures for the advancement of the common
interests, and the promotion of the general good.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 647
CHAP. I.
Gentlemen of the Senate^ and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The Secretary will lay before you, a report made by
the Commissioners, under the act relating to the separa-
tion of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the
same into a separate and independent State, together with
certain documents, by which the Legislature will learn the
further progress which has been made in the execution of
the commission.
The division and assignment of the whole of the person-
al property appears now to be completed, and so much of
the lands as are situated within any former locations or
surveys.
As the communication of the Commissioners to the Ex-
ecutive contemplates the expediency of some Legislative
attention to the subject, the papers are transmitted for
your consideration, previously to their being deposited
with the archives of the State.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber^ June bth^ 1823.
CHAP II.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
A resolution passed by the Legislature of the State of
New-York, in April last, on a proposition of the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania, to amend the Constitution of the
United States, touching the power of Congress to erect
or incorporate Banks, has been lately received ; and as
requested by the Governor of the State of New-York, I
now transmit the same, by the Secretary.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, June Qth, 1823,
86
648 PAY OF MEMBERS.— W. PERKINS.
CHAP. III.
Resolve fixing the pay of the Members of the Legislature.
June 7tli, 1823.
Resolved^ That there be paid out of the public Treasury
of this Commonwealth to each Member of the Council,
Senate, and House of Representatives, two dollars for each
and ever}'^ day's attendance at every session, during the
present political year, and the like sum for every ten miles
travel from their respective places of abode to the place of
the sitting of the General Court, at each session thereof.
And be it further Resolved, That there be paid to the
President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, each, two dollars for each and every
day's attendance, at every session during the present polit-
ical year, in addition to their pay as Members.
CHAP. IV.
Resolve on the Petition of W. Perkins. -
June 9th, 1823.
On the Petition of Warren Perkins, of Reading, in the
County of Middlesex, stating that he is administrator on
the goods and estate of Jethro Richardson, late of said
Reading, deceased, intestate, that it became necessary to
sell all the real estate of said deceased, for the payment of
his debts, that on the eighth day of January, A. D. 1822, he
obtained license from the Judge of Probate of the County
of Middlesex, to sell said real estate, and that, pursuant
to said license, he took the oath, advertised and sold, said
real estate, agreeable to the requisitions of the law : But,
he has been unable to procure an original advertisement,
or a copy of the same, to file with his affidavit of his pro-
ceedings relative to the sale of said real estate in the Pro-
bate Office, according to law : Therefore,
WILLIAM CONEY. 649
Resolved^ that the said Warren Perkins have leave at
any time within three months from the time of passing this
resolve to file ih the Probate Office, in said County, an af-
fidavit of his proceedings relative to the sale of said real
estate, accompanied with an affidavit of Edmund Parker of
said Reading, Esquire, stating that mOre than thirty days
previous to the sale, which was on the twenty-sixth day of
March, A. D. 1822, he wrote advertisements at the request
of said Perkins, relative to the time and place of sale of
said real estate, and that he afterwards saw one of them
posted up in said Reading ; and also with the affidavit of
Joshua Prescott of said Reading Esquire, that he also saw
advertisements of the sale of said real estate, in said Read-
ing at several times previous to said time of sale, and also
in Cambridge in said County, which affidavit when so fil-
ed, accompanied with the aforementioned affidavit, shall
have the same force and effect as if it had been accompan-
ied with an original advertisement or a copy of the same.
CHAP. V.
Resolve on the petition of William Coney of Charlemont.
June 9th, 1823.
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that Ro-
ger Leavett and William R. Bates, administrators on the
estate of Doctor Stephen Bates, late of said Charlemont,
deceased, be, and they hereby are authorised and empow-
ered to convey the piece of land mentioned and described
in said petition, to the said William Coney, his heirs and
assigns, by deed duly executed, on receiving from the said
William the amount of principal and interest due on his
note to the said Stephen Bates, as mentioned in his said
petition. And the said administrators shall be holden to
account to the Judge of Probate, for the County of Frank-
lin, in the settlement of their account of administration, for
^the amount they shall receive of the said William on his
said note : Provided^ that Samuel Avery, the husband of
one of the heirs to said estate shall express on the deed
his consent to said conveyance.
650 GLOU. CANAL.— WARD. S. PRISON.
CHAP. VI.
Resolve respecting Shares in the Gloucester Canal.
June 9th, 18S3.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he
hereby is authorised and empowered, by and with the advice
of Council, to draw his warrant on the J'reasurer of this
Commonwealth, for all such sums as he may ascertain to have
been regularly and legally assessed on the thirty Shares
which have been subscribed by the Treasurer, in behalf of
the Commonwealth in the Gloucester Canal Corporation, in
pursuance of an act of the Legislature, passed the 1 6th day
of February, 1822.
CHAP vir:
Resolve on the petition of the Warden of the State Prison.
June 11th, 1823.
On the memorial of the Warden of the State Prison — For
reasons stated in said memorial :
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Public Treasury,
for the use of the State Prison, the sum of three thousand
dollars, to be drawn from the Treasury, by the Warden of
said prison, in such sums as the Directors shall, from time
to time direct ; and His Pxcellency the Governor, with the
advice of Council, is hereby requested to draw his warrant
on the Treasurer for said sums accordingly.
CHAP. VIIL
Resolve authorising the Treasurer to borrow Money.
June ISth, 1823.
Resolvedf That the Treasurer of this Commonw ealth be, ,
and he is hereby authorised and directed to borrow of any of
MESSAGE—BALLARD & WRIGHT. 651
The banks in Boston^ or within this Commonwealth, any sum
not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars, that may at any time
within the present year be necessary for the payment of the
ordinary demands made on the treasury, and that he pay any
sum he may borrow as soon as money sufficient for the pur-
pose and not otherways appropriated, shall be received into
the treasury.
CHAP IX.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
1 transmit by the Secretary, a copy of a Report of Council,
made on the 29th of May last, stating the progress which has
been made in rebuilding and repairing the wall of the State
Prison yard, and the expenses attending the same.
It appears the work is not entirely complcated, and that
some debts contracted for in the course of the same have not
yet been paid; and that the further sum of four thousand six
hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-one cents will be ne-
cessary to finish the wall, and to provide for the expenses al-
ready incurred and unpaid.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
June i2th, 1823.
CHAP. X.
Resolve appointing Ballard 5f Wright State Printers,
June 13th, 1823.
On the Petition of Ballard & Wright, of Boston, in the
County of Suffolk, praying to be appointed and employed as
publishers of the Laws, Resolves and other Acts of the Gen-
eral Court, the ensuing year :
65g DANIEL SAFFOUU.
Resolved, That the said Ballard & Wright be, and they
are hereby app(»inted the publishers of the Laws and Re-
solves, and other Acts of the Legislature of this Common-
wealth, so far as regards their oflficial promulgation, in the *' In-
dependent Chronicle, and Boston Patriot, and Daily Mercan-
tile Advertiser," for one year from the second day of June
instant, and until another publisher of the Laws shall be ap-
pointed in their stead : Provided the said Ballard & Wright
cause the said Laws, Acts and Resolves to be published in a
faithful and correct manner, and with all reasonable despatch.
Be it further Resolved, That the compensations which
shall and may be allowed to the said Ballard & Wright, for
publishing as aforesaid, shall not exceed the usual rates of
compensation heretofore granted for similar services.
CHAP XL
Resolve on the petition of Daniel Safford of Boston.
June 13th, 1823.
On the petition of Daniel Saif()rd,of Boston, in the County
of SuflPolk, iUacksmith, executor of the last will and testa-
ment of David Saiford, late of Salem, in the County of Es-
sex, Blacksmith, deceased, setting forth, that Susanna Hath-
orne, late of said Salem, single woman, died intestate ; leav-
ing several heirs at law, and Joseph Hathorne one of
her heirs at law, being also indebted to her ; that immedi-
ately upon her decease, Joseph Newhall, of Salem, afore-
said Tinplate vvorker, attached all the right of said Joseph,
in the real estate, of said Susanna, and afterwards in pursu-
ance thereof, levied his execution upon one undivided tenth
part of certain parcels of said real estate ; tliat in the settlement
of the estate of the said Susanna, her heirs at law agreed that
a certain lot of land in Andover, described in said petition,
should be reserved for the purpose of redeeming the real
estate, upon which the said Joseph Newhall might levy his
execution, should his attachment be decided by the Supreme
Judicial Court to be legal ; and the said lot of land was as-
signed to the said David Safford, and Dolly B. Safford, his
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wife, and one of the heirs at law of said Susanna, it being
understood and agreed upon by the said heirs at law, that
the said lot of land should be sold, and the proceeds applied
in payment of the said Newhall's debt against said Joseph
Halhome, should the decision be as aforesaid : And where-
as the Supreme Judicial Court did decide that the attachment
and levy aforesaid were good and valid, and the said Dolly
died before the said decision, and said David has since de-
ceased, and the said Executor, and the heirs at law of the
said Susannah, are desirous that the said lot of land may be
sold and the proceeds thereof applied agreeably to the true
intent of the trust aforesaid, which trust was not expressed
on the assignment to said David Safford, and Dolly B. Saf-
ford, his wife : Therefore,
Mesolved^ That the said Daniel SaflPord, iu his said capa-
city, be and he is hereby authorised and empowered to sell
by Public Auction, or private contract, for the most he can
obtain therefor, the lot of land described in the said petition,
and to make and execute good and sufficient deed or deeds to
convey the same ; Provided however, that the said Daniel
Saflford shall, and do first give his bond with sufficient sure-
ty or sureties to the Judge of Probate, for the County of Es-
sex, and to be approved of by him, upon the condition that
he shall apply the proceeds of the sale of said land, towards
the extinguishment of the levy aforesaid, by said Newhall,
and that he shall account for, and pay over the balance, (if
any) to the heirs at law of the said Susanna.
CHAP. XII.
Resolve granting a Tax for the County ofBukes County,
June 13th, 1853.
Whereas the Treasurer of the County of Dukes County,
has presented his account to the Legislature, which accounts
have been examined and allowed : And whereas the Clerk of
the Court of sessions for said County, has exhibited an esti-
iiiate made by said Court of the necessary charges, which may
654 MESSENGER G. COURT— W. GOING.
arise within the said County, for the year Eighteen Hundred
and Twenty-four, and for other purposes stated in the said
estimate :
Resolved, That the sum of One Thousand Dollars, be and
hereby is granted as a Tax for the said County of Dukes
County, to be apportioned, assessed, paid, collected and ap-
plied for the purposes aforesaid, according to law.
CHAP. XIII.
Resolve Jbr •paying the Messenger of the General Court.
June 13, 1823.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Public
Treasury, to Jacob Kuhn, in full for his services as Messen-
ger to the General Court, and for his care of the State House,
including those services mentioned in a resolve passed on the
nineteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen, for the year com-
mencing the thirtieth day of May last, one thousand Dollars,
payable quarter yearly :
And his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of
Council, is requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. XIV.
Resolve on the petition of William Going.
June 13th, 1823.
Resolved, That, from and after the passage of this resolve,
two dollars per week shall be added to the pay of Wil-
liam Going, keeper of the State prison, to be paid out of the
treasury of this Commonwealth.
E. RYAN.— COMMIS. EASTERN LANDS. 655
CHAP. XV,
Resolve on the petition of IClizabeth Ryan.
June 13th, 1823.
On the petition of Elizabeth Ryan, praying that all the
right and interest of the Commonwealth, in and to a certain
house and lot of land on which it stands in Marblehead, in
the County of Essex, now in the occupancy of said Eliza-
beth, may be released to her :
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in tlie petition of the said
Elizabeth Ryan, that this Commonwealth do hereby release
to the said Elizabeth Ryap, her heirs and assigns, all the
right, title and interests of the Commonwealth, in the house
and land of her late husband, situate in said Marblehead,
and in her occupancy as described in her petition.
CHAP XVI.
Resolve on the communication of the Commissioners appoint-
ed to make sale of Eastern Lands.
June 13th, 1823.
The standing Committee of both Houses on Eastern
Lands, to whom was committed the Report of the Agents ap-
pointed by a Resolve, passed the 30th January last, to make
sale of the lands set oif and estimated by the Commissioners
appointed under the act for the separation of Maine from this
Commonwealth, to be of the value of thirty thousand dollars,
have had the subject under consideration, and we find, by
the provisions contained in the fifth section of said act, this
Commonwealth was obligated to assign said lands to the
State of Maine, or in lieu thereof, pay to said State the said
sum of thirty thousand dollars, but as the lands aforesaid
have been sold conformable to said resolve, as appears by-
said report ; it of course follows that provision must be made
87
656 COMMIS. ON EASTERN LANDS.
for the payment of said sum to the State of Maine, on or be-
fore the first day of October next. And we have also consi-
dered that part of said report which suggests the propriety of
authorising said agents to sell certain lots and islands at pri-
vate sale, and we judge the same to be proper and expedient.
The Committee therefore ask leave to report the following
Resolves :
AVhich are respectfully submitted.
THOMAS L. WmTRROF, Per order.
Hesolved, That the Commonwealth do elect to pay to the
State of Maine, the sura of thirty thousand dollars in lieu of
the lands assigned and set off to the State of Maine, by the
Commissioners, under the act of separation, as an indemnifi-
cation to the said State, for the duties and obligations assum-
ed by the same towards the Indians therein.
Resolved, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be paid
out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to such agent or
agents of the State of Maine, as may be duly authorized to
receive the same, in full consideration for assuming the obli-
gations of this Commonwealth, towards the Indians within
said State ; and His Excellency the Governor, with the advice
of Council, is requested to draw his warrant for said sum on
the Treasurer, conformably to the fifth section of the act for
the separation of Maine, from Massachusetts, in favor of
such agent or agents ; and the Treasurer is hereby authoriz-
ed to borrow the said sum or any part thereof, if necessary.
He it further resolved. That the agents appointed by re^
solves passed the 30th day of January last, be and they are
hereby authorized to sell the Islands and lots of land, situate
in the State of Maine, belonging to this Commonwealth, at
private or public sale, as in their opinion may be most for
the interest of this Commonwealth, and for the parties con-
cerned, and on such terms and conditions as they may judge
reasonable, with authority to convey the same by good and
sufficient deeds.
Resolved^ That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be
requested, and he hereby is requested and instructed to com-
municate the foregoing resolves to the Governor of Maine,
for the information of the Government of that State.
NATHANIEL S RU(?GLES. 657
CHAP. XVII.
Resolve 071 the petition of JVathaniel S. Ruggles.
June 13th, 1823.
Upon tbe petition of Nathaniel S. Ruggles, of Newport,
in the State of Rhode Island, representing that he has made
sale of, and received the purchase money for a certain parcel
of land situate in the City of Boston, which was set off on a
writ of execution to said Nathaniel, and one Benjamin llug-
gles deceased, and with whom said Nathaniel was copartner
in trade, and that l)y reason of the decease of his said partner
the purchasers' title in said land is defective :
Resolved, That for the reasons set forth in said petition,
the said Nathaniel S. Ruggles be and he is hereby author-
ized and fully empowered to execute, acknowledge and de-
liver a good and sufficient deed to grant and convey unto Asa
Clark, of the City of Boston, Painter, his heirs or assigns,
all the title, interest and estate, which the heirs at law of said
Benjamin Ruggles deceased, have or can claim in a certain
parcel of land in Boston aforesaid, bounded easterly, on
Temple Street twelve feet ; Southerly, on land, now or for-
merly of James Sumner, fifty-two feet; Westerly, on land now
or formerly of Joseph Powers, twelve feet; and Northerly, on
land formerly of Martin Blake, fifty-two feet ; being the
same parcel of -'land which was set offto said Nathaniel and
Benjamin, to satisfy a writ of execution in their favor against
Martin Blake, issued by the Boston Court of Common Pleas,
on the twenty-ninth day of July, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixteen ; and such deed, when duly recorded, shall
pass to and vest in said (3 lark, his heirs, or assigns, all the
right, title and estate, which the heirs at law of said Benja-
min Ruggles, deceased, derive and obtain through said Ben-
jamin, under and by virtue of the levy of said writ of execu-
tion in and to the land aforesaid.
658 COMMUNICATION FROM GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XVllI.
Resolve on the communication from the Governor.
June 13th, 1333.
The standing Committee of both houses, on the subject of
Eastern lands, to whom was referred the commnnication of
His Excellency the Governor, with the documents accompa-
nying the same, consisting of a report, made to His Excel-
lency by the Commissioners under the act relating to the sep-
aration of the District of Maine, from Massachusetts, proper,
and forming the same into a separate and independent State,
together with two instruments by them signed, of their fur-
ther proceedings under their Commission, one of which is
dated the Slst ult. and is an assignment of one moiety of
sundry townships, and tracts of land to this Commonwealth,
and the other of the same date, is a distribution and assign-
ment which remained to be made in the division of the per-
sonal property in the proportion of two thirds to the part of
Massachusetts, and one third to the part of Maine.
The Committee, having considered in detail the various
subjects contained in the above mentioned report and docu-
ments, ask leave to report the following resolves.
Which are respectfully submitted,
THOMAS L. WINTHROP, Per order.
Resolved, That the report and other documents be placed
on file, in the Secretary's oiBce, and that the agents appoint-
ed by a resolve passed the 30th January last be, and they
are hereby authorized to cause the land divided to the share
of this Commonwealth, by the aforementioned instrument, to
be sold in like manner, and with the same authority as is
provided in the resolves of said 30th January :
Resolved, That the agent of the Land Office be, and he
is hereby directed to notify George Downes and Joseph
Lee, Esqrs. in whose hands certain demands were placed for
colleetion by the late Commissioners of the Land Office, to
deliver to the authorized agents of the State of Maine, when
called for, the demands that have been assigned to the said
E. S. CURTIS— STATE PRISON YARD. 6^9
State, or the amount that may have been previously received
therefor, and also to require of said Downes and Lee to col-
lect the several demands assigned to this Commonwealth, as
soon as may be, and transmit their accounts for adjustment.
Resolved, That the agent of the Land Office be, and he
hereby is directed to take such measures in relation to a pro-
cess now pending at Castine, upon the petition of the late
Commissioners of the Land Office, for partition of certain
lands in Penobscot, Surrey and Ellsworth, as the said agent
shall think advisable, and for the interest of this Common-
wealth.
CHAP. XIX.
On the petition of Elijah S. Curtis.
June 13th, 1833.
Whereas, Elijah S. Curtis, has presented a petition to the
Legislature, praying, for the reasons in the petition stated,
that he may be released from the debt due by him to the
Commonwealth, for the labour of convicts in the State Pris-
on ; and said petition is not yet definitely acted upon, and
suits for said labour have been commenced against him, and
are now pending : Therefore,
Resolved, That all such suits shall be continued, until the
Legislature shall have defi.nitely acted on said petition, and
the courts in which such suits are pending, are directed to
take notice of this order and govern themselves accordingly.
CHAP. XX.
Resolve for 8 4,630 31 cts. to repair the wall of the State
Prison Yard. June 14th, 1833.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the public Treasury,
for the purpose of finishing the new wall at tlie State Prison,
660 FUEL, &c.— COMM. ON ACCOUNTS.
the sum of four thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and
thirty-one cents, to be received from the Treasury, by the
Warden of said prison, in such sums as the Directors thereof
shall from time to time direct ; and His Excellency the Gov-
ernor, with the advice of Council, is hereby requested to
dnwv his warrant on the Treasurer for the said suras accor-
dingly.
CHAP. XXI.
Resolve to authorize Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the General
Court, to purchase fuel, ^c. June 14th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the public Treasury
of this Commonwealth, to Jacob Kuhn, Messenger of the
General Court, the sum of one thousand dollars, to enable
him to purchase fuel, and such other articles, as may be ne-
cessary for the use of Hie General Court, together with the
Governor, and Council's Chamber, the Secretary's, Treasur-
er's, and Adjutant General's Office, and also, for the Land
Office, he to be accountable for the expenditure of the same.
CHAP. XXIL
Resolve lo pay Committee on Accounts.
June 14th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid ont of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee on ac-
counts, lor tiieir attendance on that service during the present
session, the sum of one dollar per day in addition to their
pay, as members of the Legislature, viz :
William W. Parrolt, twelve days, - - S 13
Joseph Strong, Jr. twelve days, - - - 12
Augustus Tower, twelve days, - - - - 12
Perly Hunt, twelve days, - - - - IS
Minott Thayer, twelve days, - - - - IS
WARD LOCK.— CLERKS OF LEGIS. 661
CHAP. XXIU.
Resolve for paying Ward Lock.
June 14th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid from the Treas-
ury of this Commonwealth, to Ward Lock, Assistant Mes-
senger to the Governor and Council, two dollars for each, and
every day he has been or may be employed in that capacity
during ihe present session of the Council.
CHAP. XXIV,
Resolve for paying the Clerics of the two Houses of the Le-
gislature. June 14th, 1823.
Resolved, That there be paid out of tha Treasury of this
Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate, and to the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, and to the Assistant Clerk of
the Senate, respectively, six dollars per day, for each, and
every day's attendance they have been, or may be employed
in that capacity, during the present session of the Legisla-
ture ; and that there be paid to the Clerk of the House of
Representatives, the additional sum of two dollars, for each,
and every day he may be so employed, in consideration of
his having performed the whole of the clerical duty of that
House.
And that the Governor is requested to draw his warrant
accordingly.
ROLL No. 89 MAY, 1823.
The Committee on Accounts having examined V(i& several
accounts they now present Report,
That there is now due to the several corporations and per-
sons, hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their names, res-
pectively; which, when allowed and paid, will be in full
discharge of the said accounts, to the dates therein mention-
ed : which is respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM W. PARROTT, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Adams, for supporting Sarah Hewitt, Susanna
Carap,Philena Hill, Anny Briggs' child^ Freeman
Blakely, Jemmy Herry and wife, Robert Harris,
and Emery Newton, to June 1st, 18S3, 230 00
Amherst, for supporting Jane and Polly Richard-
son, to May 26th, 1823, 37 80
Attleborough, for supporting Penelope Sally, to
August lud, 1822, 62 13
Boston City, for supporting Sundry Paupers, to
April 30th, 1823, 6616 26
Brimfield, for supporting John Shelburn, to June
1st, 1823, 17 74!
Blanford, for supporting Samuel Walker, Vial
Brewster, and lattle Brewster, to May 26th,
1823, 186 30
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 663
Ditto, for supporting Susan Burdick, to Mny S4th,
1823,
Bradford, for supporting Joshua L. Allcies, to June
1st, 1823,
Barre, for supporting Rhoda Forsbury, to June
1st, 1823,
Boxford, for supporting Mehitable Hall, to June
1st, 1823.
Brighton, for supporting John T. Baker, to June
1st, 1823,
Belchertown, for supporting Phebe Butler, Charity
Porter, Elizabeth Porter, and child, to May 21st,
18£3,
Bellingham, for supporting Nathan Freeman and
wife, to May 26th, 1823,
Beverly, for supporting Sundry Paupers, to June
1st, 1823,
Barnstable, for supporting Joseph Thompson, to
June 1st, 1823,
Braintree, for supporting Titus, (a black) Ann
Gowith, and three children, to June 1st, 1823,
Charlestown, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1823,
Chester, for supporting (leorge Buttalph and wife,
Benjamin Power, and Clarissa Hardy, to June
1st, 1823,
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to May
27lh, 1823,
Concord for supporting John Troop, and Samuel
Piatt, to April 1st, 1823,
Cheshire,for supporting Ephraim Richardson, Polly
Cooper, Noel Randel, Betsy Grandison, Mary
Diamond, Thursey Jones and child, to May
23rd, 1823,
Chesterfield, for supporting Rachel Policy, and
Sally Polley, to May 28th, 1823,
Carver, for supporting Martin Grady, to June 1st,
1823,
Colrain, for supporting Lydia Cromach, Sally
Cromach, Emery Cromach, Samuel Dean, C.
O'Neal, William Newhouse, Peter R. Hart, and
Alexander Hart, to May 26th, 1823, 15S 10
88
56 43
19 40
18 52
64 55
46 80
46 00
73 40
184 59
18 00
70 69
1360 21
74 58
18 00
81 18
106 5
37 80
46 80
664 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Cambridge, for supporting Sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1823, 808 62
Dceifield, for supporting John Freeman, Benjamin
Munn, Daniel A His, Lovena Wlieiheul, Dwiglit
Welles, Peter Stamm, Hannah Stamm, Ordeha
Whetheutt, and Kuney vV hetheutt, to May 31st,
1833, 13g 80
Dartmouth, for supporting Ann Carter, and Fran-
cis Freeman, to May SOih, 1823, 93 60
Duxbury, for supporting Eleazer Simmons, Cyrus
Simmons, and James Pride, to June 9th, 18i3, 63 31
Danvers, for supporting sundry paupiers, to June
1st, 1823, 512 33
Dedham, for supporting Edward Carden, to June
1st, 1823, 31 63
Enfield, for supporting Deborah Butterworth, to
April 8th, 1823, 40 75
Edgartown, for supporting Emanuel Salvers, to
May 20th, 1823, 46 80
Foxborough, for supporting Lewis Varen, to May,
1823, 4 50
Falmouth, for supporting Edward Edwards, to
January 19th, 1823, 46 80~
Framinghara, for supporting James Higgs, and
Daniel Campbell, to June 1st, 1823. 33 10
Goshan, for supporting Richard Marlbone, to May
23rd, 1823, 29 70
Gill, for supporting Sarah Lyons and Mary Law-
son, to May 21st, 1823, 126 00
Great Barrington, for supporting Isaac Hoose, Ma-
ry Hoose, Clarissa Lindsley, Lucy Porter, Dorcas
Webster, Anna Hewitt, and Joanna Porter, to
May 28, 1823, 120 80
Granville, for supporting Samuel Gallup, and Sally
Stewart, to May 28, 1823, 37 80
Gloucester, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1823, 460 34
Heath, for supporting Mary Dewandalier. to June
1st, 1823, 35 00
Hancock, for supporting Richard Sprague and fam-
ily, and Hannah Winn, to June 1st, 1823, 64 4
Hanson, for supporting Rhoda Prince, to June 1st,
1823, 32 85
PAUPER ACCOUNTS, 665
Hubbardston, for supporting Abua Hybra, to De-
cember 31st, 1822, S3 41
Hamilton, for supporting OUve Cook, to April 7th,
1823, 46 80
Ipswich, for supporting John O. Brian, to June 1st,
1823, 62 10
Longmeadow, for supporting Edmond Booth, Cyn-
tha Millross, Dorcas Coval, and Cyntha MiU-
ross, Jr. to May 20th, 1823. 1^7 10
Lenox, for supporting Tabitha Lewis, Mary Davis,
Moses Mc'Graw, Thomas Deonison, Mary Ful-
ler, and Maria Palmer, to May 22d, 1823, 95 64-
Leyden, for supporting Tacy Fuller, Arnold Clark;
Ruth Abel, Joseph Abel, and Desiah Stanton, to
May 19th, 1823, 78 80
Lanesborougn, for supporting Amelia Bennett, Eu-
nice Foot, Riciiard Jacksou, and Lucy Gomau,
to May 21th, 1823, 63 50
Lancaster, for supporting William Warner, Wil-
liam Sharrar, and Samuel Harris, to June 1st,
18t3, 43 43
Lee. for supporting .lonathan Manchester, Richard
Smallraan, Lucy Fuller, Thomas Peters, Lucin-
da Shepherdson, Caroline Shepherdson, Emery
Shepherdson, Shelden Blanchard, and William
Wilson and wife, to May 26th, 18S3, 165 22
Montague, for supporting Edward Potter and wife,
to May 20th. 1823, 64 80
Monson, for supporting Rhoda Jackson, Jack Jack-
son, James Wallice and five children, viz : — Sa-
muel, Roxa, Henry, Dickenson and Benjamin,
to January 1st, 1823, 73 43
Mendon, for supporting Alason Thayer, Andrew
Thayer, and Susan Thayer, lo June 1st, 1823, 40 70
Medfield, for supporting George Turner, to Novem-
ber 5th, 1822, ^ 46 80
Medway, for supporting Charles Parkerson and
James Lewis, to January 30th, 1823, 40 86
Milton, for supj)orting Archibald M'Donald, John
J. Myers, James Bowman, and Martha L. Hutch-
ings and child, to May 28th, 1823, 73 50
Marblehead, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1823, 154 8
666 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Northfield, for supportiug Amos Uiley, to May 25th,
1823,
Newmarlborough, for supporting Susannah Smith,
to May 14th, 182S,
Northborough, for supporting Jacob V\%st, to May
20th, 1823,
New-Bedford, for supporting sundry paupers, to
April 1st, 1823,
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers to
June 1st, 1823,
Newbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1823,
Northampton, for supporting sundry paupers, to
June 1st, 1823,
Oakham, for supporting Toby Barker, to May 24th,
18 £3,
Plymouth, for supporting James Reed, Rachel De-
cane, John M. Ross, Sarah Scott, and Thomas
O. Shea, to June 1st, 1823,
Palmer, for supporting William and Phebe Meuden,
to June 4th, 1823,"
Russell, for supporting Mr. Newton, Mary Steb-
bins, and Sally Harrington, to May 28th, 1828,
Rowley, for supporting Elle Collins, Eliza Fields
and child, to June 2d, 1823,
Richmoiid, for supporting Nancy Jessup, to May
a3d, 1823,
Rochester, for supporting O win Kelley, to May 27th,
1823,
Rehoboth, for supporting John Solomou, wife and
two children, Nancy Hill and child, Rosannah
Freeman and child, Levina Mason, Lucy Kellej,
Dinah Kelley and child, to May 30th, 1823,
Robinson William, as guardian to the Dudley In-
dians for supplies, to May 1st, 1823,
Rutland, for supportiug Wm. Henderson, Phillip
Doras, Daniel Peterson, and Nancy Freeman, to
January 30th, 1823,
Roxbury, for supporting sundry paupers, to June
1st, 1823,
South wick, for supporting George Reed, to June 1st,
1823,
63 00
49
10
31
50
681
30
762
10
672
25
249
13
20 70
78
54
36 00
56 70
48
80
53
60
46 80
178
20
74 71
75
41
150 80
66 20
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 667
Sudbury, for supporting Hugh Patterson, to Febru-
ary 2d, 1823, 28 79
Soutlibridgfr, for supporting London Derry, and
Quack Baxton, to May 17th, 1823, 157 50
vStockbridge, for supporting John Morrison, Azuba
Morrison, Samuel Ratlibone, Hannah Rathbone,
Mary Rice, Mar<i;ery Curtis, Sally Peel, and Sa-
rah Mulbert, to June 1st, 1823, 169 65
Sandisfield, for supporting Jonathan Bolles, Rich-
ard Dickson and wife, to May 2d, 1823, 56 70
Somerset, for supporting Ruth Hill, Polly Hill, and
William Eliot, to May 28th, 1823, 54 24
Swansey, foi* supporting Diadama Burton, Mathew
Durnips, Eliza Mason, and Hannah Robbins, to
May 24th, 1823, 68 40
Shutesbury, for supporting Peter Jackson and wife,
and John Campbell, to May 13lh, 18^^3, 111 SO
Sandwich, for supporting Esther Raymond, to June
1st, 1823, 18 90
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to June 1st,
1823, 1613 17
Scituate, for supporting Richard Taylor and Ben-
jamin Brooks, to January 7th, 182:^. 36 71
Saugus, for supporting Joseph Clarenbole, to June
1st, 1823, 17 SO
Templeton, for supporting James Nichols, to June
4th, 1823, 9 00
Tyringham, for supporting Richard Gardner and
wife, David M^Neale, Asa Thompson, Hannah
Harrison, Betsy Harrison, and Aurelia Harrison,
to May 28th, 1823, 105 75
Taunton, for supporting sundry paupers, to May
31st, 1823, 254 84
West Springfield, for supporting James Aid rich,
Hannah Sbivay, Simeon Scranton, Fanny Scran-
ton, Mosiah Scranton, to May 24th, 1823, 59 19
Westfield, for supporting Asonath Gibson, George
Gibson, Mathew Smith, John N. Berry, Esther
Berry, Stephen Newbury, Phebe Rose, and Ca-
leb Weller, to June 1st, 1823, 138 OS
Westford, for supporting Ephraim Spaulding, and
William H. Smith, to June 1st, i823, ' 37 15
668 SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Western, for supporting Daniel Mundell, to May
28th, 1823, 46 80
Worthington, for supporting Peter Stranton. to May
28th, 1823, 46 80
Westhanipton, for supporting Lemuel Calver and
wife, John Gay and wife, Garnet Decker, and
Bridget Clark, to May 27th, iS2S, 108 63
Ward, for supporting Alexander Boylston, to May
19th, 1823, ' 35 70
Worcester, for supporting Jonas Brooks, and Wil-
liam Joblin, to June 1st, 1823, 36 90
Washington, for supporting*James Robbius and
wife, and Elizabeth Williams, to May 2ad, 1823, 43 85
Wade, Thomas, keeper of the house of Correction,
for supporting Sundry Paupers in Essex County,
including what was allowed by the Court of Ses-
sions, to June 1st, 1823, 430 07
Wareham, for supporting William Long, to May
20th, 1823, 63 00
Williamstown, for supporting Asahel Foot and
wife, and two children, Rachel Galusha, James
Law, John G. Hendersoll, Wealthy Demon, Ad-
na Demon, Lucy West, John Schamehorn, Betsy
Jackson, Betsy and David Taylor, two children,
to May 27th, 1823, ' 195 15
Walpole, for supporting Elizabeth Ellis, to 3une
1st, 1823, 18 61
Total, 8 20,881 97
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNT,
May Session, 1823.
Austin Nathaniel, Sheriff of Middlesex County, for
returning votes, &c. to May 31, ]823, 6 64
Badger Thomas, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking inquisitions to June 10th, 1823, 39 36
Coleman William, for expense arising, for taking a
dead body, 5 00
Collaraore Nathaniel, Coroner of Plymouth Coun-
ty, for taking inquisitions to June 1st, 1823, 20 00
PRINTERS, AND MISCEL. ACCOUNTS. 669
Davis Wendell, Sheriff of Barnstable County, for
returning votes, &c. to June 1st, 18S3, 4 80
Glove! Benjamin, Coroner of Nantucket County,
for taking inquisitions to June 1st, 18S3, 19 90
Hoyt Epaphras, Sheriff of Franklin County, for
returning votes, &c. 8 00
Hews Samuel, Coroner of Suffolk County for tak-
ing inquisition- to June 2nd, 1823, IS 76
Lang William, Coroner of Essex County, for tak- '
ing inquisitions to June 1st, 1823, 36 64
W^orth Jethro, Sheriff of Dukes County, for return-
ing votes. &c. to June 1st, 1823, 8 00
Wade Foster William, Coroner of Essex County,
for taking inquisitions to June 3d, 1828, 28 46
PRINTERS, AND MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS,
May, 1823.
Allen C. W. for publishing the Laws to August
2nd, lh23, 16 66
Ardle Henry Mr, for quills, delivered Secretary's
Office, to June 10th, 1823, 45 00
Burdit James W. for Stationary to June 9tb, 1823, 130 05
Bird Abraham, for Lumber for the State House to
June 1st, 1823, 29 50
Baxter Rufus jr. for repairing Carpets in the State
House to June 1st, 1823, 8 00
Bacon Henry, Assistant Messenger to the General
Court to June 14th, 1823, 40 00
Gushing k. Andrews, for publishing the Laws to
June 1st, 1823, 16 66
Clapp W. W. for Newspapers furnished to the
General Court to June 15th, 1823, 25 80
Chase Warren, Assistant Messenger to the General
Court, to June 14th, 1823, 40 00
Cutting Elijah W. Assistant Messenger to the Gen-
eral Court, to June 14th, 1823, 36 00
Durant Wm. for repairs, &c. on the State-House,
to June 7th, 1823, 43 50
670 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Judd Sylvanus, Jr. for publishing tlie laws, to June
1st, 1833, 20 66
Kubn Jacob, for sundry materials, labor, fuel, &c.
balance in full to June 5th, 1823, 78 13
Lindsey Benjamin, for publishing laws, S,x. to June
1st, 1823, 16 66
Loring Josiab, for Stationary, to June 11th, 1823, 93 24^
Manning William, for publishing laws and sundry
advertisements, to June 10th, 1833, 61 91
Russell and Gardner, for paper and printing for the
several offices of the Government, to June 12th,
1823, 1193 91
Rider Margaret, for her son's services as Page to
the House of Representatives, to June 14th, 1823, 20 00
Webster Charles, for publishing laws, &c. to June
1st, 1823, 16 66
Palfrey Warwick, for publishing laws, &c. to May
23d, 1823, 37 32
Reed Daniel, for furnishing news-papers, to valu-
ation Committee, &c. 6 36
Russell Benjamin, for advertising lands in Maine,
furnishing news-papers to the Legislature, to
May 3d, 1823, 64 10
Young and Minns, for publishing laws, &c. to
March 7th, 1823, 45 86
Wood and Lyman, for publishing laws, &c. to May
26th, 1823, 34 33
Levi Lincoln, Hon. for fees and legal costs, on the
suit Commonwealth vs. Amos S. Hill, 113 00
S 2233 31
MILITARY ACC0VNT8.— May Session, 182^.
jlid-de-Camps, and Brigade Majors.
Sanderson Simson, Aid-de-Camp, 6th Division,
to June 6th, 1823, S2 92
Thayer Minott, Aid-de-Camp, 1st Division, to
June 12th, 1823, 8 54
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 671
Richardson Wyman, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade,
Sd Division, to June 6lh, 18S3, 14 44
Edwards Elisha, Brigade Major, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to April 15th, 18^3, 11 67
Mjutant's.
Adams Stephen, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d Di-
vision, to January, 1833, 23 64
Bosworth Stephen, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to July 1st, 1822, 7 64
Billings Ashael, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to April 7th, 1823, S5 00
Bancroft William, A. 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade,
3d Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 64
Barrett Benjamin, 4th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 6th
Division, to January 1st, 1823, 23 64
Collins Michael, 3d Regiment, 3d Brigade, 5th Di-
vision, to May 25th, 1323, 24 29
Coolidge Nathaniel, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to April 15tli, 1822, 5 62
Callender Daniel L. Artillery, Sd Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to June 1st, 1823, 20 83
May ward Caleb, 2d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to May 7th, 1823, 25 00
Jones Timothy, 3d Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th Di-
vision, to June 1st, 1823, 18 04
Lincoln Asa. 5lh Regiment, ist Brigade, 4th Di-
vision, to January 1st, 1823, 23 64
Leonard Gary, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to March 17th, 1828, 25 00
Morse .\loses L. 5th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th
Division, to August 31st, 1822, 14 74
Munroe Harris, 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, 1st Di-
vision, to May 14th, 1823, 25 00
Root Albert A. 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7th
Division, to February i5th, 1823, 625 00
Shephard Amos, 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th
Division, to May 13th, 1823, 3t6
Sylvester Fordyce, 4th Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th
Division, to July 5th, 1828, 16 04
no
672 MILITARY ACCOUN i S.
Sawyer Ebeuezer, Cavalry, 2d Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to August St St, 1823, SO 6^
Sayles Richard, Cavalry, Sd Brigade, i st Division,
to September 7th, J8SS, 3 75
Tidd William, Sd Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3d Divi-
sion, to June 5th, 18S3, SO 83
T^wne John, Artillery, 1st Brigade Sd Division, to
February SOth, 18S3, S5 83
Upton Stephen, Cavalry, 1st Brigade, Sd Division,
to February Slst, 18S3, 15 00
Wheaton Jonathan, 1 st Regiment, Sd Brigade, 5th
Division, to March. 1823, 25 00
Whiting Solon, 1st Regiment, Sd Brigade, 6th Di-
vision, to March 1st, 1823, 25 00
Expense of Hauling Artillery.
Ensign Thomas, Sd Brigade, 7th Division, to Sep-
tember 5th, 1822, 5 00
Johnson John, 1st Brigade, 3d Division, to October
8th, 1822, 10 00
Maynard Daniel F. Sd Brigade, 6th Division, to
October 15th, 1822, 5 00
Perry Lemuel, Sd Brigade, 5th Division, to October
11th 1822, 7 50
Sheverick William, 3d Brigade 5th Division to
September 1822, 10
Courts Martial.
Davis, Nathaniel M. Judge Advocate of the 5th
Division for expense of a Division Court Martial,
holden at Plymouth, on the 25th of March, 1823,
whereof Colonel Nathaniel Nelson, was Presi-
dent, - 78 d8
AGGREGATE OF ROLL, NO. 89 673
Aggregate of Roll, ^o. 89
Expense of State Paupers,
20,881
97
•' of SheriflFs and Coroners,
189
56
'" of ('ourts Martial,
78
08
*' of Aids-de-Camp, and Brigade
Majors. 57
57
of Adjutants,
495
95
" of Hauling Artillery,
37
50
" of Printers and Miscellaneous,
2233
31
$ 23,973 94
Mesolvedf That there be allowed and paid out of the pub-
lic treasury, to the several corporations and persons men-
tioned in this Roll, the sums set against such corporations^
and persons' names respectively, amounting in the whole to
Twenty-Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Three
Dollars and Ninety-Four Cents, the same being in full dis-
charge of the accounts and demands to which they refer.
In Senate, June 14//?, 1823,
Read and passed.
Sent down for coacurrence,
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, President.
House of Representatives, June 14M, 1823,
Twice read and concurred.
WILLIAM C. JARVIS, Speaker.
June I4ih, 1823, — Approved,
WILLIAM EUSTIS
eommonUieiiUfi of ^nmMfumtttf^.
• Sbcretary's Office, September 18, 182S.
I CERTIFY, That I have examined and compared
the foregoing Resolves, 8fc. with the originals in this of-
fice, and find them to be correctly printed.
ALPEN BRADFORD,
Secretary of the Commomvealth.
INDEX
TO RESOLVES OF THE LEGISLATURE AT THE SESSION iN
MAY AND JUNE, 1823.
B.
Bailard fc Wright, printers to the State, - - - - 651
c.
Canai Gloucester, Shares to be paid for, . . - - . 650
Clerks of General Court, allowance to, - - - - 661
Coney William, Land confirmed to, 649
Committee on Accounts, - - - - - 66C
CommoBwealth elects to pay Money to Maine - - - 655
" Land in Maine to be sold - - - 656
Curtis, E. S. further time to pay the State, - - - 659
D.
Dukes County, Tax granted for, - - 653
G.
Governor's Speech, - . . , . 633
" Messages, - - . . 647—651
Gloucester Canal Shares to be paid for, - - - 650
Going William, Keeper of State Prison, allowed additional pay, 654
L.
Land, certain, in Maine to be sold, - - - 656
" in Maine, Report upon, to be lodged in Secretary's Office, 658
" '^ Commissioners to take care of, - - 658
Lock Ward, Assistant Messenger, grant to, - - 661
Maine, $ 30,000 to be paid *o. instead of Land, - - 65B
INDEX.
^ M.
Members of Legislature, pay established, - - - 64?
Messenger to General Court, his pay, - . - . 654
" « " grant to, for fuel, &c. - - 660
P.
Perkins Warren, Resoive on his Petition, - - - 648
R.
Ilepresentatives, i:c. pay established, - - - 648
Ruggles N. authorised to convey Real Estate, - - 657
Ryan Elizabeth, Land released to, - - - - 656
s.
State Prison, Wall of Yard to, to be finished, - - 659
" " $ 3000, allowed for use of, ... 650
SaflR)rd Daniel, authorised to sell Real Estate. - - 652
T.
Ttpasurer. authorised to borrow Money, - _ . 650
■a
RESOLVES
OP
THE GENERAL COURT
OF THE
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
W^HICtf COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH OF JANUARY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-FIRST OF FEBRUARY, ONE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR.
Fuhlished agreeably ta a Resolve of I6th January, 1812
BOSTON :
PRINTED BY TRUE AND GREENE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.
1824.
RESOLVES
OP THE
GEJ^ERM COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS,
PASSED AT THEIR SESSION,
WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH OF JANUARY, AND
ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST OF FEBRUARY, ONE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR.
GOVERlSrOR'S MESSAGE.
His Excellency the Governor sent down from the
Council Chamber, by the Secretary of the Comr
monwealth, to the Senate and House of Bepresen-
tatives, the following
MESSAGE.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives^
On your return to the Capital, at the commencement of
a new year, to resume the important duties incumbent on
the immediate representatives of the people, it must be a
source of great satisfaction to have observed the general
prosperity, which, by the blessing of Heaven, prevails
throughout the Commonwealth ; and which is, ulso, the
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682 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
best comment on our institutions, civil and sac'red. To
the morals and good habits of the people, we are indebted
for that respect for the laws, which secures their due ob-
servance, and for the orderly and discreet conduct, which
guarantees to us the peaceable enjoyment of our rights
and privileges.
Agriculture, the stable source of the health and strength
of the State, encouraged and aided by government, is
gradually improving ; and with a continuance of the patri-
otic zeal and exertions of individual citizens, will attain
higher degrees of perfection. Manufiicturing establish-
ments are extending and increasing ; and as the means of
protecting them by discriminating duties on foreign im-
ports, is, by the constitution, vested exclusively in the
federal government, it is confidently hoped, that, on a re-
vision of the existing tariff, an increase of duty on certain
articles, and on those particularly which are of primary
necessity, may be considered as accordant with, if not re-
quired by nationjil policy. Our commerce and fisheries^
those great sources of wealth, and of that peculiar force,
on which we rely for our maritime defence, have been
successful. The arts and sciences, our schools, and other
seminaries of learning, existing on permanent foundations,
and supported by public opinion, are advancing in imr
provement.
4 The fiscal affairs of the Commonwealth, also, afford
cause of satisfaction. By the report which the Treasurer
w^ill lay before you, it will appear, that on the first of the
present month, the balance of property in favor of the
Commonwealth, exclusive of the bank tax and auction
duty, amounted to $142,522,03, of which, g 33,.342,84 was
in cash.
The claim of the Commonwealth on the government of
flie United States, for military supplies and services ren-
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 683
-dered during the last war, engaged the early attention of
the Executive. Under the authority of a resolve of the
General Court, passed February 11th, 1823, two Agents
were appointed in June last, who proceeded immediately
to Washington, to adjust and procure a settlement of this
claim. With the exception of an interval occasioned by
the sickness of one of them, they have been constantly
engaged in preparing and presenting it in detail ; which,
as I had anticipated, is found to be a work requiring much
time and labor. I transmit, herewith, the latest communi-
cation received from the Agents, exhibiting the actual
state of the claim, and from which a judgment may be
formed of the probability of a result founded on just prin-
ciples, and conformable to the expectations of the Com-
monwealth.
In conformity to a resolve of the 13th of June last, a
warrant has been issued and payment made to the State
of Maine, of thirty thousand dollars, in lieu of lands, falling
to this Commonwealth, within that State, and set off by
Commissioners, appointed under the act of separation, as
jtn indemnity for the duties and obligations assumed by
the said State of Maine, relative to the Indians therein.
Since the last session, I have received a letter from the
War Department, giving notice that there are ready to be
delivered at the United States' Arsenal, in Watertown,
the quota of arms due to this Commonwealth, as authoriz-
ed by the act of April, 1808, for arming and equipping the
whole body of the militia of the United States.
From the statement of the Adjutant General, it will ap-
pear that the number of muskets assigned to Massachu-
setts at this issue, amounts to 4431. Of this number
there would be due to the State of Maine, 811 muskets
for the time she constituted a part of this State, calculat-
^84 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
ing the number of her militia and following the same rule
of apportionment which was observed at the time of her
separation. On examining the act of separation, it does
not appear that the Executive is authorized to deliver to
Maine any arms which may have been subsequently re-
ceived by Massachusetts. Should the Legislature coin-
cide with the opinion of the Executive on the equity and
justice of delivering to Maine her proportion of the pre-
sent issue, an authority from them will be necessary to
carry it into effect.
Agreeably to the provisions of a law of the Common-
wealth, of June 1811, the Governor and Council have vis-
ited and examined the State Prison in Charlestown ; and
are entirely satisfied^ of its usefulness and importance. —
The Legislature, having at their last session, appointed a
committee of their own body to examine into the state
and management of the institution, will probably receive
from their committee, all necessary information relative
thereto.
Coming from every part of the State, you, gentlemen,
will bring with you such information as will enable you to
judge of any changes or alterations in the laws which may
be required by local circumstances, or by the progressive
increase of the population and resources of the State.
There are two objects which have always appeared to
me to merit the constant care and the first attention of the
Legislature ; our primary schools and the militia. With-
out the former, a knowledge of our civil rights would not
have pervaded the great body of the people ; the princi-
ples of civil liberty would neither have been understood
nor rightly appreciated ; and without the latter we could
not have engaged in the contest which eventually estab-
lished them. Imperfect as our militia system was pre-
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 685
viously to the revolution, an appeal may be safely made
to history and to the recollection of the few remaining
sages who conceived the great design of our emancipa-
tion, that but for the militia, the defence of our rights
would not have been attempted. An appeal to arms was
m fact an appeal to the militia, the only existing force at
the time. If independence is a blessing dear to freemen,
and worthy of transmission to posterity, the arm that sus-
tained it is entitled to the gratitude and support of every
friend to his country. If the system which regulates it be
imperfect, let it be improved, and let those who are loud-
est in its censure bear in mind that under its influence,
imperfect as it is, a degree of discipline and of military
knowledge has been attained which has hitherto never
been equalled ; and which does the highest honor to the
zeal and exertions of those who compose this patriotic
band. By this institution, the moral as well as physi-
cal force of the State is increased — it constitutes our safe-
ty against any aggression on the laws, assures our internal
tranquility, and forms our only defence as it relates to
other powers. If there has been any period in our histo-
ry, since the revolution, admonishing us to polish this arm^.
the march of political events in Europe and their probable
extension to our southern hemisphere points to the pre-
sent in a forcible manner.
Several attempts have been made to carry into effect a
plan suggested by military men of high consideration for
a radical change in its organization. — That this duty
should be performed exclusively by young men of a cer-
tain age. Without entering into the merit of this plan, or
the objections against it, it is sufficient that the sense and
temper of the people are opposed to it, and that its advo-
cates have not been able to procure its adoption, either by
em GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
the federal or State Governments. Resting then on the
old establishment, it remains to improve and encourage it
as we find it. The time and expense required of those
who compose this body imposes on them a burden, which
is not in reality made lighter from being voluntary. Ta
restore an equilibrium in this burden would be an act of
justice, and would operate as an encouragement and a&
a partial remuneration to those who would still be in ad-
vance of other citizens in point of expense.
Inconveniences have been experienced, and complaints'
have been made, that the office of clerk of the courts, and
that of register of probate, are in some instances held by
the same individual. It is therefore suggested, whether
t may not be expedient to provide by law that the two.
offi;ces be not held by one person.
The circulation of capital and credit forms the great
l^ver which moves agriculture, commerce and manufac-
tures, in this, as well as in every other commercial State.
Some of our citizens by extending their capital and credit
too far have failed in their objects ; and have involved
themselves and their families in distress and ruin. I
therefore recommend a revision of the Insolvent Laws,
that it may be considered whether relief may not be af-
forded to this unfortunate description of citizens, consist-
ently with the just rights of the creditor, and with that
confidence which is indispensable in all commercial trans-
actions.
The House of Representatives being the constitutional
Source of all taxation, are to judge of and determine the
amount of the burdens required by the public interests to
be imposed on the people. With them also rests the cor-
responding duty of superintending the expenditures, and
of seeing that they are faithfully applied to the objects of
their appropriation.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE, 687
On the separation of Maine, an expectation very gener-
ally prevailed, that the expenses of government would be
reduced in proportion to the reduced population of the
Commonwealth. In degree this has been effected. To
what extent this rule ought to apply, and whether any fur-
ther diminution may be made, consistently with the public
interests,appears to be the province of the House to inquire*
In considering and determining the expediency of any
further reduction in the expenditures of the State, the
Legislature may be assured of an entire disposition on my
part to co-operate with them ; for in my judgment, the fru-
gality enjoined by our constitution is one of the virtues es-
sential to its preservation, and peculiarly required in a re-
public, of which the people who bear the burden of taxa-
tion are the real sovereigns.
We are at peace with all the world. The frank and
able exposition of our relations with other nations, given to
Congress, by the President of the United States, at the
present session, affords a fair prospect of its continuance^
unless it should be interrupted by militar}^ operations in
our more immediate neighborhood.
It is impossible to behold without the deepest interest,
the noble cause in which the Greeks are engaged ; and the
gallant manner in which it is maintained. They are con-
tending for the right inherent in every people, the right of
self government, for the independence to which every na-
tion has natural and irresistable claims, and for the religion
transmitted to us by our ancestors, our comfort in this life
and the ground of all our hopes in that which is to come.
The sympathies of those citizens who are taking an activ6
part in raising funds for their relief are highly honorable
to them, and unquestionably reciprocated by every benev-
olent and philanthropic naind in Christendom. Every aid
91
688 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
andassistance,not incompatible with the course ofpoHcypur-
sued by our government for more than thirty years, should
be extended to them. In what manner and to what extent
this policy may be applied is properly and safely left to
the Federal Government to decide. In one prominent and
important truth all will be agreed. Our institutions and
independence are committed to us by our ancestors in trust
for posterity. They are the fruit of toil and blood, of moral
and piiysical exertions, of systems of education and reli-
gion, with corresponding habits which wear the stamp of
two centuries. Our obligation to preserve and transmit
them inviolable, is paramount to any duty we may be call-
ed to perform in behalf of any other nation whatever.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, January 7th, 1824,
GOVERNOR'S MESMGE. 680
CHAP. XXV.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives ,
The Secretary will lay before you, a statement present^
^d to the Executive, by the Directors of the State Prison
in Charlestown, refering to certain labor performed by the
convicts for the use of the Massachusetts General Hospi-
tal. As the Legislature only is competent to determine
the question proposed by the Directors, I transmit their
communication for your consideration.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, January 10//t, 1824.
CHAP. XXVL
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
Since the last Session of the General Court, I have re-
ceived from the Governor of the State of Illinois a report
and resolutions adopted b}^ the General Assembly of that
State, referring to grants of land from the United States
for the purposes of education, with a request that the same
may be communicated to the Legislature of this State. I
have also recently received from the Governor of Tennes-
see, certain resolutions of the General Assembly of that
State. And I now transmit the same by the Secretary.
WILLIAM EUSTJS.
Council Chamber, January 10th, 1824.
690 TREASURER'S REPORT— MESSAGE.
CHAP. XXVII.
Resolve relative to the Treasurers Annual Report.
January 13th, 1824.
Resolved^ That the Treasurer of the Commonwealth^
and his successors in office, be, and they are hereby direct-
ed to omit to return in his or their annual report, the item
of balance due to this Commonwealth, from T. J. Skinner,
late Treasurer, deceased, and his sureties, &c. and also
the item due from the Commonwealth on due bills
and orders of ancient date ; Witnesses and Jurors* Rolls ;
Rolls for three and six months pay to the Continental Army,
in seventeen hundred and eighty; on Militia and Navy Rolls ;
supplies to Soldiers' families ; and abatement to sundry
towns on the new Emission Tax (so called) ; excepting so
much as may be paid to said Treasurer by said sureties,
or paid out by said Treasurer upon the claims last recited.
CHAP. XXVIII.
Gentlemen of the Senate^ and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I transmit herewith, in comformity to a resolution of
the tw o Houses, copies of the instructions given to, and
the correspondence with the Agents for prosecuting the
Claim of the Commonwealth on the government of the
United States for military services and supplies during the
late war ; together with the correspondence of the formej-
Executive with the Senators in Congress from this Com-
monwealth relative thereto.
WILLIAM EUSTia
Council (^hamber, January \5th^ 1824.
W, N. BOYLESTON— GEO. THACHER. 691
CHAP. XXIX.
Resolve directing the pay of $232,31, to W. JV. Boylston.
January 16, 1824.
On the petition of Ward N. Boylston, for the reasons
set forth in his petition :
Resolved^ That the Governor by and with advice of
Council is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the
Treasurer of this Commonwealth in favor of Ward N.
Boylston, Esq. for the sum of two hundred and thirty-two
dollars and thirty-one cents, being tlie amount said Boyls-
ton has paid into the Treasury, in part of the State Tax
for the year 1823, of the town of Princeton, and taken a
receipt in favor of Jacob W. Watson, Collector of said town ;
which payment was made by mistake ; on said Boylston's
giving up to said Treasurer the receipt aforesaid to be can-
celled.
And be it further resolved, That said Treasurer re-charge
the town of Princeton with the amount of their tax paid
by said Boylston.
CHAP. XXX.
Resolve in favor of the Hon. Geo. Thacher.
January 17th, 1824.
AVhereas the Hon. George Thacher has resigned his
OTice of Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in con-
sideration of his integrity and long continued services in
the station from which he has now retired :
Resolved, That there be paid to the Hon. George
Thacher the amount of his salary to the end of the quarter
upon which he had entered at the time of his resignation ;
and His Excellency the Governor is hereby requested to
draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the same.
692 ; S. MAXWELL— JAMES WALLIS, Jr.
CHAP. XXXI,
Resolve :fin the petition of Sylvester Maxwell.
January 21, 1824.
On the petition of Sylvester Maxwell and William W.
Fitch, guardians of Seth Nichols, a Spendthrift :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that
Roger Leavit and William R. Bates, Administrators on the
estate of Stephen Bates, deceased, intestate, be, and they
are hereby authorized, on receiving from said Guardians,
payment in full of the sums due from said Seth Nichols, to
the said Stephen Bates, with the interest thereof, to make
and execute a good and sufficient deed of the farm in
Charlemont, which the said Seth Nichols conveyed to the
said Stephen Bates, in his life time, and is bounded as fol-
lows, viz : South on the County road, east on land belong-
ing to the heirs of Amos Avery, deceased, north on land of
Josiah Ballard, west on land belonging to the heirs of Da-
vid Nichols, deceased ; and such deed duly executed shall
give to the person to whom it is made, as good a title to
said farm, as if it had been made and executed by said
Stephen Bates in his life time.
CHAP, XXXII.
Resolve on petition of James Wallis, Jr.
January 21, 1824.
On petition of James Wallis, Jr. Administrator of the
goods and estate of Samuel Kingsbury, late of Oxford, de-
ceased, praying authority for one William MacFarland, to
convey certain real estate to him in trust :
Resolved, That, for reasons set forth in said petition, the
said William MacFarland, be, and he is hereby authorized
to convey to said James Wallis, Jr. Administrator as afore-
said in trust, for the benefit of the creditors and heirs of
^aid deceased's estate, the one undivided half of the land
EASTERN LANDS. 693
described in said petition : The said James first giving
bonds with sufficient surity or surities, to the Judge of
Probate in said County of Worcester, conditioned that he
will faithfully administer on said premises and convey the
whole or so much of the same, as may not be necessary
for the payment of the deceased's debts, to the heirs of the
deceased, when required by said Judge of Probate.
Be it further resolved^ That the Judge of Probate for
said County of Worcester be, and he is hereby authorized
to grant licence for the sale of said estate in the same
manner and on the same conditions as if the deceased had
died seized thereof.
CHAP. XXXIII.
Resolve on Eastern Lands.
January 23, 1824.
The Committee on Eastern lands, to whom was referred
the order of both Houses, respecting the expediency of
continuing the sales of the lands of this Commonwealth
in the State of Maine, have had the same under consider-
ation, and ask leave to report the following resolve :
All which is respectfully submitted.
THOMAS L. WINTHROP, per order.
Resolved^ That it is inexpedient that any further sales be
made at a less price than twenty cents per acre, for the
townships remaining unsold ; and the agents for the sale
of Eastern lands are hereby directed to suspend the sale
of townships, except they can obtain the above price, or
more ; anti said agents are hereby directed to continue the
sale of the small lots and parcels of land, on the best terms
they can procure : Provided, The same be such as they
shall deem it for the interest of this Commonwealth to ac-
cept.
694 BARNSTABLE AND BUZZARD'S BAY.
CHAP. XXXIV.
Resolve relating to Barnstable and Buzzard's Bay,
January 24th, 1824.
Resolved, That in the present depressed state of our
foreign commerce, it is highl}^ important that the coasting
trade should receive every aid and facility that can be
given to it, consistently with the public interest, by open-
ing new communications from port to port on the sea
coast, and thus rendering the intercourse shorter and more
safe than it now is :
And whereas an opinion is confidently entertained by
many (and which has been expressed in a report of the
Hon. Albert Gallatin, when Secretary of the Treasury of
the United States,) that a communication by a canal from
Barnstable Bay to Buzzard's Bay was practable, and would
be highly useful in time of war, as well as in peace, in fa-
cilitating the intercourse between the eastern and the
southern and western States : Resolved, That the Legisla-
ture highly approve of the motion made in the Senate of
the United States, by the Hon. Mr. Lloyd of Massachu-
setts on this subject.
Resolved, That the Senators of this State in Congress
be instructed, and the Representatives be requested to
use their endeavors to obtain a survey, under the authority
of the United States' Government, of Buzzard's Bay, and
of Barnstable Bay, and of the land lying between them, to
ascertain the practicability of uniting said bays by a canal,
adapted to the passage of ships of war, as well as of mer-
chant ships and coasters.
FIRE ARMS.-^STATE HOUSE YARD. 695
CHAP. XXXV.
Resolve for the distribution of Fire Jlrms.
January 23d, 1824.
The joint Committee, to whom was referred that part
of his Excellency's message, that relates to the distribu-
tion of arms to the State of Maine, ask leave to report a
resolution :
For the Committee,
E. HOYT. .
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be re-
quested to authorize any agent who shall be appointed for
the purpose, by the Governor, or proper authority of the
State of Maine, to receive of the Officer of the United
States, who is or may be authorized to deliver the same,
that proportion of the arms now credited by the Ordnance
Department of the United States, to this Commonwealth,
which is founded upon the returns of the militia of the
late District, now State of Maine, which were included
in the returns of Massachusetts before its separation.
CHAP. XXXVI.
Resolve 021 petition of the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of Boston. January 24th, 1824.
Resolved, That the City Council of Boston be, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause the walls
of the State House yard, on the eastwardly and northward-
ly sides of the said yard, to be taken down, straightened
and rebuilt, with good hammered stone, and the eastward-
ly side set three feet nearer to the State House, in prder
to make the side-walk three feet wider ; to cause new
steps and side-walks to be made on the said northerly
and eastward sides of said yard ; and to erect an iron
picketed fence on said stone walls ; Provided, That if m
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696 ROBERT CROSBY— MESSAGE.
making the said alterations it shall be found necessary to
take down any part of the out buildings of the State
House, the same shall be rebuilt at the expense of said
City Council, to the approbation of the Governor and
Council.
Provided^ also, That the whole of the expense of said
alterations shall be defrayed by the City Council aforesaid.
^nd provided further y That said alterations shall not be
made without the consent of a Committee of three per-
sons to be appointed by his Excellency the Governor, by,
and with the advice and consent of Council ; and the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of Council,
is hereby authorized and requsted to appomt the Commit-
tee aforesaid.
CHAP. XXXVII.
Resolve in favor of Robert Crosby and others.
January 27th, 1824j
Resolved, That the Commissioners for the sale of East-
ern Lands be authorized, and they are hereby authorized
and directed to adjust the claim of Robert Crosby, Josiah
Crosby and Joseph Kinsman, assignees of Ichabod Thom-
as, for compensation for making a road through the South
half of township number six, in the ninth range of town-
ships, on the West side of Penobscot river, on such terms
as they shall deem to be equitable and right.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I transmit a report of the agent appointed in pursuance
of a resolve of the fourth of February last, for the prose-
cution of a suit then pending in the Court of Common
Pleas in the County of Worcester, commenced in conse-
JOHN SHERMAiS^.— THADDEUS CHENERY. 697
quence ©f the town of Thompson, in the State of Connec-
ticut having taxed a citizen of Dudley, in this Comroonr
wealth; that such further proceedings may be ordered
thereon, as the rights of individuals or of the State may
require.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber^ January 9.7th, 1824.
CHAP. XXXIX.
Resolve on the petition of John Sherman and others of the
town of Foxborough. January 28, 1824.
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that
James Paine, Clerk of said town of Foxborough, be au-
thorized and empowered to record the doings of a town
meeting held in said town on the sixth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
two ; and that the doings of said meeting be made valid in
law, the same as though they had been recorded at the
time of said meeting.
CHAP. XL.
On the petition of Thaddeus Chenery and others.
January 28th, 1824.
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Thaddeus Chenery, Isaac Chenery and Samuel Da-
man, or such of them as accept the trust aforesaid, be au-
thorized and empowered to sell at public or private sale
all the real estate given to the said Leonard Chenery, by
the said Isaac Chenery, in the aforesaid will and testa-
ment, and that they be empowered to make good and suf-
ficient deed or deeds of the same, to the purchaser or pur-
chasers J and that the trustees as aforesaid be authorized
^98 JOHN EDSON.-JOHN LUDDEN.
to vest the proceeds of said real estate in other real
estate, or in any other way, which they shall deem most
^or the interest and benefit of the said Leonard and his
family :
Provided, That the trustees aforesaid or such of them
as accept of said trust, first give bond to the Judge of
Probate of the County of Worcester, with sufficient sure-
ties, that they will appropriate the proceeds of said sale
for the benefit of said Leonard and family, agreeably to
the direction of the testator.
CHAP. XLL
Resolve on the petition of John Edson.
January 28th, 1824.
On the petition of John Edson, Treasurer of the Braintree
Manufacturing Company, and Nathaniel F. Ames, adminis-
trator of the estate of Ezra Hyde, deceased :
Resolved, That for reasons set forth in said petition, the
said Nathaniel F. Ames be, and he is hereby authorized
and empowered to convey and assign to the said Braintree
Manufacturing Company, all such real estate and contracts,
as the said Ezra Hyde, deceased, may have purchased and
entered into, for, and on account of said Company, not by
him conveyed and assigned to said Company before his
decease.
CHAP. XLIL
Resolve on the petition of John Ludden and others.
January 28th, 1824.
On the petition of John Ludden of Easthampton in the
County of Hampshire, guardian of Marcy S. Morgan of
said Easthampton, a minor, under the age of twenty-one
vears, and of Medad Clapp, of said Easthampton, guardian
J. LUDDEN AND M. CLAPP. €99
of Hannah K. Morgan, of said Easthampton, a minor, under
the age of twenty-one years, praying that they may be
severally empowered to release and quit-claim all the right,
title and interest which the said minors have in certain real
estate, situate in Northampton in said County, to diverse
persons now in possession thereof as in said petition is set
forth :
Resolved, For reasons stated in said petition, that the said
Ludden and Clapp be, and they are hereby severally au-
thorized and empowered to make execute and deliver good
and sufficient deeds of release and quit-claim of all the right,
title and interest,which their said wards respectively have in
about thirty-five acres of land, situate in said Northampton,
and bounded south by the dividing line between said North-
ampton and the town of West Springfield, in the County
of Hampden, east on Connecticut river, and northerly and
westerly on land formerly owned by Bishop Allen of said
West Springfield, to Joshua Street, Zebina Allen, Lysander
Allen, and the heirs at law of Ariel Cooley, late of South
Hadley in said County of Hampshire, deceased, or to such
person or persons as may be in possession of the premises
at the time of making and executing the deeds aforesaid :
Provided, That the said Ludden and the said Clapp do first
give bonds severally, each with sufficient sureties to the
Judge of Probate for the County of Hampshire, conditioned
that within three months from the time of making and ex-
ecuting deeds of release and quit-claim as aforesaid, they
will severally file in the office of the said Judge of Probate
a true account of money by them respectively received in
consideration of said deeds, and that they will account with
their respective wards for the amount thereof and legal in^
terest^ whenever thereto legally required.
700 EBENEZER CANNON, Jr.
CHAP. XLIII.
Gmtlemen of the Senate^ and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives^,
I have received from the Governor of Georgia, a copy
of a resolution adopted by the general assembly of that
State, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States ; with a request that it be communicated to
the Legislature of this Commonwealth. I now transmit
the same by the Secretary.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, January 30/A, 1824.
CHAP. XLIV.
4
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
A resolution passed by the general assembly of the
State of Alabama, has been forwarded me by the Presi-
dent of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of that State ; in which they express an opinion
with regard to a successor of Mr. Munroe, as President of
the United States, and I have directed the Secretary to
lay the same before the two branches of the Legislature.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, February 2d, 1824.
CHAP. XLV.
Resolve on the petition of Ebenezer Cannon, Jr.
February 4th, 1824.
On the petition of Ebenezer Cannon, Jr. praying that
he may be allowed to build a wharf below low water
mark, in Mattapoisett Harbor, in the town of Rochester,
in the County of Plymouth :
Resolved, That for reasons set forth in his petition, the
said Ebenezer Cannon, Jr. be, and he is hereby authorized
EASTERN LANDS. 701
and allowed to build a wharf in the harbor aforesaid, be-
low low water mark, for the convenience of bringing and
laying vessels thereat : Provided,, That he shall not ex-
tend his w harf beyond the main channel of said harbor.
CHAP. XLVI.
Resolve for authorizing the sale of Eastern Lands
February 7th, 1824.
The Standing Committee of both Houses on Eastern
Lands,to whom was referred the Communication of Nahum
Mitchell and George W. Coffin, Agents for the sale of the
lands of this Commonwealth in the State of Maine, have
had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report
a Resolve.
By order of the Committee,
THOMAS L. WINTHROP, Chairman,
Resolved^ That, it is expedient to authorize the agents
for the sale of the lands of this Commonwealth, in the
State of Maine, and they are hereby authorized and allow-
ed to sell the townships numbered four, in the first range,
and numbered four in the second range, west of Bingham's
Kennebec Purchase, and township numbered five, in the
first range of townships north of the same tract, at a price
not less than twenty cents per acre ; making such al-
lowance for large lakes and ponds of water, within the
same, as they in their judgment shall deem to be reasona-
ble.
CHAP. XLVII.
Gentlemen of the Senate^ and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The Secretary will lay before you,a statement of the ex-
penses incurred in printing nine hundred sets of tiie special
laws of the Commonwealth, in two volumes, pursuant to a
702 MESSAGE.— STANDFAST SMITH.
resolve of February 22d, 1822, made to the Executive, by
the Commissioners appointed to superintend the pubHca-
tion of said laws. No provision was made in the resolve^
authorizing the publication of these laws, for payment of
the expenses ; and it remains for the Legislature to give
authority for a warrant to be issued for that purpose, if
they see fit.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, February iOtH, 1824.
CHAP. XLVIIL
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gerttlemen of the House of Reprcsmtatives,
I have received from the Governor of the State'of Ohio, a
copy of certain resolutions passed by the General Assem-
bly of that State, in January last, proposing that a system
be adopted for the gradual emancipation of the people of
color, held in servitude in the United States, and recom-
mending a plan of foreign colonization for their improve-
ment and eventual deliverance from slavery ; with a re-
quest that said resolutions be laid before the Legislature
of this State. Accordingly, I transmit the same by the
Secretary.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber, February Wth, 1824.
CHAP. XLIX.
Resolve on the petition of Standfast Smith and others.
February 11th, 1824.
On the petition of Standfast Smith and others, propri e-
tors in the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, praying
that the said Corporation may have power to occupy part
of the vacajat flats in the open bay on the north side of
INSANE HOSPITAL. 703
their dam, and to erect sheds and buildings, for the ac-
comaiodation of travellers and others thereon.
Resolved, Tnat said Corporation may use and occupy
any part of the vacant flats lying on the north side of their
dam, and west of the low water mark, on the west side of
the eastern channel, and within two hundred feet of said
dam, and fill up any part thereof, and put sheds and build-
ings on the same : Provided however. That nothing herein
contained, shall be construed to authorize said Corpora-
tion thus to use or occupy any lands or flats owned by
any City, town, company or mdividual, without their con-
sent in writing, and to be recorded in the Registry of
Deeds for the County of Suffolk.
CHAP. L.
Resolve on the subject of labor done by the Convicts for
Insane Hospital. February 11th, 1824.
Resolved, That the account of the Massachusetts State
Prison, against the Massachusetts General Hospital, for
labor of the convicts on stone work for that part of said
Hospital, commonly called the Insane Hospital, amounting
to four thousand one hundred and seventy six dollars and
forty-three cents, be considered as coming within the re-
solve of the General Court on this subject, passed June
12th, 1817; and that said sum be charged to the Com-
monwealth accordingly, and that the work heretofore
done, be, and the same is hereby considered in full of the
grant made by virtue of the resolve aforesaid,
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704 eOUNTY TAXESv
CHAP. LI.
Brant of County Taxes for 1824.
February 13th, 1824.
Whereas the Treasurers of the following Counties, have
laid their accounts before the Legislature for examination,
which have been examined and allowed ; and whereas the
Clerks of Courts of Sessions for said Counties, have ex-
hibited estimates made by said Courts, of the necessary
charges which may arise within said Counties the year
ensuing, and of the sums necessary to discharge the debts
of said Counties :
Resolved, That the sums annexed to the Counties con-
tained in the following schedule,be, and the same are here-
by granted as a tax for each County, respectively, to be
appropriated, assessed, paid, collected and applied for the
purposes aforesaid, according to law, viz :
County of Essex, twelve thousand dollars, . 12,000
County of Middlesex, six thousand dollars, . 6,000
County of Worcester, six thousand dollars, . 6,000
County of Plymouth, four thousand five hundred
dollars, ...... 4,500
County of Bristol, three thousand five hundred
dollars, 3,500
County of Berkshire, three thousand dollars, . 3,000
County of Hampshire, five thousand dollars, . 5,000
County of Hampden, five thousand dollars, . 5,000
County of Franklin, four thousand five hundred
dollars, 4,500
County of Barnstable, four thousand dollars, . 4,000
County of Norfolk, six thousand dollars, . . 6,000
County of Nantucket, one thousand sixty dollars, ^^1,060,36
WILLYS BARTHOLOMEW. 7o5
CHAP. LII
Uesohe on the petition of Willys Bartholomew and others^
February 13th, 1824.
The Committee of bcfth Houses to whom was referred
the several petitions of Willys Bartholomew, Dereck L
Spoor and Moses Spoor, praying that a resolve may be
passed, authorizing some suitable person to value, sell and
convey to each of them, the tract of land mentioned ia
their respective petitions, all lying on the westerly side
of the town of Sheffield, in the County of Berkshire, be-
longing to the Commonwealth ; have had the same under
consideration and report :
That from the statements in said petitions and other
information obtained by your Committee, they are of the
opinion that the lands mentioned in said petitions, and
also other tracts of land of considerable value, lying on
the westerly side of said Sheffield, belong to the Com-
monwealth, and ought to be looked up, before a disposi-
tion of any of them be made : Your Committee, therefore,
recommend the following resolve ; which is submitted by
order of the Committee.
BENJAMIN ADAMS, Chairman.
Resolved^ That the Hon. Jonathan Allen, of Pittsfield,
be appointed to examine, and view the lands mentioned
in the several petitions aforesaid, ascertain the quantity
and quality of each tract, and the probable value of the
same ; and also to examine, if other lands in the said town
of Sheffield do not belong to the Commonwealth ; and if
so, to ascertain the situation, quantity, quality and proba-
ble value thereof, and make report to the next Legisla--
ture.
706 MR. KUHN.— ARSENAL.
CHAP. LIIL
Resolve to authorize ike messenger to make repairs on
State House, February 12th, 1824.
Resolved, That Mr. Kuhn, the messenger of the Gen-
eral Court, be directed and authorized to make such re-
pairs on or about the State House, as have been made ne-
cessary in consequence of the gale of last night.
CHAP. LIV,
Resolve on the petition of David Townsend, Esq. respect-
ing the Arsenal in Pleasant Street, in Boston*
February 13th, 1824.
The joint Committee of both Houses to whom was re-
ferred the petition of David Townsend and others, have
attended the duty assigned them.
Your Committee visited the Arsenal situated in Pleas-
ant Street, which they found in a state highly creditable
to the officer who has the charge and superintendance of
it. The magazine connected with the establishment, they
found to be a safe repository for powder, and secure
against conflagration from without.
Your Committee fiiid that the buildings at the Arsenal,
some of which are of wood, have for many years been
lised occasionally for the preparation of fire-works, and in
which cartridges have been filled both for public and pri-
vate use, and powder distributed in other forms.
Your Committee further understood from good authori-
ty, that much excitement has been felt by persons in the
neighbourhood of the Arsenal from the danger to which
tbey considered themselves exposed from the breaking of
packages containing gunpowder, and from the proximity
of the Arsenal to 'their habitations. The Committee
therefore recommend the following resolves :
T. H. PERKINS, per order^
STATE PRISON.—BOUNDARY LINE. 707
Resolved, That the" Adjutant General, be directed ta
order that in future no more than eight quarter casks of
powder be kept in the Arsenal at one time ; and further,
that the filling of cartridges and tubes and the making of
post-fires and other fireworks, either for public or private
use, be hereafter discontinued at the Arsenal in Pleasant-
Street ; and that no powder be kept at the magazine or in
the Labratory, but in the original packages.
Resolved, That His Excetlency the Governor, be re-
quested to issue his instructions to the Adjutant General,
in conformity.
CHAP. LT.
Resolve on the communication of the Warden of the State
Prison^ February 14th, 1824.
Rsolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the,
public Treasury for the use of the State Prison, the sum
of eighteen hundred dollars, to be drawn from the Treas-
ury, by the Warden of said Prison, in such sums, as the
Governor, with the advice of Council, shall from time to
time direct ; and His Excellency the Governor with the
advice of the Council, is requested to draw on the Treas-
ury for the said sum accordingly.
CHAP. LVI.
Resolve for paying the Commissioners and Surveyor, ap-
pointed to ascertain the boundary line between this Com-
monwealth and the State of Connecticut.
February 16th, 1824.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of
this Commonwealth, to the Hon. Edward H. Robbins, one
of the Commissioners appointed to ascertain the boundary
line between this Commonwealth and the State of Con-
708 BOUNDARY LINE.— G. BARSTOW, Jr,
necticut, the sum of twenty-seven dollars and fifty-eight
cents, in full for the balance due to him for his services. —
AlsOs to the Hon. George Bliss, another of said Commis-
sioners, the sum of twenty-one dollars and seventy cents
in full for the balance due to him for his services. — Also, to
the Hon. Nahum Mitchell, another of the said Commission-
ers, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars and
fifty-eight cents in full for the balance due to him for his
services : and the Governor, with the advice of Council, is
hereby authorized to draw his warrants on the Treasurer,
in favor of those persons, respectively, for the several sums
to them hereby granted.
Resolved^ That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth to Gen. Silas Holman, the
sum of seventy-nine dollars and eighty-four cents, in full
for the balance due to him for his services, as a surveyor,
under the direction of the Commissioners, appointed to as-
certain the boundary line between this Commonwealth and
the state of Connecticut.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth to His Honor Levi Lin-
coln, the sura of one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and
twenty-three cents, in full for his services as the agent of
the Commonwealth, appointed to prosecute a suit in the
Court of Common Pleas for the County of Worcester, in
which one Peter Richards was plaintiff, and Stephen E.
Tift, defendant ; and also for several sums of money by the
said Lincoln paid for the travel and attendance of witness-
es and other expences attending the prosecution of said
suit.
CHAP. LVII.
Resolve on the petition of Gideon Barstow, Jr.
February 17th, 3824.
On the petition of Gideon Barstow, Jr. praying that he
may be allowed to build a wharf in Mattapoisitte Harbor,
in the town of Rochester in the County of Plymouth, below
THOMAS GAGE. 709
low water mark, and that he may have and enjoy the ex-
clusive use of the water between his land and the channel
of said harbor ;
Resolved, That for reasons set forth in his petition thB
said Gideon Barstow, Jun. be, and he is hereby authorized
and allowed to build a wharf, below low water mark, to the
main channel of said harbor, and that he be allowed the ex-
clusive use of the water between his land and the main
channel of said harbor : Provided, that this grant shall not
be construed to affect the legal and vested rights of any
person or persons whatever.
CHAP. LVIII.
Resolve authorizing Thomas Gage to convey a tract of land^
February 17th, 1824.
On the petition of Thomas Gage, of Rowley, in the Coun-
ty of Essex :
Resolved, That Thomas Gage aforesaid, Administrator
X)f the goods and estate of Thomas Gage, Jun. late of said
Rowley, yeoman, deceased, intestate, be, and he hereby is
authorized, for the reasons set forth in his said petition, to
convey to Joseph Saunders of said Rowley, by a good and
sufficient deed, a certain tract of land situate in said town,
belonging to the estate of said deceased, bounded as follows,
viz : Northerly by the road to Newburyport, over old town
bridge, easterly by land of John Saunders, southerly and
westerly by land of Lucy Gage, containing two acres and
an half acre, more or less.
710 MARTHA THOMAS— MESSAGE.
CHAP. LIX.
Resolve on the petition of Martha Thomas.
* February 17th, 1824.
ft
On the petition of Martha Thomas, Administratrix o f
the estate of Josiah A. Thomas, late of East Sudbury, in the
County of Middlesex, yeoman, deceased, intesta*^e, relating
to a sale, which she, pursuant to a license granted by the
Probate Court for said County, made in her said capacity
at public auction, on the twenty-fifth day of December in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-one, of certain real estate of said deceased ; and to
the affidavit therein mentioned, by her since made of said
sale, and her proceedings relating thereto, and now record-
ed in the Registry- of Probate, in and for said County of
Middlesex :
Resolved, For the reasons and purposes in said petition
stated, that the prayer thereof be granted, and that said
affidavit by her made of said sale, and her proceedings re-
lating thereto, and now recorded in said Registry as there-
in alledged, shall be admissible evidence of said sale and
proceedings, although the same was not made and recorded
as aforesaid, within the time limited by law, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
CHAP. LX.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
By the Report of the Joint Committee relative to the
Claim of the Commonwealth, now pending with the Gov-
ernment of the United States, it appears that the agents
appointed in pursuance of a Resolve passed on the elev-
enth of February 1823, are proceeding in preferring to the
accounting officers of the federal government, the accounts
and vouchers on which the Claim is founded and by which
MESSAGE. 711
it is sustained. The course pursued by the agents in pre-
senting the several items, in the order which they have
adopted, was intimated to them as most eligible by the
department which was to examine them, and followed by
them from a conviction of its fitness and usefulness. An
examination of the accounts and vouchers being in the
usual order, and a necessary preliminary to ^ny decision
or allowance, no other course was within their option. —
This examination, with explanations frequently called for,
was found, as I had the honor to intimate on a former oc-
casion, to require much time and labor. The agents ap-
pear to be pursuing with indefatigable industry, the object
of their appointment. Eight months have elapsed since
they were commissioned, and it is evident that their ser-
vices will be required some time longer. To those who
have deliberately considered the circumstances attending
this claim, the nature and number of vouchers necessary
to be produced in its support, and the delays incident
to the transaction of business at the public offices in
Washington, arising from constant calls upon them, it will
not appear extraordinary that greater progress has not
been made in its settlement.
By the same report, it further appears, that the agents
were informed, at the time of their appointment, that one
thousand dollars had been appropriated by the Legislature
to defray the necessary expenses; and that no further
sum was under the control of the Executive. Should the
Legislature be of opinion, with the Executive, that no re-
imbursement to the State can be expected without a pre-
vious examination of the accounts, and that it is expedient
to continue, at this time, the prosecution of the claim, they
will perceive the necessity of making a further appropria-
tion, as the advances made to the agents are not sufficient
to cover their actual expenses.
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
Council Chamber^ February I7th, 1824.
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712 HENRY SHEAFE.— LYNN BEACH
CHAP. LXI.
Resolve on the petition of Henry Sheaf e. Military Store
Keeper. February 18th, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to the Milita-
ry Store Keeper, out of the public Treasury of this Com-
monwealth, the sum of two hundred dollars, annually, in
addition to his pay now allowed by a resolve passed on
the sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-one ; to be paid in the
same manner as is provided in that resolve : Provided,
That he shall give bond to the Commonwealth, in the sum
of two thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be ap-
proved by the Governor and Council, and upon condition
that said Military Store Keeper shall faithfully account
for all the public property which may come into his pos-
session during his continuance in office : this resolve to
continue in force until the further order of the Legislature.
CHAP. LXII,
Resolve providing for the repairs of Lynn Beach.
February 18th, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
public Treasury, fifteen hundred dollars, to the inhabitants
of the town of Lynn in the County of Essex, for the pur-
pose of repairing and securing Nahant Beach in said
town : Provided, however, That the inhabitants of the
town of Lynn, and others interested, shall pay such addi-
tional sum as may be found necessary to complete the
work ; the whole to be expended and applied under the
direction of a commissioner or commissioners, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor and Council, at the expense of
the town of Lynn; and provided also, that should the
whole work not cost the sum of three thousand dollars,
including the expense of the commissioner or commission-
STATE HOUSE.— BRIDGES. 713
ers, then this grant, instead of fifteen hundred dollars,
shall be understood to be for one half only of what it may
so cost ; and not more than one thousand dollars shall be
drawn from the Treasury, till the whole work is finished.
And His Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized
and requested to draw his warrant or warrants, on the
Treasury for the purpose aforesaid, when the said con>
missioners shall report to him that the several provisions
of this resolve have been complied with.
CHAP. LXIII.
Resolve for repairs on the State House.
February 20th, 1824.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the public Treas-
ury of this Commonwealth, unto Jacob Kuhn, two hundred
dollars, for the purpose of repairing the stairs leading to
the cupola of the State House ; and also for repairing the
roof of a wood shed near the same : and that His Excel-
lency the Governor, by and with the advice of Council, be
authorized to draw his warrant for the same, or for any
part thereof, when the bill for the same may be pre-
sented.
CHAP. LXIV.
A resolve authorizing the Hon. JSTathaniel Bowditch and
Professor John Farrar, to ascertain the value of the re-
versionary interest of the Commonwealth in the Bridges
in the vicinity of Boston.
February 20th, 1824.
Resolved, That the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch and Pro-
fessor John Farrar, be a committee to ascertain the pre-
sent value of the reversionary interest of the Common-
wealth, in the several Bridges in the vicinity of Boston,
and to make a report of their opinion to the next (xeneral
Court.
714 SPECIAL LAWS— STEREOTYPE PLATES.
CHAP. LXV.
Resolve for paying the expenses of printing and publishing
the special Laws. February 20th, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to Messrs.
Wells & Lilly of Boston, the sum of twenty-four hundred
and twenty-four dollars, for nine hundred copies of Spe-
cial Laws, fourth and fifth volumes ; also to Asahel Stearns,
Esq. of Cambridge, and Lemuel Shaw, Esq. of Boston, the
sum of four hundred and fifty dollars each, for their ser-
vices as Commissioners in the preparation and superin-
tendance of the same work.
CHAP. LXVI.
Report on the use of Stereotype Plate.
February 20th, 1824.
The Committee of both Houses, instructed to inquire,
" whether any plan can be devised to prevent the counter-
feiting of Bank Notes f respectfully report ;
That they have given the subject as much attention as
their Legislative duties would permit ; and from all the
enquiries they have been able to make, they have no hes-
itation in giving it as their opinion, that the use of the
Stereotype Plate will afford greater securitj^ against coun-
terfeiting, than any other plate within their knowledge. —
In this opinion, your Committee are strengthened from
the facts stated by the Directors of several of the Boston
Banks, that they have lately come to the determination of
using this plate, not only as the most safe, but as the most
economical that can be adopted.
With a view of gaining more exact information on this
important subject, the Committee sent for Mr. Abraham
Perkins, of Newburyport, who, in the absence of Mr. Ja-
cob Perkins, the proprietor, acts as his agent. He stated
that but one instance had, to his knowledge, occurred, of
an attempt to counterfeit any of the Stereotype Notes ;
STEREOTYPE PLATES. 715
that this attempt was made many years since, and that the
notes were so badly executed, as to be detected by the
most common observer, and very few of them gained cir-
culation.
The plates or impressions furnished by Mr. Perkins, are
of five kinds ; but the one mostly in use, and which he re-
commends as being equally safe with the others, and much
cheaper, is the one having fine writing on the face of the
note. The others having the same fine writing on the face,
with the addition of a vignette in the centre or at the top
of the note, or with a medley of letters, or lathe work, on
the back, can be furnished, if requested ; but the price will
be nearly double. The Committee join Mr Perkins in re-
commending the plate first described.
It is the opinion of your Committee, that the Legislature
have not the power to compel the Banks in the State to use
any particular kind of plate ; but as the government are
frequently called upon to pass laws for their protection, and
to aid in bringing counterfeiters to punishment, they cannot
but suppose, that any measure recommended by that Body,
will be duly respected, so far as it can be done, without too
much expense and inconvenience. The Committee there-
fore, further Report,
That it be recommended by the Legislature, to the sev-
eral Banking Institutions, having Charters from the Com-
monwealth, to make use of Perkins' Stereotype Plates, as
the best plan yet known, for preventing the counterfeiting
of Bank Notes ; and that the Secretary be directed to send
a copy of this recommendation to each of the Banks of this
Commonwealth.
All which is submitted.
PETER C. BROOKS, Chairman.
Accepted by both Houses, February 20th, 1824.
716 JOSEPH W. LEWIS.
CHAP. LXVII.
Resolve on the petition of Joseph TV. Lewis.
February 21st, 1824.
On the petition of Joseph W. Lewis, praying that he
may be aui horized to sell at private sale to the City of Bos-
ton, the right and title of his wife Ann Lewis, to Dower in
certain lands in the City of Boston, on which the Rope
walks now stand :
Resolved., For reasons set forth in the petition, that the
said Joseph W. Lewis be, and he is hereby authorized to
sell and convey to the City of Boston, by a good and suffi-
cient deed or deeds of bargain and sale, all the right and
title to dower, which his wife Ann Lewis has in and unto
three lots of Land situate in said Boston, at the bottom
of the Common, on which there are Rope walks now stand-
ing : Provided., however., that the value of said Ann Lewis'
title to dower in the said premises shall be specially esti-
mated and appraised by the Commissioners agreed upon
by the City of Boston arid the owners of the said lands, who
are to appraise the value of the said lands ; and that the
sum, for which the same shall be appraised, shall be retain-
ed by the City of Boston, who shall pay to the said Joseph
W. Lewis, the annual interest thereof, during the time that
the said Ann Lewis shall remain deprived of her reason.
And on the death of the said Ann Lewis, if the said Joseph
W. Lewis shall survive her, then the said money shall be
paid to his order ; but if the said Ann Lewis shall survive
the said Joseph W. Lewis, then said money shall be paid
over to her Guardian legally appointed, to be disposed of
according to law ; it being understood, however, that if at
any time during the life time of the said Joseph W. Lewis,
the said Ann Lewis shall be restored to her reason, the
said money shall be paid over by the City of Boston to her
sole and separate order in writing.
CHAPLAINS.— COM. ON ACC'TS.— D. BANK. 717
CHAP. LXVIIL
Resolve for paying of Chaplains.
February 21st, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Rev. James Walker,
Chaplain of the Senate, and the Rev. William Jenks, Chap-
lain of the House of Representatives, sixty dollars each,
in full for their services in said office the present political
year.
CHAP. LXIX,
Resolve to pay the Committee on Accounts,
February 21st, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Committee on
Accounts for their attendance on that service during the
present session, the sum of one dollar per day, in addition
to their pay as members of the Legislature, viz :
William W. Parrot, forty days, - - - - %A0 00
Joseph Strong, forty days, 40 00
Augustus Tower, forty days, 40 00
Perly Hunt, forty days, 40 00
Minot Thayer, forty days, 40 00
CHAP. LXX.
Resolve authorizing the Hon. David Cummins and Asahel
• Stearns, to examine into the doings of the Dedham Bank.
February 21st, 1824.
Resolved, That the Hon. David Cummins and Asahel
Stearns, be a Committee to examine intathe doings of the
President, I>i rectors and Company of the Dedham Bankj;
which Committee shall have free access to all the Books
718 CHARLES FOSTER.— WARD LOCK.
of said Corporation, and to their vaults, and with power to
hear said Corporation fully thereon, agreeably to the pow-
ers reserved to the Legislature by the sixth section of the
act, entitled "An Act to incorporate the President, Direc-
tors and Company of the Dedham Bank ;" and to make re-
port of such examination, at the commencement of the first
session of the next General Court.
CHAP. LXXI.
Resolve in favor of Charles Foster.
February 21st, 1824.
On the petition of Charles Foster, praying that he may
be reimbursed for a loss sustained by him, in consequence
of a riot and insurrection at the State Prison among the
Convicts :
Resolved^ For reasons set forth in said petition, that there
be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of the Common-
wealth unto Charles Foster, two hundred and twelve dol-
lars and ninety-four cents. And His Excellency the Gov-
ernor is requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
CHAP. LXXII.
Resolve to pay Ward Lock.
Februrary 21st, 1824.
Resolved., That there be allowed and paid from the
Treasury of this Commonwealth to Ward Lock, Assistant
Messenger to the Governor and Council, two dollars for
each and every day he has been, or may be, employed in
that capacity during the present session of the Council
WOUNDED SOLDIERS.— CLERKS. 719
CHAP. LXXIII.
itesolve on the petition of several wounded Soldiers.
February 21st, 1824.
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the
Treasury of this Commonwealth, to Isaac Noyes of Sud-
bury, a soldier in Captain Rice's Company, for a wound
received in October, in the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifteen, when on military duty, twenty-five dol-
lars ; also to Captain Samuel Somes of Watertown, for a
wound received in October last, one hundred dollars : also
to Peter R. Bryant of Cummington, a soldier in Captain
Austin Bryant's company, for a wound received on the
twenty-sixth day of September, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-two, sixty dollars : also to Hen-
ry A. Wood of Townsend, a soldier in Captain Park's
company, for a wound received in September last, one
hundred dollars : also to Henry Bowen of Boston, a sol-
dier in Captain How's company, for a wound received in
October last, sixty dollars.
CHAP LXXIV.
Resolve for paying the Clerks of the two Houses of the
Legislature. February 21st, 1824.
Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of
this Commonwealth, to the Clerk of the Senate, and to
the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and to the as-
sistant Clerk of the Senate, respectively, six dollars per
day, for each and every day's attendance they have been,
or may be employed in that capacity during the present
session of the Legislature : and that there be paid to the
Clerk of the House of Representatives, the additional sum
of four dollars for each and every day he may be so em-
ployed, in consideration of his having performed the
whole clerical duty of that House. And the Governor is
requested to draw his warrant accordingly.
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720 ELIJAH. S. CURTIS.—AGENTS, &e.
CHAP. LXXV.
Uesolve on the petition of Elijah S. Curtis.
February 21st, 1824.
Whereas Elijah S. Curtis has presented a petition to
the Legislature, praying, for the reasons in the petition
stated, that he may be released from the debt due by him
to the Commonwealth for the labor of the convicts in the
State Prison :
Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the
said Curtis be discharged from all demands of the Com-
monwealth for labor done by the convicts, on condition
that said Curtis pay jto the Directors of the State Prison,
the sum of twelve hundred and thirteen dollars, on or be-
fore the first day of August next.
CHAP. LXXVI.
Resolve granting two thousand dollars to Agents at
Washington. February 21st, 1824.
Whereas it has been intimated by the President of the
United States, that no decision will be made by him on
any particular class of the claims of this Commonwealth
upon the Government of the United States for militia ser-
vices rendered to the United States during the late war,
until the whole have been audited and classed ; and it ap-
pearing from the communication of the agents of this
Commonwealth, that a considerable time will unavoidably
elapse before said claims can be audited and classed. —
Therefore,
Resolved, That the Governor be authorized to draw his
warrant on the Treasury, for the sum of two thousand
dollars, as an advance to the agents of this Commonwealth,
appointed by virtue of the resolve passed on the eleventh
day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
three ; and to be accounted for, by said agents in the final
settlement of thieir accounts.
i
ROLL No. 90 JANUARY, 1824.
The Committee on Accounts having examined the sev-
eral accounts they now present Report,
That there is now due to the several corporations and
persons hereafter mentioned, the sums set to their names,
respectively ; which, when allowed and paid, will be in
full discharge of the said accounts, to the dates therein
mentioned ; which is respectfully submitted.
WILLUM W. PARROTT, Per Order.
PAUPER ACCOViKTS.
Amherst, for supporting Jane and Polly Rich-
ardson, to January 5th, 1824, % 57 60
Attleborough, for supporting Peggy Taylor, Mar-
garett Allen and three children, viz: Margaret
Eleoner and John, five children of John Mont-
gomerry, viz : Margarett, Eleoner, Mary, Wil-
liam and Martha, to January 1st, 1824, 301 60
Amesbury, for supporting Moses Keniston, to
January 7th, 1824, 46 80
Abington, for supporting Major Humbell, to Jan-
uary 13th, 1824, 46 80
Alford, for supporting Sylvia C. Glynn, William
Glynn, Henry Glynn, Lorenzo Glynn and Jus-
tin Glynn, to January 1st, 1824, 153 70
Adams, for supporting Sarah Hudit, Susanna
Camp, Philena Hill, Jemmy Denny, Robert
Harris, Emory Newton Cook, and Thomas
Doyle, to January 10th 1824, IBS 50
722 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Andover, for supporting Patrick Callakun, Sukey
Hornsby, Maria Davis, Eiiza Seamore, Mary-
Ann Seamore, Elizabeth Andrews and John
Perry, to January 1st, 1824, ;g! 159 84
Ashburnham, for supporting Sukey Franklin,
Mrs. Slinager and three children, to January
19th, 1824, 178 20
Becket, for supporting Charles Wilson and James
Gibbons, to January 12th, 1824, 16 46
Barre, for supporting Samuel Lee, Rhoda Farns-
bury, Juliann Persall, and three children and
Dinah Baker, to January 14th, 1824, 100 90
Belchertown, for supporting Phebe Butler, Char-
ity Porter, Elizabeth Porter and child, and
Charles Collins, to January 10th, 1824, 67 75
Bill erica, for supporting Walter Carr, James
Dunn, Michael Maloon and wife> to January
2d, 1824, 87 30
Beverly, for supporting Dolly Claxton, William
Wardwell, Ebenezer Andrews, William Rich-
ardson, Bridget Benson, Ginger Wellman, Joan-
na Benson, Margarett Benson and James Ben-
son, to January 1st, 1824, 91 54
Bernardston, for supporting Ellis Newton, wife
and fiye children, to January 1st, 1824, 34 73
Buckland, for supporting George RenifF to June
1st, 1824, 19 42
Burlington, for supporting Thomas Henderson
and John A. Pasho, to January 17th, 1824, 93 60
Bradford, for supporting William R. Thompson,
JoshuE^ Allen and Thomas Barker, to January
1st, 1824, .38 92
Brimfield, for supporting John Shelburn, to Jan-
uary 10th, 1824, 28 80
Barnstable, for supporting Joseph Thompson, to
January 10th, 1824, 28 80
Braintree, for supporting Ann Goith and three
children, and Titus, (a black man) to January
24th, 1824, 112 20
Bridgewater, for supporting John F. Bigner, to
January 30th, 1824, 93 60
Chesterfield, for supporting Rachel Polly and
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 723
Sarah Polly, to January 1st, 1824, $ 55 80
Chester, for supporting George Buttolph and
wife, Benjamin Powers and Clarisa Hardy, to
January 3d, 1 824, 11 1,60
andLavina Hardy, to do. 11,21 — 122 81
Carlisle, for supporting Robert Barber, to Janu-
ary 7th, 1824, 28 80
Conway, for supporting Martha M. Murphy, Sally
M. Murphy and Hannah M. Neil, to January
1st, 1824, 140 40
Col rain, for supporting Lydia Cromach, Sally
Cromach, Eunice Cromach, Emory Cromach,
Samuel Dean, Charles O'Neal, Peter R. Hart,
and Alexander Hart, to January 3d, 1824, 174 40
Chlemsford, for supporting Eliza Goodrich,
Thoma^ Frederick, Alias Thomas, K.Miller, and
Charles H. Goodrich, to January 1st, 1824, 58 00
Cheshire, for supporting Ephraim Richardson,
Neal Randall, Polly Cooper, Molly Dimond,
Betsy Grandison, and Thomas James, to Jan-
uary 9th, 1824, 178 20
Canton, for supporting Thomas Tattersall, David
Evans, Betty Maho, and Hannah Buckley, to
January 22d, 1824, 54 15
Chelsea, for supporting Betsy Jones, to January
21st, 1824, ' 27-00
Cambridge, for supporting sundry Paupers,tQ Jan-
uary 26th, 1824, 1018 62
City of Boston, for supporting sundry Paupers, to
November 30th, 1823, 4423 09
Charlestown, for supporting sundry Paupers, to
January 24th, 1824, 2280 45
Dracut, for supporting Moses Freeman, to Janu-
ary 10th, 1824, 46 80
Deerfield, for supporting Benjamin Munn, Daniel
AUis, Lavina Witherell", John Freeman, Dwight
Wells, Ardelia Witherell, Runy Witherell, and
Dolly Roberts, to January 1st, 1824, 162 48
Dedham, for supporting Edward Conden, Samuel
Winn, Thomas Cordis, and Maflin Molony,
12 60 ; also for William Chapel in Goal, 2 65,
to January 17th, 1824, 15 25
724 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Dighton, for supporting Hannah Few, to January
24th, 1824, S46 80
Danvers, for supporting sundry Paupers, to Janu-
ary 21st, 1824, 437 64
Porchester, for supporting sundry Paupers, to
January 21st, 1824, 97 16
Duxbury, for supporting Eleazer Simmons, James
Pride, Cyrus Simmons, to January 31st, 1824, 70 68
Dennis, for supporting Fear Wixon, and John
Bloom, to January 15th, 1824, 239 60
East Sudbury, for supporting Shepard and Cath-
erine Green, to January 1st, 1824, 8 10
Egremont, for supporting Charity Woodbeck,
Benjamin Daley, Betsey Darby, Albert Kline,
Harriet Kline, Jared Kline, Reuben Vauguil-
der, and William Brown and wife, to January
7th, 1824, 304 30
Essex, for supporting John L. Rogers, Phidelia
Jarrett, Catherine Hall, Robert Jarrett, Ira
Percival, Nathan and Lydia Brown, to Janaary
13th, 1824, 174 58
Fitchburg, for supporting Sally Tefft, and Chloe
Tefft, to January, 1824, 14 39
Framingham, for supporting Catherine Green,
Daniel Campbell and Andrew Sands, to Janu-
ary 8th, 1824, 45 90
Falmouth, for supporting Edward Edwards, to
December 30th, 1823, 46 80
Freetown, for supporting Abigail, an Indian, Jemi-
ma and Hezekiel, her (laughter, to January
14th, 1824, 122 64
Fairhaven, for supporting Sarah Carr, son and
daughter; Sarah Cordner, James Wilson, Han-
nah Juttee and four children, to January 14th,
1824, 332 27
Grafton, for supporting Joseph 'Phillips, Sarah
Phillips, 3d, Lydia and Francis and Sarah
Phillips, 2d, to January 3d, 1824, 56 41
Groton, for supporting Richard Brenton, Mary
Ralfe, Eunice Brenton, John Poland, Sarah
Wright, Joseph Robbins, Andrew Fiuton, and
John Ure, to January 10th, 1824, 262 99
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 725
Greenfield, for supporting John Goland, Eliza
Goland and Caroline Goland, Lois Freeman,
and Charles Freeman, to Januarj, 1824, $ 15 95
Gloucester, for supporting Elizabeth Dommitt,
Anna Youling, Nancy Youling, Betsey Long,
Molly Moores, Mary Youling, (a child) E. Dade,
Ruth Wood, John Shafton, John Francis, Alex-
ander Mcintosh, Mark Grimes, Thomas Hall,
David Paul, Benjamin Larogue, Daniel Fitzger-
ald, John Dunn, James Shag, Mary H ickey,
and Mary O'Neal, to January 14th, 1824» 468 00
Grafton, for supporting Sarah Phillips, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1824, 13 10
Great Barrington, for supporting Isaac Hoose
Mary Hoose, Clarisa Lindsey, Dorcas Web-
ster and cliild, Joanna Porter, Lucy Porter,
Anna Hewet, to January 1st, 1824, 196 40
Granville, for supporting Samuel Gallas, and Sally
Stewart, to January 1st, 1824, 55 80
Holland, for supporting Jonathan Hill, to Decem-
ber 26th, 1823, 65 83
Hadley, for supporting Edward Kneeland,and Re-
becca Allen, to January 1st, 1824, 54 90
Haverhill, for supporting WilHam Tople}', Sarah
Ann Peasley, Maria Peasley, William Brick-
ford and William F. Power, to January 1st, 1824, 64 18
Hardwick, for supporting Hannah Morgan, to Jan-
uary 17th, 1824, 52 25
Hanson, for supporting Rhoda Prince, to January
12th, 1824, 28 80
Heath, for supporting Mary Dewandelain to Jan-
uary 25th, 1824, 17 00
Harvard, for supporting John Smith to February
19th, 1824, 3 73
Hancock, for supporting William North, wife and
two Children, to January 26th, 1824, 103 66
Hopkinton, for supporting Mary Saunders, Daniel
Frazier, and Wm. Boy den, to January 1st, 1824, 76 50
Hanson, for the burial of two State Paupers, to
January 1st, 1824, 8 00
Hatfield, for supporting Mary Ann Vanskork, to
January, 1824, 19 U
726 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
Lenox, for supporting Tabitha Lewis, Mary Dai^
vis, Moses McGraw, Thomas Dennison, Joshua
Ross, Abzina Ross, and Jane Elizabeth Ross,
Caleb Trask, Varamus and Samuel Adams, to
January 8th, 1824, % 129 77
Lunenburgh, for supporting William Shearer, to
January 9th, 1824, 46 80
Littleton, for supporting Jacob Thompson, John
Putnam, Richard Carsa, Eliza Maria Carsa and
Sister, and three Children of said Carsa's, to
January 14th, 1824, 68 02
Lee, for supporting Jonathan Manchester, Rich-
ard Smallman, Lucy Fuller, Thomas Peters,
Lucinda Shephardson, Caroline and Lavery
Shephardson, William Wilson, and his wife
Rebecca, Rowland Blanchard, Oren Blanchard,
Arnold Blanchard, and Almira, L. D. Blanch-
ard, to January 1st, 1824, 244 94
Lanesborough, for supporting Andrew Beautell,
Eunice Foot, Lucy H. Gamon, Amelia Bennett,
to January 3d, 1824, 99 90
Lynn, for supporting John Battis, James Proctor,
Ester Thomas, Nancy Carter, Nancy Carter,
Jun. Peggy Carroll, and Henry Smith, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 308 42
Leyden, for supporting Tacy Fuller, Arnal Clark,
Ruth Abel, Joseph Abel, and Dinah Stanton,
to January, 1824, 140 91
Medford, for supporting Dorothy Levine, tO Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 46 80
Mendon, for supporting Andrew Thayer, Andrew
Sloane, and Wm. Sloane, to January 13th, 1824, 55 36
Milford, for supporting Andrew Dimer, and Rose
his wife, to December 28th, 1823, 63 57
Milton, for supporting Archibald McDonald, J. J.
Myers, and James Bowman, to January 21st,
1824, 91 80
Monson, for supporting Martha McKee, and three
chikiren, viz : Fidelia, Almida, and AlHna Lu-
cinda, to January 1st, 1824, 46 80
Montague, for supporting Edward Potter and
wife, to January 13th, 1824, 61 20
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 727
Marblehead, for supporting Mary Card, Mary
Smith, and Peter John Hazle, to January 15th,
1824, $40 19
Middleton, for supporting Moses Hain, to Febru-
ary 4th, 1824, 12 60
Milford, for supporting David Webster to Febru-
ary 4th, 1824, 26 60
Marshfield, for supporting Samuel Holmes, and
John Baker, to December 23d, 1823, 93 60
Medfield, for supporting George Turner, to No-
vember 25th, 1823, 46 80
Middleborough, for supporting Elizabeth Quite,
Emeline Bowers, Harriet Hall and child, John
Fitzgerald, Robert Wilson, Abigail Simmons,
and Elizabeth Brigs, to January 1st, 1824, 374 70
New-Marlborough, for supporting William Bacon,
to Januar}^, 1824, 5 40
Northampton, for supporting Mrs. Burroughs,
one child, one do. one do. Moses Hunts' wife,
John Cochran, CaroUne Robbins, William Pat-
ridge, Luke Weems and wife, Peter and Mary
Ann Weems, John Stricklin, Obedience Mur-
ray's Child, William Richardson, John Bryant,
Thomas Curty, Samuel Osborn, John Chap-
man, Mary Haley, John Delany, Patrick Kir-
win and wife, and son James, to January 1st,
1824, 265 27
Newbury, for supporting widow Downes and
Daughter, Benjamin Foss, Susannah Stackpole
and four children, Lydia Smith, Hannah Francis
and her son (an adult), Sarah Peasley, Frazer
Young, Abigail Cary and Daughter, Mary Aik-
en and two children, Thomas Aiken, Mary
Matthews, David Francis and child, Margaret
Carrien, Edward Wilcox, and wife, Charlotte
Mingo alias Freeman Cambridge, and his wife
Dinah, John Chamberlain, Sarah Braughton,
Lemuel Smith, William Walker's wife and two
children, Deborah Smith alias Moses, Joseph
Seminane and wife, Peter Stramm and wife,
William Daley, Luke Weems, wife and two
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728 PAUPER ACCOUNTS.
children, Joel Weed, Hannah Fisher and Nan-
cy Morrill, Mary Wadleigh alias Cheeney,
James Pindergrass, wife and six children, Sam-
uel Cheeney's wife and five children, Mrs. Ran-
can and five children, Moses Cheeney, Jun.
and Elizabeth Manley, to January 1st, 1824, S 935 80
Norwich, for supporting Ruth Sanford, to Janua-
ry 8th, 1824, 46 80
Nantucket, for supporting Anthony Swasey,
Thomas Modi ey,Tho mas Pierce,James Prince,
Janathan Briggs, Mary Andrews, Lydia Brome,
Anthony Paris, Hannah Green and Asa Gold-
en, to January 1st, 1824, 434 05
Natick, for supporting Andrew Sands, and Rach-
el Cordnu, to January 1st, 1824, 14 00
Newburyport, for supporting sundry paupers to
January, 1824, 558 73
North Brookfield, for supporting Esther Johnson,
to January 7th, 1824, 46 80
Overseers of Marshpee Indians, to January 12th,
1824, 300 98
Palmer, for supporting Phebe Menden, and Wil-
liam Menden, to January 6th, 1824, 55 80
Pittsfield, for supporting Polly Thurston, Mary
Hawley, John Jordan, Dinah Jackson and
child, John Brown and William Robinson, to
January 1st, 1824, 160 10
!]f*lymouth, for supporting James Reed, Rachel
Decan, Sarah Scott, John M. Ross, Jane Mur*
Shy, Jane Murphy 2d, William Murphy, Mary
lurphy and Harriet Murphy, to January 1 6th,
1824, 176 60
Pepperill, for supporting David Smith, Robert B.
Minchin, and Charles O'Conner, and Benjamin
Smith and family, to December 30th, 1823, 116 16
Pelham, for supporting William Banks and Har-
riet Whipple, to January 16th, 1824, 78 00
Roxburj , for supporting Jane Landen, Robert
Clue, Francis Williams, John Smith, Belcher
Ford, Ryon Kelleen and Mary Ann Simons, to
January 3d, 1824, 128 23
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 729
Rowley, for supporting Elle Collins, Eliza Fields
and child, to January 5th, 1824, $ 71 30
Rehoboth, for supporting John Solomon, wife
and two children, Nancy Hill and child, Rosan-
na Freeman and child, Levina Mason, Lucy
Kelley, Dinah Kelley and child, to December
12th, 1823, 235 20
Russell, for supporting Mrs. Newton, Mary Steb-
bins and Sally Harrington, to December 31st,
1823, • 83 70
Richmond, for supporting Samuel Hill, Roxanna
Winton, Betsy Darling, Amos Darling, Hannah
Darling, Sarah Ann Darling and Nancy Jes-
sup, to January 7th, 1824, 227 30'
Stow, for supporting John Dunn,to January 10th,
1824, 46 80'
Sheffield, for supporting Henry Armsden, Molly
Rowe, Hannah Rowe, William Ranny, Henry
Durant, Daniel Jackson, Delilah and Dick
Cornwell, Lucy and Henry Freeman, to Janu-
ary 8th, 1824, 368 00
Southbridge, for supporting, London Derry and
Quack Barton, to January 5th, 1824, 46 8a
Swansey, for supporting Diadama Barton, Mar-
tha Dusnips, Eliza Mason, Hannah Robbins
Ruth Sachems and Olivia Freeman, to Janua-
ry 7th, 1824, 160 20
Shelburne, for supporting Mary Bates and Eliza-
beth Lane, to January 14th, 1824, 72 80
Shrewsbury, for supporting John Dalany, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 6 SZ
Scituate, for supporting Richard Taylor, &c. to
Jamiary 1st, 1824, 50 05
Saugus, for supporting Joseph Clarenbole, to
January 12th, 1824, 28 80
Scituate, for supporting James Granby, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1824, 6 30
Seeconk, for supporting Tills Peck, Jane Wat-
son, Roxanna Pain, to January 2d, 1824, 95 08
Spencer, for supporting Thomas Humphrey*
and child, and Susanna Cowland, to January
16tb, 1824, 119 60
730 PAUPER ACCOtTNTa
Stoughton, for supporting William B. Sargent,
to January 1st, 1824, % 46 80
Sandwich, for supporting Ester Raymond, to
January 10th, 1824, 28 80
Stockbridge, for supporting John Morrison, Oza-
buth Morrison, Samuel Rathbone, Hannah
Rathbone, Mary Rice, Sarah Hulbert, Morgina
Curtis, Sally Peet and Nancy Duncan, to De-
cember 1st, 1823, 204 2»
Sandisfield, for supporting Jonathan Bolles, Rich-
ard Dickson and wife, to January 1st, 1824, 86 40
Salem, for supporting sundry paupers, to Janua-
ry 1st, 1824, 1358 00
Sharon, for supporting John H. Buthalf, to Janu-
ary 20th, 1824, 46 80
Sutton, for supporting James M'Lane and Wil-
liam Metcalf, to January 6th, 1824, 53 55
Sturbridge, for supporting John Jackson, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 9 00
Shirley, for supporting Mary M'Kensey, Samuel
and Alvira Gray, to Januar}^ 1st, 1824, 98 80
Sturbridge, for supporting Samuel Weldon, to
February, 1824, 50 40
Springfield, for supporting John Loyd, Michael
Smith, Harry, (a black,) Joseph Smith, Daniel
Hastings,Thomas Killy and Unice Prince, Wil-
liam Hale, James Ingalls, David Chapman, Ed-
mund Kenney and Warren Goodrich, to Janu-
ary 3d, 1824, 326 23
Somersett, for supporting William Eliot, Ruth
Hill and Polly Hill, to January 20th, 1824, 73 41
Tyringham, for supporting Richard Gardner and
wife, Asa Thompson, David M'Neale, Alvina
Peters, Permilia Watkins, Jemima Howard, to
January 1st, 1824^ 200 50
Tewksbury, for supporting Nathaniel Ingerson,
to January 1st, 1824, 24 80
Taunton, for supporting an Ananymous Female,
Jacob Tarry, Jemima Few, Sally Vallum, Sa-
rah Harden, Nancy Stilla, Betsy Stilla, Leon-
ard Stilla and Mary Stilla, and three children
PAUPER ACCOUNTS. 731
of Nancy Stilla, Harriet JefFery, Deborah
Smith, James Newbury, Robert Wilson, Jun.
and Solomon Robinson, to January 1st, 1824, ^312 31
Topsfield, for supporting PhiUis Easty, Nanc}^
sorter and Phillis Emerson, to January 24th>
1824, 109 28
Ux bridge, for supporting a child of Phillis Jenks,
to January 8th, 1824, 26 00
Wenham, for supporting Pompey Porter, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 46 80
Washington, for supporting James Robbins and
wife, Elizabeth Williams and William Seals, to
January 1st, 1824, 97 06
West Stockbridge, for supporting Sally Barton
and Julia Ann Salmon, to January 1st, 1824, 64 52
Waltham, for supporting Joseph Cox, to January
1st, 1824, 62 60
West Springfield, for supporting James Aldrich,
Hannah Shevay, Lewis Scranton,Fanny Scran-
ton, Maria Scranton, Mellicant Meeker and
Alonzo Meeker, to January 4th, 1824, 86 00
Walpole, for supporting Elizabeth Ellis, to Jan-
uary 5th, 1824, 27 90
Wrentham, for supporting John Knight, John
Kenedy and Thomas Kenedy, to January 7th,
1824, 91 28
Thomas Wade, keeper of the house of Correc-
tion, for supporting sundry paupers, in Essex
Couxjty, including what was allowed by the
Court of Sessions, to October 15th, 1823, to
January 12th, 1824, 614 80
W^orcester, for supporting Jonas Brooks, William
Jablin and Jonathan R. Smith, to January 1st,
1824, 56 70
Winchendon, for supporting Deborah M'Deeth,
and Richard Furlong, to January 10th# 1824, 71 24
Williamstown, for supporting James Low, a child
of David Taylor, Rachel Galucha, Ashahel
Foot and wife and two children, John G. Hen-
dusall, Betsy, (a black child,) Phebe Jenson,
Hugar, and her son, to January 6th, 1834, 221 5©
732 SHERIFFS^ AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
Westhampton for supporting Lemuel Calver and
wife, John Gay and Jane Gay, to January 1st,
1824, S 105 55
Ware, for supporting John J. Upham, to January
5th, 1824, 46 SO
Westfield, for supporting Asonath Gibson,George
Gibson, Matthew Smith, John Barry, Ester
Barry, Phebe Rose, Caleb Welles, Theodatia
Gillitt, Frederick Powers and Trephina Bor-
din, to January 1st, 1824, 233 64
Watertown, for supporting Robert Saunders,
Rebecca Bowen, Samuel Latch and Martin Fur-
. long, to January, 1st, 1824, • 195 30
Westford, for supporting Ephraim Spaulding, to
January 1st, 1824, 27 38
West Boylston, for supporting Henry S. Stone,
to January 1st, 1824, 7 97
West Stockbridge, for supporting James C. Biggs,
Ransom H. Biggs and Lucy Lane, to January
1st, 1824, 140 40
Westborough, for supporting John Donnison and
Deniah, to January 16th, 1824, 93 60
Wrentham, for supporting James Walker, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 26 00
Yarmouth, for supporting old Lot and Thomas
Peters, to January 9th, 1824, 34 22
SHERIFFS' AND CORONERS' ACCOUNTS.
January, 1824.
Thomas Badger, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 53 48
Elijah Crane, Sheriff of Norfolk County, for dis-
tributing precepts, &c. to January 12th, 1824, 12 22
Lucius Dickinson, Coroner of Franklin County,
for taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 20 27
Samuel Hews, Coroner of Suffolk County, for tak-
ing Inquisitions to February 4th, 1824, 59 22
PRINTERS & MISCELLA. ACCOUNTS. 733
Jotham Johnson, Coroner of Middlesex County,
for taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, ^ 11 90
Horatio Leonard, Sheriff of Bristol County, for
returning votes, &c. to January 1st, 1824, 3 20
Benijah Mason, Coroner of Bristol County, for
taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 10 40
Peter Pease, Coroner of Dukes County, for tak-
ing Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 12 23
Joseph Stowers, Coroner of Suffolk County, for
taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 11 58.
Joseph Sawyer, Jun.Coroner for Worcester Coun-
ty, for taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 8 25
Samuel Tyler, Coroner of Bristol County, for tak-
ing Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 15 80
Aaron Kinsley, Coroner of Norfolk County, for
taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 10 40
Daniel Uphara, Coroner of Worcester County,
for taking Inquisitions, to February 4th, 1824, 13 58
Thomas W. Ward, Sheriff of Worcester County,
for taking care of the house of Correction and
for distributing precepts to February 4th, 1824, 125 30
PRINTERS, AND MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTS.
January^ 1824.
Allen E. W. for publishing Laws, &c. to August
1st, 1823, ^33 33
Agricultural Society, for Sundry Expenses in
raising Seeds and Plants by experiments made
by said Society, in public Gardens at Cam-
bridge, to January 20th, 1824, 600 00
Adams William, for sundry Repairs for the State
House, 25 94
AllenPhineas,foradvertising,to January 1st, 1824, 20 17
Aves Thomas, Jun. Page to the General Court,
to February 21st, 1824, 50 00
Boston Commissioners of Health, to January 1st,
1824, 459 16
734 PRINTERS, & MISCELLA. ACCOUNTS.
Bristol Goal, Committee to Examine, viz :
Ebenezer Doggett, 5 00
J. A. Parker, 8 00
Noah Stoddard, 8 00— g!21 00
Bradlee Joseph P. for Stove for Secretary's Office, 24 75
Bradlee Samuel, for sundry Hard, for the State
House, 24 22
Burditt James W. for Stationary, to February
17th, 1824, 202 81
BlaneyHenry,for sundry Repairs for State House, 119 54
Bacon Henry, for assisting Messinger, to General
Court, to February 21st, 1824, 88 00
Berkshire Goal, Committee to Examine, viz:
Isaac Curtis, Jun. 3 80
Owen Goodrich, 5 60
John Nye, 4 40 13 80
Barnstable Gaol, Committee to Examine, viz :
Benjamin Hallet, 3 60
William Lower, 3 60
Samuel Freeman, 6 40 13 60
Ballard & Prince, for Broad Cloth and Binding,
for State House, 14 50
Ballard and Wright, for papers furnished the
Court, to June i4th, 1823, 47 54
Burrell Nathan, for publishing Laws, and Adver-
tising, to January 1st, 1824, 20 17
Ballard & Wright, for advertising in the Patriot, , 75
Ballard & Wris^ht, for advertising in the Patriot, ^
to January I7th, 1823, 61 00
Ballard & Wright, for advertising in the Patriot,
to February 4th, 1824, 46 95
Cutting Elijah W. for assisting Messinger,to Gen-
eral Court, to February 21st, 1824, 84 00
Chace Warren, for assisting Messenger, to Gen-
eral Court, to February 21st, 1824, 88 00
Commissioners to examine the Treasurers' ac-
counts, to January 1st, 1824, 70 00
Clapp William W. for advertising Laws, &c. to
to Junuary 1st, 1824, 34 69
Dukes County Goal, Committee to Examine,
viz : Hezekiah Barnard, 8 00
PRINTERS & MISCELLA. ACCOUNTS. 735
Durant William, for cleaniDg -Windows and set-
ting Glass, in State House, S 27 95
Danforth Allen, for publishing Laws, &c. to No-
vember 1st, 1823, 33 34
Dukes County Goal, Committee to examine, viz :
William Gernigan, 2 00
Essex Goal, Committee to examine, viz:
John Osgood, 10 00
James Phillips, Jun. 10 00
Benjamin Knight, 10 00 30 00
Franklin Goal, Committee to examine, viz :
Parley Barton, 6 80
Demick Ellis, 5 00
Ephraim Hastings, 5 60 17 40
True & Greene, for paper and Printing, for the
several Offices, and for Printing Laws, to Feb-
ruary 19th, 1824, 871 24
Hampshire Goal, Committee k) examine, viz :
Samuel Kirklaild,
Joshua Kingsley,
Jonas Brewster, 6 00—15 00
Hampden Goal, Committee to
Alvin Needham,
Luke Parsons,
Alfred Stearns, 4 00 14 40
Hale Nathan, for advertising, printing, and News-
papers furnished the members of the General
Court, to September 11th, 1823, 141 73
Hastings William, for publishing Laws, &g. to
December 13th, 1823, 16 67
Judd Sylvester, for publishing Report of a Com-
mittee, &c. to January 1st, 1824, 5 00
Low John V. for assisting Messinger to the Gen-
eral Court to February 21st, 1824, 80 00
Middlesex Goal, Committee to Examine, viz:
Francis Tuttle, 9 00
Levi Farwell, 8 00
Daniel C. Abbott, 11 00 28 00
Mann William H. for advertising Laws, to No-
vember 20th, 1823, 16 64
97
5
00
4
00
6
00-
examine, viz:
7
00
3
40
4
00-
736 PRINTERS, & MISCELLA. ACCOUNTS.
Norfolk Goal, Committee to Examine, viz :
Lewis Fisher, 10 00
William Ellis, 5 20
Enoch Hewins, 8 00— $23 20
Nichols William, for supplying the Court with
Newspapers, to February 14th, 1824, 13 62
Nantucket Goal, Committee to Examine, viz :
Gideon Folger, 2 00
Hezekiah Barnard, 2 00 4 06
Plymouth Goal, Committee to Examine, viz:
Samuel A. Frazer, 4 00
Joseph Clift, 5 20
John Leavitt, 7 20 16 40
Russell Benjamin, for printing and furnishing Pa-
pers for the Members, to December 24th, 1823,
Richardson & Lord, for Stationary, to February
16th, 1824, 41 62
Russell & Gardner, for advertising in the Boston
Gazette, to February 13th, 1824, 10 00
For Newspapers to members to Febru-
ary, 1824, 27 88 37 88
Phelps & Sexton, for publishing Laws, &c. to
January 1st, 1824, 16 67
Soap Stone Company, for sundry supplies for
State House, to January 1st, 1824, 70 83
A. G. Tannatt & Co. for publishing Laws, &c. to
January 1st, 1824, 16 67
Tannett A. G. for publishing Laws, to March 18th,
1323, 16 67
Todd & Smith, for advertising Eastern Lands, to
January 27th, 1824, 17 50
Vose Elijah, for two Stoves for State House, 78 81
Williard Justine, for publishing Laws, to Febru-
ary 6ih, 1824, 11 11
Wells & Lilley, for printing the Agricultural So-
ciety Journal, No. 4, vol 7, 200 00
Do. Do. 1000 copies, each 1. vol 8, 200 00—400 00
Worcester Goal, Committee to Examine, viz :
Lyman Sibley, 7 00
James Boamer, 4 60
Calvin Haskell 6 00 17 60
MILITAEY ACCOUNTS. 737
True & Greene, for furnishing Papers to the
Members, to February 21st, 1824, g; 63 36
Welles John, for Copper Funnell for Stoves, 104 18
Wheeler John H. for repairs to State House, 265 97
Young & Minns, for Newspapers, furnished to
Members, &c. 15 75
MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Jlid-de-Camps to Major Generals.
Talbot James, to tlie Major General of the 1st
Division, to January 1st, 1824, ^13 75
Stickney John, to Major General of 2d Division,
to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Coffin Timothy G. to Major General of 5th Di-
vision to January 1st, 1824, 22 92
Hopkins Thomas, to Major General of 7th Divis-
ion, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Brigade Majors.
Allen Alfred, 1st Division, 2d Brigade, to January
1st, 1824, S35 36
Brimmer Martin, 1st Division, 3d Brigade, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 28 34
Barton Jabez W. 2d Division, 1st Brigade, to De-
cember 18th, 1823, 50 00
Btrtterfield Joseph, 3d Division, 2d Brigade, to
Jannary 1st, 1824, 37 77
Sheldon Thomas, 4th Division, 1st Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 28 34
Gilbert Thomas, 4th Division, 2d Brigade, to Jan-
uary 1st, 1824, 40 00
Wilder Nathaniel, 5th Division, 1st Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 40 00
Cobb David G. W. 5th Division, 2d Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 38 33
738 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Sampson Joseph, 5th Division, 3d Brigade, to
Ji^nuary 1st, 1824, » 40 00
Cunningliam E. M. 6th Division, 2d Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 40 00
Thwing Thomas, 7th Division, 1st Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 40 00
Hubbell Calvin, 7th Division, 2d Brigade, to
January 1st, 1824, 40 00
Adjutants.
Allen Andrew J. 1st Division, 3d Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to May 5th, 1823, ^ S 8 67
Adams Stephen, jun. 2d Division, 2d Brigade 1st
Regi'rient, to January 1st, 1824, 22 92
Abbot Paschal, 2d Division, 2d, Brigade, 4th Reg-
imen i, to January 1st, 1824, 23 75
Atwood George W. 5th Division, 2d Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Adams Otis, 6th Division 2d Brigade, 2d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 21 53
Baker Walter, 1st Division, 1st Brigade, 1st Reg-
iment, to January 1st, 1824, 23 61
Bent James, 1st Division, 2d Brigade, 2d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 22 66
Bancroft William A. 3d Division, 2d Brigade, 2d
Rea-iment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Blood Charles, 3d Division, 2d Brigade, 3d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Brighasn Moves, 6th Division, 1st Brigade, 6th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 15 00
Barrett Benjamin, 6th Division, 2d Brigade, 4th
Regimevic, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Bryant Nathan, jun. 6th Division, 2d Brigade, 5th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Bridge Charles, 6th Division, 1st Brigade, Cav-
alry, to January 1st, 1824, 34 02
Cushirj: Ned, 1st Division, 1st Brigade, 2d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
MILITARY ACCOUNTS. 73^
Clark Josiah S. 3cl Division, 1st Brigade, 5th Reg-
iment, to January 1st, 1824, 8 25 00
Conant Francis, 3d Division, 2d Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 35 77
Chapen Chester W. 4th Division, 1st Brigade,
1st Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Collamore Horace, 5th Division, 1st Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 23 61
Derby John 4th, 2d Division, 1st Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to February 21st, 1823, 25 00
Dixey E. F. 2d Division, 1st Brigade, 4th Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 10 00
Dickinson Thomas, 3d Division, 1 st Brigade, 4th
Regiment, to Jannary 1st, 1824, 18 75
Dickinson Elijah R. 4th Division, 1st Brigade,
Cavalry, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Dyer Samuel N. 5th Division, 1st Brigade, 4th
Regiment, ^c^w^, to January 1st 1824, 15 00
Evens John, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 4th Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 43 75
Everett Charles, 3d Division, 1st Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 23 96
Eaton Ebenezer R. 4th Division, 1st Brigade,
Artillery, to August 15th, 1823, 25 00
Esterbrooks Jones, 6th Division, 1st Brigade, 6th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 34 51
Egleston Thomas, 7th Division, 2d Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Fisher Calvin, jun. 1st Division, 2d Brigade 2d
Regiment, Artillery, to January 1st 1824, 14 16
Frost Elisha jun. 3d Division, 1st Brigade, 5th
Regimeat, to September 27th 1822, 17 50
Forward Robert, 4th Division, 1st Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 .00
Fessenden Sewall, 5th Division, 3d Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 23 61
Gibbons George M. 1st Division, 3d Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Goss Clark, 4th Division, 2d Brigade, 3d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 24 18
Haynes Guy C. 3d Division, 1st Brigade, 5th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 31 25
740 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Hooker Zibean, 3d Division, 1st Brigade, 5th
Regiment, Cavalry, to January 1st, 1824, 811 73
Hubbard John, 4th Division, 1st Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to April 25th, 1823, 25 00
Hedge Isaac L. 5th Division, 1st Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 25 00
Haskell James, 5th Division, 1st Brigade, 4th
Regiment, Cavalry, to January 1st, 1823, 15 00
Hathaway Philip P. 5th Division, 2d Brigade, 5th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 25 00*
Hamblin Joseph, 5th Division, 3d Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 25 00
Hitchcock, Augustus, 7th Division, 1st Brigade,
1st Regiment, Acting, to January 1st, 1823, 14 50'
Hubbell Stoddard, 7th Division, 2d Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 25 00
Ingorsal Daniel P. 7th Division, 1st Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 25 00
Kemball Charles, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1823, 23 96
Lincoln Asa, 4th Division, 1 st Brigade, 5th Regi-
ment, to September 1st, 1823, 16 66
Mosely Thomas M. 1st Division 1st Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 15 00
Mountford Napolean B. 1st Division, 3d Brigade,
1st Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 16 33
Newell Joseph W. 3d Division, 1st Brigade, 5th
Regiment, to October 2d 1822, 15 62
NeAvton Isaac, 4th Division, 2d Brigade, 2d Reg-
iment, to January 1st, J824, 25 00
Otis L. A. G. 1st Division, 3d Brigade, 3d Regi-
ment, to January 1st 1824, 28 80
Peabody Charles, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 48 04
Partridge William W. 4th Division, 2d Brigade^
1st Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Rogers Daniel H. 2d Division, 1st Brigade, 1st
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Root Albert A. 7th Division, 1st Brigade,lst Reg-
iment, to January 1st, 1824, 21 87
Sheldon Israel, 2d Division 1st Brigade, 3d Reg-
iment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
HAULING ARTILLERY. 741
Sampson Joseph, 5th Division, 3d Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to September 25th, 1823, S 10 75
Saxton William B. 7th Division, 1st Brigade, 2d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 15 00
Torrey Joseph, 1st Division, 2d Brigade, 2d Reg-
iment, to May 15th, 1823, 11 17
Thayer George W. 1st;, Division, 3d Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Townsend Daniel, 2d Division, 1st Brigade, 4th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Thompson Samuel, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 4th
Regiment, to September 12th, 1822, 14 42
Thompson Arad, 5th Division, 1 st Brigade, 4th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 24 45
Taylor Henry, 5th Division, 2d Brigade, 2d Reg-
iment, to July 1st, 1823, 12 50
Tucker Samuel, 6th Division, 1st Brigade, Caval-
ry, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
Tucker George, S. 7th Division, 2d Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 7 50
Wild Jonathan, jun. 1st Division, 1st Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 24 37
Wright David, 4th Division, 2d Brigade, Cavalry
to January 1st, 1824, 50 00
Wood Asa, 5th Division, 2d Brigade, 2d Regi-
ment, to January 1st, 1824, 12 50
Wright Joseph W. 6th Division, 1st Brigade, 5th
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 33 33
Wright Simeon W. 7th Division, 2d Brigade, 3d
Regiment, to January 1st, 1824, 25 00
* Hauling Artillery.
Adams Cyrus, 1st Division, 2d Brigade, S 8 00
Abbot Abel, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 12 00
Adams Nahum, 4th Division, 2d Brigade, 9 50
Bradbury Ebenezer, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 22 50
Baldwin Henry, 3d Division, 2d Brigade, 6 21
Colby John, 2d Division, 2d Brigade, 32 87
Curtis Levi, 5th Division, 1st Brigade, 10 00
742 MILITARY ACCOUNTS.
Clark Sumner, 6th Division, 1st Bigade,
Ellis George P. 1st Disvision, 2d Brigade,
Ensign Thomas, 7th Division, 2d Brigade,
Gay Willard, 1st Division, 1st Brigade,
Glover Russell, 1 st Division, 3d Brigade,
Harrison John, 5th Division, 2d Brigade,
Harwood Wilcott, 6th Division, 2d Brigade,
Jackson Francis, 1 st Division, 3d Brigade,
Kinstry William M. 6th Division, 1st Brigade,
Mason Jonathan B. 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Mayhew George, 4th Division, 2d Brigade,
Mayhew George, 4th Division, 2d Brigade,
Nesmith Adam, 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Nesmith Adam, 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Nichols John, 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Noyes Moses, 5th Division, 1st Brigade,
Parks John, 1st Division, l»t Brigade,
Perry Lemuel, 5th Division, 2d brigade,
Roades John S. 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Smith William L. 1st Division, 3d Brigade,
Somes Samuel, 3d Division, 1st Brigade,
Somes Samuel, 3d Division, 1st Brigade,
Tapley Amos, 2d Division, 1st Brigade,
Tucker Joel, 4th Division, 1st Brigade,
Wade John, 1st Division, 3d Brigade,
White Otis, 3d Division, 1st Brigade,
White Otis, 3d Division, 1st Brigade,
Walker Hezekiah, Jun. 4th Division, 1st Brigade,
Wood Nathaniel, 5th Division, 1st Brigade,
I 9
00
12
00
5
00
20
00
36
00
49
50
5
00
30
00
5
00
11
00
18
00
19
00
8
00
10
00
10
00
8
75
10
00
23
75
10
00
20
00
17
50
15
00
8
00
5
00
20
00
20
00
15
00
5
13
12
00
•Aggregate of Roll, JVo, 90. •
Expense of State Paupers, ---■•$ 26,603 69
" « Sheriffs and Coroners, - - 367 83
« « Printers and Miscellaneous, 4,703 13
« " Military, 2,715 25
$ 34,389 90
RESOLVE. 743
Resolved^ That there be allowed eind paid out of the
public Treasury, to the several Corporations and persons
mentioned in this Roll, the sums set againsts such Corpo-
rations and persons names respectively, amounting in the
whole, to thirty-four thousand three hundred eighty -nine
dollars, and ninety cents.
In Senate, February 21st, 1824. — Read and passed.
Sent down for concurrence,
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, President.
House of Representatives, February 2lst, 1824. — Twice
read and concurred.
WILLIAM C. JARVIS, Speaker.
February 2i st, 1824. — Approved,
WILLIAM EUSTIS.
98
SECRETARY'S OFFICE, ?
May 4th, 1824. J
By {his, I CERTIt'y, that the Resolves printed in this Pamphlet, and
passed by the Legislature at the Session in January and February 1824,
have been compared with the originals, and appear to be correct.
ALDEN BRADFORD,
Secretary of Commonwealth,
INDEX
TO THE RESOLVES, PASSED BETWEEN THE TWENTY SIXTH OF MAY, EIGH-
TEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN, AND THE TWENTY SECOND OF FEBRU-
ARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR.
A.
Abbot John, authorized to convey real estate of J. Cogswell, - 355
Academy Hopkins, an half township granted to, - - - 244
" Leicester, the Attorney General to institute a process for
recovery of certain lands, - - - - Ho
*' " release of real estate in Paxton to, - - 581
'* Lincoln, lands confirmed to, - - - " ' ^^^
Adams Boylston, grant to, 52
" Stephen do. 408
<' JohnQ. do. 452
Adjutant General, authorized to employ an additional Clerk, 316,
370,-464, 537
" <* to receive conveyance of a lot of land in New-
Bedford, - 542
_ '« " to release to New-Bedford the title of the State,
to a lot of land, - - - - . - 543
" " to deliver to militia officers a compend of field
exercise, &c. _ ^ . - - - 449
appropriation for^ - - - - 370, 587
to deliver up ordnance, arms and military stores
to the State of Maine, 541
authorized to appoint a military store keeper, 370, 454
see Quarter Master General.
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ii INDEX.
Agent, Governor requested to appoint to prosecute a suit, Richards
of Dudley, versus. Tift of Connecticut, - - - 579
" on suit Richards v s. Tift — grant to, - . _ - 708
" Governor authorized to appoint, to prosecute and advocate
the claim against the U. States, - - - 586
" " for prosecuting claim against United States, grant
for, - 586, 720
" of Land Office, — see land office,
" to sell lands to raise thirty thousand dollars for the State of
Maine, - - - 577
" to sell the residue of land and Islands, &c. in Maine, 577, 656
'* to give notice to all persons who have unsettled cOhtracts, 577
" in connexion vrith the Agent of Maine, to sell a small tract
of land in Portland, 578
" to adjust the claim of Robert Crosby and others, - - 696
*' authorized to sell three townships, 701
" appointed to sell a small estate in Berkshire, belonging to
the State, - - - - 445
Agricultural Society in Essex, premium allowed, - - - 525
Amendments to the Constitution of Massachusetts, - - 351
Andrews William Jun. and others, Treasurer of Essex to pay
S250, - 113, 125
Attleborough, allowed for support of J. Barnard, - - - 131
Attorney General, balance in bis hands appropriated, - - 358
" " to institute a suit for recovery of lands for Lei-
cester Academy, - - - - - 116
" " to prevent the progress of Plymouth Beach
Lottery, 372
" " to file an information against certain Corpora-
tions, ------_ 465
Augusta, South Parish, Assessors authorized to call a meeting, - 46
B.
Baldwin Benjamin, the time for paying his notes extended, 121, 415
Baldwin, Rev. Amos G. exempted from prosecution, - - 135
Ballard and Wright, appointed printers to the State, - - - 651
Bank, Agricultural at Pittsfield, compensation granted to the Com-
mittee on its concerns, - ----- 60
" Cumberland, Treasurer to refund S 1000, - - - 288
INDEX. iii
Bank, New England, to receive g 1500, when paid by J. Wild, 364
" of the United States, report on doings of Ohio, - - 417
" Dedham, Committee to examine doings of, - - - 717
Banks,resolve on proposition for restricting the erection of, by Con-
gress, to the District of Columbia, . - _ 118,571
" Perkins Stereotype Plates, recommended to their use, - 714
Barnstable, County tax granted, - 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
Barns Peter, and wife, land in Salem released to her, - - 107
Barstow Gideon, Jun, authorized to build a wharf, - - - 708
Bartholomew Willys and others, report on petition relative to States'
lands in Tjerkshire, ------- 705
Baxter Samuel, and J. Robbing, their heirs of, to have balances on
army books, on condition, ------ 463
Beach Nahant, in Lynn, grant for repair of, - - - - 712
Belmont, their proceedings made valid, 46
Berkshire County, tax granted, - 142, — 286, — 450, — 585, — 704
" '• an additional Notary to be appointed for, - 242
*' " the gore so called, taxes remitted, - - 408
" " Committee to ascertain State's lands in, - - 705
Beverly, the pension of Israel Morgan to be paid to the Overseers
of the poor of, 40, — 247
" authorized to clioose a Collector of taxes at May meeting, 313
'* their choice of a Collector of taxes made valid, - - 532
Bliss George, and E. H. Robbins, honorable commissioners,
grant to, 363,-707
Bowen Henry, grant to, ------- - 719
Boylston Ward N. Solicitor General, directed, - - 103, — 127
" amount paid by him, into the Treasury for taxes, to be
refunded, ----- .__ 691
'* Sterling and Holden 2d, Precinct in, to choose officers, 573
Braintree manufacturing company, real estate, &c. to be convey-
ed to, 698
Bramin Thomas, Jun. allowed for building a gun house, . - 360
Breed John, Administrator, Treasurer to issue a new note, - 414
Brewer, certain lands in, to be sold, ----- 367
Bridge Samuel H. prosecution against, to be stayed, - - 313
Bridge over Deerfield river. Court of Sessions for Franklin County
to grant money for building, 124
" at Chester Village, Hampden County, to be taxed in part,
for building, ---,.-.-_ 282
iv INDEX.
Bridges near Boston, Committee appointed to ascertain the rever-
sionary interest of the State in, - - " " ." ^^^
Bridgman Joseph Jun. authorized to sell half a pew, - - 171
Bridgewater, and North West Bridgewater, to assess their propor-
tions of taxes, 531
Bristol County, tax granted, - - 142,— -286, — 450,— 585,— 704
'' *' the Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance
in, of crimes and appeals, at their adjourned term, 143
" " two additional Notaries to be appointed for, - 242
Bryant Peter R. grant to, 719
Burr, David C marriage confirmed, ... - - 108
c.
Canal from Barnstable to Buzzard's Bay, representation of this
State in Congress, to endeavor to obtain a survey for, - 694
•' Gloucester, provision for payment of assessment of Common-
wealth shares in, 650
Gannon Ebenezer Jun. authorized to build a wharf, - - - 700
Canton, a meeting of the first congregational Parish to be called, 112
Capen H. and E. Occuoha, a sale of their land authorized, - 536
Chaplins of the General Court, pay granted, 173, — 292, — 464,-588, 717
Charlestown, the claims of certain corporations on the inhabitants
for tolls, may be tried in law, _ - . . - 465
Chenery Thaddeus and others, authorized to sell real estate, - 697
Chester Village Bridge, Hampden County to be taxed in part for, 282
Claim on the U. States for expenses in the late war, 288, — 586,-720
Clark S. an Adjutant, to be honorably discharged, - - . 407
Cleaves Sarah, empowered to convey real estate, - - - 44
Clerks of the General Court, pay granted, 67,— 255,— 291,— 317,
371,— 465,— 538,— 589,— 661,— 719
" in the State OflSces, pay granted, - -- - 14, — 257
" 2d in Adjutant General's Office, pay granted, 316,-370,-464,-537
*' of the Committee on valuation, pay granted to, - - 411
Coffin George W. appointed agent of the land office, - - - 256
" see Land Office.
Cogswell J. real estate of, to be conveyed by the Executor, - 355
College Williams, grant of a township to be isatisfied, - - - 110
" Bowdoin, consent given for any alteration of the clause re-
specting, in the act for the separation of Maine, - 243
INDEX. V "^
Colrain, account referred to the committee on accounts, allowed, 451, 462
Commissioners of the Land Office, time extended for making deedg
of lots No. 93, and 112, in Ban-
gor, ----- 114
" *' " to satisfy a grant to Williams
College, - ... 110
" " "to convey land to J. E. Foxcroft, 113
" " " to locate the townsliip granted to
the proprietors of Sandy Bay
Pier, lir
" " " to convey 5000 acres to J. Treat, 126
*' " " to pay J. & S. Spring, two thirds
of a certain sum, - - 134
** " " to sell the Commonwealth's right
in No. 3, - - - - 140
** *' "to release a lot to the proprietors
of No. 4, - - - - 152
" «< « to give notice of the time limited
for locating grants, &c. of lands
in Maine, - - - - 157
*' " " their report of lands conveyed,&c. 158
** " " to make an allowance to the in-
habitants of Penobscot, for certain
taxes paid by them, - - 171
*' * " " committee to adjust their accounts 255
** under the act for the separation of Maine, their do-
ings approved and confirmed, - - - _ sfj
" to be appointed to ascertain the line between this
State and Connecticut, - - - - . 127
** on the Connecticut line, grant to, - - 363, — 707
'* '* *' their Surveyor, - 707
*' of Massachusetts and Maine, the stipulations in their
agreement to be carried into ofFect, - _ _ 549
** of Massachusetts and Maine, the claim of R. Crosby
and J. Kinsman, referred to, - - - - 575
" of Massachusetts and Maine, their report and docu- .
ments to be filed in the Secretary's Office, - - 65t
*' for revising and superintending the printing a new
edition ofthe laws, -._-., 46©
vi INDEX.
Commissioners, for overseeing the printing of the laws, pay granted,
581,-714
" for sale of Eastern lands, see agents.
Committee to view Sandy Bay Pier, and report, - - - 41
*' on proceedings of the Agricultural Bank in Pittsfield,
pay granted, _-.__-_- 60
" to view 8th Massachusetts Turnpike roads, &c. - - 130
" on Valuation, pay granted, ----- 400
" " their pay roll, - - - - 402, — 414
" of Convention for revising the Constitution, pay granted, 360
" to adjust the accounts of the Commissioners of the land
office, - - __-_-_ 255
" on accounts, pay allowed, 61, — 153, — 252, — 289, — 364,
462,-540,-584. 660,-717
" « Roll, 69,~175,— 259,— 293,— 373,— 467,
544,— 591,— 662,— 721
" on Plymouth Beach Lottery accounts, pay granted, 411
" on valuation, report, &c. - - - - - 434
" *' pay granted to their Clerk, _ - - 411
'« « « " Messenger, - 459
" to negotiate with a Committee of Maine, and settle terms
for a transfer of lands belonging to Massachusetts, - 283
*' for revising Probate laws, granted compensation, - 445
" to ascertain the reversionary interest of the State, in
Bridges near Boston, - - - - - - 713
" to examine the doings of the Dedham Bank officers. 717
Company, Merrimack Boating, may call a meeting, - - 249
Congress, number of members from Massachusetts and Maine, fixed, 107
Connecticut, claim of jurisdiction opposed, _ - - - 579
Constitution of the United States, resolve on proposed amendment
relative to Banks, - - - - - 118, — 571
" of Massachusetts, amendments to be enrolled, authen-
ticated and promulgated, - - - - 351,- 371
Coney William, Administrator on estate of Doctor Bates, author-
ized to convey a piece of land to, - - _ - 649
Contingent Fund, provided, ------ 537
Council, pay of the members, 40,--242,— 354,— 524,— 580,— 648
" Members entitled to Laws, - - - _ 46i,__581
County Taxes — see Taxes.
INDEX. vii
Court Genera], pay of the Members, 40, — 242, — 354, — 524, — 580, — 648
" " Members entitled to Laws, - - - 461, — 581
" Supreme Judicial, term in Castine adjourned to September, 41
" " " " " in September may be held
by one Justice, 42
" " " to have cognizance in crimes and appeals at
their adjourned term in May, next in Bristol County, 143
" of Sessions, Cumberland County, to adjust the account of
John Merrill, ------ 147
'' ** authorized to make allowance to the Judge of
Probate, - 115
" " Middlesex authorized to issue precepts for choice
*' " of a Registei of Deeds, ... - 447
*' " Essex County, to adjust the account of Doct.
Peabody, - - - - 153
** " " " authorized to amend the assess-
ment of County Tax, . . - . 248
*« ** Franklin County, to grant money for a Bridge
over Deertield River. - - - - 124
" Police in Boston, to have Term Reports, - - - - 584
Crane Abijah, authorized to execute a deed, - - - _ 122
*' Daniel, " to receive of T. & G. Howard deeds, and
to quit-claim right of E. Howard, &c. - - . - 355
Crosby R. and J. Kinsman, their claim submitted to ths Commis-
sioners under Act for the separation of
• Maine, ----- 575
** " Commmissioners for the sale of Eastern
Lands to adjust their claim, . - - . - 595
Cumberland County, provision for an additional Notary, 43
" " Tax granted, 142
" Court of Sessions, authorized to make allowance to the
Judge of Probate, - - - 115
« " " toadjusttheaccountof John Merrill, 147
Cumuiings James, marriage made valid, - - . - 60
Curtis E. S. suits against to be continued, - - . . 659
" to be discharged from demand of the State,on condition, 720
Cushing, their meeting and proceedings made valid, - - 42
V " Lucy, authorized to execute «, deed, - - - . 405
99
viii INDEX.
Balton, account referred to the Committee on accounts, ' - 529
Deaf and dumb persons, provision for the instruction of, 63, — 104
" " " " for removing from Asylum, 144
a a u « i« <» <t B. Tripp, 144
Dennis John, marriage confirmed, lOg
Dillingham Abby, grant for education of, - - - - 249
Doyle David M. guar *an to certain minors, authorized to demand
the legacy given them by the will of J. Smith, - - 47
Dresden, allowance to, for support of T. Doughty, - . - 587
Drowne Catherine, deed of land to be given her and others, 287
Dudley, 7 cents on valuation to be taken from, and added to
Southbridge, 533
*' protection^promised'against attempts of Connecticut, - 579
Dukes County, tax granted, ... 142,— 286,— 450,-653
Durfee Allen, granted a reward, ------ 144
lEastman William,^s administrator, authorized to make certain deeds, 106
Easton, tax increased, - .--_--- 355
Edson John, Treasurer of Braintree Manufacturing Company, re-
solve on petition, ------- 698
Election Sermon, apppropriation for the preacher of, - - 173, — 588
Elections, forms of returns to be annually sent to the towns, - 53
Electors of President, &c. of the United States, choice of, regulated, 245
** '* " power to supply vacancies, 246
Emerson Moses, land released to ----- - 406
Essex, tovra of, doings confirmed, ------ 49
*' County Treasurer, to pay Wm. Andrews Jr. and others g250, 113
« " Tax granted, - - 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
" ** Treasurer to refund to Innholders and others g4 each,450
'* " CourtofSessions to adjust the account of N.Peabody, 153
*' " " " to amend the assessment of the
County Tax, - - - - 248
** Agricultural Society, premium granted, - - - 527
F.
Farley B. M. authorized to sell real estate of his children, - 407
Faulkner James R. authorized to convey real estate, - - - 532
INDEX. is
Flagg Samuel and others, certain rights, &c. extended to, - - 57
Forbes Jonathan, to be discharged from prison, - . . 115
Forms of return of votes given on elections, to be printed and sent
to the towns, - - - - 53
*' '* " " on question of separation of Maine to
to be sent out, - - - - 66
" " " " on the question of a revision of the
Constitution, _ . . . 251
" " *' " of certificate of Delegates to meet in
convention for the revision of the
Constitution, - - - . 353
Poster Charles, grant to, for loss, 718
Foxborough, doings of, made valid, - . . . 463, — 697
Foxcroft J. E. Commissioners of the Land Office, to convey lands to, 113
Franklin County, Tax granted, ■ 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,-704
'* ** Court of Sessions to grant money for a Bridge
over Deerfield River, ----- 124
Freeman Samuel Hon. Judge ot Probate, Cumberland, Court of Ses-
sions authorized to allow addition to his Salary, - - II5
Freeport, doings of Baptist Society confirmed, ... 54
Freetown, a meeting of the Congregational Parish to be called, 111
Fund, contingent, granted, -.-.-.- 537
G.
Gage Thomas, authorized to convey real estate, - - - 709
General Court, pay of members, see Court.
Gilbert Clarissa, grant to, ------- 60
*' Eliel and others. Court of Sessions in Franklin County, to
grant money for a Bridge over Deerfield River, - - 124
Oilman Allen, time extended for Commissioners in the Land Office
to make deeds of Lots 93 and 112, in Bangor, - - 114
Gimbee Lucy, the Trustee of the Grafton Indians to pay money
for support of, ------- - 50
Gloucester, Committee to view Sandy Bay Pier, - - - 41
" J. Mason empowered to collect taxes, - - - 361
' ' Canal, provision for payment of shares taken by the State, 650
Going William, keeper of the State Prison, allowed additional pay, 654
Goodell Asa, discharged as guardian of the Grafton Indians, 138
Gore in Berkshire, taxes remitted, ------ 408
Gott Joseph, allow for support of M, Antonio, - - - - 58
X INDEX.
Goreraor, his Speech or Message, 27, — 89,-221, — 273, — 343,
387,— 505,— 557,— 633,— 681
" " answer of the Senate, 31,-233, — 340,
513,-640
" " answer of the House, 34,-236,-346,-519,-644
*' Message, announcing the death of the Major General
of the 5th Division, - - - - 48
" " communicating a letter from Senators in
Congress, relative to the election of Repre-
sentatives in Congress, by Massachusetts and
Maine, ______ 99
^' laying before the Court a copy of the records •
of the Convention of the Constitution of
Maine, ___-_- 99
"^ *' communicating resolutions of Indiana, con-
curring with Pennsylvania, for amending the
Constitution of the United States, - 108
" " submitting a petition from Indians in Yar-
mouth, ------- 109
" " communicating a letter from the Governor of
Ohio, relative to amending the Constitution
of the United States, and the resignation of
the Major General of the 2d Division, - 131
" .*' respecting Benjamin Trip, at the Hartford
Assylum, ______ 137
*' *' submitting the claim of Allen Durfee, - 139
" " announcing the resignation of the Major
General of the 4th Division, - - _ 278
" " laying before the Court resolutions of New-
Hampshire and Maine, _ _ _ ggO
•^ " communicating resolutions of Maine respect-
ing a compromise in relation to lands, the
property of Massachusetts, _ _ - 334
*' " communicating a letter from the Governor of
Ohio, and resolutions of that State relative
to proceedings of the Bank of the U. States,
against the officers of said State, - - 287
"' " communicating resolutions of Maine, con-
firming an agreement for the sale of lands by
Massachusetts, to Maine, _ - - 312
INDEX. 3d
Governor's Message, resolutions of Maryland, relative to appro-
priations of public lands, for the purposes of
education, ______ 313
" *' and sundry resolutions of the State of Illi-
nois, relative to amending the Constitution
of the United States, _ _ _ - 313
** " recommending a survey of the military stores
to be transferred to the care of the Adjutant
General, - - - - - 317
" " relative to the survey and inventory of the
public property in the Quarter Master Gen-
eral's department, _ - - - - 357
•' *' announcing the death of Major General Var-
num, 3d Division, _ _ _ _ 400
" " Is^yirtg before the Court a return of the militia
and a return of military stores in the Quarter
Master General's department, with explana-
tory communications from the Adjutant Gen-
eral, submitting the propriety of fui-nishing
officers with copies of the system of military
discipline directed by the General Govern-
ment to be observed by the militia, and re-
commending the militia to the attention of
the Legislature. _ - - _ _ 404
** '* relative to the claim on the United States
for expenses in the late war, - - 409
" •' and communicating resolutions of Kentucky^
relative to an appropriation of public lands
for the promotion of education, - - 410
" " communicating a letter from the Governor of
Maine, a«d sundry resolutions of that State, 413
" " communicating resolutions of Ohio, relative
to appropriation of public lands for education, 454
" 'i relative to the manufacture and inspection of
Gunpowder, and communicating resolutions
of South Carolina, Georgia and Ohio, - 522
" " relative to the wall of the State Prison yard,
and announcing the resignation of Major
General Town, 6th Division, - - - 533
xii INDEX.
Governor's Message, respecting military stores in the State Arsen-
als, and the division of them between Massa-
chusetts and Maine, - . _ _ 539
" " communicating report of the Commissioners
under the act for the separation of Maine, re-
lative to the survey and division of public
lands, and setting ofif a tract estimated at
S 30,000 value, 566
" laying before the Court a leturn of the
militia, and a return of the military stores^
with a report made by the Adjutant General
relative to the sale of sundry articles,inform-
ing them that the dividend of stores allotted
to^ Maine, has been delivered, and of the ar-
rangements made for uniforming the militia, 568
'* *' relative to the lottery for completing the
Canal at Amoskeag Falls, - _ . 57-4
" " communicating the state of the Treasury, 580
relative to the claim against the U. States, 583
" '* communicating a report of the proceedings
of the commissioners under the act for the
separation of Maine, - . . . 647
" " communicating a resolution of New-York re-
lative to the erection of Banks by Congress, 647
" *' respecting the walls of the State Prison yard, 651
" ^ communicating a statement relative to labor
done by the convicts at the State Prison, for
the Massachusetts General Hospital, - 689
" " communicating resolutions received from the
Governors of Illinois and Tennessee, - 689
** " communicating copies of instructions to and
correspondence with the Senators of this State
in Congress, and the Agents, for prosecuting
the claim against the United States, for ser-
vices of the militia, &c. . _ - ggg
*' *' communicating a report of the Agents to pros-
ecute a suit, a citizen of Dudley, vs. a col-
lector of Thompson in Connecticut, - 696
*' *' communicating a copy of a resolution of the
State of Georgia, - . . - . 70O
INDEX. xiii
Crovernor's Message, communicating a copy of a resolution of the
General Assembly of Alabama, expressing an
opinion with regard to the next Presideat of
the United States, - - - - 700
*< ** communicating a statement of the expenses
in printing two voluines of special Laws, - 701
" <* communicating resolutions of the State of
Ohio, proposing an adoption of a system for a
gradual emancipation of slaves, - - 702
<' " relative to the proceedings of the Agents, for
prosecuting the claim against the U. States,
for militia services, - . - - 710
" requested to appoint Commissioners to ascertain the
line between Massachusetts and Connecticut, 127
" <• to remove Benjamin Tripp from the Asylum
at Hartford, 144
*' authorized to cause a sale or exchange of certain mili-
tary stores, ------- 539
" requested to take measures for settlemeut of claim
on the United States, - • - - 288
" " to propose a compromise for the transfer to
Maine, of the lands in that State, the proper-
ty of this Commonwealth, _ - - 283/
*' " to appoint two persons to make an inventory
of the articles in the Quarter Master Gener-
al's department, . - - - - 316
<' " to issue his proclamation, announcing the ra-
tification of amendments to the Constitution, 354
" •* to appoint commissioners to revise, and sup-
erintend the printing of a new edition of the
Laws, - 460
*' " to employ an Architect to superintend build-
ing a wall at State Prison, - . . 466
** •* to issue his warrant for S 1588,50 in favor of
the State of Maine, - - - - 540
*' ^' to appoint an agent to prosecute a suit in
Worcester, Peter Richards of Dudley, vs.
Stephen E. Tift of Connecticut, - - 579
xiv INDEX.
Governor authorized to appoint agents to prosecute and advo-
cate the claim of the Commonwealth against
the U. States, for militia services, (see Agents,) 586
" " to draw on the Treasury for the amount of
assessments on the Commonwealth's shares in
• the Gloucester Canal, _ _ _ - 656
'* requested to authorize any agent of the State of Maine
to receive from the Officer of the U. States, directed to
deliver them, that States' proportion of arms, - 695
Green Joshua, empowered to execute a deed, - . _ - 527"
Greenough David, firewards of Boston may permit the continuance
of a Livery Stable, ----- 45
" to be discharged from debts due the State Prison,
on condition, - _ - _ - 412, — 569
Greenwood Ethan A. resolve on petition of W. N. Boylston re-
pealed, -_--____- 127
Griswold Rev. Samuel, his marriage confirmed, - - - 135
Gunpowder, public, quantity to be kept in Boston, limited, - 25 4
H.
Hager J. and E. Treasurer to issue a new note, _ - _ lOO
Hampden County, tax granted, - 142,— 286,— 450, — 585, — 704
" Court of Sessions to add to estimate for a tax, a
sum to aid Chester in building a bridge. - 282
Hampshire County, tax granted, - 142, — 286, — 450, — 585, — 704
Hancock " " 142
Handy Ebenezer, grant to, - - - - - - - 123
Hart Daniel, pensioned, ---_-_. 152
Harwich, agents of South Parish authorized to sell land, - - 367
Hasty Daniel, his account referred to the Committee on accounts, 112
Hayward Eli, non compos, his guardian authorized to sell land, 573
Herbert Charlotte, grant to, for services of her late husband, 248
Herrick Betsey, and others, minors, their guardian authorized to
sell land, -----.._. 567
Hinsdale, their account referred to the Committee on Accounts, 243
Holman Silas Gen. grant to, for surveying for the Commissioners
on the Connecticut line, --._._ 707
Hopkin's Acadmy, an half township of land granted to, - - 244
INDEX. xr
Hospital Massachusetts General, labor of convicts for, to be charg-
ed to the State, - 703
Howard Edwin, administrator authorized to convey estate, - 365
Hunnewell Walter, authorized to sell land of his ward, - - 406
I.
Indians Grafton, Trustee authorized to expend money for the sup-
port of Lucy Gimbee, - 50
*' Grafton, a new guardian appointed, - - - - 139
*' " guardian to sell land of 0. Newman and S. Phillips, 362
" Herring Pond, grant for repairing their Meeting-house, 116
" Chappaquidduck, grant to build a Meeting and School
House for, 247"
" Gay Head, grant for charges of the sickness of J. DeGrass, 289
" Herring Pond, Committee to examine demands against,
and sell land sufficient to pay them, - - - - 453
^' Christiantown, M. Mayhew authorized to sell land of Han-
nah Capen and Elizabeth Occacha, . - . . 535
Innholders and others in Essex County, Treasurer of Essex to re-
fund g4 to each, 450
J.
Jennings "William, pension increased, ----- 453
Jewett Caleb and others, provision for payment of their services in
laying out a road, - 590
Johnson Thomas and others, excused from settling duties, - - 122
'* Apollos, grant to, ------ - 524
Jones Eliphaz, authorized to sell estate of minors, _ . - 412
♦< William, authorized to file his affidavit in the Probate Office,
Middlesex, .-- 445
Kellogg Edward, grant to, -.-..-- qs^
Kennebeck County, tax granted, 142
Kinsman Joseph, his and R. Crosby's claim referred, - - - 575
Knapp Anthony, authorized to sell real estate of £. and C. Long, 529
100
xvi INDEX.
Kuhn Jacob, Messinger to the General Court, pay established, 59,-254,
368,— 539,— 654
«' « grant to, for fuel, &c. 64,-253,-369,-543,-660,-316,-400
" " directed to dispose of old iron, . _ . _ 280
■" " allowance for attending on the Committee on valuation, 459
" «< ' grant to pay expenses of sickness and funeral of S.
Pynchon, Esq. ------- 582
" " grant to repair the terrace of the State House, - 586
" " authorized to make repairs on the State House, - 706
*' " grant to, for repair of the State House, &c. - - 715
L.
Lands, Commonwealth's, in Berkshire County, Committee to
ascertain, --__-^-- 705
" schedule of grants unlocated, ----- 102
" " of grants, sales, &c. since the establishment of the
Xand Office Department, ----- 158
" *' of grants not located, but time for location stated, 166
" " of contracts for amount of consideration, and bal-
ances due, ..----- 167
" " of lands conveyed to Colleges, Academies, &c.
and of lands sold and conveyed to individuals, 169
t^ " time fixed for locating grants, and sales of land, 101, — 156
*' time of performing settling duties extended, - - - 155
" nine months allowed for location of grants of, - - 290
" see Commissioners of the Land Office,
" sett off in Maine, Agents appointed to sell, - - - 577
" in Maine to be sold to raise §30,000, - - - - 577
" *' proposition for sale of, to that State, - - 283
" " Committee to form a contract for sale of, 283, — 285
" " '* to sell and convey when the contract
is ratified, ----- 283
" Contract for sale of, referred, - - - 314
Agents to sell, to raise 830,000 for Maine, 577
** " " to sell residue of Islands, &c. 577,— 656,— 658
** " '•* to give notice to all who have unsettled
contracts, ------ 577
« "« " to sell a small lot in Portland, - - 578
INDEX. xvii
Lands in Maine, Agents to make no further sale, unless, - - 692?
" " " to continue the sale of small lots, - 693
" " " to adjust the claim of Robert Crosby and
others, - - - - - _- 696
" " " to sell three townships, - - - 701
" all the share set off to Massachusetts, in Maine, to be sold, 577
" a small tract in Portland to be sold, - - - - 57S
" instead of, the Committee elect to pay Maine §30,000, 656
" Agents authorized to sell lands^ islands, and lots in Maine
at private or public sale, - - - 577^ — 656, — 658
" Commissioners Report of division of, to be placed in the
Secretary's Office, - - - - - - - 658
" of United States Report relative to an appropriation for
Schools, 419
Land Office. Committee to adjust the accounts of the Commissioners of, 255
" " G. W. Coffin, appointed Agent to take charge of, 256
" *• Agent of, authorized to execute conveyances to C.
Drowne and others, ----- 287
" " " to give claimants of unlocated grants, notice of
the time limited for locating, _ . _ 290
" " "to deliver to the Commissioners of Massachu-
setts and Maine, notes, contracts &c. for division, 541
" " " Account settled, - - - - - 570
" " " to endorse on bond of devisees in trust of estate
of Wm. Bingham^ 869 1 if paid by them to Ca-
leb Jewett and others, ----- 590
<•' " *' to notify Downes and Lee, to deliver to Agents
of Maine certain demands, and require a collec-
tion of the several demands assigned to Massa-
chusetts, __---._ 658
a " ' *' to take measures in relation to a process at Castine, 659
Larabee B, Treasurer authorized to issue a new State Note to, 356
Laws and Resolves, the number of copies to be procured in future, 253
" General, new edition to be p ocured, - - - - 459
" *' Commissioners for i ^vising and superintending the
publication of, to bf appointed, - - . 46O
" " distribution of, 461,-581
" " payment for, ------- 581
" Special, to be published, - t - - ^ - 46«
xviii INDEX.
Laws, special, expense of printing allowed, - - . . 714.
*' Probate, Committee on revision of, allowance to, - - 455
" General, a new edition to be procured, - - - - 459
<*^ Special, subsequent to, and in addition to the three volumes
extant to be printed, --__-_. 460
" manner of distributing prescribed, - - - _ 46I
Legislature, see Court.
Leicester Academy, land released to, ----- 581
Leland Jonathan Esq. appointed guardian of the Grafton Indians, 139
Leomister, Assessors authorized to sign rate lists and warrants, 49
Lewis Joseph W. authorized to convey his wife's title to dower, 716
Lincoln County, tax granted, ______ 142
Lincoln Levi Hon. grant to, for services in prosecuting a suit, Rich-
ards, versus, Tift, ----- . _ 708
Lithgow Arthur, exempted from arrest, - - - - - 123
Locke John, empowered to sell real estate, - - - - 125
Locke Ward, assistant Messinger, pay granted, 67, — 174, — 255, — 290,
368,— 465,— 543,— 589,— 661,— 718
Long Charles and Elizabeth, minors, authority given for sale of
real estate, --------- 529
Loring Charles G. authorized to sell the interest of sundry minors, 635
Lotteries, Report on memorial of the Mayor, &c. of the City of
Washington, for leave to sell tickets in this State, - 454
*' Plymouth Beach, pay granted to the Committee to exam-
ine the accounts of, - - - 411
** " '* Managers to cease from proceeding, 372
Ludden Jolm and M. Clapp, authorized to execute a deed, - - 698
Lynn Beach at Nahant, grant for repaid of, _ _ _ 712
M.
Maine, State of. Secretary to forward copies of the Report and Act
relative to the separation of, and form for return
of votes, duties of SheriflFs, selectmen, &c. - 65
** " entitled to one third of all books, &c. - - 172
** ** and Massachusetts, receivers of public monies in,
to make up their accounts to a certain day, - 170
** " Treasurer of Massachusetts to pay 88,000 to, 170
" " proposal to sell public lands in, to that State, 283, — 285
S14
INDEX. XIX
Maine, State of, g30,000 to be paid to, instead of land, - - 655
*' " and Massachusetts, number of members of Con-
gress each may elect, - - - - - 107
*' " Governor requested to issue his warrant for
JS15,888,50 in favor of, - -' - - - 540
" " entitled to have monies due the Commonwealth
from various officers and persons within that State, 541
" '* Adjutant General directed to deliver ordnance,
arms and stores to, ----- 541
" " may use the name and authority of Massachusetts
in collecting any notes or securities assigned them
by the Commissioners, - - - - - 542
" " notes, securities, &c. assigned to Massachusetts
and Maine by the Commissioners, to be taken at
the risque of the Assignee, - - - . 540
'* " sale of lands in, see lands in Maine.
*' " their proportion of Arms due from the United
States to be delivered to, - - - - - 695
McDonald Hannah, one third of her late husband's estate granted her, 448
Map Mellish's, Secretary to procure, _ - - - . 41q
Mason John, empowered to collect taxes in Gloucester, - - 361
Maryland, Report &c. on resolution relative to an appropriation of
public lands of the United States, for the support of Schools, 419
Maxwell S. and Wm. W. Fitch, guardians of S. Nichols, to re-
ceive a deed, ---.-.._ ggg
Mayhew Simeon, Coroner, account referred to the Committee on accts. 415
Mellish John, Secretary to procure six copies of his Map, - 410
Merrill Roger, Thomas Johnson and others excused from settling
duties, 122
Merrill John, Court of Sessions in Cumberland, to adjust his account, 147
Merrimack Boating Company may call a meeting, - _ . 249
Messinger of the General Court, his pay, 59, — 254, — 368, — 539, — 654
" " " grant for fuel, &c. 64,--253,--3l6,—
369,— 400,— 543,— 660
" " " directed to sell old iron, - 280
•' " " grant to pay expenses of sickness
and funeral of S. Pycnhon, - 582
" ** '* grant to repair the terrace of the
State House, . - . 586
XX INDEX.
Messlnger of the General Court, authorized to make repairs on the
State House, 706"
" assistant to the Governor and Council, paj, 67, — 174, — 255,
290,— 368,— 465,-543,— 589,— 661
Middleborough, first Precinct empowered to raise money, - - 133
Middlesex County, tax granted, - 142.— 286— 450,— 586,— 704
" " Court of Sessions to issue Warrants for an elec-
tion of a Register of Deeds, ------ 447
Milford, proceedings of the Selectmen, &c. made valid, - - 448
Military Store Keeper, Adjutant Generol authorized to appoint, 370
454.— 712
Military Stores, the Governor authorized to cause to be sold or
exchanged, - - - - - - - - -539
Militia, Officers to be furnished with a compend of rtiles for field
exercise, &c. - - - - - - 449'
" "to deliver over to their successors the compend of
rules for field exercise, ----- 449
Mill Dam Corporation,Boston and Roxbury,authorized to occupy flats, 702
Mitchell Nahum, Hon. grant to, for services on the subject of the
Connecticut line, .--_..- 707
Monmouth, to be reimbursed SI 6, - - - - - - 58
Morgan Israel, his pension to be paid to Overseers of the Poor in
Beverly, 40,-247
Morey Zilpha, authorized to sell real estate, _ _ - - 566
Mott J. and J. Prentiss, relieved of a debt due the State Prison, 359
Nantucket, tax granted, ------- 704
Neal John, marriage confirmed, ------ 108
New Bedford, Adjutant and Quarter Master General to receive
conveyance from, of a lot of land, - . - 542
" Adjutant authorized to release the State's title to a
lot of land, 543
Newry, doings confirmed, - ------56
Nichols Benjamin R. Esq. granted pay for transcribing Plymouth
Colony records, &c. - - - - - - -132
Nichols Seth, guardians of, to receive a deed from the Administra-
tors on estate of Stephen Bates, ----- 692
Norfolk County, tax granted, - 142,— 286,-450,— 585,--704
INDEX. xxi
•Notaries public, additional to be appointed, > - - . 242
-Noyes Isaac, grant to, ----- 152, — 452, — 719
o.
Occucha, E. & H. Capen, Hon. M- Mayhew authorized to sell real
estate of, --.--____ 535
Officers of the Militia, to be furnished with a compend of Field
Exereise, &c. - - 449
Officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution, to be paid the
balances due them, - -129
Ohio, resolve on a report of a committee of, respecting proceedings
of the U. States Bank, - - - - - - 417
Oxford County, additional Notary to be chosen for, - - - 39
*' tax granted, - - - - - - - 142
P.
Page Thaddeus, Col. Adjutant Clark to be honorably discharged, 407
Piarker L. M. authorized to convey real estate of his minor children, 534
Parsons, town of. Court of Sessions in Essex, authorized to amend
the assessment of the County tax, _ - _ _ 248
Peabody Nathaniel, Court of Sessions in Essex to adjust his ac-
count, ----- __._ 153
Pease Naomi, empowered to give a deed to T. Pomeroy, - - 278
Peirce Jonathan, and J. S. grant to, ----- 120
Penobscot County, tax granted 142
" town of, Commissioners of the land office to make al-
allowance for certain taxes paid by the inhabitants of, - 171
Pensions, granted to wounded on military duty, - - - 452
Pepperell, Assessors &c. authorized to appoint a collector of taxes, 415
Perkins Warren, permitted to file his affidavit in the Probate
Office, 648
Phillips town of, to be repaid, 811,83, - - - - 53
Pierce Washington, authorized to sell estate of H. N. Lamson, 527
Pike Jesse, marriage confirmed, - - . - . . 108
Pittsfield, Assessors authorized to issue warrants for collection of
taxes for 1815, 1816 and 1817, 282
Plymouth Colony records, B. R. Nichols compensated for transcrib-
ing &c. 132
xxii INDEX.
Plymouth County, tax granted, - 142,-365, — 450,— 585,— 704
'* Beach Lottery, committee on accounts of, compensated, 411
" " " not to progress, . _ - - 372
Pollard Benjamin, allowance to, ----- - 290
Pool Lucinda, granted the right of the Commonwealth in the pro-
perty of J. C. Holt, 575
Pratt Mary, money left by her son, granted to her, - - 140
Prentiss, J. and J. Mott, to be released of a debt due the State
Prison, - - 359
Prescott Judge, witnesses in his trial allowed pay, - - 315
Printer, for the Commonwealth appointed, _ _ . 59, — 651
Prison State, appropriation for, -""SS, — 249, — 279, — 362, — 445, — '
525,— 588,— 650,— 707-
" " " for wall of the yard 466,— 538,-- -588,— 659-
" *' Warden to discharge Mott and Prentiss, on their '
payings 100, 359^
*' " Warden and Directors, to discharge David Gree-
nough on condition, - - _ - _
" " William Going, Keeper, granted additional pay,
" " labor of convicts for insane hospital, to be charged
to the State, _..-_-
Fynchon Stephen, Esq. late a member of the House, funeral ex-
penses allowed, -------- 582
Q
l^uarter Master General, accounts settled, and further appropria-
tion for the department, 62,— 257,— 370, — 587
*< " "to deliver drums to companies who lost
theirs in the late war, - - - 55
" " " and others, directed not to keep more
than 200 pounds of gunpowder in Boston,
at one time, ----- 254
" " ** an inventory of articles in his Department
to be made, . _ - - . 315
" " « Account settled, - - - - 363
" . " " directed as to quantity of powder, filling
cartridges, &c. at the Arsenal in Boston, 706
INDEX. xxiii
R.
Raymond, town of, doings of the trustees of the School fund con-
firmed, -- ------ 56
Raynes Joseph, grant to for services of J. Tyler, jr. - - - 133
Register of Deeds, Middlesex, Court of Sessions to issue precepts
for choice of, _-- 447
Renouf Edward, prosecution against to be stayed, - - - 313
Reports Term, the number of copies to be procured in future pre-
scribed, ..----- 253,-526
" Allowed to the Police Court of Boston, - - 584
Report and resolutions on communication relative to proceedings of
United States Bank, against OflBcers of Ohio, - - 417
Resolves and Laws, the number of copies to be procured in future, 253
Reynolds Joel, grant to, -------- 152
Ring Mary, authorized to sell real estate of her children, - 528
" Daniel Jun. marriage confirmed, ----- 108
Robbins Edward H. hon. — grant to for services as a Commissioner,
on the Connecticut Line, ------ 707
Robbins John, and S. Baxter, balances on army books to be paid
their heirs, -.- - - - - - - 463
Rochester, doings, of the second precinct made valid, - - 281
Rovvell Lydia, empowered to sell real estate, - - 134, — 578
Ruggles N. authorized to convey real estate, - - - - 657
Russell Benjamin, appointed printer for the State, - - - 59
Russell & Gardner, pay for printing granted, - - 66, — 156
** and others prosecutions against to be stayed, 313
Ryan Elizabeth, land released to, - - - " " - ^^^
s.
SafFord Daniel, authorized to sell real estate, - - - - 652
Sandy Bay Pier, a township granted to the proprietors of, - - 55
♦' Committee to view and report, - - - - 41
" Commissioners of the Land Office, to locate the
township granted to the proprietors of, - - 117
Sanger Calvin, allowed pay as one of the Committee of Valuation, 414
Schools Report on resolution of Maryland, respecting appropriation
of public lands for, 419
Sebec, Secretary to delivei: books for, - - - - - 43
101
XXIV INDEX.
Secretary to have printed and transmit blank forms of election re-
turns, -------- --5S
** to transmit the resolve for adjourning the term of the Su-
preme Judicial Court at Castine, - - - - - 42
" to forward the report and act relative to the Separation of
Maine, and form for return of votes, - - - - 65
" to deliver books for Sebec, ------ 43
" to deliver one third of books, &c. for the State of Maine, 172
" to furnish towns with blank forms, - - - - 350
" directed as to the number of Term Reports, Laws, &c. to
be procured, -------- 253
" to purchase Term Reports, - _ _ . - 526
" to keep an account of the contingent fund, - - 537
" to procure Maps, _ _ _ - . _ _ 410
" directed in what manner to distribute the new edition of
Laws, --------- 461
*' to deliver Term Reports to the Clerk of the Police Court
in Boston, 534
" to communicate resolves to the Governor of Maine, - 656
Secretary and Treasurer, directed relative to army balances, 129 — 463
Shattuck Eli, grant to, ------- - 452
Sharon, a meeting of the first Congregational Parish, to be called, 416
Settling duties, time for performance of, extended, - - - 155
Shirley, doings confirmed, ------- 48
" meeting of Congregational Parish in, to be called, - - 413
Sheaf Henry, Military Store Keeper, pay increased, - - 712
Sibley Samuel, his marriage confirmed, - - _ _ _ 146
Slavery, report and resolves on the subject of, _ - - 147
Smallman Richard, to be discharged from prison, - _ - 103
Smith Standfast and others, Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam Corpo-
ration, permitted to occupy flats, - . . - _ 702
Soldiers, sick and wounded in Militia service, grants to, 152, — 252
288,-718
" of the Revolutionary Army, balances to be paid to, - 129
'* " " further time granted to settle
lands and claim gratuity, - 121
Solicitor General to prosecute for two portraits, for W, N. Boylston, 103
u u u u u repealed, 127
INDEX. XXV
Solicitor General to institute a suit for recovery of lands for Lei-
cester Academy, - - - -- -116
" *' to stay suits against several persons for breach of
the law against vending Lottery Tickets, - 313
'' " to prevent the progress of Plymouth Beach Lottery, 372
" " to file an information against certain Corporations, 465
Somerset County, tax granted, 142
Somerset and Easton, tax altered, - - - - - 355
Somes Samuel, Capt. grant to, ------ - 719
Southbridge, addition made to its tax, ----- 533
Sparhawk Benjamin, grant to, 288
Spring John and Seth, Commissioners of the Land Office to pay, 134
Stanton Joseph, authorized to sell real estate, . . - 5,67
State House, City Council of Boston may remove walls of the yard, 695
Slate House, repairs on to be made, . - - 586, — 706, — 713
State Prison, see Prison.
States United, agent to be appointed to present claim on, - 586
Stebbins D. and wife, authority given for the sale of real estate, 529
Sterling, doings confirmed, --50
Stone John B. to be discharged from prison, - - - - 111
Storer Hannah, Treasurer to issue a new note to, - - - 100
Storer Joseph, grant to, - - 152
Stor s, Military, the Governor authorized to cause sale or exchangeof, 539
Suffolk County, tax granted, . - - . 142,-286,-450
" " an additional Notary Public, - . . 39^ — 343
Sumner Davis and his wife, authorized to sell real estate, - 141
T,
Tax granted to the County of Barnstable, 142, — 286, — 450, — 585,-704
" " Berkshire, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
" " Bristol, 142,-286, — 450,— 585,— 704
" " Cumberland, - - - - 142
" " Dukea' County, 142,— 286,— 450,— 653
'' " Essex, 1425— 286,— 450,— 585— 704
" " Franklin, 142,-286, — 450,-585,-704
" " Hampden, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— ,704
'* " Hampshire, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
" •' Hancock, 142
" •* Kennebeck, - - . . 143
xxvi INDEX.
Tax granted to the County of Lincoln, 142
■ « * " Middlesex, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,-704
<' " Nantucket, - - - - 704
«* « Norfolk, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
" , " Oxford, 142
»' " Penobscot, - - - - 142
" *' Plymouth, 142,— 365,— 450,— 585,— 704
*' " Somerset, 142
« *' Suffolk, - - 142,-286,-450
" •' Washington, - - - - 142
•' " Worcester, 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,— 704
" « York, 142
" in Pittsfield to be collected for 1815, 1816, and 1817, 282
" for Easton and Somerset, altered, _ - _ - 355
Taylor Tertius, balance on army books to be paid to, - - 526
Term Reports, the number of copies to be procured, - - 253
" " Secretary directed to purchase, - - - _ 526
Thacher George, Hon. gi-ant to, - - - - - - 691
Thomas Martha, her affidavit admissible evidence, . . - r\Q
Tilton Nathan F. grant to, and pentioned, - - - 288, — 452
Towns, Secretary to furnish with blank forms, - - _ 250
Townsend David, report on petition respecting the Arsenal in
Boston, - - 706
Tozer William, grant to, - - - - - - - 152
Treasurer directed to vest g 50,000 in U. States stock, - - 45
" authorized to borrow money, 52, — 250, — 286, — 369,
533,-650,-656
" to dispose of uncurrent bank bills, - - 55
" to credit certain plantations and places, 13ff
'* to issue a new note to J. and E. Hazer, and
H. Storer, 100
and all receivers of public money directed as to
what time they shall make up their accounts, - 170
authorized to pay the Treasurer of Maine S 8,000, - J 70
" to sell deferred 6 per cent. Stock, - 359
" to receive and pay interest &c. of deferred
stock, to the purchasers thereof, - - 371
" to refund S 1,000 to Cumberland Bank, - 280
" to issue a new note to B. Larrabee, - 356
INDEX. xxvii
Treasurer authorized to pay New England Bank S 1500, - 364
" " to exchange bills, ----- 369
<* " taxes to the gore, in Berkshire, remitted, 408
" " to issue a new note to Jonathan Breed, - 414
" *' to pay to J. Zwears the amount of a note,
and charge | to Maine, . . - 458
"' directed to deliver to the Commissioners of Massachu-
setts and Maine, notes, bonds, &c. for divi-
sion, ------- 541
" " directed to omit in his annual report, certain
items, --_--- 690
'• " to recharge Princeton with amount paid by
W. N. Boylston, - . - - 691
" of Essex, to pay William Andrews, Jun. S 250, 113, — 125
Treat Joseph, Commissioners of land office to convey 5000 acres to, 126
Tripp Benjamin, to be removed from the Asylum, in Hartford, 144
Trustees of Williams College, grant of a township to be satisfied, 110
Tudor William, deceased, his estate released from a claim, ^ - 154
Turner Charles, authorized to sell real estate of J. Litchfield, - 146
Turnpike 8th, Massachusetts, Committee to view, &c. -\ - 130
Tyler Jonathan, Jun. gratuity to be paid J. Raynes, - - 133
u.
United States, President and V. P. choice of Electors of, regulated 245
*' *' claim on Government authorized to take measures
for settlement of, ----- - 288
*' '* claim on, (see agents.)
" "■ resolve on proposed amendment of the Constitu-
tion, relative to Banks, - - - - - 118
V.
Valuation Committee, pay granted, ----- 400
*' " their pay roll, - - - . 402,-414
" " report and apportionment, . . - 434
" ** clerk of, pay granted to, - - - 411
" " messenger, pay granted to, - - - 459
xxviii INDEX.
W.
Walcutt Thomas, clerk in the lobbies, pay granted, 68, — 173, — 256,
291,-372,-465
Wallis James, Jun. Administrator on estate of Samuel Kinsbury to
receive a deed, -- .-.-_. 692
Ward T. W. Sheriff, allowance to, - . - . . 447
Washington City, report on petition of the Mayor, &c. for liberty
to sell Lottery Tickets, -____. 454
Washington County, additional Notary provided for, - - - 39
" P Tax granted, - - - - -f 142
Watson Joshua 'V. marriage confirmed, - - _ . . 108
Waugh Sally, ^ .horized to execute a deed, to Wm. Sylvester, 51
'" " allowed for services of her late husband, - - 138-
Wayne, town of, Records and Proceedings made valid, - - 104
Weaver Sheffel, his account referred to the Committee on accounts, 411
Webster Jonathan, Commissioners of the Land Office allowed fur-
ther time to make deeds of 2 lots in Bangor, - - ^ - 125
Wellington John, marriage confirmed, - - - - -^146
White Jonas and others of No. 4, a lot of land granted to, - - 152
Whiting John, appointed Agent to sell a small estate in Berkshire, 445
Wild Jonathan, released from a judgment of Court, he paying
SI 500 and costs, 361
Wild Jonathan Jun. authorized to sell estate of E. Hay ward, - 573
Williams College, grant of a township to be satisfied, - - HO
Witnesses, before a Committee of the House, pay granted, - 155
" in the trial of Judge Prescott, pay granted, - - 315
Wood Henry A. grant to, ------- 71 9
Woolwich, doings of the first parish confirmed, - - - - 57
Worcester County, Tax granted, - 142,— 286,— 450,— 585,-704
« " reimbursed §272,4, - - - - 57t
Y.
York County, tax granted, - - - - - - -142
z.
Zwears Jacob, the principal and interest of a County note, to be paid to, 458
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