ACTS AND LAWS, PASSED BY THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT OR ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, IN NEW-ENGLAND: BEGUN AND HELD AT HARVARD-COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE...
[Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, and Green & Russell, printers to the Government, 1770]. Folio. Pages 569-575, [1 blank], as issued. The imprint is from the colophon. Caption title, as issued. Lightly toned, one inconspicuous rubberstamp. About Very Good, in modern library buckram with gilt-lettered red morocco spine title.
Evans 11724. ESTC W14956.
[bound with] ACTS AND LAWS, PASSED BY THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT OR ASSEMBLY OF HIS MAJESTY'S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW-ENGLAND: BEGUN AND HELD AT CAMBRIDGE... [Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, and Green & Russell, printers to the Government. 1771]. Folio. Pages 577-562, [1 blank]; i.e., 577-589, [1 blank]. Caption title, as issued; imprint from colophon. Light toning and mild foxing, about Very Good..
Evans 12115. ESTC 14958.
In June 1769 Governor Barnard removed the legislative meeting place from Boston to Cambridge, after the House protested the presence of the British fleet in Boston Harbor. The legislature remained there in 1770-- in the chapel of Harvard College-- after the Boston Massacre and threats purportedly posed by angry Boston mobs. The House protested, suspicious of Acting Governor Hutchinson's motives for continuing the removal. These Acts concerned local towns, amendments to statutes of limitations, local incorporations, building a light-house on Thatcher's Island, and amending some judicial rules. Item #34673
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