An act 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 Boston upon Wednesday the twenty-fifth day of May 1743, and continued by adjournment to Thursday the eighth day of September following.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5238.

Standardized Title:

Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1743 Sept.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Workhouses--Massachusetts.

Workhouses.

Workhouses--Law and legislation--Massachusetts.

Poor--Massachusetts.

Poor.

Workhouses--Law and legislation.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341-344 pages)

Other Title:

Act for erecting of work-houses for the reception and employment of the idle and indigent.

Place of Publication:

Boston: N.E. : Printed and sold by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green, by order of His Excellency the governour, Council and House of Representatives., MDCCXLIII. [1743]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"An act for erecting of work-houses for the reception and employment of the idle and indigent." Passed Sept. 17, 1743.

Caption title, preceded by headlines.

Pagination continues the session laws published from 1742 (Evans 5003).

Imprint from colophon.

Royal arms (Reilly 878) at head of title.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 5238).

Cited in:

Evans 5238

Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 448

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