Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 18, 1785. : Whereas it is represented to this court, that sundry persons have fraudulently obtained ... securities of this government, for pay and wages due to the late soldiers of this state .. Resolved, that in all cases where the treasurer of this commonwealth, has been or shall be directed to issue new securities ... he shall immediately cause to be published the number, date and amount of the securities, and to whom payable, in order that the person who may have thus obtained the securities, may be dedected ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts. General Court.

Contributor:

Massachusetts. Treasury Office.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44724.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Securities fraud--Massachusetts.

Securities fraud.

Bounties--Massachusetts.

Bounties.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cut)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by Thomas Adams], [1790]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Also offering a reward of one hundred dollars for information leading to the conviction of offenders. The resolve was concurred in Senate the same day.

Followed by a list, in two columns, of notes fraudulently obtained from the treasury-office; dated Boston, July 14, 1790.

Thomas Adams was printer to the commonwealth in 1790.

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 44724).

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Bristol B6106

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