The Acts and resolves, public and private, of the province of the Massachusetts bay : to which are prefixed the charters of the province ; with historical and explanatory notes, and an appendix

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts (Colony) Charters

Contributor:

Ames, Ellis, 1809-1884.

Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., 1831-1914.

Clifford, John Henry, 1809-1876.

Wheeler, Alexander S. (Alexander Strong), 1820-1907.

Williamson, Wm. C. (William Cross), 1831-1903.

Bigelow, Melville Madison, 1846-1921.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Msassachusetts.

Law.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

21 v. ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Province laws.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Wright & Potter, Printers to the State, 1869-1922.

Contents:

Province charters, 1691 and 1726. Acts, passed 1692-1714

II. Acts, 1715-1741

III. Acts, 1742-1756

Iv. Acts, 1757-1768

v. Acts, 1769-1780

VI. Private acts, 1692-1780

VII. Resolves, etc., 1692-1702

VIII. Resolves, etc., 1703-1707

IX. Resolves, etc., 1708-1720

X. Resolves, etc. 1720-1726

XI. Resolves, etc. 1726-1734

XII. Resolves, etc., 1734-1741

XIII. Resolves, etc., 1741-1746

XIv. Resolves, etc., 1717-1753

Xv. Resolves, etc., 1753-1756

XVI. Resolves, etc., 1757-1760

XVII. Resolves, etc. 1761-1764

XVIII. Resolves, etc., 1765-1774

XIX. Resolves, etc., 1775-1776

XX. Resolves, etc. 1777-1778

XXI. Resolves, etc., 1779-1780, and town chapters, 1692-1714, relating to the establishment of towns, precincts and parishes, determining territorial boundaries and granting lands, given by titles only in volumes VII, VIII, IX : originally planned to be printed in a separate volume.

Notes:

Running title: Province laws.

"Published under chapter 87 of the Resolves of the General court of the commonwealth for the year 1867.

Vols. 6-21 are also v. 1-16 of the appendix.

"This edition ... was partly prepared under chapter 43 of the Resolves of the General court for the year 1865 ... The commissioners appointed under this resolve were John H. Clifford, Ellis Ames, and Abner C. Goodell."--Pref., v. 1, signed: Ellis Ames Abner Cheney Goodell.

Advertisement, v. 7, signed: A.S. Wheeler, Wm.C. Williamson, A.C. Goodell, jr., commissioners.

"The publication of the Province laws of Massachusetts, stopped in the year 1896, was taken up again, under new legislation, in ... 1900. Mr. Goodell, the former editor, having declined reappointment, Melville Madison Bigelow, esq., was appointed editor."-- Pref., v. 9.

With supplement: Vol. 1.