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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 Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty-eighth day of May 1740. And continued by prorogations to Wednesday the ninetenth day of November following.
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Massachusetts.
- Standardized Title:
- Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1740-11)
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- p. 715-720[i.e., 717-722] ; 2°.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by J. Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council, 1740 [i.e., 1741]
- Notes:
- Caption title, preceded by headlines.
- Pagination continues the session laws published from 1726 (Evans 2762). The insertion of laws paged 715-716 and signed 7G (Evans 4550), passed in Aug. 1740 but probably not printed until after the present item, disrupts the sequence.
- "The six foregoing acts were publish'd, January 13. 1740 [i.e., 1741 n.s.]."--p. 722.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Royal arms (Reilly 876) at head of title.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 4551; Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 428
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