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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 prorogation unto Wednesday the twentieth day of August following.
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Massachusetts.
- Standardized Title:
- Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1740-08)
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- p. 715-716 ; 2°.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by John Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour & Council, [1741?]
- Notes:
- Caption title, preceded by headlines.
- Pagination continues the session laws published from 1726 (Evans 2762).
- Probably issued in 1741 or 1742, but paged so as to be inserted in its proper chronological position. The succeeding issue (Evans 4551), for the laws passed in Nov. 1740, also begins at p. 715 and signature 7G. The disruption in pagination was rectified with the acts for Nov. 1742 (p. 745 ff.; Evans 4999).
- Imprint from colophon.
- Royal arms (Reilly 876) at head of title.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 4550; Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 427
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