Temporary acts and laws of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts.

Standardized Title:

Laws, etc.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[2],4,74p. ; 2°.

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, MDCCXLII. [i.e., 1743]

Notes:

Temporary acts passed between May 1736 and Nov. 1742. Continued by successive issues of the temporary acts paged continuously through p. 455 (Evans 7466). "Printed, by order of His Excellency the governour, Council and Assembly. Josiah Willard, secr. Boston: August 8th. 1741."--verso of title page.

"The sixteen foregoing acts were published January 17. 1742 [i.e., 1743 n.s.]."--p. 74. Pages 57-74 contain the acts of the Nov. 1742 session.

"What appears to be the original Table on pp. [1]-4 extends only to p. 74; there are no entries under letters K or Q; catchwords are: Eastham, Manufactures, and Scalp. A later edition extends to p. 201; there are no entries under letters K or Y; catchwords are: Enemies, Mariners, and Shingles."--Cushing.

Title vignette: royal arms (Reilly 878).

Local Notes:

Library copy: both tables present

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 5004; Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 435