In Senate, March 11, 1784 Read & Committed to the Committee of Accts to be adjusted upon the best Evidence they can Collect Examined and allowed Ninety Eight pound Fifteen Shillings & Eleven pence in full of the within account E Starkweather, Charles Turner, J B Varnum M' Ivers please to pay the within Acco1- E Starkweather. Received payment of Thomas Ivers Treasurer p' Joseph Boyd A true Copy from the Original Lodge in this office and Filed against the United States John Deming, Peter Boyer Committee This is to impower Capt Joseph Boyd to Settle an Acco against the State of the Massachts Bay for Supplys to the Guard Posted on Penobscot River under the Command of Maj' William Lithgow agreeable to Brig General Charles Cushings Warrant to me for that purpose Penobscott Sept 19, 1780 Jedidiah Preble Jun' Test Jacob Tebbets Elisabeth Shute A true Copy-John Deming, Peter Boyer. Petition of Inhabitants of Bridgetown. The Committee of both Houses to Whome was committed the petition of the inhabitants of Bridgetown praying for abatement of taxes, have attended the Service and ask Leave to Report the following Resolve Commonwealth of Massachusetts Stephen Choate p' order In Senate March 12th 1784 Whereas it appears to this Court; that the inhabitants of the plantation called Bridgetown by reason of their local Situation, and the uncultivated State of their Lands, are unable to bear a full proportion of the public burthen. Resolved, that the Prayer of the said petition be So far granted, as that the Whole of the Sum Sett on the said plantation in the tax granted in March Last, to defray the charge of raising three years, three & five months men, ammounting to one hundred fifty four pounds three shillings & six pence be abated And the Whole of the beef tax required of the Said inhabetants And also one third part of all other taxes Granted to be assessed on the Said plantation Since the year Seaventeen Hundred eighty one-And it is further Resolved that the treasurer be and he is hereby directed to credit the aforesaid plantation accordingly—and recall the execution issued against the Said Inhabetants for their de ficiencies in their beef tax any Law or Resolve to the conterary notwithstanding Hugh Hill that in the year 1777 Col° John Allen was commissioned and empowered by the Government of this State to purchase certain Vessels for the use of the State and to contract therefor in their name & behalf- that in April in the same year he purchased of your petitioner a schooner for the sum of £133..6.. 8 for which he gave his note of hand payable on demand with interest that on 29th of October last the principal of said note was paid in a due bill so called of that amount but that no interest hath been paid on said note which in the long absence of your petitioner hath been mislaid but that such a note was given & that the interest hath not been will appear by the papers herewith exhibited & other evidence Wherefore your petitioner prays that he may be paid the interest that became due on said note from the date thereof to the time the principal sum thereof was paid and as in duty bound will ever pray Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hugh Hill In the House of Representatives March 13th 1784 On the petition of Hugh Hill setting forth that in April A. D. 1777 Col° John Allen purchased of him a Schooner for one hundred & thirty three pounds six shillings & eight pence for the public use & gave his note of hand therefor, payable on demand, with interest, that the principal was paid in October last; but that no interest hath been paid; & that said note is mislaid; & praying that the interest due on said note may be paid — Resolved there be paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth to the said Hugh Hill the sum of fifty two pounds in full of the interest due on said note and in full of all demands the said Hill hath or may have against this Commonwealth or said Allen for said schooner Sent up for concurrence Tristram Davis Spk Newburyport June 29 1785 this May Certify Whom it may Concern that we Agree with Stephen Hooper Esq' some time about the month of February or March 1777 in behalf of Col° John Allan for A small Schooner for said Allan to Carry on the Publick Business Committed to him that Coll Allan Inform us he had Given Mr Hooper his Not for the same payable half in hard Money the other in paper that some time after Coll Allen Inform us we had order Money into our hands which Should it prove more than sufficient to pay our Selves the Remainder to be Paid Mr Hooper but as that Money did not come into our hands to our Best Remembrance we never Paid Mr Hooper any part Step" Cross Ralph Cross Jun' These may Certify that in April 1777, The Subscriber purchased a schooner from Cap' Hugh Hill for the sum of £133-6-8, Giving a note of hand for the same on Interest which schooner was for the use of the United States in the service of the Indian Eastern Department, and the Interest not yet paid Capt Hill Boston January 30th 1782 J Allan Superind Indian Eastern Dep' Govr's Message. Gentlemen of the Senate & Gentlemen of the House of Representatives Whenever a doubt arises in my own mind with respect to any Law, the Execution of which is committed to me, I feel a great Satisfaction in having it in my power to make Application where I am confident of finding relief; & for that pur pose, I beg leave for a moment to draw the Attention of the two branches of the General Court to a Law pass'd July 24 1783 intitled "an Act to carry into Execution an Act made in the Year 1778, intitled An Act to prevent the return of certain Persons" &c By which Act I am obliged upon the Certificate of the Justices having committed to Goal any person or Persons the Objects of that Law immediately, or as soon as may be, at the expence of the Commonwealth, to cause such persons so committed to be transported to some part or place within the Dominion of the King of Great Britain &c under this predicament I have now in Custody Several persons, two in the Goal in this Town, two in the Goal in Worcester, & one in the Goal in Falmouth, County of Cumberland; I am ever ready to carry into effect the Laws of the Commonwealth, & as I am to presume it is the Design of the two Branches of the Gen Court that the Law above recited should be executed without any reserve, I am to request they will furnish me with the means of providing for the Transportation of those persons who may come within the said Law, by Authorizing a Warrant upon the Treasurer for such a sum as you shall judge competent — Council Chamber Boston March 19th 1784 John Hancock Govr's Message. Gentlemen of the Senate & Gentlemen of the House of Representatives I have directed the Secretary to lay before you for your perusal a Letter with its inclosures from the President of Congress respecting the Encroachments that are represented to them to have been made by British Subjects, at the Eastern parts of this Commonwealth, I have heretofore receiv'd |