Committee & they are hereby directed to pay the aforesaid Sum of twenty eight pounds 2/4 into the Treasury of this Commonwealth taking duplicate Receipts therefor one of which to be lodged in the Secretary's office

In the House of Representatives June 30th 1783

Sent down for Concurrence

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives June 23a 1783 On the Petition of John Bane praying for Payment for Sundry Provisions supply'd the Troops on the Eastern Department

Resolved that the Commissary Gen' be and he is hereby directed to pay to John Bane fourteen Hundred & twenty two pounds of Beef Twenty one Bushels of Corn one Peas and ten pounds of Beef Twenty one Bushels of Corn one bushel of Peas and ten pound of fish balance of his Acct with four Hundred Weight of beef for his time & Expence transporting the same and the whole be charged to the United States. Tristram Dalton Spk

The Governor Approves of the above Resolve & directs the Secretary to give a Copy thereof with his Approbation, being unable to Sign by reason of the Gout in his hand.

Resolve on Petition of Benj. West.

Common Wealth of Massachusets

In the House of Representatives June 30th 1783 On the Petition of Benjamin West praying for allowance for the loss of his Cloathing Firelock and Accoutrements at Quebeck in the year 1775 ¶Resolved that the Prayer of the Petition be Granted and that there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth to the said Benjamin West the Sum of Eight pound twelve Shillings in full Compensation for losses sustained as above.

Action on Petition John Hovey.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the House of Representatives June 30th, 1783 On the memorial and petition of John Hovey of Arundel in the County of York Setting forth that on the 22a day of June Last he was coming to Boston by water and was pursued by the Enemy and in Escaping from the Vessel into a Bote he Lost his pocket Book in which where Several State Notes of the following Value Viz one of ten pounds one year Interest paid thereon Dated January 1 1777 one D° of ten pounds Dated January 2a 1777 one D° of ten pounds Dated January 2a 1777 one D° of ten pounds Dated January 15 1777 Indorsed thereon four pounds ten shillings one D° of twenty four pounds thirteen shillings Dated December 1 1777 payable to John Hovey one D° of ten pounds Dated January 5 1778 one D° of ten pounds Dated January 5 1777 one D° of twelve pounds ten Shillings Dated January 1 1777 payable to Charles Huff praying that he may be allowed a Consoladated Note for the value of the aforesaid Notes

Resolved that the treasurer of this Commonwealth be and he is hereby Directed to give the aforesaid John Hovey a

Consolidated note to the Value of the aforesaid Notes he first Entering into Bonds to the Treas' aforesaid that he will Repay the notes afores or Either of them if they Should be offered for Consolidation.

Petition of John Bakman.

To the Honorable the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled

Humbly shews

John Bateman of Cape

in the County of Lin

coln that in the Month of August, Anno Domini 1779, he was possessed of a large real and personal estate at the said Cape that on the fourteenth day of the same month, he was driven from his estate by the British Soldiers, and American Refugees, that they are still in possession of the land, and have disposed his personal Estate among themselves inhabiting at the said Cape, and refuse to deliver any part thereof or the possession of his real estate to your petitioner whereby he, with a numerous family of Children are entirely deprived of the means of subsistance, and for want of money he is unable to commence the legal process requisite in the ordinary Course of Law for the recovery of his property aforesaid.

Wherefore he prays your Honors to take his Case into your wise Consideration and grant him such relief as may be agreeable to equity and Justice and consistent with the Law of this Commonwealth

And he will ever pray July 29 1783

John Bakman

Report on Petition of Wm McCobb and Action Thereon.

The Committee of both Houses, appointed to consider the Petition of William McCobb, ask leave to report the following

Charles Turner Pr Order

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In Senate July 2 1783

On the Petition of William McCobb, praying that three certain Awards made against him, on behalf of Ebenezer Fullerton, Thomas McGuyer, and Patrick McGuire, might be Set aside. A

Resolved, for the reasons Set forth in the Same Petition, and Supported by evidence, B that the Award made by John Stenson, Nathaniel Thwing, and Edward Young, dated the thirtieth Day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty two, and in the Seventh year of the American Independence, wherein they awarded that the said McCobb should pay Patrick McGuyer Ten Pounds one Shilling, and one other Sum of four Pounds two Shillings and also one other award made by the said Nathaniel John and Edward, on the thirtieth Day of August, in the year last above mentioned, wherein they awarded, that the said McCobb Should pay Ebenezer Fullerton, fourteen Pounds three Shillings and one other Award made the twenty ninth Day of August last above mentioned, by the same Arbitrators, wherein they awarded, that the Said William Should pay Thomas McGuyer the Sum of thirty Seven Pounds thirteen Shillings and Seven pence, be, and they hereby are Set aside, and declared null and void; and that no action Shall be had or maintained, in any manner whatever, for the non performance of the same awards, or either of them; and that an Action brought by the said Thomas McGuyer, against the said McCobb, and pending by appeal at the Supreem Judicial

Court, held at Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, and for the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln in July 1782, be and hereby is revived, and either Party shall have the same right to prosecute, and proceed on the Same Action, at the Supreem Judicial Court to be holden at Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, and for the Counties of Cumberland and Lincoln, on the Tuesday next after the fourth Tuesday in June, in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and eighty four, as they would have had regularly continued to that Term; and the Court aforesaid shall take Cognizance of the same accordingly.

Read and Accepted with Amendment at A

Sent down for Concurrence

S. Adams Presid

At A dele from A to B. and insert "Whereas the County of Lincoln at the time of making the said Awards were under peculiar Circumstances by reason of the Establishment of a British Garrison in that County, and it appears to this Court, that the Arbitrators as well Inhabitants in General of the said County were in a great degree under the Influence of the Enemy and their Adherents-Therefore Resolved." In the House of Representatives July 2d 1783

The Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled, take this Opportunity of congratulating you, on the happy Return of Peace

Your Excellency, we are assured, will join with us, in the