[Rarebooks] FS: MASS. COLONY ACTS & LAWS 1773/74

[Norman Kane]

We can offer the following:

ANNO REGNI REGIS GEORGII TERTII,  DECIMO QUARTO. 1774.  SUPERIOR COURT 
CHARLESTOWN.  [ROYAL SEAL WITH INITIALS G R]  ACTS AND LAWS     . . .  OF 
HIS MAJESTY'S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, IN NEW-ENGLAND: BEGUN . . 
. THE 26TH DAY OF MAY 1773 . . .   (Boston: Richard Draper &  Green and 
Russell, Printers to the Government, 1774.)  Folios, full (rough) margins, 
old folds,  mostly separate sheets, pp. 651-666.  Some sheets browned 
towards the top.  Evans 13404. (Includes: changing the time for holding the 
court at Charlestown; enabling actions for debts on judgments rendered in 
neighboring colonies;  employment and help for the poor in Salem and the 
management of its workhouse; incorporation of West Stockbridge; 
incorporation of Leverett; annexation of county land to Wilbraham; 
incorporating a plantation called Freetown & Jeremy Squam Island into a 
town called Edgcomb; incorporation of a plantation called New Glocester 
into a town of the same name; allowing the proprietors of land in Richmont, 
Berkshire County, to collect taxes; another similar re Ashfield 
in  Hampshire County;  permitting the sale of Ministry lands
near Cow-Hill in Stoughtonham; creating the new town of West Springfield 
out of the township of Springfield; & creating a separate district called 
Ludlow out of that part of Springfield Township known as Stony-Hill. 
)    This appears to be the next to last set of Acts & Laws passed by the 
Mass. Colony.  The folio Acts from the 1770s are scarce.
$850.00

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