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1787 47 (1787)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0290 and id is 1 raw text is: ( 47 ) OF THE G E N E*R A L C .O U RT OF THE COMM O NWEALTH 0 F M A S S A C H U S E T T S: TogeTher with the SP E ECH and MESSAGES of his Lxcdliency the Governour to the faid Court: Bcgun and held at Boflon, in the County of Suol, ort Wednefilay the 3orh Day of May, Amo Dominn,; 787 ; ard from thence continued by Adjournment, to Wednef- day, the feventeench Day of O8ober following. T1vurfbay the i 8th O1lober, His Excellency the Governour went to the State. I hule, where, in prefience of the two Branches of the Legiflature, who had riet in the Reprefentatives Chamber for the purpofe, he addrelfcd them in a SPELCH, as follows.: CXtntlemcn of the Srnate, and Gentlinien of the PIouft of Re'eifentatives, IIAVE direced the Secretary to lay before you feveral letters.which I have receivetd in the rcefs of the Cout-; among them you Will obferve a let. ttr from lit, Fxcellency the Governour of New.2ork, wherein he expreffes his a29m1cen ioon of a wicked combination entered into by a ntmber of perfons, vit h an in entkm to deprive this Commonwealth, and that State, of the lands idiclh have been lately the fubJe& of a comnpac-&between them# 1I need not rnfarhc,, on Ihis fubject, a4 it will appeav to you that the pretentions.of thefe 'p,:op rc ramher an infult upon this govcrntnent; than an apology for their condu l. t haive no doubt of your itmmediate attention to a fubjec'&, by which tle intereft aj trour of the Co'mmonwealth are Co much affeed. The OCenei & bnvention having comileated the bufinef of their appoint- riewt, aid having reported to congress, ' A Confiitution for the United Scatcf of 4.,er'ni, I have received tile fame f'om that Honourable Body, and .Vive ,ifreced the Secretary to lay it, together with the letter accompanying i:, h, tnr,' the Legiflature, that tneah:rcs ma.t be adopted for cu-litin a Corr. VltIntion in this (.ommonwealth, to take the fame into confideration. It not LAng within the duties of my office to decide upon this moientous affair, I Ihall oely fily, tfiat the characctrs of the Gentlemeti whohave compiled this t'yflcil, are fotruly refpeditble, and the obj& of their deliberations fo vafily it.I ,ortant, tiat I conceive every .ark of attention Will be paid to the report. 'IPeir unanimity in deciding thofe qucilions wherin the,,ener: profpcrity ol the nation 6s to dccply involvcd, and the complicated rights of each feperate State

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