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![handle is hein.ssl/ssma0509 and id is 1 raw text is: [4TH SESS.] PROVINcn LAWS (Resolves etc.). - 1695-6.
RESOLVE, VOTES, ORDERS, AND PROC-
LAMATION
PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON,
ON THE TVENTY-SIXTH* DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D.
1695-6.
CHAPTER 61.
RESOLVE DECLARING THAT THE WANT OF A QUORUM OF THE REPRE-
SENTATIVES ON THE DAY TO WICl101 THE GENERAL COURT STANDS
ADJOURNED DOES NOT DISCONTINUE THE ASSEMBLY.
IT BEING QUERIED, upon the law of the provincet for ascertaining the
number and regulating the house of representatives, whether the non-
appearance of the full number of forty representatives on the day
appointed to meet by the adjournment do not discontinue the court
(his honour proposing to call a new assembly), after debate thereon
the council and house of representatives, -
Resolved it in the negative. [Passed February 28, 1695-6.
CHAPTER 62.
VOTE FOR ALLOWING FORTY POUNDS, EACH, TO THOMAS DANFORTH,
WAIT WINTHROP, ELISHA COOKE AND SAMUEL SEWALL, JUSTICES
OF THE SUPERIOR COURT, ETC., FOR THEIR SERVICES TO DECEM-
DER, 1695.
Voted in the house of Representatives. That Tho: Danforth Esq!
Waite Winthrop EsqY Elisha Cooke EsqF & Samuel Seawall Esq! Be Paid
out of the Publique Treasury of this Province, forty Pounds Each, for
their last yeares Service as Judges of the Circuits (to De: last)-/.
[Concurred in by the Council, and approved March 6, 1695-6.
CHAPTER 63.
VOTE FOR ALLOWING FORTY POUNDS TO CAPTAIN STEPHEN GREEN-
LEAF OF NEWBURY, A WOUNDED SOLDIER.
UPoN READING the petition of Capt- Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury,
lately wounded and maimed in his majy- service, praying some
* The General Court stood adjourned to this day; but a violent snow-storm with a
high wind, on the 25th, so impeded travel, that but ten representatives appeared at the
appointed time. The 26th was an extremely cold day, and this, with the difficulty of
travelling through the snow-drifts prevented the attendance of more than thirty-two repre-
sentatives on the 27th. The Court was therefore adjourned to the 2Sth, when, a quorum
of the House being present, a speaker was chosen, and the Assembly proceeded to busi-
ness. See note to resolve, chapter 61, of this year, post.
+ 1692-3, chapter 38, vol I., p. 88, ante.
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