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![handle is hein.ssl/ssma0521 and id is 1 raw text is: [4TH SESS.] PROVINCE LAWS (8eolves, etc.). -1716-17. 513
RESOLVES, ORDERS, VOTES, ETC.
PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON,
ON THE TENTH DAY OF APRIL, A.D. 1717.
CHAPTER 158.
ORDER APPOINTING A COMTEE TO CONSIDER THAT PART OF HIS EXCYS
SPEECH RELATING TO THE DISCOUNT ON THE BILLS.
Ordered that Oliver Noyes, Elisha Cook, William Payne. Charles Legislative
Chambers & Samuel Thaxter Esq with such as the Honble BOard c of the
shall' be a Committee in the Recess of this Court to Consider that 127.
Part of his Excellyi Speech which relates to the discount upon the House Jour.
Bills of publick Credit, & Report such Expedients as they think will nal, p.58.
be most effectual to preserve & maintain the Credit & Value of the
said Bills at ye Session in May next
And the HonbIe Andrew Belcher Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Fitch
& Edmund Quincey Esqr be join'd to the Committee for the abovesaid
Affair. [Passed April 11.
CHAPTER 159.
ORDER ON DORCHESTER BRAINTREE & MILTON PETITION IN REGARD
TO THE LOCATION OF A HOSPITAL.
UPON READING a Petition of a Considerable Number of the Inhabi- Legislative
tants of the Towns of Dorchester Braintree & Milton Praying that Rcors of the
a Hospital for the Entertainment of Infectious Persons may not be 127
erected on Squantum Neck in Dorchester aforesaid, As has been pro. H use Jour.
pos'd in y0 Committees Report appointed for that Purpose; Provice
Ordered that Adam Winthrop William Payne Sam Thaxter & Jona- Ls it, 95.
than Dowse Esq be a Committee to find out & agree for a more suit- chapi. Y.
able Place for the Building a Hospital, That it may be Erected with all
convenient Speed. [Passed April 11.
CHAPTER 160.
VOTED THAT TEN SOLDIERS BE ALLOWED AS A GARRISON AT NORTH-
FIELD.
Voted that Ten Soldiers be allowed & continued in the publick Pay Legislative
for the Covering & Encouraging the Settlement of y Town of North- R e 1i of the
field until the Session of this Court in May next. [Passed April 11. 127.
House Jour.
I ,Join in the State Library copy, Legislative Records of the Council, x., 141. nal, p. 58.
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