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![handle is hein.trials/warbrdgpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
JANUARY TERM, ismi.
THE PRo1mIETORS OF CHAILEs RIVER BRIDGE, Complainants and qp-
peltants,
VS.
rHE PROPRIETORS OF WARREN BIIIGE, Defendants and .ppellees.
References, in chronological order, to the several ordinances
and public acts of the Provincial Government of the Massachu-
setts Bay, and to the several acts of the Legislature of the State
of Massachusetts, relating to the Ferry between Boston and
Charlestown, in particular, and to other ferries and bridges over
the same river or arn or the sea; and also containing general
regulations common to them and other ferries.
[NOTE. Many of these acts or ordinances of the old Provin-
cial Government are understood to have been omitted in all the
lrinted editions, now extant, of the provincial laws, but are found
in the original records or the colony, now among the public ar-
chives of the State ; and official copies of them, extracted froa
those records, and duly certified, are filed among the exhibits and
evidence in this case.-Viae Rec. in this case, pp. 56-9, 63-5.
In the following list, where no reference is made to any of the
printed editions of the provincial laws, the ordinance is taken
from the original record only.] -
No. 1. .A Court of assistants holden at Boston, .Nov. 9th, 1630.
PRESENT, the Gov'nr, Dep'y Gov'r, Sir Richard Saltonstall.
Mr. Ludlow, Capt. Endicott, Mr. Coddington, Mr. Pinchon,
Mlr. Bradstreet.
,' IT is further ordered, that whosoever shall first give in his
name to Mr. GoA'nr. that bee will undertake to sett upp a Fer-
ry betwixt Boston and Charlton, and shall begin the same at
such tyme as Mr. Gov'nr shall appoynt; shall have id. for
every .son, and id. for every 100 weight of goods lice shall
so. t, i
No. 2. -A Court holden at Boston, November Eth, 163S. Present.
the Governor, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Nowell, Mr. Treasu'r, Mr.
Coddington, S. Bradstreet.
M. Rich : Brown is allowed by the Court, to keepe a fferry
ouer Charles Ryver, against his house, and is to have 2d. for
every single person lice soc transports, and id. a piuce if there
be 2 or morc.
. '3. ' ATT the Gen'all Court holden at Ne Towxe. May 6th,
1635. Present, the Gov'nr. Devly Gov':-w, Nr. WVinthrop,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.trials/warbrdgpa0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)