Chapter 35. RESOLVE DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE FOR METHODIZING PUB- Chap. 35 LIC ACCOUNTS, TO PROCEED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE Whereas by a resolve of the sixteenth of March last, the Committees for the sale of absentees estates in the several counties of this Commonwealth, were directed to make a return into the Secretary's office, of their doings by the tenth instant; and whereas it now appears that the Committee for stating and methodizing the public accounts, have called upon all the said committees to settle their accounts with them, agreeable to two former resolves of June the twenty-ninth, 1782, and June the fifth, 1783, in consequence of which, several of the said committees have applied and settled their accounts, and others stand ready to do it: Therefore, Resolved, That the said Committee for stating and methodizing public accounts, be, and they hereby are directed to proceed in the said settlement, and bring to a close, the accounts with the said Committees on Absentees Estates, agreeable to the said two resolves of the twentyninth of June, 1782, and the fifth of June, 1783, any thing in the said resolve of the sixteenth of March last, notwithstanding. And it is further Resolved, That the Judges and Registers of Probate, in the several counties in this Commonwealth, proceed and make return of their doings in every respect agreeable to the said resolve of the sixteenth of March, 1784, excepting that they make it to the said committee, instead of returning it into the Secretary's office, and that the same be done on or before the first day of September next, instead of the time mentioned in the said resolve; and the said committee for stating public accounts, are hereby directed to lay the whole of their proceedings relative to the said committees, &c. before the General Court the first week in their next session. And it is further Resolved, That the Secretary be, and he is, hereby directed to deliver to the Committee for stating and methodizing the public accounts, all such returns as may have been made into his office by the several Chap. 36 Judges of Probate, and Committees for the sale of Absentees Estates, in consequence of the said resolve of the sixteenth of March last. Ordered, That the Secretary immediately publish the foregoing resolve in the Independent Chronicle, published in Boston by Adams and Nourse, and in the Salem, Springfield and Worcester newspapers. Chapter 36. June 23, 1784. PLAN OF THE SCHEDULE FOR VALUATION. A list of the polls and of the estates real and personal of the several proprietors and inhabitants of the town in the county of taken of No. Polls rateable. No. Polls not rateable supported by the town. No. Polls not rateable, not supported by the town. No. Shops separate from, or adjoining to other buildings. No. Tan Houses, slaughter houses, and other working houses. No. Distill and sugar houses. No. Ropewalks. No. Pot and pearl ash works. No. Warehouses. No. Barns. No. Grist, saw, fulling and slitting mills. No. All other mills. No. Iron works and furnaces. No. All other buildings and edifices of the value of five pounds and upwards. No. Superficial feet of wharf. No. Acres of tillage land. No. Acres of English and upland mowing. No. Acres of fresh meadow. No. Acres of salt marsh. No. Acres of pasturage. No. Barrels of cyder, which can be annually made upon the whole farm. No. Acres of wood land. No. Acres other unimproved land. No. Acres of land unimproveable. No. Tons of vessels, and small craft of five tons burthen and upwards, at home or abroad, to be given in carpenter's tonnage. An account of every person's whole stock in trade, goods, wares and merchandize, at home or abroad, paid for or not paid for. Factorage, or the value of commissions on merchandize annually. No. Horses and mares, three years old and upwards. No. Colts one year old. No. Oxen four years old and upwards. No. Neat cattle three years old. No Neat cattle two years old. No. Neat cattle one year old. No. Cows four years old and upwards. No. Sheep and Goats six months old and upwards. No. Ounces of silver plate. Debts due to any person on interest or not on interest, except government securities and continental loan office certificates, more than they are indebted. Monies on hand. June 23, 1784. Chapter 37. RESOLVE ON THE PETITION OF JOHN TRACY, GRANTING HIM Chap. 37 ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED POUNDS, IN FULL FOR HIS ACCOUNT, FOR THE USE OF THE BRIGANTINE PALLAS, ON On the petition of John Tracy, praying that he may be allowed his account for the use of his vessel, and for ship stores expended in the expedition at Penobscot : Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth, to John Tracy, Esq; (in Treasurer's notes, bearing date the first of January, 1781) the sum of One thousand six hundred pounds, in full of his account for the use of the said vessel and ship stores expended in the said expedition. June 23, 1784. Chapter 38. Chap. 38 RESOLVE ALLOWING INTEREST ON THE NOTE MENTIONED IN A RESOLUTION OF COURT PASSED YESTERDAY, IN FAVOR OF Resolved, That the note which by a resolution of the General Court passed yesterday, was directed to be made to John Tracy, Esq; for the sum of One thousand six hundred pounds, to bear date the first of January, 1781, shall be on interest from that time and issued as the consolidated notes of this Commonwealth. June 24, 1784. Chapter 39. Chap. 39 RESOLVE GRANTING TO EZRA LUNT EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN POUNDS, SEVEN SHILLINGS AND NINE PENCE, TO HIM AND TO HIS ASSISTANTS, AS COMMISSARY On the report of the committee for stating the accounts of this Commonwealth, setting forth that they have examined and adjusted the accounts of Ezra Lunt, late Commissary of small stores and State clothier in the continental army, and that there is due to the said Ezra Lunt, the sum of Eight hundred and twenty-seven pounds, seventeen shillings and nine pence: Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth, to Ezra Lunt, the sum of Eight hundred . and twenty-seven pounds, seventeen shillings and nine pence, in full for his and his assistants wages, and all expences as Commissary of small stores and Clothier in the Continental Army, for this Commonwealth; and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the above sum as follows, viz. Two hundred and seventy-five pounds, seventeen shillings and nine pence, in specie, and the sum of Five hundred fifty-two pounds, in government securities; the said securities to bear date July fourteenth, 1782, the time when the said Lunt was discharged from the service. June 24, 1784. Chapter 40. Chap. 40 RESOLVE ENTITLING SOLOMON PARSONS, JUN. TO HALF PAY AS A SOLDIER. On the representation of John Lucas, Esq; Commissary of pensioners, in behalf of Solomon Parsons, jun. a soldier who was wounded in the service of the United States: Resolved, That the said Solomon Parsons, jun. be entitled to one half part of pay as a soldier, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eightyone, till the further order of the General Court or Congress. June 24, 1784. Chapter 41. RESOLVE ON THE PETITION OF LEVI RAWSON, DIRECTING HIM Chap. 41 TO SERVE JABEZ METCALF, WITH A COPY OF HIS PETITION, On the petition of Levi Rawson, setting forth, that at the Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Suffolk, on the third Tuesday of April last, Jabez Metcalf recovered judgment against the petitioner for the sum of Two hundred and seventy-nine pounds, and cost; and that he had not notice of the suit in due form of law: Therefore Resolved, That the said Levi serve the said Jabez, with an attested copy of his petition and this order thereon, fourteen days before the second Wednesday of the next session of this Court, that he may then shew cause (if any he has) why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted; and in the mean time it is hereby ordered that execution be stayed. June 25, 1784. Chapter 42. RESOLVE DIRECTING THE TREASURER TO CONTINUE CONSOL- Chap. 42 IDATING GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Whereas the time limited by a resolve of the General Court, of the twenty-sixth of February last, for consolidating government securities, is now expired, and it being represented to this Court that a considerable number of such securities remain yet unconsolidated : It is Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and he is, hereby authorized and directed to continue the business of consolidating government securities, until the first day of October next, on the same terms as heretofore provided. June 25, 1784. |