county of Plymouth, to regulate the taking of fish within the harbours and coves of said township." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, entitled, "An act for regulating the hospital on Rainsford Island, and further providing in case of sickness." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, entitled, "An act for preventing damage by horses going at large." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, entitled, "An act to prevent damage being done on a beach at Monument Ponds, in the township of Plymouth, lying between the lands of the late Thomas Clark and Joseph Bartlett, deceased; and on a certain tract of marshy ground lying under water there." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, entitled, "An act in addition to an act in addition to the several acts for the better regulating the Indians." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, entitled, "An act for incorporating the Indians and Mulattoes, inhabitants of Mashpee, with their lands there, into a district, with certain privileges, and for their better regulation." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, entitled, " An act for punishing such offenders as shall be any ways concerned in contriving, writing, or sending any incendiary or menacing letters,· in order to extort sums of money or other things of value, from any of his Majesty's good subjects." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, entitled, "An act further empowering the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace, in this Province, to grant licenses in certain cases, and thereby to prevent unnecessary petitions to the General Court." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-six, entitled, "An act to prevent the destruction of the meadow called Sandy Neck Meadow in Barnstable, and for the better preservation of the harbour there." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, entitled, "An act providing for the support of ministers in new plantations." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, entitled, “An act to prevent damage being done on the beach, hummocks

and meadows, belonging to the town of Scituate, lying between the southerly end of the third cliff (so called) and the mouth of the North River." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, entitled, "An act declaring and regulating the standard of wheat imported into this Province, and for preventing abuses by millers." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy, entitled, "An act to empower the inhabitants of the town of Newburyport, belonging to the several religious societies within the same, to raise money for defraying ministerial and necessary charges." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, entitled, "An act to prevent the destruction of oysters in Charles and Mistick Rivers." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, entitled, "An act for the better regulating porters employed within the town of Boston." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, entitled, “An act to prevent damage being done on the beach and meadows in Plymouth, adjoining to said beach, commonly known by the name of Plymouth Beach." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, entitled, "An act for the preservation of the beach and harbour in the town of Plimouth." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, entitled, " An act in addition to an act, entitled, "An act in addition to the act for the providing of pounds, &c." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixtyfour, entitled, " An act to empower the proprietors of the meeting house in the town of Newburyport, where the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Parsons officiates, to raise money to defray ministerial and other necessary charges." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, entitled, "An act in addition to the several laws already made relating to the removal of poor persons out of the towns whereof they are not inhabitants." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, entitled, "An act for regulating lamps already set up, or that may hereafter be set up, for enlightening the streets, lanes, alleys or passage ways, in the town of Boston, and to pre

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vent the breaking or otherwise damnifying the same; and also establishing the method for paying the expences that may arise in supporting and maintaining said lamps." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine, entitled, "An act providing that the solemn affirmation of the people called Quakers, shall, in certain cases, be accepted instead of an oath, in the usual form." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty, entitled, "An act to encourage the increase of sheep and goats." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, entitled, “An act to exempt the people called Quakers from the penalty of the law for non-attendance on military musters." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-two, entitled, "An act to prevent the spreading of the small pox, and other infectious sickness, and to prevent the concealing of the same.” Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, entitled, "An act in addition to an act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-six, entitled, "An act for the better regulating swine." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, entitled, "An act in addition to the act, entitled, "An act to encourage the increase of sheep and goats." Also, an act made in the same year, entitled, An act to prevent stage plays and other theatrical entertainments." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, entitled, "An act to empower the proprietors of the meeting house in the first parish in Salem, where the Rev. Mr. John Sparhawk now officiates; and also the proprietors of the meeting house in the third parish in Newbury, where the Rev. Mr. John Lowell officiates, to raise money for defraying the ministerial and other necessary charges." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, entitled, "An act for the preventing the stealing and clandestinely conveying sheep away from the island of Martha's Vineyard, in Dukes County." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-two, entitled, "An act in further addition to, and explanation of an act, entitled, "An act

for regulating, townships, choice of town officers, &c."
Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand
seven hundred and sixty-eight, entitled, "An act in
further addition to the several acts for the settlement and
support of schools and schoolmasters." Also, an act
made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hun-
dred and fifty-three, entitled, "An act to prevent firing
the woods." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord,
one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, entitled " An
act for securing the growth and increase of a certain
parcel of wood and timber in the townships of Ipswich
and Wenham, in the county of Essex." Also, an act
made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hun-
dred and sixty-seven, entitled, "An act to prevent dam-
age being done on the meadows and beaches lying in and
adjoining on the south side of the towns of Tisbury and
Chilmark, in the county of Dukes County, between the
lands of Matthew Mayhew, Esq; on the west, and the
creek of water that divides the land of Thomas Waldron
from the beach, on the east." Also, an act made in the
year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-
eight, entitled, "An act to prevent damage being done.
on Bound Brook Island and Griffith's islands, within the
district of Wellfleet, by cattle, horse kind and sheep."
Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand
seven hundred and sixty-eight, entitled, "An act to
prevent the destruction of the salt meadows lying in the
towns of Tisbury and Chilmark." Also, an act made in
the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-three, entitled, "An act to prevent the destruc-
tion of alewives and other fish in Ipswich River, and to
encourage the increase of the same." Also, an act made
in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-four, entitled, " An act making further provision
for regulating the alewive fishery in the town of Bridge-
water, and for repealing an act made in the eleventh year
of his present Majesty's reign, entitled, "An act for reg-
ulating the alewive fishery in the town of Bridgewater."
Also, an act made in the same year, entitled, "An act to
prevent neat cattle, horses, sheep, goats and swine from
going at large upon the island of Chabequidick, at certain
seasons of the year, and for preventing other trespasses
being done on any of the Indian lands on said island for
the future." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord,

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one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six, entitled, "An act in addition to the several acts and laws of this province now in force, respecting poor and idle, disorderly and vagrant persons." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, entitled, "An act to prevent the unnecessary destruction of alewives in the town of Middleborough." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, entitled, "An act for reviving the act, entitled, "An act to regulate the sale of goods at public vendue, and to limit the number of auctioneers." Also, another act, entitled, "An act in addition to an act made and passed at the last session of the General Court, entitled, "An act to regulate the sale of goods at public vendue, and to limit the number of auctioneers." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, entitled, "An act providing for the levying and collecting of taxes in plantations that are not incorporated." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, entitled, "An act in addition unto an act, entitled, "An act providing for the levying and collecting taxes in plantations that are not incorporated." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eightyone, entitled, "An act to provide more effectually for the preservation of the fish called alewives in the streams running into Merrimack River, within the town of Andover." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, entitled, “ An act against diminishing or counterfeiting money." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, entitled, "An act in addition to the act made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, entitled, " An act for regulating of drains or common shores." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, entitled, "An act to prevent unnecessary petitions to the Great and General Court." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, entitled, "An act for the ease of prisoners for debt." Also, an act made in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, entitled, 66 An act to prevent neat cattle and horses running at large, and feeding on the beaches adjoining to