Scope and Content: Successive committees of the House of Representatives were appointed to receive, examine, and pass upon accounts submitted for payment for purchases and services approved by the Revolutionary Massachusetts General Court.  From 1780, a joint standing committee of both houses of the Constitutional General Court (by at least 1782 known as the Committee on Accounts) performed the same function.  Approved accounts were forwarded to the Council (for concurrence as of 1776), which issued warrants for payment by the Treasury.  Series represents an accounting record for the period before 1786, at which time a settled procedure of account rolls (Account roll submissions ((M-Ar)9X); Account rolls (M-Ar)2268X)) was instituted.  It parallels a chronological set of accounts (Account journals, 1775-1786 ((M-Ar)2236X)), containing some but not necessarily all of the same data.
Arrangement: Arranged within each volume by county/town, thereunder by date
Notes: Label inside front cover, v. 1: “Accounts passed by the Courts Committee on Accounts since the Council undertook to record them at Watertown Dec 7th 1775 [i.e., per Resolves 1775-76, c 426] up to the 25th October 1780, the time when the new constitution took place.  Posted in this book to each respective town.  Also to sundry persons the towns not mentioned.”
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