Scope and Content: Publication of the complete and annotated set: The acts and resolves, public and private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, including the years 1692 to 1780, and popularly known as: Province laws, was authorized by Resolves 1865, c 43 and again by Resolves 1867, c 87.  (See also Resolves 1893, c 12; St 1894, c 387; and St 1899, c 477.)  Under the mandated direction of the governor and council, the twenty-one volumes were issued between 1869 and 1922, with materials relating to the project being deposited with the state secretary.  Among them were these transcripts made for the editors at the State Paper Dept. in the British Public Record Office. –Documents were transcribed from the Trade Paper, Board of Trade, Colonial Entry, American & West Indies, and Privy Council volumes.  Documents include letters from Massachusetts officials, letters of agents in London, orders in council, and: List of curious and scarce books in the British Museum relating to New England.
Restrictions: Copying is restricted
Notes: Collated: [1867?-19–]
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