Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2
The act for altering the Several Infr. Courts thrô the Government is passed & will be in this days papers.1So that all Writs now to be filed for our County must be to the first Tuesday in May next as I suppose. However I conclude you will see the act & Judge for your self. It's uncertain whether the Court will rise this week I rather think it will not. The Excise Bill & fee Bill occasion great Difficulty2, & whether they will be got thrô this Sessions is Doubtfull. We have no remarkable news. Please to let me know my family know I am well. yrs. &c.
monday morning 25 feb. 1765. I had no opportunity of sending to you last week not seeing one person from our your way in Town. have herewith sent you the act. yr.
"An Act determining at what Times and Places the several Inferior Courts of Common Pleas and Courts of General Sessions of the Peace shall be held within and for the several Counties of the Province for the future" was passed by the House of Representatives on Feb. 19, by the Council on Feb. 26, and enacted on Mar. 2 (Journals of the House of Representatives, 41:256, 282, 286).
A bill regulating fees of the Province's civil officers was rejected twice by the House on the same day and returned to the Senate. The House also resumed consideration of an excise bill, but after a long debate, voted for further consideration of it (Journal of the House of Representatives, 41:256, 260).