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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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From Sally Cobb Paine

30 September 1777

From James Lovell

3 October 1777
Extract from the Minutes of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Thursday, October 2, 1777

Voted, That a Tax of £300,000 be levied and assessed on the Inhabitants of this State for the Year 1777, and paid into the Treasury by the first of January next. And then,

On Motion, Ordered, That Mr. Pickering,1 Mr. Dix and Mr. Paine be a Committee to prepare a Tax Bill accordingly.

Printed in the Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 53, pt. 1:96.

1.

John Pickering of Salem was excused from this committee and replaced by John Greenough of Wellfleet (Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 53, pt. 1:99 [Oct. 6, 1777]).