March 3, 1784 .

Whereas it appears to this Court, by the report of a committee of both Houses to adjust and settle the accounts between Captain Nathan Thayer, of Medway, and the men under his command, that there is a balance due to this Commonwealth, from the said Captain Thayer, of Fifty-five pounds, six shillings and two pence:

Resolved, That the Attorney General be, and he hereby is, directed and required, to commence a process against the said Captain Nathan Thayer, of Medway, in the county of Suffolk, for the recovery of the aforesaid sum of Fifty-five pounds, six shillings and two pence, and to pursue the said prosecution to final judgment and execution, provided the aforesaid Captain Thayer does not pay the said sum into the public treasury, on or before the twenty-fifth day of March, current.

And it is further Resolved, That the Secretary be, and he hereby is, directed to furnish the Attorney General with attested copies of this resolution, and all such papers in his office, as may be necessary to afford evidence in the course of the said process.

Printed as Chapter 102 [Jan. 1783] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 858.