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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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Resolve on the Petition of the Honourable Robert Treat Paine, Esq; Granting Him Thirty-one Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, for the Pork and Rye Mentioned in his Petition
Massachusetts General Court RTP
March 12, 1784 .

On the petition of the Honorable Robert Treat Paine, Esq; praying for payment for six barrels of pork and thirty-nine bushels of rye, taken out of the store of William M’Kinstry, an Absentee, by the Committee of Correspondence, of 301 Taunton, and by them delivered to Mr. Aaron Blaney, then a Commissary at Roxbury, for the use of the Provincial Army:

Resolved, That the prayer of the said petition be granted, and that there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth to the Honorable Robert Treat Paine, Esq; the sum of Thirty-one pounds sixteen shillings, out of the next State Tax which may be granted, which is in full for the said pork and rye.

Printed as Chapter 122 [Jan. 1783] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 868.