Boston July 16 1784 Sir,

I wrote a Letter to Judge Cushing superscribed to him at Ipswich, when the Supr. Court last sat there, informing him that the Genl. Court had directed the Comtee. for revising the laws to complete that business as soon as may be; and desiring that he & the other gentlemen of that Comtee. who attended Ipswich Court wd. appoint a meeting for that purpose. At the same time letting him know, that as other business had obliged the former Chairman to resign his Commission to the Genl. Court, that office devolved on him.

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As by your message it is possible Judge Cushing may not have recd. my letter, you will please to take such measures as you shall think best suited to answer the expectations of the Genl. Court. I now send you all the Papers I had relating to that business; and also an order of the Court of the 2d. Instt. for the Comtee’s. reporting an Act, in the order mentioned.

I am very respectfully Sir yr. most obt. hble. Servt. James Bowdoin

RC ; addressed: “The hon’ble Robert Treat Paine Esqr. Attorney General.”