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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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Resolve Directing the Attorney General to Defend Suits, &c. in Certain Cases, Relative to Confiscated Estates

28 October 1784

To the Committee for Revising the Laws

4 November 1784
To the Committee for Revising the Laws
Massachusetts House of Representatives RTP
Commonwealth of Massachusetts In the House of Reprs. Novr. 1st 1784

Ordered that the Committee for revising the Laws of this Commonwealth be instructed to consider the expediency of adopting other punishment that already provided by law for the crimes of theft & housebreaking, & report.

Sent up for Concurrence Saml. A. Otis Speaker
In Senate Novr. 1st. 1784

Read & Concurred

Samuel Adams Presidt. A true Copy Attest. Thos. Edwards Clerk of the Senate A copy for Wm. Cushing.

RC ; addressed: “The honorable R. T. Paine Atty. Genl.” Note on verso: “Mr. Cushings Complmts. to the Atty. Genl. & presents him as one of the Committee for revising the laws, with the within Order of Genl. Court for his Consideration.”