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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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Trial notes

From Theophilus Bradbury

12 March 1785
Extract from the Minutes of the Senate
Massachusetts Senate RTP
Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate March 11th. 1785

A Bill Entitled “an Act respecting Negroes & Molattoes” and a Bill Entitled “an Act to prevent the practice of kidnapping or stealing persons for the purpose of making sale of them” Read & thereupon Ordered that the same be committed to the Committee for revising the Laws & that the said Committee be instructed to revise all the Laws respecting Negroes & Molattoes & to report a Bill such as may be proper to be adopted by the Legislature 330 to discountenance and prevent any Inhabitant of this Commonwealth being concerned in the slave trade & that the said Committee also consider & report what measures are necessary to be taken relative to Negroes who now are within the Commonwealth & who may here after be brought or come within the same and report at the next sitting of the General Court.

sent down for concurrence

S Adams Presidt.
In the House of Representatives March 14. 1785

Read & concurred

Sam A Otis Secty.

DS .