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.

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.