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.”

August 17, 1784

Boston Ss: At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston Assembled at Fanuiel Hall on Tuesday the 17th. August AD. 1784.

The Article in the Warrant Viz. “To consider wether there shall be a Revision of the By Laws, & such Additions or alterations made as may be Judged proper by the Town—whereupon—

Voted, that the Honble. Robert T. Payne Esqr. John Lowell Esqr. James Sullivan Esqr. Benj. Hitchburne Esqr. Ezekl: Price Esqr.

be a Committee to Revise the By Laws and to report wether any further Laws can be made to regulate the Market.

Att: William Cooper Town Clerk

MS ; endorsed: “Honble. Robt. T. Payne”; endorsed by Charles C. Paine: “Vote of Town of Boston appointing comtee. & R.T.P. chairman to revise the By Laws. Aug. 1784.”