Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-07-07
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


aDCOl1T-
ed 70 inquire into and report rate of
facts relative tothe delinquency of thofe Sher-
IDS, Towns and Selsdmen, who have neglect
ca to make returns of the Votes for Governor,
III. Governor, Senator's and Councillors the
orefent year, al haV: ~ rebo,t
THAT in the county Of B6:x they find the
votes from tie town Of Wezb4m were not deliv
cred at the Secretary's Office until the 18th
day of May:
That il the county Of Haw8y6ire the returns
from the town Of 1fonjoH were not delivered
al the Secretary's Office until the zoth Of MAY,
md that no returns have been received at faid
0Fice from the town of RgGsH in the fame
county.
Tha- in the county Of 3ork no returns have
been received from the town Of lVatert6rd and
that the returns from the town Of PbIitj5mgb
were not delivered at the Secretary's Office un-
Ill the zoth of May
That in the county Of Bsygga5ls the returns
from the town Of Trnro were not delivered At
t. Secrerary's Office unril the 10th Of May !;
a46 that no returns have been received from
The diarit Of Mayt5bss in the fame county
That in the county Of Cumberland no returns
have been received from the towns Of Tgy and
Rmt0yd, or from The plantation Of FEafqaa
That in the county Of Line9la no returns have
been received from the plantation Of Msdpn-
cook:
That in the county Of Haacock the returns
from the town Of Orr1agfon were not delivered at
the Secretary's Office until the z3d Of May
and that no returns have been received from
the towns Of Eden and E4fvoysb in the county
sforefaid
That ia tbe county Of Bsrkgire no return has
been received from the town Of Lauder:
Th- in thecouaty Of Wgbiagtoa the returns
from the town Of Columbia were not delivered
at the Secretary's Office until the sd of June !;
and that no returns have been received from the
town Of l4ddjles IN the fame county
And that in the county of Keaaebsc no returns
have been received from the plantations Of
LiHkG9rogg5 Saa4y-I2iver, No, ; or Mee0-Vias-
yard
IKE Committee further rrb9ri, That they can.
not, az the prelent felton, of the General Court,
be furnilhed with the necehary evidence with
which full Ratement Of facts ought to be
accompanied and that as the property and
characters Of the delinquent Sh-riHs and Town
Officers may be materially affected BY an in
veaigaton Of this important iubjef, tie Gan.
riase tuytber report, That the Secretary Of the
Commonwealth be direaed to give public no
tice to the Sherifs of thofe counties, and the
Seledmen and Town Clerks Of thofe towns, in
which the returns aforefaid have not seen fea
ioaably made, to appear on the fccond Wed
nefday Of the FRI felton, of the General Court
which fhall be holden next after the fiji day of
January next, to thew caufe tif any they have
why the Attorney General ihould not be direct
ed TO profecute them for fuch fines or penalties
rs they may have incurred in conlequence Of
lush delinquency, by inlerting this report in the
Ma1aebHjett5 Mercury, and ia one Of the News
pap-rs pubifhed 10 each of the counties whereia
flch delinquency may have happened iii any
Newspaper b. therein publilhed) three weeks
iuccehvely, the lat publication to be thirtydays
At lealt, before the laid fecond Wednesday
III zD5is5 Is Iab7si,te5,
DANIEL DAVIS, per er9sr.
u Senate f47s II, 1909. Read and accepted.
Sent down for concurrence,
SAML. PHILLIPS, PYzfisz:.
n t5s Hgg's IF Rcfyseaf4tiye5, June II, 1890.
Read and concurred
EDWD II. ROBBINS, S5eaieY.
A;rue eopy-Auea, JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
y The Printer Of the Newspaper in
Sal'~i at N~faanPae; in tie county Of To,I in the
county Of Bz,gl45sj Po.to79 at HTjte6st in the
county Of Ha7saki at Sfaatjritee; ID the county OF
Wg7Hsios, and n thc county Of Kaaete equelted
- Panlih the above in their papers three weeks iuc
eeinVefy By after Or tJs Geqryai Cart,
secretary's Office,
Bolton, Ja1e n. 1900.
LETTERS,
remaining IN TIE PoG OtFce al Sacearatba, June