Acts and laws passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England
Subtitle: begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty-eighth day of May 1740. And continued by prorogations to Wednesday the ninetenth day of November following
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4551
Publisher: Printed by J. Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council.
Published: 1741
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 722
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1740 Nov.)
Notes: Caption title, preceded by headlines.

Pagination continues the session laws published from 1726 (Evans 2762). The insertion of laws paged 715-716 and signed 7G (Evans 4550), passed in Aug. 1740 but probably not printed until after the present item, disrupts the sequence.

"The six foregoing acts were publish'd, January 13. 1740 [i.e., 1741 n.s.]."--p. 722.

Imprint from colophon.

Royal arms (Reilly 876) at head of title.

Evans 4551

Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 428

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