In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1776.
Subtitle: Whereas this colony cannot be supplied with a sufficient quantity of paper ... Resolved, that the committees of correspondence ... appoint some suitable person in their respective towns ... to receive rags for the paper mills ..
Contributors: Hugh McLean and Co
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43056
Publisher: Printed by E. Russell, upper end of Main-Street ...
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Salem [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Papermaking -- Massachusetts; Paper mills -- Massachusetts -- Milton; Rags -- Prices -- Massachusetts; Industries -- Massachusetts -- Milton
Notes: "In Council, Feb. 16, 1776. Read and concurred ..."

Followed by: Paper-mills, at the slitting-mill, in Milton. In compliance with the foregoing resolve, and to encourage the paper-manufacture, we now propose to give three coppers per pound for all white linnen [sic] ... Hugh McLean and Co. ..

Full imprint: Salem: Printed by E. Russell, upper end of Main-Street: who gives cash for all kinds of cotton and linnen [sic] and check rags, for the use of the above paper-mills

Relief cut of the mill at left of second title; printed area measures 36.9 x 20.8 cm

Bristol B4243

Shipton & Mooney 43056

Cushing, J.D.  Mass. laws, 920

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43056)