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 prorogation unto Wednesday the twentieth day of August following.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4550.
Publisher: Printed by John Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour & Council.
Published: 1741
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 716
Work titles: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1740 Aug.)
Notes: Caption title, preceded by headlines.

Pagination continues the session laws published from 1726 (Evans 2762).

Probably issued in 1741 or 1742, but paged so as to be inserted in its proper chronological position. The succeeding issue (Evans 4551), for the laws passed in Nov. 1740, also begins at p. 715 and signature 7G. The disruption in pagination was rectified with the acts for Nov. 1742 (p. 745 ff.; Evans 4999).

Imprint from colophon.

Royal arms (Reilly 876) at head of title.

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Evans 4550

Cushing, J.D.  Mass. laws, 427

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. 4550).