that the justices of the court of Common pleas within and for the County of Cumberland be and they hereby are empowered and directed to take off the default mentioned in the said petition, and that such trial of the said libel upon the merits thereof may be had before the same court at any future Term of its setting as if the same had been regularly continued from the last term of the said courts setting to the next and the default aforementioned had never happened Commonwealth of Massachusetts In the House of Representatives February 10th 1783 On the Petition of Timothy Hodgdon, setting forth, "That in the year 1774 he did bargain with John Sparhawk Esq Agent to Sir William Pepperrell for 212/3 Acres of Land lying in Arundel in the County of York and paid for the same, but never had a Deed of it, and that it is now out of his power to obtain one - therefore Resolved that the Committee on the Sale of confiscated Estates for the said County of York (or any one of them) be, and they are hereby impowered and directed, in behalf of this Commonwealth to make and execute a Deed of Release to the said Timothy Hodgdon of the beforementioned twenty one Acres and two thirds of an Acre of Land These may Certify whom it doth concern, that in the year 1774 I the Subscriber having full power from Sir William Pepperrell then of Roxbury in this Commonwealth (but now an Absentee) did bargain with & Sell to M' Timothy Hodgdon of Arundel 212/3 Acres of Land or thereabouts lying in said Arundel at 12/ p' Acre for a considerable part of which said Hodgdon actually paid in his labor before the present War began. Witness my hand John Sparhawk Mr Hodgdon's Acco' of Labour which he says he is ready to make Oath to Amounts to--Lawf1 Money £11..8.. Also paid Abiel Mirrell the Rates for the place in 1767 £2.. 12 Total £14:0 John Sparhawk Order Relating to Collectors of Excise. Commonwealth of Massachusetts In Senate Feb 11th 1783 Whereas this Court have made Choice of Samuel Henshaw Esq to be Collector of Excise for the County of Suffolk Samuel Ward Esq' for the County of Essex, Elijah Hunt Esq' for the County of Hampshire, William Drew Esq' for the County of Plimouth, Joseph Nye Esq' for the County of Barnstable, Samuel Fales Esq' for the County of Bristol, Jonathan Chesley Chadbourn Esq' for the County of York, Mr Caleb Ammidown for the County of Worcester, Joseph North Esq for the County of Lincoln, Capt William Bacon for the County of Berkshire Ordered, that the Secretary be and he hereby is directed forthwith to notify the aforenamed Gentlemen of their Elections, and request their Answers respectively Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives February 11th 1783. Approv'd Tristram Dalton Spk John Hancock Resolve in re Allowance of Collectors. Commonwealth of Massachusetts The committee of Both Houses appointed to take into Consideration the proper allowance to be made to the Collectors of Excise in this Commonwealth have considered that Matter: and report the Following Resolve Aaron Wood p' Order Resolved, that the following allowance be made to the Several Colectors of Excise for the present year which shall be in full for their Respective Services and Necessary assistance. Viz To the Collectors for the Counties of Suffolk & Essex Two p' cent on the sums they shall respectively Collect. To the Collector for the County of Middlesex three p cent. on the sum he shall Collect To the Collectors for the Counties of York Cumberland Lincoln & Berkshier, Five p' Cent and to the Collectors of the other counties in this Commonwealth Four p' Cent In Senate Feb 10th 1782 Read & accepted Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid't In the House of Representatives Feb 11th 1783 Sent up for concurrence Having been pleased with the advice of Council in the year 1781 to nominate and appoint me Register of Probate for the County of York-I would beg leave to observe, that, the fees and perquisites thereof are too inconsiderable to enable me to give that attention to it that such an office requires — As I am meditating a remove to a distant part of the County, where it will be inconvenient to have the office kept; I ask leave to resign; and, that your Excellency would be pleased to nominate some other person to that office in my stead. I am respectfully your Excellency's most obedient humble Jn° Sewall jun' servant Daniel Sewall of York Resolve directing the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to proceed to regulate the Principal & Interest on Depreciation Rates from the returns made in the Secretaries Office returns made Lieut Aaron Skinner Resolve Relating to Indians. Common Welth of Massachusetts in Senate February 13 1783 the Committee of both Houses appointed to consider the governors message of the 7 February instant have attended that service & ask Leave to Report the following Resolve Jedidiah Preble p' order Whereas there are now in this Town two Indians of the Penobscot Tribe, Capt Neptune & a young Indian Lad and whereas the situation of our Publick affairs in the Eastern parts of this Common welth makes it necessary to keep up a Friendly intercorse with Said Tribe Therefore Resolved that the Commissary general be and he hereby is directed forth with to procure one uniform Coat, Two Hats, two Shirts, two Pare of Indian Stockins one Blanket & two pare of Shoes & two pares of Breeches & deliver the Same to Said Indians & Charge the Same to this Common welth Read & Accepted Sent down for Concurrence S Adams Presid In the House of Representatives Feb" 14th 1783 Read and concurred Approv'd Tristram Dalton Spk John Hancock A Two Hundred Powder one Hundred & Fifty of Balls B three Hundred Shot Two Hundred Flints Knives Sixty |