Said Lottery Shall be published in some One of the Boston news Papers within thirty days after drawing the same, and be paid without deduction, if demanded within twelve months after drawing, otherwise be deemed as generously given for the purpose afore said

And be it also further enacted; That if any person or persons Shall forge, counterfeit, or alter any ticket issued by virtue of this act, or shall pass or utter any such forged, counterfeited or altered ticket, knowingly, or that shall counsel, advise or assist in forging, counterfeiting or altering the same, every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted in the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, Shall be set on the Gallows for the space of one hour, with a rope about his neck, or Shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, to the use of this Commonwealth, or be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months, or be publicly whiped not exceeding thirty nine Stripes, at the discretion of the Justices of the Same Court, who are also hereby impowered to inflict one or more of the said punishments on such offenders, if they see fit.

In the House of Representatives March 15th 1784

This bill having had three several Readings passed to be Engrossed

Sent up for concurrence

Tristram Dalton Spk

Inventory of Public Stores.

Georgetown May 24th 1784

Sir

Agreeable to your Excelency Orders to me I Repaired to Penobscot and took an Inventory of all the Public Stores and buildings that I could find at that place which I have the

Honour of Transmiting to Your Excellensy-after which

took a Tour up the River and made the Strictest Inquiry of the Inhabtants for the names of those which Still Remain among them which had taken an Active part with the British Army and Fleet-a list of which names I have Sent to the Hon' James Sullavan Esq' with a Complaint against them in Order that it may be laid before Your Excellency and the Hon' Councel

I have the Hon' to be with Respect

Your Excellency Most Obed' Sert
Sam' M. Cobb

In Senate June 3d 1784

Read & sent down

S Adams Presid

In the House of Representatives June 3a 1784

Read & sent up

Sam A Otis Spkr

His Excellency John Hancock Esq

An Account of Public Stores Buildings & found on the Peninsula of Majabigwaduce

19 Pd Cannon without Carriage

Wharf 2 Stores on Wharf 2

The whole of the Buildings is Said to be built by British Subjects and Refugees

The whole of the Barrack" and Kings Store House" are burnt

The Above is the best Acc' I could get of Buildings &

Sam' M Cobb

Remonstrance of Inhab. of Lower Town of St Georges. To the Honoble the Genal Court and house of Representatives now held in boston In and for said State of the Massachusetts Bay

hum' Sheweth that we your honours Patitioners the Anhabitence of a Plantation Cala the Lower Town of St Georges in the County of Lincoln

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We your Honours Petitioners Do understand That the Town of Warren has Petition to your Honour For to have they Alewives fishery in their Town might be Granted to them as a Town Privilege and that all other Enhabitance that Did not belong to their Town should be Exempted from aney benifit or Privilige in said fishery without Paying for them to their Town.

Where as the Hounble Brigadere Samuel Waldow in they first setling of said Towns Resarvd all such Priviliges for the good of the Enhabitance of said River

And as their is a Great Many Poor Enhabitance In This Town who Depends on said Alewives for the Suport of Their

families wich if they are Deprived of must Suffer for Wont of them

Therefore we your Humble Petitioners Pray That you would not Grant to the Town of Warren all the Privilege of Said fishery but would Resarve so much as may Suply Each family with a Sufficient Quantity as may sarve For their suport from year to year which in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray-Sign by order and in behalf of said Town at our anuel meeting in March

St Georges March 6th 1780

Benjamin Burton Chareman

Remonstrance of Inhab: of Thomaston and Lower Town of St Georges.

To the Honble the Council and House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts Bay in General Court assembled

June 5, 1780

The Inhabitants of the Town of Thomaston in the County of Lincoln, having understood that the Inhabitants of the Town of Warren had petitioned the Great and General Court for an Act or Law respecting the Alewives Fishery in said Warren, did, at their meeting in may legally assembled, make choice of a Committee to enquire into the matter, and to act thereupon what might be proper and necessary; the Inhabitants of the Plantation called the lower Town of St Georges had also chosen a Committee for the same Purpose: The said Committee of Thomaston on the twenty sixth of May last obtained a Copy of an Act that had been Read a first time, with the Order of the late House of Representatives of the first of Jan' thereupon; being the first regular Account that we could obtain of the Matter

We the Subscribers in behalf of the Town, and Plantation for which we are chosen respectively, Beg leave to represent to your Honors, That the Falls on the River St Georges in the Town of Warren is the only Place in either of the said Towns or Plantation where the Fish called Alewives can be catched in any considerable plenty.

That the Lands adjoining the Falls were never disposed of by the late Brigadier Waldo, or any other Proprietors, but hath been reserved for the use of the Fishery.

That many poor Persons with large Families have been, and still are necessitated to subsist all most entirely on said Fish.

That the Inhabitants of said Town and Plantation from their Settlement on said River, and from the Deeds of their Lands given them by said Brigadier Waldo, which amongst other Things, mention & convey in particular, "all Rivers, Waters and Fishings" ever supposed that they had an equal Right in Common with the Town of Warren to the Fishery there: and

We are of Opinion that the said Inhabitants of Warren under the spacious (though very proper and necessary) Title of "An Act for preventing the Destruction of Alewives," intended an Act to monopolize the whole Fishery to themselves, and to establish a large Fund to said Town thereupon

We are also humbly of Opinion That the proposed Act so intirely includes the Alewive Fishery to said Warren, and so fully puts the Disposal thereof into their Power, that they may set what Premium they please on the Fishery, and thereby make Alewives as costly, as any other Provision. whatever, to the very great Oppression and Distress of those Poor who depend on them for their Support; and Infringement of the Rights & Property of the Inhabitants of this Town & Plantation;

Wherefore in behalf of said Town and Plantation, we Your Memorialists humbly pray, That, if said proposed Act