Addresses and Messages to the General Court, Proclamations, Official Addresses and Statements.

Mode of access: Internet.

The charters and general laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay,

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Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court

Mode of access: Internet.

Petition of Sever and Welsteed to the General Court (manuscript copy), [1723 June-August]

Two folio-sized leaves containing a two-page handwritten copy of the June 21, 1723 petition of Sever and Welsteed requesting the question of non-resident Fellows in the Corporation be readdressed by the General Court, and a one-page handwritten copy of the answer to the petition passed by the General Court on August 7, 1723. The text of the petition begins "Sheweth that we have formerly represented to the Overseers of the College the Difficulty we were under in the business of it by reason of our not being vested with the power of its Charter..." The petition is incorrectly dated as "June 24th 1722" instead of 1723.

Petition to the General Court (photostat copy), 1646 May 15

Photostat copy of a petition from ferrymen James Heyden and Francis Hudson requesting compensation for unpaid fares of "magistrates & deputyes" using the ferry.

Petition to the General Court (photostat copy), 1662

Photostat copy of a petition from ferrymen Francis Hudson and John Burrage requesting the General Court coin twopenny and fourpenny pieces for change so the ferrymen could accommodate customers attempting to pay with larger currency denominations.

Draft of a petition to the General Court from the Corporation, 1743 October 26-27

Two-page handwritten draft of a petition to the General Court signed by President Edward Holyoke, and a half-page letter that accompanied the draft from President Holyoke to Tutor Flynt, a member of the Committee to draft the petition.

The report of the committee about Harvard Coledge: presented to the Generall Court held the 3 of (3) month, 1654

Two folio-sized leaves with a handwritten draft of the May 3, 1654 report of a General Court Committee authorized to investigate the financial state of Harvard College. The report responds directly to eight questions raised in the September 10, 1653 Order of the General Court that established the Committee. The report provides summaries of Harvard's income sources and disbursements, offers recommendations regarding the President's salary and the allowances for the academic Fellows, steward, butler, and cook, and indicates specific contributions from local towns.

Report of the proceedings of the general court martial held at the King's Arms Tavern in Albany, April 4, 1776

Contains summaries of court-martials of a variety of soldiers for desertion, drunk and disorderly conduct, striking an officer, and damning the American congress.

Cases adjudged in the General Court of Virginia, 1733-1741

A copy of the reports by Edward Barradall of decisions of the general court of Virginia made by Gustavus A. Myers for William Green from a copy lent him by Conway Robinson.

The reform of the EU courts (II). Abandoning the management approach by doubling the General Court. Egmont Paper 83, March 2016

The 2011 proposal of the European Court of Justice aiming to increase the number of judges of the General Court has mutated after four years into a complete change of the EU judicial system. This long legislative debate was the first implementation of the Lisbon Treaty in the judicial domain. It has revealed different problems – formal and substantial – of the approach of public service reform in the European institutions.

Massachusetts General Hospital annual report.

Description based on: 1981; title from cover.

Problems of state life. A sermon delivered before His Excellency John D. Long, His Honor Byron Weston, the honorable Council, and the legislature of Massachusetts, at the annual election, King's chapel, Boston, Wednesday, January 3, 1883.

Printed by order of the Massachusetts General Court.

Troy and Greenfield Railroad : speech of Hon. Alvah Crocker, on the bill for the more speedy completion of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, in the Senate of Massachusetts, April 15, 1862.

At head of title: Troy and Greenfield Railroad.