Massachusetts General Court records of a joint committee appointed to receive the returns of polls and estates, 1811-1812.

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Massachusetts General Court records of a joint committee appointed to receive the returns of polls and estates, 1811-1812.

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Report of a joint committee appointed to receive the returns of polls and estates from the assessors of the several towns, districts, and plantations and to ascertain the rateable estates within the Commonwealth (and District of Maine) and equalize the same.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Maine Historical Society Library

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...