Resolves transmitted to the towns and districts of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 17 June 1774.

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Resolves transmitted to the towns and districts of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 17 June 1774.

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On June 17, 1774, in Salem, the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the General Court's upper house (Council) passed a resolve directing 500 pounds be paid out of the public treasury to finance the activities of a legislatively appointed committee to join with other similar colonial bodes to meet jointly in September (which became the First Continental Congress). Governor Gage refused to sign the resolve and prorogued the House. It then proceeded to pass three additional resolves that were reprinted in this broadside transmitted to the various towns and districts of the Province of (the) Massachusetts Bay, one apportioning the 500 pounds to be raised among the towns instead, another asking the provincial inhabitants to come to the rescue of those of Charlestown and Boston from the British-imposed blockade of Boston Harbor, and a third for inhabitants to boycott all goods imported from the East Indies or Great Britain. This copy signed by Samuel Adams, clerk. See: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. House journal, June 17, 1774 ((M-Ar)1701X)

Broadside 31 x 40 cm.

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