698. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Jonathan Belcher, Esq; A Proclamation for a general | Thanksgiving. [November 23.] Dated, October 28, 1738. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. Evans, 4269. BA 699. Military Commission. [Jonathan Belcher, Captain General and Governour in Chief.] MHS 700. Province of the Massachusetts- | Bay, ss. [Royal arms.] William Foye, Esq; | Treasurer (Tax warrant.) Dated, July 20, 1738. ΕΙ 701. To be sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, the following useful Blanks, viz. Bills of Sale for Vessels, Deeds of Sale for Land, Bonds for Money, Common Bonds, Sheriffs and Constables Bail Bonds, Powers of Attorney, both long and short, Indentures, Bills of Lading, Probate Blanks of all sorts, Court Blanks, Justices Blanks, Complaints to the Superiour Court, both long and short, &c. Advertisement in the Boston Evening-Post, April 24, 1738. 702. To be sold by T. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston, Blanks for Shipping of Sailors, or Contracts between Masters of Vessels and their Men, in a short, plain and easy Method, which is now in Use in the Port of London, and the other Sea-Ports of Great Britain. Advertisement in the Boston Evening-Post, May 29, 1738. 1739 703. Advertisement. (Notice of a meeting of the Proprietors of Narragansett Township No. 5.) Dated, Boston, January 3, 1738/9. 704. Also Bonds, Counter Bonds, Sheriff's and Constable's Bonds, Deeds of Sale either for Vessels or Land, Indentures either for Apprentices or Covenant Servants, Powers of Attorney long and short, Complaints, Short Notes of Hand, Bills for Shipping Sailors, all sorts of Court Blanks, Probate Blanks, and Blanks for justices of the Peace, Bills of Lading &c. Fleet's Advertisement in his Boston Evening-Post, July 2, 1739. 705. Boston New England, Nov. 1739. | In order to Redress the distressing Circumstances which the Trade of this Province 7819 is under for want of a Medium; other methods having failed, it is proposed to set up a Bank of Credit on Land Security; as follows. † JCB First issue, containing eleven articles. See No. 734, infra. BOSTON, CHURCH GREEN MEETING-HOUSE. 706. To all People unto whom these Presents | shall come, [We] The Committee for managing the prudential Affairs of the Meeting-House scituate on Church-Green (so-called) in Boston, ... (Sale of pew.) The date is in MS. COMMISSION. BPL 707. Commission of Justice of the Peace. [George the Second.] Evans, 4367, 4369. No copy of the Catalogus has been located. - LANE. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, PROVINCE. 711. Anno Regni Georgii Secundi, Regis, Duodecimo. | An Act Passed by the Great and General Court. . . [at session] continued by Prorogation unto Wednesday the 29th day of November following [1738] | an act for erecting a Township in the county of York | by the Name of Brunswick. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and council. The act was published January 27, 1738-39. 712. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq;...A Proclamation (on equipping private ships of war against Spanish vessels and Effects.) Dated, April 10, 1739. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. BPL 713. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (on issue of letters of marque and reprisal against the Vessels and goods of Spanish subjects). Dated, August 10, 1739. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, August 23, 1739. 714. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . . A Proclamation for apprehending Peter Knox and Samuel Cockrain (for killing of Thomas Brown). Dated, November 19, 1739. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, November 22, 1739. 715. Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy: And Declaration. MHS 716. Province of the | Massachusetts- | Bay, ss. [Royal arms.] William Foye, Esq; | Treasurer... (Tax warrant.) July 20, 1739. 717. [Royal Arms.] William Foye, Esq; Treasurer warrant.) Dated, November 12, 1739. PROBATE COURT. 718. Appointment of Guardian. Dated, ΕΙ (Tax LC MA Archives, xvII. 833. Forms are also in XVIII. 186 (1739), and ib. 36 (1740). In the MHS are forms dated 1757 (015.4.8), 1764 (Dolb.) and 1769 (013.20). SUMMONS. 719. ss. To You are hereby in His Majesty's Name, Required to make your | Appearance before the Justices of Our Lord the King, at the next | Superiour Court of Judicature . . . MHS A number of varieties of this form have been found. 720. There is now printed, and may be had of the Publisher of this Paper, that Paragraph of the Province Law for regulating the Militia, which directs how every inlisted Foot Sol dier should be provided with Fire Arms, Ammunition, &c. very proper for Commission officers to distribute among their Soldiers, that none may plead Ignorance in this Time of Danger. Advertisement in the Boston Evening-Post, August 20, 1739. 721. To the Printer. | Sir, | This Minute came to my Hands the Postscript to the Boston Gazette . . . The Design of printing the New York Paper, &c. called an Amusement | in the said Postscript, was not in the least to weaken the Hands of those in Power . . . Dated, May 2d, 1739. HARVARD COLLEGE. 1740 MHS 722. Bond to pay Edward Hutchinson, Samuel Welles, etc. a certain number of ounces in Coined Silver of Sterling Alloy or of Coined Standard Gold. Dated, [August 1,] 1740. AAS 723. Quaestiones. 724. Theses. Evans, 4525. INSURANCE, MARINE. AAS. HC AAS. HC 725. Boston in | New England. (Insurance policy on ship.) Dated Boston, (November 17, 1740.] ΕΙ 726. The Manufactory Scheme. | In Consequence of the Scheme which is inserted in the Book of Records of the Manufactory Company, proposing a | Medium of Trade and Business by an Emission of Notes of Hand, or Bills on Land Security, Redeemable by the Manu- | factures or Produce of the Province of the Massachusetts- | Bay; the Directors (chosen by the subcribers thereto on July 30th last) have unanimously this Day agreed on the following | Articles, including and expressing the Meaning and Intention of that scheme, and for the Prosecution of it, which are to be esteemed Fundamental. † EI. LC 4 pp. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, PROVINCE. 727. [Proclamation appointing March 27 as a day of Fasting and Humiliation. Dated, March 6, 1740.] Mentioned in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, March 13, 1740. 728. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (giving the report of the Committee and vote of the General Court against Colman and others' notes). Dated, April 4, 1740. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, April 10, 1740. 729. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; lamation (on the northern boundary of the Province and peaceable conduct there). Dated, June 30, 1740. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, July 3, 1740. 730. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (on war with Spain and encouragement to inlist). Dated, June 30, 1740. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, July 3, 1740. 731. By His Excellency | Jonathan Belcher, Esq; | |A Proclamation. | [Cut.] Whereas a Scheme for emit- ting Bills or Notes by John Colman . . . (warning against receiving or passing the said notes). Dated, July 17, 1740. † AAS Not in the regular form of a proclamation, but reprinted from a newspaper. It is printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, September 18, 1740. 2 Am. Ant. Soc. Proceedings, XI. 462. 732. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Jonathan Belcher, Esq;. A Proclamation for a publick | Thanksgiving. [November 13.] Dated, October 20, 1740. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour & Council. Evans, 4553. BA 733. By His Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (warning officers of trust under this Government from signing, or giving any countenance or encouragement to the passing of Colman's notes). Dated, November 5, 1740. ... Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, November 14, 1740. 734. By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; . . A Proclamation (warning officers in the militia from signing or giving any countenance or encouragement to the passing of Colman's notes). Dated, November 6, 1740. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, November 14, 1740. 735. Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. | In order to Redress the distressing circumstances which the Trade of this Province labours under for want of a Medium, other Methods having | failed, it is proposed to set up a Bank on Land Security, no Person to be admitted but such as dwell in this Province, and hath a Real Estate | therein. Dated, Boston, March 10th. 1739, 40. † MA. EI. JCB Archives, cII. 28. The second issue. See No. 705, supra. 736. Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of | Allegiance & Supremacy: And Declaration. Dated in Ms. August, 1740. † MA |