Note 262 — Chapter II
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A Collection of the Proceedings of the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, containing several instructions from the Crown, to the Council and Assembly of that province, for fixing a salary on the governour, and their determinations thereon, as also the methods taken by the Court for supporting the several Governours, since the arrival of the present charter. Boston, 1729. (Harv. Col. lib., 10352.6; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 434). Cf. Jeremiah Dummer’s Letter dated Aug. 10, 1729, on the Assembly fixing the governor’s salary. (Sabin, v. 21,200; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 418.) Year after year the effusive arguments on the House’s side are spread upon the town records, in the instructions given to the members from Boston.