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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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Resolve Directing the Attorney General to Commence a Process Against Capt. Benjamin Gould, of Lancaster, for the Recovery of a Sum of Money Due to This Commonwealth

11 October 1783
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Resolve Directing the Attorney General to Surcease Any Prosecution Against Beriah Norton
Massachusetts General Court RTP
October 3, 1783 .

Whereas it has been represented to this Court, that there was a balance due to this Commonwealth from the said Beriah Norton, and that the Attorney General was directed to commence an action against the said Norton, for the recovery thereof; and as it since appears that the said Norton is not indebted to this Commonwealth:

Therefore Resolved, That the Attorney General surcease any prosecution against the said Norton. 1

Printed as Chapter 12 [Sept. 1783] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 742.

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See “Resolve on the Memorial of Beriah Norton, Permitting Him to Go to New York” in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), Chapter 44 [Sept. 1782], 288–289.