Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
The Committee of both Houses appointed,1 to take into consideration the Memorial, of the Honble. Robert Treat Paine Esqr: and the Papers accompanying the same; have attended that Service and beg leave to report the following Resolve
Whereas it appears to this Court, that by reason of the late war the business necessary to be performed, by the Attorney General of this Commonwealth in that office hath been greatly increased, and attended with peculiar difficulty—greater expence and more constant application than at other times. Therefore
Resolved, that there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth unto the Honble. Robert Treat Paine Esqr. attorney General, the sum of one thousand sixty three pounds & twelve shillings, in addition to what has been granted to him, and he has received, previous to the first of January in the year 1783; in full for his Services as attorney General, for this Commonwealth, from the time of his first appointment to that office, down to the said first day of January, in the year, one thousand seven hundred & eighty three.
Read & Accepted
Sent down for Concurrence
Read and concurred
Stephen Choate and Israel Nichols from the Senate joined with a Mr. Williams, John Choate, and Capt. John Prentiss from the House on the committee.
Stephen Choate (1727–1815) was appointed to the Committee of Correspondence for his native town of Ipswich (1774) and was a delegate at the state constitutional convention (1779). He served as a representative to the General Court (1776–1779), a state senator (1780–1797), and a state councilor (1797–1803) (E. O. Jameson, The Choates in America, 1643–1896 [Boston, 1896], 58–61).