March 23, 1784 .

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 encreased 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 Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Esq; Attorney General, the sum of One thousand sixty-three pounds and twelve shillings, in addition to what has been granted to him and he has received, previous to the first of Jan. 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 and eighty-three.

Printed as Chapter 181 [Jan. 1783] in Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, [1782–1783] (Boston, 1890), 902–903.