Resolves 1812, C. 1-63
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MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from scanned originals with text recognition applied (searchable text may contain some errors and/or omissions) HE OLVE ~ OF THE GENER~AL COURT OF THE PASSED AT TIlE SESSIO.lV', r::Ol\HvIENCIN'G THE LAST WEDNESDAY, (BEIKG THE 26th HAY) OFMAY, AND ENDiNG THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1812. PubHsbed agreeably to a Resulve... passed HHh January, 1812, EOSTON: PRINTED BY RUSSELL AND CVTL,ER. J81~, RE§OLVlE~ ,Directing trw ')]zamze~' in which the Laws and Resol'Des shall be jJ1'inie(i in future.-Pas~ed 16th January, 1812. Resolved, That the Laws of the Comm.onwealth which shaH hcreafo t~r be passed, at the several sessions of the General Court, shall be printu .ed in volumes of the royal octavo size; each volume to contain !lot less than seVen hundred pages, and to have suitable title p?ges and analyti~ c~l indices, and that the laws passed from the begimdng of the lVlny ~eSe SlOIl of one year to the beginning of the :fi:Iay session of the next suc~ ceeding year, shall be divided into chapters, and shall be printel to,[!:e~ iher in the same volume; and until a volume of the laws shall from lime to time be formed as aforesaid, temporary title pages and indices shall be added to the laws which shall be printed fmm session to session of the General Court. And be it further resolved, That the Resolves \'\o'hich slwll be hereaf., tel passed by the General Court, shall be .printed in volumes of the same size~ in the same manner, and with suitable title pages, running titles and indices. And be it further r~esolved, That it shall be tbe special duty of the Secretary of tbe Commonwealtb, to superintend the publication and printing oftbe laws and resolves of the General Court, as tbe same shan be passed at the respective sessions thereof, aml to examine and cumQ pare the printed copies of such laws and resolves wIth the originals, and to print, and annex to the printed cOPles his certificate or such exarni, nation, and of the errors, if any, in such printed copies, to the mId, that the laws and resolves of the Commonwealth may be duly and Hccuratc~ ly promulgated. And be it further resolved, 'l'hat tbis resolve shall be prefixed to the printed copies of the laws which may be passed at the present session of the General Court, and shall also be prefixed to the next volume of lhe laws of the Commonwealth, wuich shall be printed in pursuanceofthi" resolve. And be it furtlter resoh.led, Tbat tbe laws which shall be passed at tllepresent session ofthG I .. egislature, shall constitute a part of tilt' tldb volume of the laws, aI,l.ti shaH be paged, indexed, and divided chapters accordingly. CIVIL LIST OF THE COThfl\fON'VEALTH OF MASSACHUSErrTS, For the political year 1812-13.. HIS EXCELLENCY-+- CAJ~EB STRONG, ESQ. Go'VelQ nm\ HIS- HONOR WILLIATh'I PIIILLIPS, ]j~SQ. Lieut. Go'VeJ'n01'. ~OUNCIL. flon. David Cobb, Sanluel Fales, Oliver Fiske, I, Alexander Rice, WillialTI Prescott, Matthew Cobb~ J Oh11 Brooks, i William Davis. Daniel Dewey, SENATE. Hon. SAMUEL DANA, President. Suffolk-Hon. John Phillips, I-Iarrlson G. Otis, Peter Co Brooks, Israel Thorlldik~, John Welles. Essex-.Ron. Daniel A. VVhite, ThOlnas Stephens, Thon1::ts Kittredge, B. W. Crowninshield, Joseph Fuller, 3d . .l..Widdles ex-.-H on. Smnnel Dana, John~. Tuttle, lVlatthew Bridge. Hampshire-oRon. Ezra Starkvveather. Bris.tol and Norfolk-Hon. TholllaS I-Iazard, juno. Joseph TiG~ dale, Joseph Eeluis, A tnasa Stetson. Plymoufh-Hon. Nathan Willis, Seth Sprague. .Barnstable-Hon. John Dillingham. Dukes' County and Nantucket-·Ron. vValter Folger. f/Vorcester-Hon. Silas Holnlan, So~omon Strong, John Spurr, Levi Lincoln, jun. Berkshire-JHon. WillimTI To'wnet, Smuucl Barstow. Fr'a1lklin-Hon. Sanluel C. A.lIen. Hampden-Hon. Jonathan Slnith, jun. York-Hone Alexander Rice, '{v'Vjlli~nn l'11oody. Cumberland and Oxford-lIon. Eleazer \V. Ripley, Jona than Page, Ebenezer Poor. Lincoln, Hancock, and Pf7ashil1gtGn~.-I:ion. Benjmuin J. Por~ ~er, Erz[stus Foote, \Villianl vVebber. Kennebec and S07nerset-Hon. James Parker, William Reedo l\12.rcus l\1orton, Clerk. Robert C. Vose, Assistant Cleric. Rev. Dr. Tho111as Baldwin, Chaplain" Q"' ....... 8I s ... ,., HOUSE OF REPRESENrfATIVES. Hon. TIMOTHY BIGELOvV, Speaker. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. Barzillai Holnles~ poston, Willialn Slnith, Joshua Ellis, Samuel Cobb, ThOlnas Barry, 'VVillimn Brown, Henry Sargent, J onathan Hunnewell~ William Harris, Benjmnin Russell, Joseph Tilden, Benjan1in Whitlnan, Chelsea, John Tewksbury. Charles Davis, J an1es Robinson, ESSEX. ~VVillimn Halnm.att, f/alem, Benj~min Picklnan, jL J Oh11 P3rker, Samuel Putnam, Isaac P. Davis, Dudley L. Picklnanp Charles Jackson, Benj alnin Pierce, WlTI. H. Stunner, Williatn Orne, EphrailTI Thayer, Edward Brown.? ~ 08ia11 K.napp, Amos Hovey, Benjmuin Weld, Ezekiel Savage, Oliver Keating, Salnud G. Derby, Nathan Webb, Robert En1ery, Daniel l\1essinger, Benj an1in H. Hathorney George G. Lee, John fickering, Willimn Porter, Ebenezer Secomb, John May, lflarblehead, John Bailey? SmTIuel M. Thayer, Asa Hooper, George Blanchard? Joshua Prentiss, jrf Nathaniel Curtis, \IVillialn Story, Richard Faxon, John G. Hooper, Sanluel Dunn, Richard Prince, John D. l-Ioward, J mnes Sn1ith, ~rhatcher Goddard, ~ynn and Lynnfield, !cJynde 'Valter, Aaron Breed, Jonathan Loring, Oliver Fuller, Jonathan Vl/hitneV9 Thon1pson Burrillj SaEluel J" Presc~tt, John L. Johnson, Len1uel Shaw, Asa T. N e\"vhall, ~~'l.lexander Townsend, John Mudge, juno Jarncs Savage, Danvers, Samuel rage~ J os-cph Pierce, Nathan Felton, !:dldrew Sigourney, Dennison 'IV allis J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 7 James Foster, Methuen, Benjamin Osgood, Beverly, Thomas Davis, Haverhill, David How, Abner Chapman? Amesbury, Nathan Long, Isaac Ray, Orlando Sargent, Robert Rantoul,. Salisbury, Samuel March, Nathaniel Goodwin, Jonathan Smith. ' IJTenham, J Oh11 Dodge, Hamilton, Robert Dodge, ~MIDDLESEX. Manchester, David Colby, Charlestown, Thomas Harris~' Gloucester, John Tucker, Peter Tufts, jun. John Mallning, John Kettell, Robert Elwell, jun. "Villiam Austin, John Johnston,. Daniel Tufts, William Dane, Cambridge, John Mellen, Ebed Lincoln, S::nlluel P. P. Fay, 'Ipswich, Nathaniel VVade, Williml1 Hilliard, Jonathan Cogswell, juno Ff7est- Cambridge, J osep h Farley, rrh0111aS Russell, Joseph Hodgkins? Brighton, Samuel "\tV. Pomroy~ Rawley; Thomas Gage, jun. Malden, Jonathan Oaks, Jonathan Lambert, J on3S Green, JVewbury, Josiah Little, l11edford, Timothy Bigelow, Silas Little, Nathaniel Hall, John Osgood, JVe7vton, Samuel IVIurc10ck J' David Little, Ebenezer Cheney, Stephen Hooper, JVaterto'wn, Jonas White, Daniel Hale, . Tholnas Clark, JVewburyport, Jonathan Gage, lValtham, David Tovvnsend,. Stephen Howard, Weston, Isaac Fiske, Ebenezer Gunnison, Lincoln, Leonard Hbar, WIlliam B.· Bannister, Lexing~ton, Jmnes Brown, Isaac Admns, Sudbu;~y, vVilliam I-Iuht, Isaac Stone, East-Sudbury; Jacob Reeves; vVillialn Chase, JV'atick, Abel Perry, Smnuel L. Knap, Sherburne, Calvin Sanger, Samuel Newman, Holliston, Timothy Rockwood, Bradford, ThOlnas Savory ~ 1Iopkinton,MosesChamberlainy ' Jesse Kimball, Joseph Valentine, Boxford, Parker SpafFord, Framingham, John Fiske, Andover; John Kneeland, John Trowbridge, John Cornish, Jl1arlboTo', John Lorieg, Stephen Barker, Daniel Brigham, ..Llliddleton, Asa I-low, StOTU U Boxboro', Topsfield,N athaniel Hamn1onc1, Augustus TO;VeL ~ , 8 l-IOUSE OF REPRESE~~T A'rIVES~ Concord, John White, Braintree, Minot Thayeri. Benjamin Prescott, jlln: fl,Teymozttli,Christopher Webb; .Be(iford, 'Thompson Bacon, John Vinson, jun• .Blldi71[:;ton; John Wallcer, Cohasset, Thomas Lothrop, PVoJurn, Sylvanus Plympton, Needham, Daniel Ware, John vVade, Dedha11i, .J ohn Endicot, Stone/zarn, John H. Stephens, Salnnel H. Dean, Reading, Timothy vVakefield, Jonathan Richards, , Daniel Flint, . Jlfedfield and Dover, S.Reacling-, John Hart, Daniel Adams, IfTiltningtdri, SLnnuel Emlles, .J!fecl-ivay, Nathaniel Loven; i3illerica, Josiah Crosby, jun. Belli71~f!,~ham, John Bates; J iJseph Locke, Franklin, Joseph Bacon.; Tewksbuty, Jesse Trull, Phinehas vVare, Chelmsford, Amos Whitney, FPj'entham, Jairus ""V are, Carlis/e, 'rimothy Heald, Janl-es Mann, lVes~ford, Thomas Flc;tcher, Sarnuel Druce~ J esse Minot, ' JiVct!jJole, Daniel Kingsbury, Acton, Stevens Hayward, Foxboro', Elias N aS011, :Littleton, Echnnnd Foster, Sharon, Enoch Hewins, Groton, Joseph l\;loo1's, Stoughton, Samuel Talbot, Luther Lmvrence, Randolph, lViicah White, Dracut, Solomon Osgood, Zenas French, Dunstable, Edmund Page, Canton, Len;mel Whiting'j Tyn,g'sboro', Robert Brinley, Abel "Ventworth~ Shirley, John EgertOl~, PePiberell, Nehemiali Jewett, jr. PLYlVIOUTH. Townsend, SalTInel Brooks, Plymouth, Natha\Jiel Spoone~1 Ash6y, Barnabas Hedge, jun. A bner Bartlett, NORFOLK. Joseph Bartlett, 3d. Roxbury, Jacob '\tv del, Benjamin Bramhall, .A.bijah Draper, 1{i71gston, J obn T'homas, Lenluel Lebarron, Duxbury, George Partl"idge, Nathaniel S. PreIltiss, Judah Alden, Ebenezer Bl'ev/er, }tIarshfield, J otham Tilden, Dorchester, Jalnes HU111phrey, Pembroke, I):iIborn WhitQ1ali) John Capen, Bridg-ew-ater, N ahutn MitChell, 'lVillianl Pope, 'VVillimn Baylies, Brookline, Stepheil Sharp, Ezra Kingman, iWilton, VVillialTI Pl~rce, Gideon Howard, Asaph Churchill, Daniel Crane, Quincy, Ber~arflin Beal, Caleb Cary, ,"I'h ' OlTIas ~~vreenlcai, 1-f.' ...lfiddleboro', Levi Pierce) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ilfiddleboro',