RESOLVES.

MAY AND JUNE, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN.

CHAP. I.

Resolve for repealing a Resolve, providing for an additional Notary Public for Suffolk. May 29th, 1819.

Resolved, That a resolve, passed on the second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, providing for an additional Notary Public, in Boston, in the County of Suffolk, be, and is hereby repealed.

CHAP. II.

Resolve providing for the choice of an additional Notary Public for Washington and Oxford Counties.

May 29th, 1819.

Resolved, That one additional Notary Public be appointed for the County of Washington, to reside at Eastport; and one for the County of Oxford, to reside at Fryeburg.

CHAP. III.

Resolve for paying the Members of the Legislature.
June 1st, 1819.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth, to each Member of the Council, Senate, and House of Representatives, two dollars, for each and every day's attendance, the present political year; and the like sum of two dollars, for every ten miles travel from their respective places of abode, to the place of the sitting of the Legislature, at every session thereof. And be it further resolved, that there be paid to the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, each, two dollars per day, for each and every day's attendance, in addition to their pay as Members.

CHAP. IV.

Resolve on the petition of the Overseers of the Poor, for the town of Beverly. June 2d, 1819.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the treasury of this Commonwealth, to the Overseers of the Poor of the town of Beverly, fifty dollars, in full, for a pension, which Israel Morgan, of said Beverly, an insane person, is entitled to receive from this Commonwealth, for one year, ending the nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, to be by them applied towards the support of said Morgan.

CHAP. V.

Resolve on the petition of Solomon Choate and others, to view Sandy Bay Pier. June 2d, 1819.

Ou the petition of Solomon Choate, and others,

Resolved, For reasons set forth in their petition, that Messrs. Howard, of Newburyport, Hooper, of Marblehead, and Weston, of Middleborough, be a Committee, at the expense of the petitioners, to view and examine the Pier, at Sandy Bay, in the town of Gloucester, and report thereon.

CHAP. VI.

Resolve for adjourning the Supreme Judicial Court, at
Castine, for the Counties of Hancock, Washington and
Penobscot, on account of the Small Pox.

June 4th, 1819.

Whereas considerable alarm has been excited in the vi cinity of Penobscot Bay, by reason of the small pox lately breaking out and spreading in that quarter-Therefore,

Resolved, That the term of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, appointed by law, to be holden at Castine, in the County of Hancock, and for the Counties of Hancock, Washington, and Penobscot, on the third Tuesday of June, current, be, and the same is hereby postponed, and adjourned, to the second Monday of September next, being the thirteenth day of that month; at that time to be commenced and holden at said Castine, in lieu of the said third Tuesday of June, current.

Resolved, That all persons in any wise interested in any business, matter, or thing, pertaining to the said Court, at its June term, for the counties aforementioned, be altogether excused from giving their attendance thereto, until the second Monday of September, aforementioned; on which lat. ter day, all parties, jurors, officers, attornies, witnesses, and other persons, in any way connected or concerned with the business of said Court, for said counties, shall give their at

tendance, in the same way and manner as they would have done, on the said third Tuesday of June, current, if these resolves had not been passed.

Resolved, That all suits, actions, indictments, recognizauces, matters and things, of whatever name or nature, in any way returnable to, or pending in, said Court, for the counties aforenamed, at said June term, or appertaining thereto, be, and the same may and shall be entered, have day, be heard, proceeded upon to final judgment, sentence, and execution, in the same way and manner, and to the same extent and purpose, at the term hereby appointed to commence on the said second Monday of September next, as would have been allowable and legal, on the said third Tuesday of June, current, if these resolves had not been passed.

Resolved, That the adjourned or postponed term of said Court, appointed hereby to be holden on the second Monday of September next, be, and the same is hereby directed to be holden and completed by any one of the Justices of said Supreme Judicial Court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Resolved, That the Secretary of this Commonwealth cause to be printed, as soon as possible, and transmitted by mail, copies of these resolves to the Judges of said Court, and to the several Sheriffs and Clerks of said counties; and also furnish six copies thereof to each Member of the General Court, from those counties; and likewise to be pub. lished in the Columbian Centinel, the Daily Advertiser, and the Boston Patriot and Daily Chronicle, all printed in Boston.

CHAP. VII.

Resolve on the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Cushing. June 8th, 1819.

On the petition of the town of Cushing, in the County of Lincoln, stating that the doings of said town have, in some respects, been illegal, viz.: That previous to the year one

thousand eight hundred and eighteen, there never had been any list of voters made out, for the choice of town officers; that the Moderators of the meetings of said town have not been chosen by written ballot; and that the records of said town have been kept in an illegal manner, in many respects; and praying that their several town meetings, and the doings therein, prior to the date of said petition, may be rendered valid;

Resolved, That the several town meetings, held in said town of Cushing, as aforesaid, be, and they are hereby rendered good and valid; and the proceedings had at the meetings, aforesaid, be, and they are hereby fully ratified and confirmed: Provided, however, that this shall not affect any cause, now pending before any Judicial Court.

CHAP. VIII.

Resolve for an additional Notary, in the County of Cumberland. June 8th, 1819.

Resolved, That there be appointed an additional Notary Public, in the County of Cumberland; to reside in the town of Brunswick.

CHAP. IX.

Resolve on the petition of William R. Lowney, in behalf of the town of Sebec, in the County of Penobscot. June 8th, 1819.

Resolved, For reasons set forth in said petition, that the Secretary of the Commonwealth be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the inhabitants of said Sebec, one bound volume of the Colony and Province Laws; the ninth volume of Massachusetts Term Reports; the three first volumes of the Statutes of the Common