Excerpt from The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. 9: To Which Are Prefixed the Charters of the Province; With Historical and Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix; Being Volume IV of the Appendix Containing Resolves, Etc;, 1708-1720 Indeed, the date of the record of final action in the Assembly, as given in the Legislative Records of the Council,1 cannot be accepted as conclusive where the final action, that is, concurrence, took place in the House of Representatives. From the year 1715, when the House began to print its records, the House Journal has enabled the editor, in most cases, to give the correct date not in all cases, for, so far as is known, no complete copy of the House Journals exists in any one place, or, indeed, in all places taken together in Boston and Cambridge. As for legislation before the year 1715, there was no other course than to follow the Legislative Records of the Council; but those records must be taken to give the true date Where concurrence was by the Council and that was more commonly the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.