Nathan Dane Project: Transcription

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By his Excellency John Hancock Esq.
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To Nathan Dane Esquire

Whereas in pursuance of a resolution of the General passed the twenty third of February last, you have constituted & appointed an Agent to arrange & enforce the claims of this Commonwealth against the United States which are soon to be considered by Commissioners appointed for that purpose John Hancock

Now therefore Know ye, that do by these presents & in pursuance of the said Appointment commission you the said Nathan Dane esquire an Agent for this Commonwealth to meet the Commissioners appointed by an Ordinance passed the United States in Congress Assembled the Seventh of May 1787 & confirmed by the present Congress for getting the Accounts between the United States & individual States as New York for the purpose of Arranging & Settling the accounts & claims of this Commonwealth against the United States & as far as you may find it expedient to support & advocate the same before the said Commissioners. And you are hereby Fully authorized in the name & behalf of this Commonwealth before the said Commissioners to appear, pursue, answer & defend in all matters & things touching the said Claims & Accounts of each & any of the respective States against the said Agent shall most conduce to the interest of this Commonwealth. And I do further authorize & empower you the said Agent to lay before the commissioners aforesaid an estimate of such hopes as have risen to the inhabitants of those towns in this Commonwealth which have been destroyed by the British & American Troops in the course of the late war & use your utmost endeavors with said Commissioners to obtain a just allowance for such hopes & to make report to the Governor of this Commonwealth of your proceedings from time to time as you shall deem it expedient to communicate

In Testimony whereof I have caused the publicity Seal of the Commonwealth aforesaid to be hereunto affixed

Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the fourth day of March A.D. 1790 and in the Fourteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By his Excellency's Command
John Avery Secretary

	7507 Commonwealth of Massachusetts By his Excellency John Hancock Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts To Nathan Dane Esquire Whereas in pursuance of a resolution of the General passed the twenty third of February last, you have constituted & appointed an Agent to arrange & enforce the claims of this Commonwealth against the United States which are soon to be considered by Commissioners appointed for that purpose John Hancock Now therefore Know ye, that do by these presents & in pursuance of the said Appointment commission you the said Nathan Dane esquire an Agent for this Commonwealth to meet the Commissioners appointed by an Ordinance passed the United States in Congress Assembled the Seventh of May 1787 & confirmed by the present Congress for getting the Accounts between the United States & individual States as New York for the purpose of Arranging & Settling the accounts & claims of this Commonwealth against the United States & as far as you may find it expedient to support & advocate the same before the said Commissioners. And you are hereby Fully authorized in the name & behalf of this Commonwealth before the said Commissioners to appear, pursue, answer & defend in all matters & things touching the said Claims & Accounts of each & any of the respective States against the said Agent shall most conduce to the interest of this Commonwealth. And I do further authorize & empower you the said Agent to lay before the commissioners aforesaid an estimate of such hopes as have risen to the inhabitants of those towns in this Commonwealth which have been destroyed by the British & American Troops in the course of the late war & use your utmost endeavors with said Commissioners to obtain a just allowance for such hopes & to make report to the Governor of this Commonwealth of your proceedings from time to time as you shall deem it expedient to communicate In Testimony whereof I have caused the publicity Seal of the Commonwealth aforesaid to be hereunto affixed Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the fourth day of March A.D. 1790 and in the Fourteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. By his Excellency's Command John Avery Secretary

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