1769 Massachusetts House of Representatives Votes

Colonial America
1769 Massachusetts Payment to a Professor of Hebrew at Harvard College
July 4, 1769-Dated Colonial America, Record of the "Votes of the Honorable House of Representatives." with a Public payment to a Professor of Hebrew at Harvard College, Massachusetts Assembly, Very Fine.
July 4, 1769 through July 8, 1769 Records of the House of Representatives in which Bills and Petitions were heard and resolved, measuring 8.25" x 13.25", 16 pages (47 to 62), some scattered damp stain, disbound with some pages loose, yet well printed whole and complete. One example reads: "The Committee on the Accounts of the Commissary-General, reported on his Accounts of Provisions. / Read and accepted, and Resolved, That the said Account being right cast and well vouched, be allowed, and that the Commissary-General be further accountable for seven Barrels of Pork, and seven and half Bushels of Peas. Sent up for Concurrence. / The said Committee reported on his Accounts of Disbursements. Read and accepted, Resolved, That the same being right cast and well vouched, be allowed; and that there is due to him from the Province the Sum of two Pounds seven Shillings and eight Pence. / Sent up for Concurrence." Page (54) near the bottom records: "Resolved, ... paid out of the public Treasury the Sum of Thirty Pounds to Mr. Stephen Sewall, Professor of the Hebrew and other Languages, at Harvard-College, as a Gratuity in Consideration of his faithful Discharge of the important Trust the last Year." (Professor of Hebrew at Harvard). Likely about 100 other such Acts and Resolves of the period recorded for your enjoyment and historical perspective.