APPOINTING DANIEL RUSSELL COMMISSIONER AND RECEIVER of Duties of Import & Tunnage of Shipping for Massachusetts Bay Colony according to an act passed in the General Assembly of the province, as recorded in a manuscript document in a fine clerical hand, signed by Phips as Acting Governor of the province, 19 June, 1753, and countersigned by Josiah Willard in his capacity as Secretary of Massachusetts Bay.
Boston: 1753. Folio (14 ½ x 9 ½ inches). One-page, approximately 300 words, in part: “You are to account for all Collections & Payments, & pay in all such Moneys as shall be in your hands as the Treasurer shall demand it, according to the Directions of the Act aforesaid..... More
