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MASSACHUSETTS

A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Thomas Hutchinson. Boston: 1769.

The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay. Nathan Dane, William Prescott, Joseph Story. Boston: 1814.

Debates, Resolutions, and other proceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Convened at Boston, on the 9th of January, 1788, and continued until the 7th of February following, for the purpose of assenting to and ratifying the constitution recommended by the grand Federal convention; together with the yeas and nays on the division of the grand question, to which the Federal Constitution is prefixed. Boston: MDCCLXXVIII. 219 pp.

Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts. Begun and Holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, and Continued by Adjournment to January 9, 1821. Reported for the Boston Daily Advertiser. Boston: 1821. 292 pp.

The Same. New edition, revised and corrected. Boston: 1853. 677 pp.

Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay. From the commencement of their first session, September 1, 1779, to the close of their last session, June 16, 1780; including a list of the members, with an appendix containing (1) The resolve for ascertaining the sense of the people on the subject of a new constitution; (2) The form of government originally reported by the general committee of the convention; (3) The address to the people; (4) the constitution as finally agreed upon by the convention and ratified by the people, with the amendments since adopted; (5) The rejected constitution of 1778. Published by order of the legislature. Boston: 1832. 264 pp.

The Journals of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775 and of the Committee of Safety. With an appendix containing the Proceedings of the county conventions; Narratives of the events of the nineteenth of April, 1775; Papers relating to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and other documents, illustrative of the early history of the American Revolution. Published agreeably to a resolve passed March 10, 1837, under the supervision of William Lincoln. Boston: 1838. 778 pp.

Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Begun and held In Boston on the fourth day of May, 1853. Printed by order of the Convention. Boston: 1853. 560 pp.

Discussion on the Constitution proposed to the People of Massachusetts by the Convention of 1853. Boston: 1854. 306 pp.

Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention Assembled May 4, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: 1853. 3 vols.

Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention Assembled May 4, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: 1853. 2 vols. 4°. 644, 724 pp.

Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Nathaniel B. Shurtleft, Editor. 5 vols. Boston: 1853-1854.

Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Held in the year 1788, and which finally ratified the Constitution of the United States. Printed by authority of resolves of the legislature, 1856. Boston: 1856. 442 pp.

History of Plymouth Plantation. William Bradford. Boston: 1856. [Charles Deane's edition.] Massachusets Historical Society. Collections.

MICHIGAN

Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention to Form a Constitution for the State of Michigan. Begun and held in the city of Detroit on Monday, the 11th day of May, A. D. 1835. Printed by order of the convention. Detroit: 183o. 224 pp. Index.

Journal of the Convention (of Michigan), September 26-31, 1836, to Consider the Admission of Michigan into the Union. Pontiac: 1836. 36 pp.

Journal of the Convention (of Michigan), December 14, 15, 1836, to Give Assent Required by Act of Congress, Previous to Admission. Ann Arbor: 1836.

Report of the Proceedings and Debates in the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of Michigan, 1850. Lansing: 1850. 937 pp.