NEW HAMPSHIRE
COURT RECORDS
1640-1692
COURT PAPERS
1652-1668
STATE PAPERS SERIES
VOL. 40
Edited by
OTIS G. HAMMOND
Director of the
New Hampshire Historical Society
PUBLISHED BY
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
1943
JOINT RESOLUTION
Relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person — and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to collect, arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire as the Governor may deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same be printed by the state printer, and distributed as follows: namely, one copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the public libraries in the state as the Governor may designate, fifty copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the state librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications by other states.
Approved August 4, 1881.