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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03484-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 6 March 1787
- Author/Creator
- Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800
- Title
- [Resolution]
- Place Written
- Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 21.4 cm, Width: 17.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Copy of a Massachusetts state resolution concerning money matters for raising "six hundred and sixty men as ordered by the aforesaid resolve, and for the pay[,] cloathing, & subsistence of the said men: Provided that the said sum shall not exceed Five thousand pounds." The 660 men had been requisitioned by Congress as the state's share of a force to be raised to quell Shays' Rebellion. This resolution calls for paying part of the troops' expenses from a tax levied to pay off the state's share of war debts in support of the national government. Those taxes helped pave the way for Shays' Rebellion. Original of this document was countersigned by James Bowdoin.
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