State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 29, 1779 : Whereas it is of great importance to remove every obstacle to the good peoples of this state lending their money for the public service: Resolved, that in every town in this state, whose center is more than ten miles distant from the town of Boston ... there be appointed ... a receiver of loans ... to receive such monies as shall be brought to him to be put into the public treasury of this state, or the Continental Loan Office ...