Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq. ... A proclamation : Whereas by an act passed the sixteenth of February instant, entitled, "An act describing the disqualifications, to which persons shall be subjected, which have been, or may be guilty of treason ... and to whom a pardon may be extended" ... Given at the council chamber in Boston, this seventeenth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ...