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These are in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to will and require you ... to cause the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of [blank] ... to assemble ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this sixth day of January ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 33 x 25 cm.
Instructions for electing representatives to Congress. Signed: John Hancock.
Followed by a form for recording certified returns "from the several towns within the district."
Thomas Adams and John Nourse were printers to the commonwealth in 1789.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45514).