In the House of Rep'tives June 28: 1749.
Read and ordered That there be granted and allowed to be payd to the Petitioner Edw'd Winter out of the Province Treasury the Sum of Twelve pounds Thirteen shillings In full for his Services In Sd. Petition mentioned.
J. Dwight, Spkr.
In Council June 29 1749 Read and Concurr'd.
Sam Holbrook, D'ty Sec'ry.
Consented to.
W. Shirley.[5]
[1] Mass. Archives, vol. 64, pp. 333-335.
[2] Shirley was governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1756. His correspondence, edited by Charles H. Lincoln, has been published in two volumes by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
[3] Gaol.
[4] Massachusetts began the issue of provincial paper money in 1690, and continued it till 1748. Its bills of credit were distinguished, according to the form of these promises to pay, into three varieties: old tenor (issues of 1690-1737), middle tenor (1737-1740), and new tenor (1740-1748). New tenor bills, here spoken of, were at this date valued at about one-tenth of the corresponding sum in specie.
[5] The order is printed in Acts and Resolves, XIV. 285.