An act passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the twenty-fifth day of May 1743, and continued by adjournment to Thursday the eighth day of September following (Printed and sold by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green, by order of His Excellency the governour, Council and House of Representatives, 1743)
"An act for erecting of work-houses for the reception and employment of the idle and indigent." Passed Sept. 17, 1743. - Caption title, preceded by headlines. - Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 448. - Evans, 5238. - Imprint from colophon. - Pagination continues the session laws published from 1742 (Evans 5003). - Royal arms (Reilly 878) at head of title