Chap. 0001 AN ACT FOR GRANTING THE SUM OF THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED POUNDS FOR THE SUPPORT OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNOUR.
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and is^re-sentatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
[Sect. 1.] That the sum of three thousand and six hundred pounds in bills of publick credit on this province, of the old tenor, be and hereby is granted unto his most excellent majest}', to be paid out of the publick treasury to his 'excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., captain-general and governour-in-chief in and over his majesty's province of the Massachusetts Bay, to enable him to go on in managing the publick affairs.
And be it further enacted,
[Sect. 2.] That the aforesaid sum of three thousand six hundred pounds, shall be paid out of the sum of thirty thousand pounds in the bill for the supply of the treasury, now before this court, which sum is therein appropriated for the payment of his excellency the governour, the council, &c.; or that an equivalent to the aforesaid sum of three thousand six hundred pounds shall be paid out of the next general supply bill that shall hereafter be agreed on and pass'd by the great and general court.   [Passed June 23 ; p?6?/s/<ed July 16.