Excerpt from Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 1715-1717 It is to be noticed that in each case the entire session was printed as one piece, and without title-pages. The form adopted was modelled after that of the printed laws, and had been used by the Governor and Council when they issued resolves of the General Court. One such resolve has been found in the Boston Athenaeum.' It is the only issue in that form known, and might easily be mistaken for a page from the printed Journals, although no Journals were printed until 1715. The practice, thus begun, was continued in the House of 1716-17, and on the day of proroguing the first session it ordered the printing of the Journal under the direction of the representatives of Boston.3 The inconvenience of delay in printing and distributing the Journal at the end of the session, and the advantage of having the record of proceedings at hand during the session, led the House to order that the Votes of this House be Printed Twice a Week. This accounts for the form and divisions of the sheets and for the comparative rarity of the is sues. In no one library of New England can a full set be found, and even that in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is far from complete. The present publication is made possible by a fund given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by a member, Mr. William Bradford Homer Dowse, of Sher born. As the intention is to reprint the original volumes errors of type and print ing have been followed; a proper correction in names of persons and places will be found in the index. As the first volume of the Journals contained no list of the members of the House for 1715 one has been taken from the Boston news-letter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.