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that the salaries may be taken down, and salaries given that may be handsome for their support, and not so burdensome to the people at large; and that the lawyers and inferior Courts may be annihilated, and also that the General Court might not make any grants of State lands to any person except it is to pay State charges; also, that the General Court may be removed out of Boston into some Country town.
To Captain Samuel Kelton, chosen to sit in Convention.
William Bickford,
David Foster,
Elijah Wilder,Committee.
Gardner, Sept. 25th, 1786.
Voted, to accept of the Report of this Committee.
It may be interesting here to insert an extract from Lincoln's History of Worcester, giving an account of the Insurrection in Massachusetts.
"The struggles of the Revolution were hardly terminated, ere disturbances arose among the people, which, in their progress, brought the Commonwealth to the very verge of ruin.
Could the existence of insurrection and rebellion be effaced from memory, it would be wanton outrage to recall from oblivion the tale of misfortune and dishonor. But
