| Description | Copy of the 27th Article of the General Instructions for Samuel Shute, Esq, His Majesty's Governor of the Massachusets Bay, in New England, 1716. " His Majesty particularly requires and commands that no Money or value of Money whatsoever be given or granted by any Act or Order of Assembly to any Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander-in-Chief of said Province, which shall not according to the Stile of Acts of Parliament in Great Britain be mentioned to be given and granted unto his Majesty." |