The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. The name "General Court" is a holdover from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial assembly, in addition to making laws, sat also as a judicial court of appeals. Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it was called the Great and General Court, but the official title was shortened in the drafting of the state constitution by John Adams. It is a general legislature with plenary power to make law in and for Massachusetts. It is a bicameral parliament derived in some respects from the Westminster model. The upper house is the Massachusetts Senate, comprising 40 members. The lower house, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, has 160 members. It meets in the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill in Boston.
9 May 1776 Gentlemen Inclosed you have an Account of Powder 1 supplyed the Army lately before Boston, by this Colony. We have not been able to procure the proper…
In the House of Representatives 6th. June 1776. Gentlemen At the same time that we think Ourselves obliged to acknowledge the vigilance and care of our Delegates to the defence…
[ , Start insertion, 3 January 1777 , End, ] 1 The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider a Letter from General Washington to the President of the Council…
Council Chamber Boston Octr. 23d. 1778 May it please your Honors, Agreeable to the Directions of the Genl. Assembly of this State, I do myself the Honor to transmit One…