State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780. : Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. .

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