The acts and resolves, public and private, of the province of the Massachusetts bay to which are prefixed the charters of the province. With historical and explanatory notes, and an appendix. Published under chapter 87 of the Resolves of the General court of the commonwealth for the year 1867

Running title: Province laws. Vols. 6-21 are also v. 1-16 of the appendix. "This edition ... was partly prepared under chapter 43 of the Resolves of the General court for the year 1865 ... The commissioners appointed under this resolve were John H. Clifford, Ellis Ames, and Abner C. Goodell."--Pref., v. 1, signed: Ellis Ames Abner Cheney Goodell. Advertisement, v. 7, signed: A. S. Wheeler, Wm. C. Williamson, A. C. Goodell, jr., commissioners. "The publication of the Province laws of Massachusetts, stopped in the year 1896, was taken up again, under new legislation, in ... 1900. Mr. Goodell, the former editor, having declined reappointment, Melville Madison Bigelow, esq., was appointed editor."-- Pref., v. 9.