HomeMy WebLinkAbout400 Resolution (copy) of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to pay Lexington to erect a monument to those slain on April 19, 1775, dated 1797Commonwealth of Massachusetts
In the House of Representatives. Feb. 28th: 1797
On the petition of Joseph Symonds on behalf
of the Town of Lexington
Resolved that there be
allowed and paid our out of the public treasury to the
Selectmen of the Town of Lexington the sum of
two hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting
in said Town a monument of stone; on which shall
be engraved the names of eight citizens, inhabitants
of Lexington who were slain in the morning of
the 19th day of April 175 by a party of Brittish
Troops, together with such other inscriptions, as
in the judgement of said Selectment and with the
approbation of the Governour and Council shall
be calculated to perserve to posterity, a record of
the first efforts made by the people of America
for the establishment of their Freedom and
Independence - The said Monument to
be erected on the ground where the said Citizens
were slain, and the Monument so erected shall
be deemed and taken to be a public Monument,
and intitled to the protection of the Law in such
case made and provided
Justice for Concurrence
Edw'd H. Robbins Spk'r
In Senate March 5 1797
Read and Concurred
Samuel Phillips President
March 2'd 1797
Approved
Samuel Adams
A true Copy
Attest John Avery Sec'y