LIBER II.

BOSTON:

ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, CITY PRINTERS,

No. 39 ARCH STREET.

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Mm. Sam: A. Green,
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Suffolk Registry of Deeds.

BOSTON, June 18, 1883.

The Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston, acting as County Commissioners for the County of Suffolk, by an order approved by the Mayor, April 13, 1880, in answer to the petition of Edward S. Rand and many other members of the Suffolk Bar, authorized the printing of the first volume of Suffolk Deeds. In the following November the printed volume was ready for distribution. The petition and the action of the Register in the matter are set forth at length in the preface to that volume.

By an order approved by the Mayor, Dec. 19, 1882, the Board of Aldermen authorized the Register of Deeds "to have printed, stereotyped, indexed, and distributed, the second volume of Suffolk Deeds." This order was passed in answer to the following petition, now on file in the office of the Clerk of Committees, City Hall:—

To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston:

The undersigned, members of the Suffolk Bar and others, having already called the attention of your Honorable Board to the worn, mutilated, and illegible condition of the early records of deeds of the County of Suffolk, as set forth in their former petition, respectfully represent that said records can best be preserved by printing the same:

Wherefore they pray your Honorable Board to order that

the second volume of records of Suffolk Deeds be printed

WILLIAM BLAKE TRASK, the eminent antiquary, under whose direction the first volume was printed, has bestowed equal care upon this volume. He first made an accurate transcript of the original, and from