At a Great and General Court or assembly for the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, [electronic resource] : begun and held at Boston the 27th day of May 1747, and continued by adjournment and prorogation to the 3d of February following. March 2d. 1747 [new style, 1748]. The following vote pass'd both houses, and was consented to by the governour, viz. Voted, that it be, and hereby is, strongly recommended to the several churches and congregations within this province, to make an honourable provision for the support of their ministers, proportionable to the great rise of the necessaries of life since their settlement. ...