Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin Esquire ... A proclamation, for the encouragement of piety, virtue, education and manners, and for the suppression of vice ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the eighth day of June, A.D. 1785.

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