Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court September 15, 1813 (Commonwealth v. Fowler)

By the Court.

The question before us is upon the sufficiency of the respondent’s plea in bar, in which he sets forth a commission issued by the governor of the commonwealth, bearing date the 20th of May, 1812. The act for erecting a number of "towns in the south part of the county of Hampshire into a separate county by the name of Hampden, passed the legislature on the 25th of February, 1812.