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The Mandamus Council of 1774

the Massachusetts elected assembly was replaced by a council of thirty-seven men, nominated by Governor Thomas Gage, who was sent a list of Royal appointees. Further, the Governor was given the power to appoint or dismiss all law officers.

Eighteen of the thirty-seven resigned by the end of the summer.

During the summer, people of Massachusetts chose to ignore the "council" and treated the act as unconstitutional and void. they held their own county conventions, vowed to send delegates to the Continental Congress of Philadelphia and to the Provincial Congress at Concord.