SIGILLUM GVB ET SOCIET DE MATTACHUSETS BAY IN NOVA ANGLIA 
COME OVERDO AND HELP US   seal of the governor of Massachusetts Bay   

AT A GENERAL COURT Held at Boston; May 24 th'. 1682.  
THis Court taking into consideration the frequent Exportation of our New England Coin out of the Country, whereby Commerce and Trade is very much Obstructed; As an Expedient to keep Money in the Country:  
It is Ordered that all Pieces of Eight, as PILLAR, SEVIL, and MEXICO Coin, that are good Silver, shall pass amongst us as currant Money of New England according to their weight in the present New-England Coin.  
By the Court, Edward Rawson Secretary