Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that His Excellency the governor, by and with the advice and consent of Council, be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to erect, or cause to be erected, a hospital, within this commonwealth, suitable for the accommodation of one hundred and twenty lunatics, or persons furiously mad, and for a superintendant over the same, at such place, and of such materials as he shall deem most eligible therefor ...