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At a Meeting of the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston Duly Qualified being Regulerly Assembled in a Publick Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston upon Monday the 23th of December 1723.
Voted, that Elisha Cook Esq" Be moderator for this Meeting.
[429.] Upon Reading the Motion of Sundry Inhabitants Refering to a memorial of Governor Shute Exhibeted to his Most
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CITY DOCUMENT No. 137.
Excelent Majesty Mentioned in the Warrant and the Memorial of Gouernor Shute.
And then the Questian was put whether the Town would make Choice of a Committe to prepare a Draught of an Humble Address to be layd before His most Excelent Majesty to Show forth the Duty Loyalty & affection the free holders and Inhabitants of this Town haue & Bare towards His Majestys Person His family & Government and how Sincerely they are attached to the Succession in the most Illustrious House of Hanover, in order to Sett at nought the Groundless aspertions east upon the People of this Town in His memorial.
Voted in the affermative.
Voted to Chuse fiue Person to be of the Said Committe.
Voted m' Thomas Cushing, William Payn Esq", Capt Henry Deering, Co" Edward Hutchinson and Capt Nathaniel Green. Be the Said Committe to Prepare the Said Draught and Present to the Town for their Consideration at the adjornment of this Meeting.
Voted to Chuse a Committe to Enquire into the affair of the Land of the Towns at the South Seons in Boston where Sam" Hood Jun" has Sett up a Vessell.
Voted Co" Stephen Minott Timothy Clark Esq" Capt Joseph Wadsworth m' Edward Procter & Capt James Blin Be the Com- mitte And to make a Report thereof to the Town at the next Meeting.
Voted an Adjornment of this Meeting to Monday the 30th Day of Decembr Currant.
Deeembr the 30th. The Inhabitants according to their Adjorn- ment then again Assembled.
The Committe Chosen to Enquire into the affair of the Land of the Towns at the South Seons in Boston &e. made this Return.
Persuant to the aboue Vote we the Committe therein Named haue bin on the Spott of Land & viewed the place where the abouesaid Ship Stands and find it to be part of the Land that was lately Inelosed to the Seons and that the Ship in part Stands on the very Spott that the Great Artillery Stood on, we also find that the fenee & Gate is also pulled or Cutt Down, and Remoued, by which the Said Scons and the Stores were Inelosed, but by whom we know not.
[430.] We haue also made diligent Search into the Records of the Town in the Town Books, and made other Striet Inquiry and ean not find the Town of Boston haue any wayes divested them Selves of their Originall Right to Said Land, nor any part thereof, neither by Grant, Deed, Possession on any Condition whatsoever, But haue alwayes bin in the Possession and Im- provement of that Same Spott of Land.
STEPHEN MINOT, JOSEPH WADSWORTH. EDWARD PROCTER, JAMES BLIN.
This Return was Read and Accepted and
Voted that the aforesaid Committe be Joyned with the Seleet men, And are hereby Desired & Impowred to Prosecute any that haue or Shall Trespass upon any part of the Said Land.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1723.
The Committte appointed to Draw up an address to His Majesty Offred as follows viz.
To the Kings most Excelent Majesty. The Humble address of the Select men free holders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in your Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Assembled in the Town Hall on Monday the Thirteth Day of Decembr 1723 . .
May it Please Your Majesty
We Your Majestys Most Loyal and Dutyfull Subjects humbly beg leave to Prostrate our Selves at your Royal feet, on the Account of a Memorial Lately presented by His Excellcy Samuel Shute Esq. Wherein We are accused of being under no Mages- tracy, By want of which many of the Inhabitants become too much Disposed to a Levelling Spirit, & too apt to be mutinous and Dis- orderly, and Ready to Support the House of Representatives in any Step they take towards Eneroching on the Prerogative of the Crown &c.
We crave leave Humbly to lay before Your Majesty the mistake of that Representation both as to the Number and Government of the Town and Especially as to their being under no Magestracy, where upon we would humbly Shew forth (that besides Sixteen or Eighteen Justices of the Peace Commitioned by His Excellency who are Inhabitants) we doe Annually make Choice of Sundry [431.] Persons for Select men, and other Officers, who haue the Prudentiall Affairs of the Town Committed to them, according to the Constant usage and agreable to the Laws of the Province made for that purpose, and this as well as other Towns of the Province are Impowered to make By Laws and Orders for the Better Regulating the affairs & Inhabitants of the Several Towns, Which good an wholesome hath bin by this Town duly Observed and keept ever since our present Hapy Constitution.
We would therfore in all Humble wise presume to Say that those Aspertions are groundless, far from the tember and Inelina- tion of Your Majesty® good Subjects the Inhabitants of this Town, or from being at any time practised among us. We always make it our Study and Care to Chuse Such Persons, to Represent us in the Generall Assembly as are truly Loyal and Sincerely Desirous of Serving Your Majestys Intrest, and if the Governor has at any time Negatived Some of them when the Generall Assembly thought them qualified to be of His Majestys Council, we are of opinion that Negatiue did not abridge the Town of their freedome of Electing them to Sit in the House of Representatives as They had don before His arival among us.
We take this Occasion to Assure your Majesty that we are Sincerely Attached to your Royal Person and Gouernment, which has bin So wonderfully mild and Just as to give us a Sensable Pleasure under your Hapy Administration, That we highly dis- aprove of any Encroachment upon your Royal Prerogative, and are hereby encoraged humbly to Pray for the Continuance of those favors we have to Our great Satisfaction hitherto Enjoyed under your Auspicious Reign, and that you would be gratiously pleased to Accept this Our Humble Address.
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That the British Crown may long florish on your Royal Head, and be Continued to your Illustrious family as by Law Established to the Latest posterity is and Shall be the Sineere and hearty Prayer of Your Majesty's Loyall and dutyfull Subjeets of this your Majestys Town of Boston.
The aboue Address was Read, and Voted to be Signed by the Seleet men & in the name and by order of the free holders and Inhabitants of the Town of Boston by the Town Clerk.
[432.] The freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston Regulerly Assembled in the Town Hall. Having Voted an Address to His Saeret Majesty King George on Aeeott of a Memorial presented by His Excelleney Sam" Shute Esq", Which being Read & accepted by them they also.
Voted That Elisha Cook Esq" Be and hereby is Desired and Im- powred to Lay the Same before His Saeret Majesty.
At a Meeting of the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly Qualified being Regurly assembled in a Publiek 'Town meeting at the Town house in Boston upon Monday the 9th day of March 1723.
John Clark Esq" is Chosen to Serve as Moderator for this meeting.
Sam" Cheekley Esq' Chosen to Serve as Town Clerk (& Sworn) Voted to Chuse assessors distinet from the Select men.
Voted to Chuse 7 Seleet men.
Mess's Isaiah Tay
John Marion
Thomas Cushing
Natha11 Green
Stephen Minot
Ezekiel Lewis Henry Deering
are Chosen to Serve as Seleet men for the year Ensueing ..
Capt Joseph Wadsworth is Chosen to Serve as Town Treasurer for the year Ensueing & Sworn.
Richard Shute Sworn
Sam" Royall pay
Joseph Brandon pay
John Eyre Excus'd William Tilly Exeused Sam" Gerrish pay
are Chosen to Serve as Constables the year Ensueing. Offieers for Rumny Marsh Chozen Vizt.
John Whettemore - Constable - Sworn. Isaae Lewis Sworn
Elisha Tuttle
fence Viewers
Jona" Eustis Sworn
Sam11 floyd
Hoggreeves
Voted this meeting be Adjorned to Three a Cloek after noon.
[433.] Being then mett.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1723.
Voted for the County Treasurer 195 votes. Sealed up and Delivered to Constable Shute, to be delivered.
Robert Pattishal Sworn John Marshall mercnt appealed
Joseph Turell Sworn
John Bruster Excus'd
Henry Gibbons pay Sam" Jones Sworn
were Chosen Constables for the year ensuing. Daniel Oliver Esq" Timº Clark Esq™ John Ruck Esq'
mª James Gouch
mª Timº Prout
mª Jona" Williams
are chosen Overseers of the Poore.
Voted this Meeting be adjourned to Tuseday the 10th day at nine of the Clock fore noon and being then mett. Henry Laughton pay Benja Bagnall Excusd James Goold pay
are Chosen Constables. Voted to Chuse 7 Assessors. Messu" Daniel Pouning
John Sundarland David farnum John Edwards Sam Adams
John Noyce Jona" Mountforth
were Chosen Assessors.
Andrew Tylor pay John Eliot pay John Pitts marin' Sworn
are Chosen Constables.
Voted that the Assessor for the year 1723 are further Impowred to make Abatements for Three months.
Voted that the Several Constables be alowed Three pence upon the Pound for Collecting the Rates, Provided they pay in One halfe of the Sums Comitted to them by the first day of februry next and also compleat and pay in the wholl Sums to the Re- spective Treasurars by the first of June next Ensueing.
Voted that the Select men and Such as they shal desire to ac- company them be the Inspectors of the free Schools for the Year Ensueing.
Voted the Select men Surveyers of the High wayes for the year Ensuing. [434.]
William Parkman Jun" John Corney Daniel Chever Barret Dyer Nicholas Boon
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Encas Salter William Cowell Robert Goodrich
are chosen Scavengers.
Philip Headman apcal
James Pemberton pay
John Tobec Sworn
Sam11 Parkman Sworn
John Pitts merct paid
William Tyler pay
James Alford pay
John Buttolph
Excu8
William Greenlief
pay
James King
pay
John Carnes pay
Jeffry Bedgood apeal are chosen Clerks of the market.
Voted That John Clark, Timothy Clark Esq", and m' Thomas Cushing be a Comitte to draw up Some proposals Relating to Tyth- ing men and lay it before the Town at their next meeting for their consideration.
Voted for Tything men for Each Company Vizt. Nº 1. William Parkman & Nath11 Aires
2. Edward Procter & Wm. Sheepreeve
3. Adino Bulfinch & John Dixwell
4. Moses Bradford & Jerama Bumsted
5. Wm. Downs uphol' & Caleb Lyman
6. Benja fitch & Hope foster
7. Nathan" Garnor & James Penyman
8. David Demming & John Clough Henry Bridgham,
Sam" Eaton
Silence Allin
William Jepson Ephraim fenno
are chosen Sealers of Leather.
Thomas foster Thomas Jackson John Indicott Thomas Barnard Joseph Ricks
are chosen fence viewers.
[435.] Voted that Capt Joseph Wadsworth Treasurer be alowed and paid out of the Treasury the sum of fifty Pounds for his service in that Office in the year past.
Voted Penn Townsend Edward Hutchinson John Clark Thomas Palmer & William Walsteed Esqrs or any three of them be a Co- mitte to Examine the Treasurers accotts for the year Ensueing. Joseph Parmiter John Indicott Joshua Thornton Wm. Pain Thomas foster Joseph Russell
Joseph White Joseph fitch
are chosen viewers of Shingles, measurers of Boards & Timber.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1723.
John Hillier Phillip Merret David Cunningham & Jabez Hunt -
Hogreeves.
Capt John fairwether Excused Capt Isaac Perkins pay m' Tho. fairwether pay m' Joshua Winslow pay
are Chosen Constables for the year ensueing.
Voted that there be the Sum of Two hundred pounds Improued for paveing out of the money that Shal be Raised.
Voted that m' Peleg Wiswal School master haue the Sum of thirty pounds aded to his Annual Alowance. m' George Buckerage apeal'd Capt Robert Butler pay
chosen Constables.
Voted that the Consideration of Raising money be continued to the next general Town Meeting
Voted the Consideration of Quitt Rents be Refer'd to the next Meeting.
Barthol Sears is Chosen Constable Sworn.
The Select men with the Comittee appointed by the Town at their last meeting to Enquire into the Towns Intrest in the Land and Wharf at the South Battery & Prosecute any that haue or Shall Trespass thereon.
Having Reported that they are of Opinion that the Town has good right there But forasmuch as it will be difficult if not Im- practicable for Such a Number to Prossecute the Towns Right there.
They propose to the Town that Capt Joseph Wadsworth Town Treasurer or His Successars in that place & office may be Im- powred to Prossecute that affair to Effect.
Voted that the Said Capt Joseph Wadsworth, Town Treasurer & His Successors in that place & Office be and hereby fully Im- powred in behalfe of the Town to Prossecute m' Sam" Hood or any other that haue or Shall Trespass upon the Premisses and Persue the Same to Effect.
Voted that this Meeting be Adjorned to Wednesday the Eighteenth of march Currant at three of the Clock afternoon.
[436.] The Inhabitants according to Adjorment being now Assembled.
Cord. Wing pay
Jona" Willis
pay
Wm Young Sworn
Sam" Bridgman pay
Thomas Bileston Sworn
Chosen Constables
Abiel Walley pay
Frances Miller Sworn
John Goldthwait
George Skinner Sworn
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Nicholas Belknap Sworn
Zecha. fitch Sworn frances Gatcom pay
Thomas Gouch
paid
Chosen Clerks of the market.
At a Meeting of the freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly Qualified being Regulerly Assembled in a Publiek Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston on Monday the 11th day of May 1724.
John Clark Esq' Chosen Moderator for this Meting.
Voted that the Town Proceed to Chuse four Persons to Repre- sent them at the Great & General Assembly.
Number of Voters were 209
John Clark Esq 193
mª Isaiah Tay 134
m" Ezek" Lewis 176
mr Thomas Cushing 132
are chosen to Serve as Representatives.
m' Jonathan Louring Chosen an Assessor for the Year Ensuing in the Roome of m" Jona" Mountforth.
messures Joseph Eaton Henry Gibbs
Chosen Clerks of the market.
Voted that the Seleet men be Impowred to Improve the Towns Land on the northern Side of m' Belknaps House (Let to the Said Belknap during pleasure) that they may Either Build upon it, or Lett it for Term as they were Impowred to do by the Land adjoyning by a Town Vote Aprill the 19th 1723.
Voted an adjornment of this meeting to three of the Clock after noon.
At which time the Inhabitants were again Assembled.
[437.] Voted the Select men for the time being be & hereby are Impowred to agree with any Person or Persons for any Sum or Sums of money, Due on areers on James Johnsons Lease, and also to agree with the Said Person or Persons for Such Sum or Sums of money as the Said Select men or the major part of them Shal think Reasonable for a quitt Claim of the Annual quit Rent due on Said Lease, and on Receipt of Such Sum or Sums of money to make and Execute proper Instruments to the Said Per- son or Persons for Remiseing Releasing and Quitt claiming to them their Heirs and assignes forever the Said Annual Quitt Rent. The money so Received to be lay'd out in Some Real Estate for the use of the Town.
And the Said Select men are also alike Impowred to Sell the other Smal Perpetual Quitt Rents and Pass Deeds for the Same and the money to be Improved as aforesaid.
Voted a grant of three Thousand Pounds to be Raised on the Inhabitants & Estates within this Town for Releif of the Poor defraying the Charg of the Watch and other neccessary Charges arising within and for the Said Town for the year Ensuing.
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1724.
Voted that it be left with the Selectmen to Buy what grain they find needfull out of the money appropriated for that use.
The Comitte appointed the 9th of March last past to draw up Something Relating to Tything men & to lay it before the Town at their next Meeting.
Make their Report vizt.
The Comitte having met and Considered the Objections made by Persons chosen to that Office against taking the Oath by Law Prescribed, & the Main Difficulty pretended being the Tything mans Obligation to Inform against all Persons Selling drink with- out Licence. Are of Opinion that a later Act having put that matter into the hands of a comitioner of Excise Spesially ap- pointed thereto.
It be humbly offered to the Generall Assembly at their Next Session that the Tything men, (by an act made for that Purpose) may be eased of that trouble and their power further Inlarged as to other disorders & misdemeniars, So that they may haue have Equal Power with Constables to Suppress Tumults & disorders, & to arrest & Carry before the next Justice of the Peace any affrayers, Prophaners Cursers, Swarers &c.
In behalfe & by order of the Comitte Read and Voted.
JOHN CLARK.
[43S.]
Anno 1724.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly Qualified being Regulerly assembled in a Publick Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston on Wednes- day the third of June 1724
John Clark Esq' by the Majoritors of Voters is Chosen Modera- tor for this Meeting.
Number of Voters are 267
M' William Clark is Chosen to Serve as a Representative in the Roome & Stead of John Clark Esq' Lately Chosen a Counclor 142 Votes.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualifyed being Regularly assembled in a Publick Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston on Monday the 8th day of March 1724
After prayer by the Revd Doc" Cotten Mather
Voted. That Nathan" Byfield Esq' be the Moderator for this Meeting.
Sam" Checkley Esq' Chosen Town Clerk & Sworn
Voted to Chuse Assessors distinct from the Selectmen.
Voted to Chuse 7 Selectmen.
Messrs Isaiah Tay John Marion Thomas Cushing. Nathan" Green Stephen Minott Ezekiel Lewis Henry Dering
are Chosen to Serve as Selectmen for the year Ensuing
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Voted to Chuse 7 Assessors
mesus's Daniel Powning David Farnum John Edwards John Dixwell Jona" Louring Sam Adams Sam" White
Refuscd
since Dead
are Chosen assessors for the year Ensuing Josiah Sanders - Sworn. Pelethia Kinsman - Refused William Pain - Sworn. Stephen Pain - Excused.
Benja: - Bagnell - Paid. Willm Maxwell - Paid.
Stephen Avery - Paid. John Brown - Excused are Chosen Constables for the year ensueing
[439.] Joseph Wadsworth Esq' is Chosen Town Treasurer for the year ensueing.
Voted to Chuse 7 : Overseers of the Poor for the year Ensuing. Daniel Olliver Esq" Timothy Clark Esq" John Ruck Esq" mess ** James Gouch Timothy Prout Jona" Waldo Jona" Williams
are Chosen Overseers of the Poor for the year ensueing.
Votes for the County Treasurer were 213 : were sealed up by Willm Pain Constable by him to be delivered to the next Quarter Sessions.
Thomas Pratt Jun" R. Marsh. Sworn
John Hilliar Sworn
John Boudry Paid
Simon Rogers Sworn
Joseph White Sworn Benja Atkinson Excusd
are chose Constables for the year ensuing.
Then the Meeting adjorned till tomorrow Moring Nine a Clock March the 9th
Upon Application made to the Town in the behalfe of Stephen Avery (who was Chosen Constable and Sworn) Seting forth his Incapasity to Serve praying his fine might be Accepted and he Re- leased.
Voted to Accept the Said Excuse
Voted to Chuse another Constable in his Room
Voted that the Constables be alowed three pence upon the Pound for Collecting the Rates, Provided they pay in one halfe of the Sums Comitted to them by the first day of February next, and also Compleat & pay in the whole Sums to the Respective Treasurers, by the first day of June from thence next Ensuing.
Voted that the Selectmen be Surveyors of the High ways for the year Ensuing
Henry Bridgham Silence Allin
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1724.
William Jepson Nathan Hodgden Ephraim Fenno
Chosen Sealers of Leather.
Voted. That the Assessors for 1724: be Impowred further to make abatements for Three Months.
[440.] Voted to Chuse Two Persons to wait upon His Honor The Leu Governor and Request of Him to Order Co" Hatch to Lay the List of the Names of Such men as are of Boston which He Inlists into the Troop of Gards, that the Town may not Chuse Such into Town Offices.
Voted that Co" Stephen Minott & m' Ezekiel Lewis be the Persons desired to go accordingly Who Returned Answar they had according to the vote waited upon upon His Honour the Leut Governour with the Message and His Honours Answar was That there Should be A List Lodged in the Secritary, Office in the afternoon which they might haue A Sight of
Joshua Chever for Nº 1
Robert Guterage 2
Andrew Tyler 3
Nathan" Breck 4
Jeram Belknap 5
Benjā Bridge
6
Nathan" Garnor 7
John Sale 8
are Chosen Scavengers for the year Ensuing
Voted that the Selectmen are Impowred to take Effectual care that the Streets be Clensed and order the pay out of the Treasury as they Se Occasion while further Ordered.
Voted to Chuse a Comitte to draw up Some proposals to lay before the Town at the next meeting about it
Voted that Joseph Wadsworth & Sam" Keeling Esq's & mª Andrew Tyler be the Said Comitte -
Voted to Chuse a Comitte to Consider of and draw up Some proposalls of A Method for Chusing of Jurymen and Lay it before the Town at their next Meeting
Voted That Nathan" Byfield, Addington Davenport, Thomas Fitch, Adam Winthrop, & Edward Hutchinson Esqrs be the Said Comitte -
John Bruster
Sworn
Ebenezer Fisher Paid
Richard Hall, Baker Excus'd
Chosen Constables.
[441.]
James Pecker John Roberts Jun™ William Alden Sam" Coniball Thomas Fleet Daniel Bell Benjā Simpson Benjā Mason
are Chosen Clerks of the Market
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CITY DOCUMENT NO. 137.
Thomas Wheeler Exeus'd ) eapt Peter Papilion Refus'd 5
are Chosen Constables.
Voted That the Seleetmen and Such as they Shal desire to aecompany them to be the Inspecters of the Free Sehools for the year Ensuing -
Voted That Joseph Wadsworth Esqr. be alowed & paid out of the Treasury the Sum of Seventy Pounds for his Service as Treas- urer the year Past -
Penn Townsend, Thomas Fiteh, Adam Winthrop, Thomas Palmer, Edward Hutchinson Esq's are Chosen A Comitte ; or any three of them to audit the Treasurers Aceo's for the year ensuing. Voted Tything men for Each Company Vizt.
Nº. 1. - William Parkman & Nathan" Ayres 2. - Edward Procter & Wm Shipreive
3. - Adino Bulfineh & John Dixwell
4. - Moses Bradford & Jeram Bumsted
5. - Wm. Down uphalu & Caleb Lyman 6. - Benja Fiteh & Niehº Boone .
7. - Nath Garnor & James Penyman
8. - David Demmon & John Clough
Thomas Jackson Joseph Rieks
Sam" Thorn - John Indicott viewers of fences.
Benjā Eustice - John Demery
James Tyleston
John Indieott
Thomas Foster
Isaae White
Benjā Hollaway .
Joshua Thornton
Joseph Russell Thomas Kemball j
Chosen Measurers of Boards & Timber & Viewers of Shingles. [442.] George Hughes)
John Taylor
John Stephens James Barber
Chosen Hogg reeves for the year Ensuing For Rumny Marsh are Chosen Vizt
Isaae Lewis & Elisha Tuttle : Fenee Viewers Jona" Eustiee & Sam" Floyd : Hogg reeves
Voted That the Seleetmen for the time being be Impowred to Sell the Small Perpetual Quit Rents of the Towns, (not exceeding Twenty Shillings Per Annum) and Pass Deeds for the Same -
The Money to Be layd out in Some Real Estate for the use of the Town.
Voted to Chuse a Comitte to make Enquiry into the Rights of the Town, and also of the Rights of the Neighbors into the Town Dock & wharfs and make Report therof to the Town Meeting in March Next.
Voted that the Seleetmen be the Said Comitte -
Stephen Parker : paid
Thomas Dagget - paid chose Constables
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1724.
John Indicott : Excus'd
Zechā Fitch paid chose Constables
Stephen Greenlief
chose Constables
Izrael How
For the more Peacable Reguler & Easy. Proceeding in Town Meetings.
Voted that the Constables of this Town or So many of them as the Selectmen from time to time Shall appoint (and by the waiter notified) Shall attend at Town Meetings with their Constables staves, and Observe the Orders of the Moderator on a Penalty not Exceeding Twenty Shillings
Voted That the Honoble Samuel Seawall, Thomas Fitch, Daniel Oliver Timº. Clark Esq's with m' Thomas Cushing the only Sur- viving Persons of the united Comitte of the Town & Proprietars have Liberty & be desired to lay out so much of of the Money in their Hands as Shal be needful to Erect a building on the Land before the Ston wall near m' Belknaps as may be most benifisial -
[443.] The Income and Rent thereof to be paid into the Town Treasury Annually for the Support of the Writing Schools in this Town -
For Preventing the many Irregularities & Inconveniences that may happen through the Mutiplicity of Comon Crycrs, every one that pleases takes upon him to Cry Lost and Stolen Goods &c.
It is therfore ordered
That no person whatsoever presume to be a Comon Cryer, or Cry any Sort of Goods wares or Merchandize Lost or Found or Stolen goods, Strays, Publick Sales &c, within any of the Streets Lands, Alleys, or Market place or places of this Town, on Penalty of ten'Shillings for every offence, Except only Such Person or Persons as Shall be Licenced by the Selectmen, And every Person so Licenced Shall keep a true and perfect List of all matters and things by him so Cryed, and give into the Town Clerk once every month a true and perfect copy therof with the things by him Cryed, and the names of the Person that ordered him to Cry the Same, And if the Cryer or Cryers Shall Cry any vain foolish pro- phain or Obscene matter, He Shal forfeit and pay Ten Shillings fine, and be Discharged from his Place or Office, And the Person that ordered the Crying thereof, Shall pay a fine of Twenty Shil- lings : Voted and that it be presented to the Sessions for Appro- bation -
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