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Voted that the Seleet men be a Coinitte Humbly to Address the General Court to Continue the Answar of the Town thereupon untill the fall Sessions.
Voted that the Representatives of this Town be Desired to use their Indeavors that a Law may be made to prevent & Suppress the Great dissorders there is in the Town by Reason of Playing or Gaming in the Streets for Money &e.
Voted that Edward Marion be a Clerk of the Market for this year in the Room of Wegs Sweetser who Refused to Serve.
At a Meeting of the free holders & Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston Duly Quallified being Regurly Assembled in a Publiek Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston on Monday October the 17th 1726.
After prayer by the Revd m' Thomas Prinee.
Elisha Cooke Esq" is Chosen Moderator for this meeting.
The Petition of the Representatives of Several Towns in the County of Suffolk praying that the Country Towns in the Said County may be Set off and made a Seperate County by them Selves, with the Adress of the Town of Boston, and the Order of the House of Representatives thereon being Read.
After some debate had. It was Put that those that Inelined to fall in with the Petition that the Country Towns within the County of Suffolk Should be Set off and made a distinet County they Should manifest it.
And upon the Question being put it passed in the Negative And the Contrary Question was Put & it passed in the affermative.
Voted that the Seleet men be Directed & Impowrd to prepare and Lay before the General Court Reasons why the Prayer of the Petition Should not be Granted, They being fully Impowred to transact this afair by Such ways and means as they Shall Judge Convenient.
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And that Anthony Stoddard, Thomas Steel & John Read Esq™s be added to assist and advise with the Select men in this affair.
[45S.] At a Meeting of the free holders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified being Regulerly assembled in a Publick Town Meeting at the Town House in Boston Mon- dar March the 13th 1726.
after praver by the Revd m' John Webb.
Voted that Elisha Cooke Esq' be the moderator for this meet- ing.
Sam" Checkley Esq' is Chosen Town Clerk & Sworn.
Voted to Chuse Assessors distinct from Select men.
Voted to Chuse 7 Select men.
mess" Thomas Cushing
John Baker Nathan" Green
Ezek1 Lewis
Jona" Waldo
Timº Prout Oxenbridg Thatcher
are Chosen Select men for the year Ensuing.
Joseph Wadsworth Esq' is Chosen Town Treasurer for the year Ensuing.
Voted that this meeting be adjorned to three of the Clock after noon. At which time they assembled.
Voted. That there be an Augmentation made to the number of Constables for the Year Ensuing.
Voted That the Town will Chuse 16 Constables for the year ensuing.
Votes brought in for a County Treasurer being 187 votes Sealed up & Comitted to Constable Bell to be by him delived to the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace.
mess™ John Hunt David Farnum Jona Williams
Chose Select men in the Rome of mess's Thos Cushing, Nath" Green & Ezek" Lewis who Refused to Serve.
Voted to Chuse 7 Overseers of the Poor.
Daniel Oliver Esqr
Timº Clarke Esq' John Ruck Esq'
cap. James Gouch
cap. Sam" Greenwood
m' Jona" Jackson Capt Jeffry Bedgood
are Chosen Overseers of the Poore.
pay John Ellery
pay John Bankes
pay Barthº Sutton
appel Abraham How
Excu'd Hugh Vance
pay William Bant
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Sworn Job Coit
pay Nathan" Hodgder
Sworn John Cobbet
Exeusd Thomas Goodwell
Sworn Will™ Nichols
pay Sam" Holyoke
pay
John Bradford
Sworn Andrew Lane
pay
Richard Buckley
Excu'd
Henry Dyer
F
Chosen Constables [459.] Officers for Rumny Marsh Chosen, viz' John Lane Con- stable but Excused
Isaac Lewis Thomas Pratt Jun™
fence viewers
Robert Waite
John Whittemore
Hoggreeves
Isaae Wilkenson
Constable
Voted to Chuse 7 Assessors
Voted mess's Daniel Pouning
John Edwards
Jona" Louring
Sam Adams
Sam" White
Joshua Chever Andrew Tyler
Assessors for the year ensuing.
George Skinner Sworn
Sam" Welles pay
Joshua Blancher Sworn
Hugh Kelder pay
Sam Hunt pay
John Grant pay
Jerām Bumsted Excus'd
Thades Mecharty appeal'd
Chose Constables
Thomas Boyer pay Charles Deming pay
Thomas Inches Sworn
James Gorden Sworn
Chose Constables
Silenee Allen
Sam11 May
Thomas Salter
Benjā Emmans Sw" Benjā Mason Styn
Sealers of Leather Voted Joseph Rix John Simpson
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Sam" Wardell So" Thomas foster Thomas Barnet Su Thomas Jones Sw"
fence Viewers.
Voted Edward Richards
Willm Youug
Joseph White Joseph fiteh
Joseph Russell
Joshua Thornton
franeis Wardell
Moses Ayres
Vewers of Shingles measurers of Boards &c.
Voted Jeramª Allen Mieh" Shawler John Greenlief
John Lane John Lee
Increase Blake
John Cornish Edward Langdon
Clerks of the Market al Sworn. Voted Knight Leveret Thomas Haneock Nathan1 Emms Joseph Calef
Hogg Reeves
Voted Penn Townsend, Nathan" Byfield, Thomas Fitch Adam Winthrop & Thomas Palmer Esq's a Comitte to Audit the Treat Acco" for the year Ensuing.
[460.] Voted that Joseph Wadsworth Esq' Town Treasurer be alowed & Paid out of the Town Treasury the Sum of Eighty pounds for his Service in that office the year past.
Voted That the Select men with Such as they Shall desire to accompany them be the Inspectors of the Schools for the year Ensuing.
Voted That the Several Constables for this year be alowed the Sum of three pence upon the Pound for Collecting the Rates. They paying into the Several Treasurys the one halfe of the Sums Coinitted to them to Collect by the first day of feb'y Next and Compleating the wholl by the first day of June next after.
Voted In answar to the Constables Petition.
That the Several Constables for the year past be Intitled to the three pence upon the pound for their Collections they paying in the Several Sums Comitted to them to the Several Treasurers by the tenth day of June next And that the Assessors for the year past be Impowred to make abatements to the said Tenth of June. John Adams Sworn
Daniel Pecker Excus'd
Edward Marion Sworn
Joseph Webb Sworn
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Benjā Ustus Sworn
John Welland pay'd John Hill pay'd Timothy Thornton Sworn
Chose Constables
Voted That the Select men be Surveyers of the Highwayes for the Year Ensueing
Benjā Pollard Sworn
Lewis Ventenon Sworn
William Salter Excus'd
Chose Constables
Thomas Vering Nº. 1
Benjā Bronsdon 2
franeis Righton 3
Daniel Pecker 4
Benjā Bridge
5
Barret Dyer 6
Nathan" Gardner 7
Eneas Salter
8
Chose Scavenger®
Thomas Bradford
Chose Constable and Sworn
[461.] Voted Tything men for the Several Companys vizt. No. 1. William Parkman & Nathan" Ayres
2. Edward Procter & William Shipreeve
3. Adino Bulfineh & Thomas flagg
4. Moses Bradford & Jerama Bumsted
5. Daniel Henehman & Caleb Lyman
6. James Bodwin & Nicholas Boone
7. Natha" Gardner & James Penyman 8. Henry Howel & John Clough.
Voted that the Seleet men be Desired to prepare a Draft of a Bill about the Duty & power of Tything men & lay it before the Town at their next general meeting for their Consideration.
Voted That the Sum of three Hundred pounds of the Money to be Raised be Imployed in paving. And that the Select men make Some Computation of what Sums will be necessary to lay out in paving this year ; and lay it before the Town at their next meet- ing.
Voted that the Consideration of Raising of Money for the Town be Continued to the next Gen" Meeting.
Voted upon the Petion of m" John Walley & Salter about pave- ment in Water Street. That it be Dismist.
Voted. That it be left with the Seleetmen and Such as Shall be Joyned with them to Enquire about a Sutable Person for a Master of the South School and lay it before the Town at the next General Meeting.
Voted That Addington Davenport, Thomas fitch, Timº Clark, Habijah Savage, Esq's, & m' Owen Harris be Joyned with the Selectmen in that affair.
Voted that this Meeting be Adjorned untill to-morow at two of the Clock after noon.
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Voted That the Select-men be Impowred to Draw upon the Town Treasurer the Sum of Three Penee upon the pound. for Rebecca Sanders Exex to Josiah Sanders Late Constable for So much as it appears he paid into the Several Treasurys of the Rates Comitted to him to Colleet.
Voted on the Petition of John Yemans Esq' &c. about a Bridge to Nodles Island be Refered to a Committe to Consider and make Re- port to the next Gen" Meeting.
Voted That Elisha Cook Esq', m' John Colman, Eward Hutchinson Esq', m' Thomas Cushing & m' Ezek" Lewes be the Said Comitte.
Voted upon Spuriers Petition That it be left with the Select men to Hear his proposals and make Report of their Opinion about it to the next Gen" Meeting.
[462.] Voted in answar to the Petition of mess's Jonan Wil- liams & Joshua Wroe about Websters' Land.
That Co" Stephen Minot, Nath" Green Esq' & m' Thomas Cushing, be a Comitte to apprize the Land Petitioned for, and that they haue Liberty to value it at what they may Judg it was worth when Websters' Petition was granted and then the Seleet men are Impowred to Sell to Williams & Wroe & Execute deeds for the Same
Voted That the Towns votes to Impower the Select men to Sell the Several Quitt Rents about the Town Doek be Revived & Con- tinued in foree. And that the Select men for the time being, with mess" Thomas Cushing Natha" Green, Ezekiel Lewis, & Henry Dering, Late Select men are Impowred to act in that afair, And that when the Buildings are apprized, the Seleet men are Im- powred to draw upon the Town Treasurer for payment of Said Sums, According to the Town votes of March the 14th 1725 and May the 3rd 1726.
Voted to Chuse a Comitte to Inquire into the Towns Intrest in the Lands and wharfes near adjoying to the South Battery and that the Comitte Consider the Proposalls of mess" Fitch & Willis, & Report their Opinion to the next Gen11 meeting.
Voted. That Nathan" Byfield, Elisha Cook, John Ballantinc, Joseph Wadsworth, & Nathan" Green Esqrs be the Said Comitte And that the Said Committe Consider of and Report the State of the North Battery.
In Answar to the Petition of Capt. John Ballantine and others about the Draw Bridge.
Voted to Chuse a Comitte of fiue persons to Enquire into that afair According to a vote of the Town Mar. 14th 1711.
Voted. That John Clark, Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Fitch, Joseph Wadsworth, Esq" & m' Thomas Cushing be the Said Comitte.
In answar to the Memorial of Daniel Oliver Esq' having bin Read & Considered.
Voted that thic Sum of fifty pounds be alow'd & paid out of the Town Treasury to Daniel Oliver Esq' for his Service & Trouble · in that afair.
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Upon Reading a petition of a Comitte of the New South Church.
Voted that the Sclectmen be a Comitte to view the place and make Report therof to the next General Town Meting, And at the Same time to Consider of and Report what Damage (if any) it will be to m' Wolfe if the Said Petition Should be Granted.
[463.] Upon m' John Marions Motion about Some Method to provide Wood for The Town &c.
Voted to Chuse a Committe of five persons to Consider of it and make Report of their thoughts thereon the next Gen" Meeting.
Voted. That Mess's John Marion, Benja. Emmans, Sam11 Wentworth, Jacob Parker, & James Gouch be the Said Comitte.
Voted. That the Select men together with Messrs Thomas Cushing, Nathan" Green, Ezekiel Lewis & Henry Dering be a Comitte to Consider and Project Some proper method for the better. Improving the Town Dock the wharfs & Buildings ad- joyning which are or may be in a Short time delivered up to the Town and that they be Impowred to treat with any persons which may Offer to hire the Same or any part there of upon terms for Lease, not Exceeding the Term of Twenty-one years, And that they Lay Sneh Scheme or projection before the Town at their next General Meeting. that they may give their directions therein.
Voted. That the Seleet men be Impowred to Receive proposals of any persons about securing the Towns Marshes at the bottom of the Common, and lay their opinion what is best to be don therein before the Town at their next Meeting.
Voted that the Seleet men be Desired to Consider of Some method to prevent the Damnifiing the Pavements in the Streets and lay it befor the Town at their next meeting.
Voted that the Town votes of march the 14th 1725 Relating to grain be all continued in forse for the year Ensuing.
And that mess"s Jonathan Williams, Peter Thomas, & Andrew Tyler be the Coinitte to manage it.
Voted, That the Consideration of the Motion about Huxters be Continued to the next meeting.
Voted that the Comittes Proposals about building a grainery &c. be Continued to thic next meeting for further Consideration.
Ordered by the Selectmen for the year 1727. That the follow- ing Transactions about the Town Dock and Buildings &e. bc here recorded with the Records of the Town and is as follows, vizt.
Inrsnant to the Town Votes of May the Third 1726 : Impower- ing and Desiring the Select men to take of Care of The Towns In- trest at the Dock, vizt.
To Receive them & Improue them for the Benefit of the Town, and to appoint Sutable Persons, [464.] in behalfe of the Town to apprize the Same, and to Draw upon the Town Treasurer for the payment of the apprized value out of the Money appropri- ated to be lay'd out in a Real Estate, and to make Report how that affair is at the next Generall Meeting iu March next.
Accordingly the Comittee mett with Edward Bromfield Esq for
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himselfe and the Heirs of Francis Buroughs Decec'd, Jona- than Belcher Esq', And having mutually Chosen Apprizers of the Said Buildings &c. Made their Return upon Oath as follows, vizt.
Wee the Subscribers being appointed & Chosen By Edward Bromfield Esq', for him self and the Heirs of Francis Buroughs Decec'd, and Jonathan Belcher Esq' on the one part, and the Se- lectmen of the town of Boston of the other part, to make a true and Just apprizement of the Houseing or Tenements Standing on the Towns Land and Wharf on the South Side of the Town Dock now in the Possession of the Said messrs Bromfield and Belcher who are the Assignees of Valentine Hill, being there unto first Sworn.
Haue accordingly Repared to the Said Houseing and Wharves, and viewed the Same Seperately, And according to our best Skill & Judgment, without any Regard to the Situation or place where the Said Houseing Stands.
Do Apprize & Estimate the Houseing or Tenement with the Chimney in the Possession of the Said Bromfield and Buroughs at the full Sum of forty Pounds, and that it will Cost at least the Sum of Twenty pounds, to Repair the wharfs under the Same.
And we Apprize and Estimate the Houseing or Tenements with two Chimnys in the Said m' Belchers Possession at the full Sum of Seventy-five pounds And that it will Cost the Sum of Twenty- five pounds at least to Repair the wharf under the Same.
Witness our hands this Twenty fourth day of March Anno Domi 1726.
Tnos. FOSTER JAMES TILESTONE JOSEPII RUSSELL JOIIN GOLDTIIWAIT WILLIAM YOUNG.
March the 25th 1727
Edward Bromfield Esq' for himselfe & the Heirs of Francis Buroughs Dececd And Johathan Belcher Esq' all Assignes of Val- entine Hill mett upon the Pace with the Select men of the [465.] Town of Boston and Delivered them the Several Buildings or Tenements and Lands in their Possession, and then in the Occu- pation of the Persons hereafter named, And by the Said Select- men, were put into the Possession of the Said Tenements for the Town untill the next General Town Meeting at the Same Rent they were Lett to them by the Said Bromfield & Belcher vizt
That of Edward Bromfield Esq', Let by Him to Stephen Pain for Sixteen ponnds Pr Annom. That of Jonathan Belcher Esq', Lett by him (viz.) To Alexander Fullerton for ten pounds, Pr Annnm, To Thomas Odel for Twelve pounds Pr Annum, To Charles Warham at ten pounds Pr Annum, To John Simms at ten pounds Pr Annnm, the whole amounting to the Sum of fifty Eight pounds Pr Annum. All which with the Copy of the Apprizement and the apprizers names were ordered by the Select men to be entred with the Records of the Town.
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CITY DOCUMENT NO. 137.
At a meeting of the Free holders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qulified being Regulerly assembled in a Publick town meeting at the Town house in Boston, Monday May the 8th 1727 :
After Prayer by the Revd m' William Cooper,
Voted that Elisha Cooke Esq' be moderator for this meeting.
Voted that the Town will proceed to the Choice of four Rep- resentatives.
The Number of Voters were 204
votes
Joseph Wadsworth Esq 178
m' Thomas Cushing 175 mr Ezekiel Lewis 164 Nathan11 Green Esq" 121
are Chosen Representatives
Voted this meeting do adjorn untill three of the Clock after noon-Being mett :
In answar to the Petition of Capt John Ballantine and others about the Draw Bridg.
The Comittee appointed to Inquire into that afair, made their Report as follows :
Pursuant to a Vote of the Town of the 13th March 1726, ap- pointing us a Comittee as in the Votes directed.
We have met divers times on that affair & heard Capt John Bal- lantine & others thereupon & Received and Considered their papers Respecting the Same, and haue Searched the Records of the Town or Selectmen [466.] and Considered them, And we find that Several Advantages and priviledges were granted to the Mill owners, In consideration whereof they were Obliged to Build and maintain a Sufficient Bridge for Cart & Horse to pass Safely where the Bridge now is. But we don't any find any Grant of a draw Bridge as a Priviledge to any Persons, but the making and maintaining a Sufficient Safe Bridg was enjoyned the mill owners, as incumbant on them to perform an accott of Several grants made to them as aforsd
Boston, 6th May 1727
JOHN CLARK THOMAS FITCH JOSEPH WADSWORTH
THOMAS CUSHING
The Said Comittee Report being Read & Debated.
Voted the Said Report be accepted.
A Comitte having bin appointed to Inquire into the Towns In- trest in the Lands and Wharfs Near the South Battery &c. The Said Comitte haue made their Report which is as follows.
The Comittee having Searched the Records of the Town of Boston, Find a grant of the Flats lying before the Town from the Sconce to Capt Searlets wharff Extending Westward towards the Town as far as a Circuler line then agreed upon and fixed, and Eastward to the Channel, with Certain priviledges & imunities made by the Select men of the Town Pursuant to a Vote and
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order of the Inhabitants of Said Town at a Publick meeting Law- fully warned the fifth day of September 1673. To Such of the Inhabitants of the Town as would undertake the Building and Erecting a wall or wharff of wood or Stone from the Said Sconce to Cap' Searlets wharff, to be Twenty two foot broad at the Bot- tom, abont fourteen or fifteen high and Twenty foot broad at the top, to be made uniform and Substancial, convenient for a Brest- work to play Guns on, in Proportion to their Several Subscrip- tions.
And the Honorable John Leverett Esq" deceaced then Govnr Subscribed to Build One hundred and fifty foot of the Said wall or wharff to ly next to the Sconce for the Publiek nse of the Sconce and Church who Owned the Ground adjoyning, By which the Town had the Seventy five feet next adjoying to the Sconce, with the Priviledges and [467.] Immunities belonging to them being the one halfe of the aforesaid one hundred and fifty foot and the Publick (being the Town) first mentioned iu the aforesaid Subscription, which wall or wharff is almost wasted and Destroyed by Storms and hath for Some time past bin worn down to the Bottom Loggs.
Bnt we apprahend it may be for the Benefit and advantage of the Town, To put the Same into a Speedy Repair in Such way & manner as they may Judge most advisable.
And further the Comittee think it not advisable for the Town at present to Lease ont any part of the Land or flatts at the Sonth Battery, but that Something ought to be don to prevent any further wasting of the Towns Land and Intrest there.
The Committee hauing also viewed the North Battry find the Same to be much out of Repair the Front wharff no way Sufficient to mount the Guns on, and that the Putting the Same into a Posture fitt for a Platform of Guns would Demand a Considerable Sum of money, which Considering the Difficult Circonstances the Town Labors under, We thinke would be too great a burthen for them to bare, more especially for that the work when Perfected will be of Service and Defence to the whole Province. But that the Repairing the Inward Wharffe which is nsed for the Building of Ships on Should be forthwith Effeeted.
. Boston, May 3ª 1727
N. BYFIELD ELISIIA COOKE JOHN BALLANTINE JOSEPH WADSWORTHI NATHI. GREEN
The Report of the Comitte was Read &
Voted Acceptance of the Said Report. And that the Select men for the Time being be desired & Impowred to Act aecord- ingly.
Abont the Petition of John Yeamans Esq' & Others about a Bridg to Nodles Island &c.
The Comitte made their Report vizt
The Committee having Considred the Subject matter of the Petition together with the objections of Several of the Inhabitants
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at Rumney Marsh, Apprahend that the Ereeting a good Substantial Bridge from the main at Winnisemet Side to Nodles Island will not be Disadvantageus to the Town of Boston, [468.] Provided The Petitioner John Yeamans Esq", be obliged at his Own Cost & Charge to make & Keep in Good & Sufficient Repair the Afore- said Bridge for ever with Convenient highways to the Same fit for man & Horse, to pass or Repass as well to the Bridge on Winni- simmit Side where the Road may be altered for the Aecomodating the Bridge, and so from thenee thro' Nodles Island to the place that may be Assigned for Transporting Passengers & Goods from the Island to Boston Provided also the Town Enjoy the Sole privi- ledge of the Ferry from Boston to the Island, And that the Several Persons whose Estates & Intrest on Rumney marsh may be any wayes prejudieed by Erecting the aforesaid Bridge be made good to them in Such proportion as a Comittee for that purpose by the Great & General Court Shall adjudge. But we conceive the Suf- fering a ferry from Winnisimmet to Nodles Island til such times as the Bridge can be Conveniently Perfected will be very Incon- venient & of disservice not only to Boston but all Travellers in generall.
Boston, May 4th, 1727.
EZEK" LEWIS JOHN COLMAN ELISHA COOKE EDWd HUTCHINSON THOMAS CUSHING.
The Report was Read and Voted, an Acceptance.
In answar To the Petition about the Paving in Orange Street.
Voted That the Pavement be Carryed on as far as the further part of m! Kneelands Land in Said Street if the abutters on Each Side do their part, then it be Left with the Select men to alow what they think proper for the Towns Part.
Capt Caleb Lyman is Chosen an Assessor. - Sworn.
Joseph Russel - House wright Chosen Stephen Pain John Little Hogreves
The Question being Put whether the Town will have a Grainery of their Own by Purchasing or building one.
Voted in the afermative.
Voted that the Seleetmen with the Comittee appointed for Grain be Impowred to aet in that affair withi convenient Speed.
[469.] About the Land formerly Leased to Wm Munford the Select men being desired by Town Votes to Inquire into the Same. Do Report.
They haue made Strict Inquiery into the Same & find by a Grant and Several Deeds in the Hands of The Honoble Judge Sewall, That the Town had no Right of Leasing any Such Land.
Voted that the Said Report be accepted.
Voted That m' Thomas Cushing, Nathan" Green Esq", and Ezek1 Lewis, be Impowred and Directed to Prosecute in the Law all Such Persons as Shall be found Trespassers upon the Towns Land, Clamed by the Late Eliakin Hutchinson Esq' Dece'd.
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The Report of the Comittee appointed to Inquire about a Sut- able Person for a School master for the South Sehool &c. Re- ported That the Comittee had met Several times on that Affair & Debated the matter Relating to the Cireomstanees of the Town and the Quallifications of a Person, And uuanimously agree to Represent m' Peter Blin as a Person well Quallified for that Service.
Voted that the Committees Report be accepted.
Voted That m' Peter Blin be Constituted and appointed Master of the South School for this year, and untill the Town order other wise.
And that he be paid One hundred pounds Pr Annum for his Service.
Voted, That the Town Treasurer be directed to take Effeetuall Care to Call in the Remaining part of the appropriated money, (which is out npon Intrest) with all Convenient Speed.
. Upon the Petition of Caleb Spurrier, About Carrying water through the Streets &e.
Voted the Said Petition be Granted Provided the Said Spurrier give Security to the Satisfaction of the Seleet men (before he pro- ceed) to Repair & make Good the Streets wayes & Pavements and keep them in Repair from time to time.
Voted, A Grant of Two Thousand & Eight Hundred pounds, to be Raised on the Inhabitants and Estates within this Town, for Relief of the Poor, Defraying the Charge of the watch, Paveing and Other necessary Charges Arising within & for the Said Town for the year Ensueing.
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