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[19.]
Benjamin Homans John Butterfield James Williams Francis Booth John Bosson James Perkins
were chose Constables for the Year ensuing
The following Persons were chose Clerks of the Market for the Year ensuing
Mess's : Caleb Gibbs Thomas English Nath1. Bethune James Price Jun". Charles Bulfinch William Deblois James Lovel Junr.
Samuel Cabot James Perkins Jun". Andrew Hall Samuel Williams Junr. Isaac Winslow
The Petition of Richard Salter one of the late Collector Grays. Bondsmen read whereupon
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Voted, that Alexander Hill Joseph Russell Jun". Joseph Greenleaf Esq'. be a Committee to take this Petition into Consideration & Report what is proper to be done thereon at the Adjournment
[20.] Mess's : Joseph Ballard Henry Blaisdel John Champney Benjamin Page Joseph Ayres Benjamin White Abraham Howard Clement Collins Joshua Bently Samuel Dyer James Rogers Edmund Ranger
were chose Surveyors of Boards for the Year ensuing
Mess's : Job Wheelwright Joshua Pico Manassah Marston Arthur Langford John Owen Caleb Hayden Joseph Basset
The Consideration of the Boundary Line refered to the Ad- journment -
Voted, that the Thanks of the Town be & hereby are given to the Honble. William Phillips Esqr. for his faithful Services as Overseer of the Poor a Number of Years.
Adjourned to Tuesday next the 20th Instant 10 OClock -
[21.] Tuesday the 20th Day of March 10 OClock Forenoon - Met According to Adjournment -
Mr. Henry Prentice having excused himself from serving as an Overseer of the Poor the ensuing Year
Voted that the Thanks of the Town be and hereby are given to Capt. Henry Prentice for his faithful Services as Overseer of the Poor for several Years past
Upon the Report of the Committee Appointed to prepare an Estimate &c -
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Voted, that said Committee be desired to make Report at the May Meeting - the Above Vote reconsidered
Joshua Henshaw Esqr : Appointed one of the Committee on the late Treasurer Jeffries Esqr. Executors Petition in the room of Mr. Hill who declined serving ; & said Committee are desired to Report at May Meeting
The Committee on Mr. Hancocks Petition are desired to Report at May Meeting -
The Question being put Vizt. whether the Town will Act upon the Article in the Warrant relative to choosing a Representative for the Remainder of the Year in the room of Leonard Jarvis Esqr : - passed in the Negative-
The Committee Appointed to confer with the Overseers of the Poor relative to the Annual expence of the Alms House, and to lay a State before the Town Also to devise ways and means for defraying the [22.] Expence in future - Report as follows that they find the Annual Expence to be about three thousand Pounds. that several of the Overseers have since the Year 1780, Ad- vanced their own Money to defrey a part of the said Charges, and ought to have the interest of such Sums as they have Advanced paid them as soon as possible, and that the Town ought to Adopt some sure & Special Plan for defreying the expence of the Alms House in future- And the Committee thereupon Submit the fol- lowing form of a Vote to the Consideration of the Town - Voted, that the Sum of three thousand pounds be raised to defrey the expence of the Alms House for the present Year: And that Eighteen hundred pounds thereof be Assessed in the Manner fol- lowing Vizt. - the Assessors when they Assess the Town Tax shall make a Special & Seperate Colum, in the rate list, and therein set down as much per Centum proportionally on Each Persons Tax as shall in the whole Amount to the said Sum of eighteen hundred pounds. and that the Collectors shall receive the Sums contained in said Colum in Specie only, and the same shall be paid into the Town Treasurey & sacredly Appropriated to the support of the Towns Poor & the payment of Interest due to the Overseers, for Moneys Advanced by them for the use of the Poor.
James Sullivan $ Order
The aforegoing Report having been Considered, the Question being put Vizt. Whether said Report shall be Accepted & passed in the Affermative -
[23.] The Vote relative to the Committee to prepare an Estimate and to Report at May Meeting reconsidered, and said Committee are desired to Report at the Adjournment the 1st Mon- day of April next 3 O Clock
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Moved & Voted, that when this Meeting is Adjourned it shall be to the 1st Monday of April next 3 O Clock M. P.
Messrs. Edward Burt Capt. Joseph Loring Mr. John Bray Mr. Lemuel Gardner Mr. Henry Purket
were chose Cullers of Staves & Hoops for the Year ensuing see page 20
The Honble : Caleb Davis Esq". having declined serving as a Fire Ward
Voted, that the Thanks of the Town be and hereby are given to the Honble : Caleb Davis Esqr. for his faithful Services as a Fire Ward for a Number of Years past -
Thomas Dawes Esqr. (declined) Henry Hill Esqr.
were chosen Overseers of the Poor for the Year ensuing
The Selectmen
were chosen Surveyors of High Ways for the Year ensuing -
Mr. Ebenezer Hancock
was chose a Fire Ward for the Year ensuing
Adjourned to 3 O Clock P M 3 O Clock P : M : Met According to Adjournment
Adjourned to 4 O Clock
[24.] Met According to Adjournment 4 O'Clock P. M.
The Committee relative to Olivers Dock Reported as follows Vizt. --
The Selectmen together with Judge Sullivan being Appointed a Committee to examine into the encroachments Apprehended to be made upon the Towns Land on & near Olivers Dock, have ex- amined the circumstances respecting the same & find that Mr. Woodwards claim to a right in Olivers Dock, is in their Opinion without foundation - the Property of the same being vested in the Town, and never by them convey'd to any Other Person . . - And that Mr. Fowle by permision from the Selectmen now im- proves a Part of the Drain belonging to the Town, by running a floor over the same till such time as the Town may order Other ways or receive an Adequate rent for the same -
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The Report aforesaid having been read. Moved & Voted, that the 1st part of the Report be taken up & the same having been considered - Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are directed & impowered to Maintain & defend the Rights of the Town to Olivers Dock so called Against the Claims of Any Person or Persons whatsoever - then the 2ª part of the Report was taken up & considered whereupon Voted, that the same be Accepted by the Town.
The Article in the Warrant Vizt. Whether the Town Approve of a proposed new Boundary Line to be run between Boston and Roxbury, Agreeable to a plan which will be laid before the Town " was read [25.] Whereupon Voted, that the Town Approve of the Boundary Line as Agreed upon by the Selectmen of the Town of Roxbury & Boston provided that by their joint Application to the General Court they can Obtain a Confirmation of the same
The Committee relative to Mr. Thompson's Land near Beacon Hill Report verbally that Mr. Thompson is willing to sell the Town the Land he owns contiguous to the North west side of Beacon Hill at such a price as any two Persons Appointed by the Selectmen & himself say it is reasonably worth whereupon Voted, that the Consideration of this Report be sus- pended -
Moved & Voted, that the Committee Appointed to confer with Mr. Hancock on his Claim to Part of Beacon Hill be further instructed to examine into & ascertain the Estate which the Town hath in that Hill from its Base to the Summit & Also to State the different Claims of all Persons to Any Part of the same & to Report a Plan of the Town's Right & Any Other Person to the said Hill and that William Tudor Esqr. be Added to said Committee
Voted, that the Assessors be and hereby are impowered & directed to set for such Abatements of Taxes as they shall Judge reasonable two Days in each Week After the Delivery of the Tax Bills to the Collectors for the space of Six Weeks. and no longer, saving that they be Allowed to set the last Week in February Lords Days excepted for the Abatement of the Taxes of such Persons as had not an Opportunity of Applying in the Above limitted time by reason of [26.] Their being out of the Commonwealth, or any Other unavoidable hindrance. And that the Assessors determine upon the said two Days, which is to be noted on the Tax Bills to be delivered the Inhabitants
Voted, that the Selectmen be Impowered & directed to continue the Suit commenced Against the late Collector Grays Bondsmen to July term -
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The Article in the Warrant Vizt. Whether the Town will take further Measures for the Sale of the Land and Wharff at the North Battery " - - - was read and considered whereupon Voted, that the Selectmen be impowered to make Sale of said Battery by Auction unless it can be disposed of by private Sale & that they be Authorized and impowered to Give & execute good & Sufficient Deeds, for the same conditioned that none of the Stones be removed & that the Pier be kept in good Repaire & that the Selectmen be also impowered to Agree that any Publick Securities of this Commonwealth be received in payment .
Adjourned to Monday April 2d.
3. O'Clock - P. M. -
At a legal Meeting of the Freeholders & Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston in Fanuiel Hall Assembled March 20th A. D. 1787-3 O'Clock P. M. -
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
Honble : Samuel Adams Esq".
chosen Moderator by a Hand Vote
The Article in the Warrant Vizt.
to consider the request of Joseph Palmer Esqr. that the Town would sell the Fee of the Land lying on the Easterly side of Bos- ton Neck for the purpose of setting up several sets of Large Works for making Bay & White Salt - was read whereupon
[27.] Voted, that Mess's : Nathaniel Appleton Esq". Thomas Dawes Junr. Esqr. . Nath1. Barber Esqr. Jonathan Mason Esqr. Mr. Samuel Parkman
be a Committee to take this Article and the Representation of Mr. Palmer into consideration and report what is best to be done thereon at the Adjournment of March Meeting the 2ª Day of April 3 O Clock P. M.
then the Meeting was dissolved
At a Meeting of the Male Inhabitants of the Town of Boston of twenty One Years of Age & Upwards qualified as the Con- stitution prescribes & legally warned in public Town Meeting Assembled at Fanuiel Hall on Monday the 2 Day of April Anno Domini 1787 9 O Clock A : M : -
Prayer was made by the Revd. Mr. Eliot
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
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Paragraph of the Constitution or Frame of Goverment, relative io choise of Governors and Senators, also read
It was declared by the Selectmen no Vote would be received but such as are unfolded, & that they propose the Poll shall be closed at 12 O'Clock
On a Motion Voted, that the Bells in the Town be set a tolling ¿ an Hour before 12 O'Clock
[28.] Persons Voted, for as Governor with the Number of Votes for each Person - Vizt.
Votes
His Excellency James Bowdoin Esqr.
724
Honble : John Hancock Esqr. - - 775
Persons Voted for as Lieut. Governor with the Number of Votes for each Person - Vizt.
Votes
His Honor Thomas Cushing Esqr.
880
Honble : Samuel Adams Esqr.
179
Honble : Benjamin Lincoln Esqr.
- 424
Honble : Tristam Dalton Esq". -
1
Persons Voted for as Senators for the County of Suffolk with the number of Votes for each Person Vizt.
His Honor Thomas Cushing Esqr.
Votes 460
Honble. Samuel Adams Esqr.
- 1373
Honble. William Phillips Esq".
1101
Honble. Cotton Tufts Esqr.
1463
Honble. Stephen Metcalf Esqr. 1395
Honble. John Lowell Esqr. - 442
Thomas Dawes Esqr. -
1017
Honble : Richard Cranch Esq".
47
Honble : Benjamin Austin Esqr.
407
Honble : Jabez Fisher. Esqr.
677
Honble : John Hancock Esqr.
3
Honble : William Heath Esqr.
280
Honble : Benjamin Lincoln Esq".
8
John Read Esqr. --
15
Honble : Caleb Davis Esqr.
3
Honble : Eben" : Wales Esqr.
2
Honble : Stephen Higginson Esqr.
1
Honble. James Warren Esq".
3 4
Theophilus Cushing Esq".
4
Mr. Richard Gridldey
1
Dr. John Metcalf
2
Christopher Gore Esqr. .
1
[29.] Joshua Henshaw Esqr.
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Votes
Honble. Jonathan Jackson -
1
John C. Jones Esq".
1
Samuel Breck Esqr.
1
Joseph Barrel Esqr.
1
Attested Copies of the Persons Voted for as Governor Lieut. Governor and Senators for the County of Suffolk, were committed to the Secretary of this Commonwealth & the Inclosures sealed up in Town Meeting Superscribed as follows - Vizt.
For John Avery Esqr. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Number of Votes for the Town of Boston for a Governor Lieut. Governor & Six Senators for the County of Suffolk, Cer- tifyed within & sealed up in Town Meeting
Then the Meeting was dissolved -
[30.] Adjournment of March Meeting April 2ª. 3 O Clock P : M : Met According to Adjournment
On a Motion Adjourned to Thursday next 10 O Clock. A : M
April 5th. 9 O Clock A : M, Met According to Adjournment
Thomas Dawes Esq". Acquainted the Town that he declines serving as an Overseer
The Committee to Report an Estimate & Reported whereupon Moved & Voted, that this Report be recommitted
Voted, that the Committee Appointed to Audit Town Treasurers Accounts &c - - - be Notified by the Town Clerk that they were directed to make Report at the Adjournment
The Committee Appointed to consider General Palmers Peti- tion praying that the Town would sell him the fee of certain Lands on Boston Neck for the Salt Manufacture, beg Leave to Report
That as the Town have only the reversion of said Lands After the expiration of a long lease, and as After that Lease, said Lands may probably, be settled with Inhabitants to the great benefit & ornament of the Town, and further, as General Palmer, by his own declaration is under the Necessity of having upwards of Twenty Acres if any, and can Obtain Other Lands, which will promote his Manufacture & Answer his purposes nearly as well as those petitioned for -The Committee are of Opinion that for the Above and many other reasons it is not for the Interest of
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the Town to sell their [31.] said Lands According to the Prayer of said Petition
Boston 2ª April 1787
Nath1. Appleton Order
The Inhabitants were directed to withdraw & bring in their Votes for an Overseer of the Poor and the same being brought in & sorted it Appeared that
John Codman Jun". was chose Overseer of the Poor for the Year ensuing
Adjourned to Friday the 13 Inst : 3 O Clock. P. M. -
Friday April 13th - 3 O Clock P. M Met According to Ad- journment -
Mr. John Cade, was chosen a Constable for the Year ensuing -
The Question was put Vizt Whether the lighting of the Lamps shall be discontinued from the 1st of May next till further Orders Passed in the Affirmative
Moved and Voted, that the Constables be requested to walk the Streets of this Town on the Lords Day, Agreeable to a former practice, taking with them some of the Inhabitants on Those Walks; as a means to prevent disorder on the Sabbath more especially in the time of Divine servise
Moved and Voted, that the Committee Appointed in March 1786-to Audit the Accounts of Town Treasurer, Selectmen & Overseers of the Poor, & on all other Matters, be directed to Report the 1st Day of the May Meeting
[32.] Moved and Voted, that the Town reconsider their Votes of March 1787- & discontinue the Committee Appointed by said Vote to Audit the Accounts of the Town Treasurer Select- men & Overseers of the Poor
Voted, that the Selectmen be directed to lay their Drafts for the present Year the Town Treasurer his Accounts, and the Over- seers of the Poor their Accounts before the Town at the next Meeting. -
Moved, & Voted, that all Matters & Things unfinished at this Meeting be refered over to the General Town Meeting in May next
Then the Meeting was Dissolved
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[33.] At a Meeting of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified & legally warned in public Town Meeting Assembled at Fanuiel Hall on Tuesday the 8th Day of May Anno Domini 1787
Prayer was made by the Revd. Mr. Clark
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
That part of the Constitution or Frame of Goverment which relates to the choise of Representatives - read -
Sundry Laws to be read at said Meeting were Accordingly read
The Town having determined to choose Seven Persons to Rep- resent them in the General Court of Massachusetts to be held at the State House at Boston on the last Wednesday of May Cur- rent, Agreeably to the Constitution or Frame of Goverment for the Massachusetts The Inhabitants were directed to with- draw and bring in their Votes for seven Representatives and then it was declared by the Selectmen that no Vote should be received but such as were unfolded and that they propose the Poll should be closed at 12 O Clock The Inhabitants were directed After giving in their Votes to remain in the Hall till the Poll is closed -
The Votes being brought in for seven Representatives, the number of the same were found to be Six hundred & thirty. And upon sorting them it [34.] Appeared that the following Gentlemen were chosen by a Majority of Votes Vizt.
Honble : Caleb Davis Esqr. 382
Honble : Samuel A. Otis Esq". 600 Thomas Dawes Esqr. - 614
Charles Jarvis Esq". - - 595
Samuel Brick Esqr. - 590
John Coffin Jones Esqr.
- 570
Mr. John Winthrop - 356
The choice of Representatives being over & declared by the Selectmen, it was moved that a Moderator be chosen to preside at the Meeting for transacting the other matters mentioned in the Warrant -
Honble : Samuel Adams Esqr.
was chosen Moderator by a Hand Vote
The Petition of the Constables
whereupon Moved & Voted, that
Mr. Jeremiah Belknap Majr. Ephraim May Mr. Alexander Hill
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be a Committee to consider the Petition and Report as soon as may be -
The Article relative to Instruction-read And the Question was put Vizt. " Whether the Town will Instruct their Represen- tatives " - Passed in the Negative
The Committee Appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Town Treasurer & Reported and the same having been read & Accepted the Town Clerk was directed to Record the Same & hand [35.] said Report to the Committee Appointed to Estimate the Expen- ces of the Town the ensuing Year, which Committee are desired to make Report at the Adjournment -
The Report is as follows
The Committee Appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Town Treasurey & examine the draughts of the Selectmen and Over- seers, report that the Treasurer Accounts are right cast and the Charges Well Vouched, the General State of the Treasurey is as follows Vizt.
Dr.
To Ballance of the Towns Account for Or- ) ders on the Treasurer &c - -
2475 . 2. 3
To Notes payable for the Treasurer Notes to Sundry People - 12377. 17. 1
due to Sundry Creditors 558. 17 - 158 . 9. 8
due to the Jeffries Estate -
due for Interest part of which has been
2478. 18,, 10
due 14 years -
18,049 ,, 4,, 10
Cr.
due from sundry Persons mostly Bad due from Savage Gray & Cudworth
356 . 14.10
Dº. Daniel Parker
1318 . 13 . 2
2307
Charles Williams for 85 - 103 ,, 2,, 6 Ditto - - - 86 914.19. 10
Benja. Henderson
839 . 18 ,, 8 J. Thompson
549.16. 3
T. Bayley
due from the State -
Old Continental Money on hand -
@ 75 for one the rate of which it was received 554,, 0. 9
220 ,, 8- 2628 ,, 5,, 3 6471 ,, 16 . 8
£11,962 ,, 2 ,, -
[36.] By this Statement it Appears that the debts due from
632 ,, 11 ,, 4
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the Town Amount to £18.049 ,, 4. 10 and that there is Little or no dependance on receiving Any debts due to the Town to dis- charge them, those due from Former Collector's and from others for rents - are Supposed to be Irrecoverable & those due from the present Collectors the Treasurer informs us will be if not wholly discharged by Abatements & Premiums to the Collectors so that there remains only the debt due from the State; towards discharging these debts - and the State debt Cannot be paid but by Orders on the Collectors which are now Selling at 8/ in the pound. -
The Committee have received from the Selectmen the Follow- ing Accounts of their Expenditures for the Year past from March 86 - to March 1787 - Vizt.
Watchmen Wages &c -
£707 2,,10
repairing the Towns Estate
307 ., 13 . 2.
repairing Engines &c
104 ,, 14 5
Paving & Gravel on the Neck
818 19„, 42
Assessors Wages
401 14 ,, -
Lamps Lamp lighters & Oil
479 10, 72
Sundrys to be paid by the State -
107 18
,, 1
Paving & Gravel within the Town
1079 ,, 13 9
Premiums for Engine men being first at a Fire - -
18 ,, 4
Schoolmasters & Ushers
1684 ,, 3 ,, 3
Collectors of Taxes
337 ,, 19 ,, 4 738 ,, 6 ,, -
Ferry Street Wall
Premium to Nazro for Collecting the dues of the Market 3
50,, 16 ,, 5
Printing the By Laws
78,, 15- 112 „, 2,,10
Printing & Stationary
[3%.] Town Clark his Salary -
Ditto for Services 1783 -
Town Treasurer -
130 ,,
Nazro for Attending the Selectmen
repairing Burial Place -
Visitation of the Schools
45 14 ,, -
repairs of the Town Clocks
29 13 6
,,
Constables for Servises
5 2
2
Pump at Dock Square -
2 8
13,, 10 „,
Ringing the Bells
32 ,, 13 9
Fanuiel Hall Market
,
Visitation Deer Island
17 ,, 18 .,, 2
Preambulation with Roxbury
5 , 9 , -
repairs Beacon Hill
57,,17 -
Storage of Powder
4,, 11 ,, 11}
Badges for Chimney Sweepers & Porters 5,,18 -
Hospital at West Boston to be Charged the State 14 ,, 9
Surveying the Town Land -
4 ,, 3 „, 62
-
130 ,, 50 ;,
50,, 29 8 6
,9
- Town Bulls
9 0.10
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Coals for the Selectmens Room 6 ,, , - Expences at Town Meeting 11 ,, 6 . 5 -
Sundry Towns for sending out their Poor
Clerks of the Market their Expences
7,, 9,,- 10 ,, -
£7,700,, 7,, 11} The Amount of Selectmens draughts for the Last year Brought Over 7,700 . 7,, 114
£2657,, 12,, 4} of the Above Expences the Selectmen Suppose will not be incurred the Ensuing Year -
But the Committee are of Opinion that Other Expences will Arise to the Town perhaps to as Large an Amount as for many Years past; there has been Sundry Expences, which at the time of Granting the Money were not in the Calculation -
[38.] The Amount of the Overseers draught from March 86 - to March 1787 - was - 2,972 ,, 14 ,, 4
£10673 ,, 2,, 34
The Town the Last Year Voted, £7,000 a Considerable part of that Sum must be deducted for Abatements &c- as the Treas- urer has paid from March 86 - to May 1787 - - - £1902 ,, 16 . 3 for Abatements and Premiums to the Collectors which Leaves Only About £5,000 - therefore the Town is near £6000 more in debt than they was in March 1786 besides the In- terest due in the £12,377 ,, 7 ,, 1-Only part of that having been paid the Last year The Town will also see by the General Statement that they are Indebted £2478 ,, 7 ,, 10 for Interest on the Treasurers Notes for £12,377 ,, 7 ,, 1 - - part of which has been due 14 Years and much the Greater part from 5. to 12 Years -
Joseph Russell Junr. # Order
Voted, that the Committee Appointed to Estimate the Sum Necessary to be raised to defrey the Expences of the Current Year, take into their consideration what Steps are necessary to be taken to Obtain the Debt due from the Commonwealth & Report the same to the Town
Moved & Voted, that the Town Treasurer be directed to put the Bonds given by Mr. Parker a late Collector for the Years 1784 & 1785 in Suit at a Court properly Authorised to try the same as soon as may be
Moved & Voted that the Town Treasurer be directed to settle with Colo. Symms relative to What he stands indebted on the Town Treasurer's Books & to Report at the Adjournment
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[39.] Adjourned to Wednesday
May 16th. 3 O'Clock P. M - Wednesday the 16th of May 3' O Clock Afternoon
Met According to Adjournment -
The Committee on Constables Petition not being Able to Report, moved & Voted, that said Committee be desired to Report at next Town Meeting
The Committee to estimate the Sum necessary to be raised to defray the Expenses of the present Year & to consider what Sums will be proper to grant to the several Officers in the pay of the Town - - - Reported, and the same being considered The Town came into the following Resolutions
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred Ninety five Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. Samuel Hunt for his Salary the present Year the same to commence the 1st. of March Inst. and to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due -
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred Ninety five Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. Nathan Davis for his Salary the present Year the same to commence the 1st. of March Inst: and to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred & Seventy pounds, be allowed & paid unto Mr. John Tileston for his Salary as Master of the North Writing School the present Year the same to - be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence from the 1st. of March Inst :
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred and Seventy Pounds be Allowed & paid unto Mr. James [40.] Carter, for his Salary as Master of the Writing School in Queen Street the present Year the same to be paid him Quarterly & to commence the 1st. of March Inst :
Voted, that Mr. John Vinal Master of Writing School in the Common have the Sum paid in the like manner -
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred and Seventy Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. Samuel Cheney for his Salary as Master of the New Writing School at the North End, the present Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due, & to commence from the 1st. of March Inst. -
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