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Honble. Stephen Higginson Esqr.
6
[318.] Charles Jarvis Esq". 1
James Bowdoin Esq". 5
William Eustis Esq". 2
John Coffin Jones Esq". 6
Mr. Samuel Brown 1.
For the County of Essex Honble. Benja. Goodhue Esq". - - 722 Edward Pullin - - Esq". 1
For County Middlesex Samuel Dexter - Jun'. Esq. 637
Honble. Joseph B Varnum - Esq". 69
Honble. Ebenezer Bridge Esq". 7
Honble: John Brooks - - Esq". 11
Honble. Eleazer Brooks - - Esq". 4
James Winthrop - Esqr. 1
For the Three Counties ) John Coffin Jones Esq". 410
or the District James Bowdoin Esq". 194
Honble William Heath Esq". -
114
William Eustis Esq".
3
Honble. Benja Austin Jun". Esq". 1 Charles Jarvis Esq". 4
Honble. Fisher Ames Esqr. 1
For the Commonwealth ) Honble. Davd. Cobb Esgr. - 403
at Large Except Maine § Honble. William Heath Esq". - 187
Hon ble. James Warren Esq". 100
James Bowdoin Esq". 16
John C. Jones Esq". 5
Hon ble. Stephen Higginson Esq". 1 William Eustis Esq r. 3
Mr. Samuel Brown 1
[319.]
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1792.
311
Persons Voted for as Electors of the President And Vice President of The United States
Votes
First District Honble. Azor Orne Esqr. - 693.
Honble. Thomas Dawes Esqr.
662
Honble. Samuel Phillips Esqr.
388
Honble. Increase Sumner
. 418
Honble. Fras. Dana Esqr.
365
Charles Jarvis Esqr.
301
Hon ble Samuel Holten
292
Richd. Devens Esqr.
- 229
Honble. Eleazer Brooks -
132
Honble. Thomas Russell -
50
James Winthrop Esqr. Theophs. Parsons Esq".
34
Honble. Caleb Davis Esqr.
6
James Bowdoin Esqr.
2
John C. Jones Esqr.
2
His Honr. the Lieut. Govern".
1
Honble. Robt. Paine Esqr.
4
Honble. Stephen Higginson -
2
Honble. William Heath
2
Honble. James Sullivan Esqr.
1
Honble. William Sheppard
2
Mr. Jeremiah Bumstead -
1
Honble. Oliver Prescott Esqr.
1
Honble. Levi Lincoln Esqr.
1
Honble. Cotton Tuffts Esqr. -
1
Thomas Edwards Esqr.
1
William Eustis Esqr.
1
Attested Copies of the Persons Voted for as Governor, Lieut. Governor and Senators for the County of Suffolk, were Com- mitted to the Secretary of this Commonwealth and the Inclosures Sealed up in the Town Meeting Superscribed as follows - Vizt. For John Avery Esqr. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusets -
List of Votes, of Representatives for the Next Congress of the United States from the Town of Boston in the first District. The above in A Circumflex was Wrote on the first Inclosure -
On the 2ª. Inclosure directed as above as follows Vizt.
A Copy of the List of the Persons Voted for with the Number of Votes for Each Person against his Name as Electors of Presi- dent & Vice President of the United States. and Sealed up in Town Meeting at Boston November the 2ª. 1792. -
Then the Meeting was Dissolved -
[320.]
15
312
CITY DOCUMENT.
[321.] At A meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabi- tants of the Town of Boston duly qualified and legally Warned in Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneuil Hall on Friday the 21st. day of December Anno Domini 1792. 10. O'Clock A : M :-
Warrant for calling the meeting - read -
Thomas Craft Esq".
was Chosen Moderator by A hand Vote. -
The Town having brought in their Votes for A Fire ward in the room of Samuel Breck Esqr. removed To Another State. -
William Scollay Esqr. was Chosen Fire Ward
The Article in the Warrant relative to A State house -read -
Whereupon Voted - That William Tudor Esq". William Eustis Esqr. Charles Jarvis Esqr. Perez Morton Esq". Mr. Daniel Austin John Coffin Jones Esqr. Treasurer Russell
Be A Committee to take this Article into Consideration and report at the Adjournment what they Judge Proper to be done thereon -
[322.] The Article in the Warrant relative to the Mill Pond and Mills. - read -
and after debate was moved and voted that the Town will not Act thereon -
The Article in the Warrant relative to the Law, Prohibiting Theatrical Entertainments - read And after Some debate thereon -
Voted : That five Persons be A Committee Appointed to Pre- pare A Petition and Remonstrance to the General Court against The Act Prohibiting Stage Plays, and other Theatrical Entertain- ments And to effect the repeal thereof and to report Any resolu- tions or other Matters relative to the Subject which it may be Proper for the Town to Adopt - Voted ; That
John Lucas Esqr. Henry Jackson Esq". Perez Morton Esqr. Joseph Russell Esqr. Abiel Smith Esqr
Be A Committee for that Purpose to Report as soon as may be -
313
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1792.
The above Committee Soon reported As follows - Vizt.
To The Honorable Senate and Honorable House of Represen- tatives in General Court Assembled January 1793. -
The Inhabitants of the Town of BOSTON in Town - Meeting Assembled, take Leave respectfully to remonstrate-That they Consider the Law [323.] Prohibiting Stage Plays, Interludes. and other Theatrical Entertainments, made Antecedent to the Establishment of our Present free and happy form of Govern- ment. as unconstitutional, inexpedient and absurd: Unconstitu- tional, Because among the Natural and Unalienable rights of the PEOPLE recognized in the first Article of their declaration of Rights, is that of Seeking and obtaining their own happiness - And in the 2ª. Section of the 5th. Chapter of the Constitution, they find it to be the duty of the Legislature "to Cherish the Interests of Literature, to Countenance & inculcate the Principles of Humanity and General benevolence, Charity, Sincerity, Good Humour, and all Social Affections and Generous Sentiments among the People." If Therefore There be any Dramatic. Per- formances already Written, or if any can be Written, The Exhi- bition of which may have A tendency to make men happy, to Encourage Literature, and to inculcate the Social Virtues, it is the right of the People to Enjoy them, And the Duty of the Legislature to Secure to them the Excercise of this right. and, of Course, this Law, which in its Prohibition makes no distinction in the Nature of the Performance is Repugnant to both. They also Consider this Statute as an Indirect Attack on the Liberty of the Press. for if [324.] the Right to Think, write and Print feeely be secured to the Citizen by this Article, to restrain other Citizens from reading, and repeating, or Procuring Others to read and repeat for them What is thus Printed, is A Political Solecism.
Your Memorialist, however, would not be understood, to deter- mine how far the Doctrine of Libels agt. Goverment, Individuals, or General Decency, and Morals, are exceptions to the 16th. Article of the Declaration of Rights; but thus much they can Confidently Say, That the Existence of the Law in Question is Inexpedient to these Purposes, Because if any thing Libellous, indecent or immoral Should be exhibited on the Stage, the Com- mon Law of the Country, and the good and Wholesome Statutes of the Commonwealth, are as fully Competent to their Suppression or Punishment, there, as in any other place. - The Absurdity of this Statute is too Conspicuous to Pass unnoticed. One of the Objects in making this Law, as recited in the Preamble, is the Suppression of Immorality, and yet in the enacting clause it is. lawful to exhibit any Dramatic peice, however Politicaly, or Morally bad in its tendency, Provided not more then Twenty [325.] Persons are Present; but at any Larger number, how- ever excellent and Moral the Sentiments of the Performance may be, the illegality and, according to the Logic of this Statute the Immorality, commences
314
CITY DOCUMENT.
We are at a Loss to know by what rule in Ethics an action is Constituted morally right or wrong by the number of the agents concerned.
Your memorialists cannot but observe, that all the Public Amusements, which are at present permitted, are Calculated ex- clusively for, and confined to the Gratification of the Rich, while theatrical Entertainments would Admit an indiscriminate Partici- pation to all ranks in Society. And we apprehend it is for this Reason, that in all free States, since the Republic of Athens the PEOPLE have considered the amusements of the Drama pecu- liarly their own; and even in Monarchical Governments, where the Monarch is not Absolutely Despotic the hand of Power has not been able to Suppress them.
For these reasons, the Inhabitants of your Capital respect- fully request the Legislature to take this Exceptionable Law into their serious Consideration, and, in repealing it, leave the Citizen at Liberty, by a resort to an Innocent & rational amusement, to seek and Promote his own happiness and, as in Duty bound, shall Ever Pray &c -
John Lucas Ør. order
[326.] The aforegoing remonstrance having been read, The Same was accepted almost Unanimously -
The Aforegoing Committee also reported the following set of instructions which were also Accepted with A Like Majority - Vizt.
First, RESOLVED -That our representatives be and they hereby are instructed, to renew their Exertions in the next Session of the Legislature, to effect a Repeal of the Law, which prohihits Theatrical Exhibitions within the Commonwealth, at least so far as respects the Town of Boston, or any other Town that may petition the Legislature for that purpose. -
Second, Resolved, that we shall consider counter-petitions, or any other methods, which A minority of the Inhabitants may adopt to defeat the Wishes of the Town, as irregular and unkind. -
Third, Resolved, That, the thanks of the Town be given to our Representatives, who by their late Efforts, Endeavored to pro- cure a repeal of the Law in question; and that Thomas Crafts Esq". Leonard Jarvis Esqr., Mr. Joseph Russell, John Lucas Esqr.,. Perez Morton, Esqr. Mr. John Quincy Adams, Paul Revere Esq., Mr. Edward Tuckerman, Samuel Bradford Esqr., Mr. Jnº. Brazer [327.] Jabez Hatch Esqr., Mr. William Little, Samuel Brown Esqr., Abiel Smith Esq"., Henry Jackson Esqr., Samuel Cooper Esqr., Mr. Harrison G. Otis, William Powell Esqr., Joseph Blake Junr., Mr. John Barrett and Mr. William Deblois, be a Committee to co-operate with them in such measures, as may be Thought expedient, to give effect to the Petition and remonstrance, which the Town will Present to the Legislature on this Subject.
315
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1792.
Fourth. Resolved, That the respect Justly due to the sentiments of our fellow Citizens must operate as an indispensible Obligation to explain our Sense of the Nature and Tendency of the Law against Dramatic Entertainments, as well as the Ideas of the views and Principles which govern the Inhabitants on this occa- sion ; and we should be unhappy to conceive that an opinion could prevail of our Abhorrence of Vice, or of our Love of Virtue, being diminished, when we venture to assert, that the Law under Consideration is neither consonant to the Spirit of Liberty, nor agreeable to the Liberal Principles, upon which our happy Constitution of Government is established ; A Constitution which Scarcely admits of general restraints upon the Natural rights of the Citizen [328.] to prevent partial abuses or imaginary evils in the exercise of them; and it is no less for this reason than from the high opinion we have uniformly cherished of the man- ners and virtue of our Fellow-Citizens, That we have the fullest persuasion, that the Penal Statutes of the Government, and that Just detestation of Vice and immorality of every kind, which both reason and Religion inculcate, will be found amply Suffi- cient for the invaluable Objects they are intended to secure, with- out the equivocal aid of Prohibitory Regulations, founded in an impolitic jealousy of the Views and dispositions of the People, and unwarranted either by the Voice of Reason, or the Dictates of experience-
Fifth. Resolved, That the aforesaid Committee be authorized and desired to wait upon his Excellency, the Governor, with a Copy of these Resolutions, and present to him, in the name of the Inhabitants of the Town the following Address ;
May it Please your Excellency-
Your fellow Citizens, the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, have determined to Solicit [329.] the Legislature, at their Next Session, for a repeal of the Law, which Prohibits Theatrical En- tertainments within the Commonwealth ; and they have Thought proper to request your Excellencys aid on this occasion as they cannot conceive, from your Enlightened opposition to every encroachment on the Sacred Limits of the Constitution, that you would decline to Afford every proper support to an application, which at once contemplates. the establishment of an elegant and rational amusement, - and the repeal of a compulsory Statute, formed in violation, not only of those liberal maxims which Your Excellency's Administration has hitherto vindicated and con- firmed, but of that Confidence In the virtue and discretion of the People which You have uniformly expressed and inculcated -
Adjourned to the 14th. day of January Next at 12 O'Clock A : M :-
Town Met According to Adjournment
Adjourned to Tuesday 22ª. Jany. Instant 3 O'Clock P : M :
-
316
CITY DOCUMENT.
[330.] At A Meeting of the freeholders and Other inhabi- tants of the Town of Boston Qualified to vote for Representatives to the General Court of this Commonwealth and legally Warned in Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneuil Hall On Monday the 14th. January Anno Domini 1793. 10. O'Clock A : M : -
Warrant for Calling the Meeting - read
Precept for the supreme Executive for the Choice of One Representative for the Congress of the United States, for the Dis- trict of this Commonwealth - read -
It was then Declared by the Selectmen that The Poll would be closed at half past 1. O'Clock P: M : That the Votes be received at the Table, and the Bells to begin to Ring at 1. O'Clock & Con- tinued tolling untill half past One O'Clock -
Persons Voted for as Representatives to Represent the said District, Vizt. Suffolk. Essex & Middlesex in Congress of the United States - all of whom are Inhabitants of One or Another of Said Counties Vizt.
Votes
Honble Benjamin Austin Jun". Esqr. - 635
James Bowdoin Esq". - 363
[331.]
Samuel Sewall Esqr. - 178
Honble. Samuel Holten Esq. - 3
Honble. William Heath Esqr. -
2 Honble. Stephen Higginson Esq". -
1 Total 1182.
Attest Copy of The Persons Voted for, for One Representative to represent the first District Vizt. Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex in the Congress of the United States were Committed to the Secretary of this Common Wealth and the return Sealed up in Town Meeting Superscribed as follows. Vizt. -
For John Avery Esqr. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
List of VOTES for one Representative to represent the first District, Vizt. Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex, from the Town of Boston in said District
Then The Meeting was Dissolved
[332.] Town Met according to Adjournment January 22d. 1793. 3. O'Clock P : M : -
The Committee appointed on the 21st. of Decr. last, to consider
-
317
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1793.
and report what Proposals should be offered on the Part of the Town to the Committee of the Legislature on the Subject of erecting a State House for the Commonwealth, within the Town of Boston, - Report : That it is expedient that A Committee should be immediately raised with plenary Powers to contract on the Part of the Inhabitants for the Grant and Conveyance of any Peice of Ground, the Property of the Town, Suitable for such Buildings as the State may think necessary to the sole use and benefit of the Commonwealth - And that the Committee be further authorized ; to make this other proposal
That if the Commonwealth will grant to the Town all their Estate in the present State House and the Old Province House, and the Land appurtenant thereto. that in such Case the Town shall and will Erect a New State House for the Commonwealth on any Spot of Ground within the Limits of the Town, being the Towns property, which the Legislature shall elect, and on any Model they shall direct, provided the whole expence shall not exceed Nine Thousand Pounds, [333.] and on Condition that the Commonwealth shall Grant. Two Thousand Pounds to the Town in addition to the real Property, to be conveyed as before stipulated. All which is Submitted by order of.
William Tudor
January 14th. 1793 -
The Report having been read and Considered The Question was put, Whether the Town will Accept the Same. Passed in the Affirmative unanimously
Also Voted, That William Tudor Esqr. William Eustis Esqr. Charles Jarvis Esqr. Perez Morton Esqr. Mr. Daniel Austin John Coffin Jones Esqr. Mr. Treasurer Russell
Be A Committee to Effect the Purposes of this Report
All matters Unfinished referred to the Next General Town Meeting -
Voted, That the Thanks Of The Town be and hereby are given, To Thomas Crafts Esqr. for his good Services as Modera- tor of the meeting -
Then the Meeting was Dissolved
[334.] At A Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabi- tants of the Town of Boston, Duly qualified and Legally warned in
318
CITY DOCUMENT.
Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneuil Hall on Wednesday the 13th. day of February Anno Dom1. 1793. 10. O'Clock A : M :
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read -
Honble. Thomas Dawes Esqr. was Chosen The Moderator by A hand Vote -
The Article in the Warrant - Vizt.
To take into Consideration the Petition of the Directors of West Boston Bridge relative to the Hospital at That part of The Town - read, and on Motion
Voted, That This Matter be left to the Selectmen for them to Act thereon as they shall Judge Proper. -
The Article in the Warrant - Vizt.
To take into Consideration the Petition of A Number of the Inhabitants That measures may be taken for to Prevent the Erecting and building on a Passage way, between the Rope walks at the Southeasterly Part of the Town which has for many Years laid Open - read and largely debated, and on motion [335.] Voted, That A Committee be appointed to Confer with the Com- mittee of The General Court, on the Petition of Jeffery Richard- son, and to Use their Exertions in Case the Said Land mentioned in said Petition is to be sold, That so much thereof may be re- served for the Town as is Necessary for its Security and accomo- dation, also
Voted, That Honble. Caleb Davis Esq". Jabez Hatch Esqr. Harrison G. Otis Esq". Loring Austin Esqr. Mr. Archibd. Mc.Neal - Be A Committee for the Purpose Aforesaid-
Voted That all matters unfinished at this meeting. be referred Over to the Next General Town Meeting -
Voted, That the Thanks of the Town Be, and hereby are given to the Honorable Thomas Dawes Esqr. for his good Services as Moderator of This Meeting -
Then the meeting was Dissolved -
[336.] At A Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabi- tants of The Town of Boston duly qualified and Legally Warned in Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneuil Hall On Monday,
319
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1793.
The Eleventh day of March Anno Domini 1793-10. O'Clock A : M :-
Prayer was made by the Revª. Doctor Walter
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
Sundry Laws to be read at this meeting - read -
The Town having Voted to come to the Choice of A Moderator by A hand Vote. -
Honble Thomas Dawes Esqr. was Chosen Moderator. of This Meeting -
The Inhabitants were then directed to withdraw and bring in their Votes for a Town Clerk and the same being brought in and counted it Appeared That -
William Cooper
Was chosen Town Clerk for the year Ensuing and the Oath of Office was Administered to him by Mr. Justice Crafts -
The Inhabitants were directed to Withdraw and bring in their Votes for Nine Selectmen [33%.] And upon Sorting them it appeared that the Following Gentlemen - Vizt. -
Ezekiel Price Esqr. Thomas Walley Esq". Deacon William Boardman
Mr. Ebenezer Seaver
Thomas Craft Esqr. Thomas Edwards - Esqr.
Mr. William Little
Mr. Charles Bulfinch William Scollay Were Chosen Selectmen for the Year Ensuing -
The Inhabitants having as Directed brought in their Votes for 12 Overseers of the Poor - on Counting and sorting the Same it appeared that
Jonathan Mason Esqr. John White - Esqr. Edward Proctor - Esqr. John Sweetser - Esqr. Samuel Parkman - Esqr. Jonathan L. Austin Esq™ Mr. Edward Edes - Henry Hill - Esqr. John Codman Junr. Esq". Mr. William Smith William Phillips Jun™. Esqr. Stephen Goreham Esq".
Were chosen Overseers of the poor for The year Ensuing -
320
CITY DOCUMENT.
[338.] The Votes being brought in Counted and Sorted for 16 Firewards. it appeared -
That Mr. Thomas Tileston John Winthrop Esqr. Thomas Melvill Esqr. Jabez Hatch Esqr. Mr. Joseph Clarke Joseph Russell Jun". Esqr. Mr. Edward Edes Samuel Parkman Esqr.
Amasa Davis Esqr.
Mr. Russell Sturgis Henry Jackson Esqr. Capt. Mungo Mackay William Scollay Esq".
William Little Esqr. Mr. James Tisdale Joseph May Esq".
Were chosen Fire wards for the Year Ensuing -
The Article in the Warrant - Vizt. To Choose A School Committee -read. Whereupon -
Voted. That in Addition to the selectmen Twelve Persons shall Now be Chosen and the following Gentlemen were accordingly Chosen Ør. ballot - Vizt.
[339.]
Honble Thomas Dawes - Esqr. Revd. Samuel West Revª. John Lothrop D.D. John Coffin Jones Esqr. Jonathan L. Austin Esqr. William Tudor Esq". Doctor Thomas Welsh Doctor Nathaniel Appleton Revd. John Clarke Mr. William Smith Doctor Aaron Dexter George Richards Minot Esqr. Also
Voted, That the Aforegoing Committee Who Conjunctly with the Selectmen are to be termed The School Committee be and hereby are directed to carry the New System of Education which has been Adopted by the Town into operation, And said Com- mittee are Also Authorized and impowered Conjunctly to Man- age and regulate the Officers and Government of the Schools and in future to Exercise all the Powers relating to the School and its Schoolmasters which the Selectmen And Such Committee are Authorized by the Laws of the Commonwealth or the Votes of This Town to Exercise Any former Votes of the Town Notwith- standing -
321
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1793.
Votes, for A Treasurer for the County of Suffolk. brought in and Counted by the Moderator & The Town Clerk ; when it ap- peared that the whole Number was Three hundred and Three And that they were all for Thomas Craft Esqr. A discreet and Suitable person being a Freeholder & Resident in the Same County - The Attested Copy thereof was given to Ezek1. Price Esqr. Clerk of the Sessions by Coll -. Crafts -
[340.] Voted, That the Honble. Thomas Dawes Esq". Herman Brimmer Esqr. Joseph Russell Junr. Esqr.
Be, and hereby are appointed A Committee to Audit the Ac- compts of the Town Treasurer, and Also the accounts of the Selectmen, And Overseers of the Poor, And said Committee are directed to report the Sum Necessary to be raised for the Service of the Present Year -
Voted, That the Assessors be, and hereby are directed to set for such Abatements of Taxes, as they shall Judge reasonable, Two days in Each Week after the delivery of the Tax Books 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 the opportunity of Applying in the above Limited time by reason of Their being out of the Commonwealth or any Other Unavoidable hindrance, And That the Assessors themselves, Determine upon the said Two days, which is to be noted on the Tax bills to be delivered to The Inhabitants. -
Voted, That the Consideration of all Money matters be referred over Until the Next May Meeting -
[341.] Jirah Holbrooks Petition read, and After Debate - It was moved and Voted that the Said Petitioner have Leave to withdraw his Petition
Mr. Joseph Russell was Chosen Town Treasurer for the Year Ensuing Unanimously, And the Oath of Office Administred to him by the Town Clerk -
Voted, That the Town Treasurer give Bond with Sureties, To the Satisfaction of the selectmen In the Penalty of Ten Thou- sand Pounds for the faithful Discharge of the Duties of his Office --
Mess's Benjamin White John Ballard Moses May Andrew Townsend William Todd Were Chosen Fence Viewers for the Year Ensuing -
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CITY DOCUMENT.
Messrs Thomas Bradley Nathan Green David Hollis Mathew Loring Were Chosen Sealers of Leather for [the] Year Ensuing -
The Gentlemen Selectmen - Were Chosen Surveyors of Highways the Year Ensuing
[342.] Mess's William McNeil Jeffrey Richardson Were Chosen Surveyors of Hemp the Year Ensuing -
Mr. Adam Colson
Was Chosen an Informer of Deer for the Year Ensuing
Messrs. Edward Jones Francis Booth Samuel Curtis
Were Chosen Haywards for the Year Ensuing -
Messrs. Joseph Egner Henry Davis
Were Chosen Hogreeves for the Year Ensuing -
John Lucas - Esq". Edward Tuckerman Esqr.
Were Chosen Surveyors of Wheat The Year Ensuing -
Messrs. John Skinner Samuel Green
Were Chosen Assay Masters the Year Ensuing -
Mess's John Ballard Benjamin Homans Jirah Holbrook William Cunningham Were Chosen Sealers of Wood for the Year Ensuing -
Vote, relative to referring the Choice of Collectors. Vote May meeting. Passed, and afterwards reconsidered, -
[343.] The Honble Caleb Davis Esq". Thomas Russell Esq.
Were Chosen into the Office of Fire Wards for the Year Ensuing and having declined Serving -
Voted, That the Thanks of The Town be and hereby are Given to the Aforenamed Gentlemen for Their good Services as Fire- wards A Number of Years past
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