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Item-William Camp, John Treat, Thomas Ludington, Jasper Crane, Mr. John Catlin, Richard Harrison, and Stephen Davis, are Chosen for that Purpose; and any Three of them at each end of the Town have Power to act.
John Curtis and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen to make the Rates for this Year.
Item-it is voted, that Mr. Pierson's and the Town Rate shall be made in one this Year.
Item-it is voted, that Ephraim Burwell shall be Rate free this Year.
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TOWN MEETING, December 19th, 1681-It is agreed, there shall be a Committee of four Men from among our-
Committee chosen to selves chosen to join with the four Farmers, both join- end the Dif- ference about ing together as a Committee, to end the long Difference the Neck. between the Town and them concerning the Neck Money ; which eight Men shall have Liberty finally to end that Difference if they can ; and if they cannot agree them. selves they have Liberty mutually to choose an Umpire to be the casting Voice ; and both the Town and the Farmers are engaged together, to stand to what they shall do. The Umpire agreed upon both by the Town and the Farmers, is one of these three Men, (viz) : Benj'n Price, Sen'r, Isaac Whitehead, Sen'r, or Ben- jamin Parkas ; the Committee's work which is chosen, is to see whether the Town be indebted to the Farmers or not, and whose Right it is to pay it if any be due.
Item-Mr. Thomas Johnson, John Curtis, William Camp and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen for the Committee.
TOWN MEETING, January the 1st or 2nd, 1681-2-Mr. Thomas Johnson and John Curtis are chosen Deputies for the Year ensuing.
Samuel Plum, Constable. John Brown, Jun'r, Clerk for the Town. Samuel Lyon and Samuel Harrison, Pounders.
Stephen Davis, John Catlin, William Camp, Joseph Walters, Samuel Harrison, Joseph Riggs, and John Brown, Jun'r, Town's Men.
Item-it is agreed by Vote, that the Difference between the Town and the Farmers shall be ended by the Committee already chosen. 1
Item-it is voted, that the Treasurer shall have no Salary.
TOWN MEETING, January 6, 1681-2-It is agreed, that what the Town's Men shall act and do according to the best of their Judgment for the Town's Good as they apprehend in making any act, provided it infringe not on any of the three things prohibited in the Town Book, shall be as binding as any Act made by the whole Town, for the Year ensuing.
Item-Edward Riggs is chosen Warner of Town Meetings for that end of the Town where he lives, for the Year ensuing.
TOWN MEETING, January 11th, 1681-2-Mr. Thomas Johnson is chosen Town Treasurer for the Year ensuing.
Item-Benjamin Baldwin is chosen to Warn Town Meetings, at that End of the Town where he lives, for the Year ensuing.
Item-Azariah Crane is chosen to look to the Young People, that they carry themselves civilly in the Meeting House in time of Divine Worship, for half this Year ensuing.
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Joseph Riggs and Thomas Lyon are chosen Fence Viewers for the Year ensuing ; and the Town doth allow them half the Fines, as they did before.
Item-there having been some uncomfortable Debate, about the Town's Men chosen the 1st or 2nd of January, 1681-2-The Town doth now again confirm their Choice.
Order to
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TOWN MEETING, February the 24th, 1681-2-It is agreed, that all and every Person or Persons shall reckon with the Treasurer, and agree with him for the Payment of their Rates, within a Week's Time.
Item-it is agreed, that the foremost Seats in the Meeting House shall be filled with Men and Women, so far forth as Con- veniency will permit.
Committee to seat the Meeting House.
Item-it is agreed that a new Committee shall be chosen, to appoint in which Seats Persons shall sit.
Item-it is agreed that the Town's Men shall be a Committee to seat the Meeting House, and they shall have Lib- erty to chuse two Men to join with them, which Town's Men together with those two shall have Power, from Time to Time to supply this Work.
Item-Samuel Plum and Thomas Ludington are made choice of, to join with the Town's Men in this Work.
Item-it is agreed that if any Person or Persons kill For Killing Wolves and Bears. any Wolves or Bears, which they require pay for from the Town ; they shall be only such Wolves and Bears that are killed within our Town Bounds, that they shall be allowed pay for.
TOWN MEETING, April 19th, 1682-There having been much Damage done by Reason of much defective Fences, and in special by a Piece of Fence against a Home Lott formerly given to Daniel Dod, upon account of his making and maintaining a Fence at the Front of his Lott, the Breadth of his Lott so given. And Altho' this Grant (to Daniel Dod) is not found upon the Record, Yet several Persons that was then Present do now declare, that they do fully remember that that Lott was given to Daniel Dod upon the afs'd Condition, as namely : Deacon Michael Tompkins, Deacon Richard Lawrence, Mr. Thomas Johnson, Stephen Davis, and William Camp, and also several others. Yet now Daniel Dod to make and maintain his Fence across his Lott. Daniel Dod refuseth to make or maintain the same, only as his Proportion in Common with other, tho' made and maintained by him at first. Upon these Person's Testimony and the Complaint of Damage done by the Insufficiency of this Fence-The Town doth by Vote declare their Minds concerning the same, (viz) : that Dan'l Dod is to make and maintain, from Time to Time, that Fence at the
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front of his Lott, according to the Conditions he took the Lott by as is before exprest.
Item-the Town doth agree to stand by the Fence Viewers, and see that they shall be paid for the making or re- Fence View- ers to be paid. pairing any defective Fences which the owners refuse to make or repair, according as the former Country Order provides.
Item-Mr. Johnson, Joseph Walter, Mr. Ward, and Samuel Plum, are chosen to appoint the Time for the carrying Mr. Pierson's Wood, each Man in that Quarter where
Carrying Mr. Pier- son's wood for this he liveth ; and all Persons concerned in each Quarter is to attend the work upon one Day, when the Over- Year. seer doth Appoint it, he giving two or three Days Warning before Hand.
Item-Zachariah Burwell, Ephraim Burwell, and George Day, have the Grant to take so much Land at the Front of their Lotts toward the Two Mile Brook as William Camp, Thomas Luding. ton, and John Treat, who are appointed to lay it out shall lay to their Lotts ; provided it prejudice not the Highway.
TOWN MEETING, September the 24, 1682-It is agreed by Vote, that all Home Lotts and improved Lands shall pay a
The way of Penny p. Acre-that all Lands unimproved lying
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Year 1682. within Fence, and Meadow, a half Penny p. Acre. That the Second Division without the Common Fence and not Fenced in particular, shall be rated according to the Third Division without Fence, (viz) : a farthing p. Acre. That all Heads, and Cattle, as they were the last Year.
Item-it is agreed, that two Men at each end of the Town shall go to each Inhabitant that is concerned to pay Rates, and demand a List of their Estate, within a Fortnight after this Day, and it any Person do refuse to give in a List of their Estate to them, then these Men now chosen shall give in a List, according to their best knowledge and best Information they can come at.
The Men now chosen for this purpose, are Samuel Harrison and Edward Ball for that End of the Town where they live. William Camp and Ephraim Burwell for that End where they live.
Item-it is agreed that the Minister's and the Town Rate shall be made in one this Year.
John Curtis and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen to make the Rates this Year.
TOWN MEETING, December 4, 1682-Joseph Walters and David Ogden are chosen, to go to each Man that stands indebted to the Town in the Treasurer's Book, and make Demand thereof, or desire them to reckon with the Treasurer within a Week's Time ; and if they have neither Meat, nor Corn, to pay, the Treasurer
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doth engage to putt them in a Way to pay their Debt with Tim- ber ; but if they will not pay nor reckon, then the Constable shall come with a Warrant and distrain for it.
TOWN MEETING, the 1st January, 1682-3-Mr. Thomas John- son and John Curtis are chosen Deputies for the Year ensuing. . Edward Ball, Constable. Thomas Huntington, Joseph Walters, Joseph Riggs, Samuel Harrison, Samuel Lyon, John Baldwin, Jun'r, and Jolin Crane, Town's Men.
Mr. Johnson, Treasurer.
John Brown Jun'r, Clerk for the Town, also Warner of Town Meetings at that End of the Town where he lives.
Item-John Davis, Warner of Town Meetings at that end of the Town where he lives.
Jasper Crane and Samuel Potter, Fence Viewers.
Azariah Crane and Anthony Oliff, Pounders.
William Camp and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen, to gather up a List as near as they can, of those that are behind in paying the Purchase for such Lands they have taken up and not paid for ; also as near as they can. how many Acres such have taken up.
Item-John Baldwin, Sen'r, is chosen, to look that the Young People carry themselves orderly, in Times of Divine Worship.
TOWN MEETING, February 5th, 1682-3 .- It is voted, that the Town's Men's Work for this year, shall be as it was in March the 19, 1673-4.
Item-it is agreed that there shall be a Committee chosen, to consider of some Things as they think may be for the Town's Good, in Order that our Deputies should promote the same at the General Assembly.
Committee to instruct the Deputies If they need.
Item-Mr. John Ward, Stephen Davis, Richard Har. rison, Thomas Richards, William Camp, Joseph Wal- ters, Ephraim Burwell, and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen a Committee for this End.
TOWN MEETING, March 22, 1682-3-Mr. Ward, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Lyon, John Curtis, Edward Ball, and John Brown, A Committee to seek settle- ment. Jun'r, are chosen Agents to endeavor in the Town's Behalt the obtaining a legal Settlement, with such Privileges from the Proprietors as they, the said Agents, shall think fit to be proposed for. As also, the obtaining a Charter for the whole Town Bounds, with as much Priviledge and Ease as they can. And any three of these have Power and may Act in the Town's behalf, and what they shall act and do, the Town shall and. will own as their Act and Deed.
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TOWN MEETING, May 11th, 1683-It is agreed by Vote, that for the two next Years one End of the Town from the
cross Street shall find Mr. Pierson with wood one Year,
Carrying Mr. Pier- son's wood. . and the other End of the Town the next Year. The North End of the Town is to begin.
Item-Upon Mr. John Wilkins' Motion. The Town admitted him to be a Planter, he submitting to our Town Orders.
John Wilking The Town hath also given him Liberty to purchase an
Admission to
be a Planter. Accommodation in our Town, or take up a Tract of Land; provided it be no Ways prejudicial to High- ways, or that other Men have not already surveyed, he paying the Purchase as others have done.
TOWN MEETING, May 16, 1683-Whereas, there was a Cov- enant made with Mr. Robert Treat and Sarj't Richard Harrison, to make and maintain a sufficient Corn Mill, upon such Conditions as is in a Covenant exprest, made between them, the said Mr. Treat and Richard Harrison, and the Town, recorded in the Town Book, fol. 29. Be it known, that I, Richard Harrison, having Jede bought Mr. Treat's Part of the Mill, and am obliged according to the Covenant and Conditions thereof afs'd, have formerly, and do now again make over, all my Right to the Mill unto my Sons Sam'l, Joseph, and George Harrison ; they being become obliged unto the Town in all particulars mentioned in the said Covenant, to observe and keep the same, in all Respects as fully as I the said Richard Harrison was obliged to. And the said Samuel, Joseph, and George Harrison, have and do declare in the Town Meeting, their acceptance of the Mill, upon the same Conditions as is in the said Covenant exprest. Also the Town doth declare their Acceptance of the said Samuel, Joseph, and George Har. rison, in their Father's stead-this was voted in the Meeting above said.
Item-Sarj't Richard Harrison hath Granted to him as his proper Right, half of the Mill Home Lott, on that side of the Lott next to Samuel Rose ; by Exchange for a Parcel of Land laid out to himself and Mr. Treat, joining to the Mill Land, on the other side of the Mill River.
Item-the Millers do own, that the Six Acres of Meadow be- longing to the Mill, lieth next to, and on that end of their Meadow next to Jasper Crane
TOWN MEETING, 2nd October, 1683-It is agreed by vote, that all and every Person possessed of Lands in the Town of Newark, shall have their Names put into the List, to be called at Town Meetings from Time to Time.
Item-it is agreed by vote, that this second Day of October
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shall be the Day for this Year, to bring in the List of their Estates, instead of the last Second Day of September.
Item-it is agreed by Vote, that the way of rating this Year shall be on Lands, Heads, and Cattle, as it was the last Year, viz : on Heads 14d. p. Head, Oxen 5d. p. Ox, Cows above 3 Years old 3d. p. Cow, Steers of 4 Years old 4d. each, Steers and Hieffers of 3 Years old 3d. each, Steers and Hieffers of 2 Years old 2d. each, Steers and Hieffers of one Year old 1d. each, Horses and Mares of three Years old and upwards 3d. each, Horses and Mares of 2 Years old 2d. each, Horses and Mares of one Year old 1d. each, all Swine of one Year old and upwards Id. each, all Home Lotts and improved Lands shall pay 1d. p. Acre. All Lands unimproved lying within Fence, and Meadow, half penny p. Acre. The Second Division without the Common Fence and not Fenced in particular, shall be rated according to the Third Division without Fence, viz : a farthing p. Acre.
Item-John Curtis and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen to make the Rates for this Year.
Item-it is agreed by vote, that those Persons as have not yet brought in a List of their Estates on this Second day of October, according to the Town Order, shall within seven days (from this 2nd of October above said) bring in a true List of their rateable Estate, to the Men chosen to make the Rates ; and if any neglect so to do, William Camp and Ephraim Burwell are chosen for that end of the Town where they live, Edward Ball and Samuel Har. rison are chosen for that end of the Town where they live, to go to the Houses of those as neglect and demand a List, and for their Pains shall have Six Pence a piece, for each List so fetched : which money is to be taken (by the Rate Makers) from their Rates as fetch any such List, and added to their Rates as are found Neglectors. And if any shall refuse to give in a List of their Estates, those as are thereunto appointed shall give in a List, according to the best of their Knowledge and others In- formation.
TOWN MEETING, January 1st, 1683-Mr. Thomas Johnson and John Curtis are chosen Deputies for the Year ensuing. William Camp, Constable. John Tichenor, Warner of Town Meetings at that End of the Town where he lives. John Ward, Turner, Warner of Town Meetings at that End of the Town where he lives.
Thomas Huntington, John Crane, John Baldwin, Jun'r, Samuel Lyon, Azariah Crane, Joseph Harrison, and Nathaniel Wheeler, Town's Men.
John Brown, Jun'r, Town Clerk.
John Curtis, Town Treasurer.
Stephen Davis, John Baldwin, Sen'r, Azariah Crane, John
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Treat, Thomas Ludington, Jasper Crane, and Anthony Oliff, to lay out Highways.
WHEREAS, there is an Order made by Vote the 21 of March, 1675-6, for our Orderly attendance at Town Meetings, and for Want of due Execution many are remiss in their Attendance, by which means Town Business is much hindred, and some as do attend are much damnified by loosing their Time. We that are now present do assent, that all past offences upon this account be past by to this Day. And do now subscribe our names (provided that Three fourths of the Planters do subscribe) to submit to all and every Penalty in that Order before mentioned, upon our late Coming, total Absence, or irregular going away before the Meet- ing be dismissed. And Whereas, the said Order directs every Delinquent to give their Reasons to the Town. We do now agree and think it most fit, that Three Men in each End of the Town be Chosen, for each Person that is remiss to repair to within two or three Days at the most after the Meeting; and if their Reasons are satisfying to them, why they were absent, they shall be remitted their Fine; otherwise, within three Days after such Town Meeting their Names as are remiss shall be returned to the Constable, who is to gather up such Fines, and shall have half' for his Pains.
Item-it is agreed, that the three Men at the South End of the Town are Joseph Walters, Stephen Bond, and Ephraim Bur- well; and the Three at the North End of the Town are Deacon Lawrence, Stephen Davis, and Samuel Plum ; for the Confirma- tion thereof, we have hereunto set our Hands this 9th of January, 1683. Note, that the other half of the Fines is to be delivered to the Treasurer for the Town's use.
John Ward,
Thomas Johnson, Richard Lawrence, William Camp, Stephen Davis, John Baldwin, Jun'r, Samuel Plum, John Ward, Jun'r,
Thomas Ludington, John Baldwin, Sen'r, Joseph Walters, David Ogden, Theophilus Pierson, Anthony Oliff, Samuel Lyon, Ephraim Burwell, Samuel Rose, Thomas Pierson. John Crane,
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John Wilkins, John Johnson, Azariah Crane, Joseph Johnson,
John Burwell,
Zachariah Burwell, John Bruen, Thomas Lyon, John Curtis, Edward Riggs, Jonathan Tompkins, Jabez Rogers, Seth Tompkins, Stephen Bond, John Brown, Sen'r, Henry Lyon, Samuel Kitchell, Robert Dalglesh, Richard Fletcher,
John Brown, Jun'r. Jonathan Sargant.
Samuel Potter, Joseph Brown,
Edward Ball,
Thomas Brown, Samuel Harrison,
Samuel Tichenor,
Joseph Riggs,
Joseph Harrison,
Thomas Richards.
Ebenezer Canfield.
John Tichenor, Samuel Ward, Nathaniel Ward,
John Ward, Turner. John Treat, Francis Lindly,
Daniel Abett.
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Some propositions between the Town and John Gardner,. towards an agreement for John Gardner to keep and provide for Richard Hore, (viz) : that the said John Gardner doth agree with the Town, to take Richard Hore into his House (he coming well clothed with a good Leathern Suit) for Two Shillings and Six Pence a Week, in Money, or Pay equivalent ; and dothi further promise to keep him conveniently clean, and if he live not a Year, the said John Gardner shall have two Shillings and Six Pence a Week for so long as he doth live; and if he live above a Year, the said John Gardner doth engage to provide him with Cloaths and Victuals, that he suffer not, for the two Shillings and Six Pence a week afs'd, as long as the said Richard live and the Town see Cause to continue him there, and free the Town from further Trouble. In Confirmation hereof, John Gardner on his Part and Edward Ball in Behalf of the Town, have this 20th of Feb'y, 1690, set to their Hands.
JOHN GARDNER, EDWARD BALL.
TOWN MEETING, January 9th, 1683-Anthony Oliff is ap- pointed by the Constable to be the Constable's Deputy. Richard Fletcher and Anthony Oliff are chosen Fence Viewers for the Year ensuing. Thomas Lyon and Jabez Rogers, Pounders.
Seating the TOWN MEETING, Fel'y 25th, 1683-It is agreed by Meeting House. Vote, that there shall be a Committee chosen to seat
the Meeting House, and procure the mending the Seats that are broken.
Item-John Curtis, Mr. Johnson, Deacon Lawrence, Mr. Ward, John Brown, Jun'r, Stephen Davis, and William Camp, are chosen a Committee for this Purpose.
Item-It is voted that the Rule for them to proceed in to seat Persons by, is Office, Age, Estate, Infirmity, Decent or Parentage -all which are left to the Discretion of the Committee, to act in according to the best of their Judgments
Item-John Conch is admitted a Planter in this Town.
Zopher Beach his Grant.
Item-Samuel Lyon hath Liberty to give Zopher Beach two Acres of Land, to build on.
Item-the Town's Men are chosen a Committee, to draw up some thing concerning the Act of Assembly about Horses and present to the Deputies, that we may not be hindred to take up our Horses out of the Woods.
TOWN MEETING, March 22, 1683-4-Azariah Crane, Joseph Riggs, Edward Ball, and Samuel Harrison, are chosen to lay out the Bounds between us and Hockquecanung, and to make no
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other Agreement with them of any other Bounds than what was formerly.
The Surveyors appointed by the Town to lay out Highways for convenient coming at Land and Meadow, upon the 13th of March, 1683-4, laid out from the great Highway that goes down to the lower End of the Great Neck, a Highway of two Rods Wide, upon that Point of Land between the Pond and Swamp and the Meadow, in the most convenient Place leading into the Meadow.
TOWN MEETING, May 30, 1684-It is voted, that there shall be a Committee Chosen to consider and draw up something as may be in Readiness, if Occasion be, to manifest our Right and Title to the Land we bought of the Heathen; and present the same to the Town, to have the Town's approbation if they like it.
Item-it is voted, that five Men shall be of this Committee, (viz) : Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ward, John Curtis, Mr. Kitchell, Deacon Lawrence, and William Camp, which Committee have Liberty to call in the Help and Advice of any others, not of the Committee.
TOWN MEETING, September 29, 1684-It is voted, that all Land laid out for Home Lotts are to be rated for this Year, at two pence p. Acre ; And all Land Second or Third Division which Men build House or Barn and dwell upon, shall to the Value of Six Acres pay two Pence p. Acre ; and all other Land improved in the Neck or out of the Neck by Tillage, one Penny p Acre ; and all Lands improved for Pasture within or without the Neck, and Meadow, half penny p. Acre. All Heads, and Stock, as they use to be of late Years.
Item-John Curtis and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen to make the Rates this Year.
Item-all Persons are appointed to carry a list of their rateable Estate to one of the Rate Makers, by the 6th of October next after this Date ; and in Case any fail of so doing the Constable is appointed to fetch a List, and to have Six Pence of each Per- son he fetched a List from.
TOWN MEETING, December 22nd, 1684-It is voted that there shall be a Committee chosen to treat with the Governor.
Item-it is voted, that twelve Men shall be of this Committee. Item-Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ward, Mr. Kitchell, John Curtis, Dea- con Lawrence, Thomas Huntington, John Brown, Jun'r, Joseph . Walters, Thomas Ludington, Ephraim Burwell, Robert Dalglesh, and Joseph Johnson, are chosen for this Committee.
TOWN MEETING, January 1st, 1684-5-Thomas Huntington
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and John Curtis, are chosen Deputies for the Year ensuing Benjamin Baldwin and Seth Tompkins, Warners of Town Meet. ings. Azariah Crane, Joseph Harrison, John Treat, Joseph Johnson, Thomas Pierson, Jabez Rogers and Edward Ball, Town's Men. Nathaniel Wheeler, Constable.
TOWN MEETING, January 7th, 1684-5-Jasper Crane, Joseph Riggs, and Jabez Rogers, are chosen Surveyors, to see the High. ways mended, for the Year ensuing. John Curtis, Treasurer. John Brown, Jun'r, Town Clerk.
Thomas Richards, John Curtis, and John Brown, Jun'r, are chosen to make Inquiry into the old Treasurer's Accounts, and what they find amiss to rectify if they can.
Azariah Crane, Joseph Walters, and John Baldwin, Sen'r, are chosen to lay out Highways.
TOWN MEETING, February the 6th, 1684-Daniel Tichenor hath Liberty, according as Thomas Ludington, Samuel
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Lyon, and Nathaniel Wheeler shall appoint, to take up
nor's Grant. a piece of Land in the Common against the Rear of Samuel Lyon's Lott, he leaving a Rod or more in Breadth from the Corner of his own Lott, if these Three Men see cause for it.
TOWN MEETING, March 9th, 1684-3-It is agreed to incourage those as will kill Wolves, that [they] shall have allowed Order to Kill Wolves. them five shillings a Head of each grown Wolf killed within our Town bounds, besides what the Country allows.
Item-Mr. Johnson is chosen Surveyor, to join with Jasper Crane, Joseph Riggs, and Jabez Rogers, to see to mend the Highways for this Year.
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Item-these four Surveyors have Power to agree among them- selves and divide the Town Highways into four Parts if they see Cause. And also they have Power to call out Men as are concerned by their Agreement, to make and mend those Highways they are betrusted with.
Highways.
Item-it is agreed, that those Surveyors chosen to lay out Highways, if they take away land for Highways out of To make good any Man's lotted Land, they have Power to repair the Land as is taken for Highways. them again with other Land. Also, those that were Surveyors formerly and have taken Land away from any Person or Persons for Highways, shall join with the now Surveyors to make their Land good to them again.
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