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Now, therefore, know ye that the said Nathaniel Oakley, Zebulon Ketcham and Joel Jarvis, taking upon us the charge and burden of the said award and the necessary oath, and having deliberated, heard and examined the proofs and
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allegations of the parties, and personally examined the premises of the parties, do, by these presents, arbitrate, award, order, decree and adjudge of and concerning the premises in manner and form following, that is to say: First-They do award, order, decree and adjudge that the line in dispute on the north end of the said neck called Santepogue, and dividing the said neck from lot No. Sev- enteen (17), in said Squam Pit purchase, shall start from the centre of a pond at the head of Negunatogue river at the point where Negunatogue Neck line terminates and run in a northeasterly direction, so as to strike a large pond called Beaver pond, at the head of Santagogue river at a point on the said pond where the said pond empties into the brook or river, and the said arbitrators do further award, order, decree and adjudge that the said parties to this award shall pay the expenses attendant upon the trial, examination and rendering of this award, equally between them, that is to say, the owners and proprietors of Santa- pogue Neck, the one equal half of such expenses, and the owners and proprietors of the said seventeenth lot the the other equal half of such expenses, on the said first day of December, and they do further award, order, decree and adjudge, in accordance with the power and authority in said written submission contained, that this original award, together with the said bond and submission, shall be en- tered on file in the office of the Clerk of the said Town of Huntington, as a record of the said line as now located and designated.
In witness whereof the said arbitrators to this present award have set their hands and seals, this twentieth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
NATHANIEL OAKLEY, [Seal]. JOEL JARVIS, [Seal].
[Map on File.] (File No. 373, B.)
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[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.]
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[Abstract.]
[1852, Sept. 18.]
Meeting of the Trustees held September 22d, 1852.
"Resolved, that the Commissioners of Highways be called to lay out the Highways and Public Landing the East side of Huntington Harbour.
Josiah Smith, Clerk."
(Trustees' Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 74-5.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1853, April 5.]
Election of Town Officers, held on the 5th day of April 1853, to serve one year.
Town Clerk, Josiah Smith. Supervisor, Zophar B. Oak- ley. President of Trustees, Richard M. Conklin. Trus- tees, Daniel Baylis, Timothy J. Terry, Eliphalet Chiches- ter, Benjamin B. Doty, James Wood, Charles Jayne. Commissioner of Highways, Robert Rogers. Collector,. Abel K. Conklin. Justice of the Peace, Edward L. Conk- lin (regular term) Joel Jarvis (to fill a vacancy). Over- seers of the Poor, Zophar Ketcham, John Terry. Assess- or, Abraham M. Ketcham. Constables, Nathaniel Wig- gins, George W. Burr, Abel K. Baylis, James E. Smith. Town Sealer, Warren D. Lewis. Pound Master, Hawley B. Rogers. Overseers of Highways, George W. Smith and fifty-three others.
Twenty-six hundred dollars voted to meet expenses
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maintaining the Poor and other charges of the Town. Swine act re-enacted.
"Resolved, that no person being a non-resident of the Town of Huntington be permitted to catch oysters, clams, eels, fish or horsefeet within the bounds of said Town un- der the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents, the com- plainant to have half. (The inhabitants of the Town of Islip excepted.")
Trustees authorized to rent the Town Beach and Islands.
"Resolved, that all persons be prohibited from putting down stakes in any of the harbors in the Town of Hun- tington to mark the lines of oyster beds, that will in any way obstruct fishing with nets, under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents; also raise those already put down."
Recorded by Josiah Smith, Town Clerk.
(Town Meetings, Vol. III, pp. 71-74.)
[LEASE. TRUSTEES TO ISRAEL CARLL,]
[Abstract.] [1854, Feb. 7.]
Lease-Trustees Town of Huntington to Israel Carll, Feby. 7, 1854.
"All that part of Eaton's Neck Beach belonging to the Town of Huntington for the purpose of selling sand for his own benefit. To have and to hold the aforesaid part of Eaton's Neck Beach, belonging to the Town of Hunting- ton, for the aforesaid purpose and no other unto him the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, admin- istrators or assigns for and during the full term of six years from the date of these presents."
Rental, eighty dollars yearly.
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Trustees reserve right of re-entry in event of non-pay- ment of rent.
RICHARD M. CONKLIN, Pres.
Witnessed & acknowledged GEO. H. SHEPARD, witness.
(File No. 375.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1854, April 4.]
Election of Town Officers, held on the 4th day of April, 1854, to serve one year.
Town Clerk, Josiah Smith. Supervisor, Charles A. Floyd. President of Trustees, Lawrence Seaman, Jr. Trustees, Gilbert Carll, Henry Smith, Jesse Conklin, Henry M. Purdy, William Smith, Gilbert P. Williams. Overseers of the Poor, Elbert Walters, Timothy S. Carll. Assessor, Noah Seaman. Constables, Alfred B. Under- hill, Abel C. Vail, Theodorus Weeks, Henry Tilden. Col- lector, Stephen C. Rogers. Commissioner of Highways, David Jarvis. Superintendent of Common Schools, Jo- seph H. Ray. Justice of the Peace, Joel Jarvis. Pound Master, David S. Conklin. Overseers of Highways, Elias Smith and fifty-seven others.
Twenty-six hundred dollars voted to meet expenses maintaining the Poor and other charges of the Town.
Swine act re-enacted.
"Resolved, that no person being a non-resident of the Town of Huntington be permitted to catch oysters, clams, eels, fish or horsefeet within the bounds of said Town un- der the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents, the com- plainant to have half. (The inhabitants of Islip excepted.)"
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Trustees authorized to hire out grass on the Town Beach and Islands.
"Resolved, that all persons be prohibited from putting down stakes in any of the harbors in the Town of Hun- tington to mark the lines of oyster beds, that will in any way obstruct fishing with nets under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents ; also raise those already put down.'
Trustees authorized to sell 3,000 acres Pine Plains, and invest proceeds, and apply the income accruing there- from to Town expenses.
Recorded by Josiah Smith,
Town Clerk.
(Town Meetings, Vol. III, pp. 75-81.)
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[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1855, April 3.]
Election of Town Officers, held on the 3d day of April, 1855, to serve for one year. .
Town Clerk, Josiah Smith. Supervisor, Stephen Leek.
President of Trustees, James I. Shipman. Trustees, Smith Burr, Brewster Conklin, Henry M. Purdy, Israel Carll, George D. Cooper, Noah Seaman, Jr. Commis- sioners of Highways, Israel Scudder (to fill a vacancy). Joshua Hartt (for full term). Collector, Stephen C, Rogers. Assessor, Richard J. Cornelius. Overseers of the Poor, Charles H. Fleet, William Pearsall. Constables, Charles E. Ketcham, Edward Newton, Nathaniel Wiggins, Henry Tilden. Justice of the Peace, Platt R. Hubbs (for four years), Charles Jayne (to fill vacancy). Pound Master, Hawley B. Rogers. Overseers of Highways, David C. Smith, Jr. and fifty four others.
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Thirty five hundred dollars voted to meet the expenses maintaining the Poor and other charges of the Town.
Swine Act re-enacted.
"Resolved that no person being a non-resident of the Town of Huntington be permitted to catch oysters, clams, eels, fish or horsefeet within the bounds of said Town under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents, the complainant to have half. (The inhabitants of Islip ex- cepted)."
Trustees authorized to hire out grass on the Town Beach and Islands.
"Resolved that all persons be prohibited from putting down any stakes in any of the harbors of the Town of Huntington to mark the lines of oyster beds, that will obstruct fishing with nets, under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents; also raise those already put down."
Trustees authorized to sell 3000 acres Pine Plains, invest the proceeds and apply income to the Town expenses.
Recorded by Josiah Smith, Town Clerk.
(Town Meetings, Vol. III, pp. 81-87.)
[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.]
[1855, May 26.]
At a meeting held pursuant to notice at the house of Gideon Seaman, Deer Park, on the 26th of May, 1855, Present, J. I. Shipman, President, George D. Cooper, Henry M. Purdy, Smith Burr and Israel Carll, Trustees of the Town of Huntington, it was resolved :
I. That notice be given to all persons to remove their stock from the Town lands at South before the 10th day of June.
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2. That the President of this Board be desired to consult Judge Buffett as to the right of the Town to lands lying under water with a view of determining the action of the Board in collecting fees now due the Town.
4. That the lease of the Trustees of the Town to Walter R. Jones & others made by N. Potter, Esq., President of the Trustees, be renewed according to the terms thereof provided the dues are paid.
5. That the dead timber on the Town lands lying west of Secatogue Hollow and north of the Fish Path be sold to James Ilaff for coal at the rate of $2.00 per hundred bushels-return to be made to Smith Burr, Trustee.
6. That inquiry be made as to whether D. H. Skidmore, who is carting cord wood from Town lands, has any agreement whether any money has been paid by him and to wwwem.
7. That the Trustees will meet at the house of James Haff on Tuesday, the 5th of June, at I o'clock, to view the Town lands.
8. That the rent of shed on Town land occupied by Alexander Johnson at Huntington be collected.
The Trustees executed a deed to the United States Gov- ernment for two lots of land on the South Beach, occupied by the life boats and houses, each 100 feet square, to revert to the Town when it shall cease to be used for that purpose. J. Smith, Town Clerk.
(File No 376.)
[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.]
[Abstract.]
[1855, June 5.]
Meeting of the Trustees, held on June 5th, 1855, for purpose of viewing the Town lands.
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"Resolved, that the President of Trustees be authorized to advertise to receive proposals for the purchase of the Town lands, called the Pine Plains, until the 20th of July, 1855. Ffty per cent. of the purchase money may remain on Bond & Mortgage.
Josiah Smith, Clerk."
(Trustees' Proceedings, Vol I, pp. 84.85.)
[PROPOSAL FOR PURCHASE OF TOWN LANDS.]
[1855, July 24.]
NEW YORK, July 24, 1855, J. I. SHIPMAN, Esq.
Dear Sir .- I propose to purchase the 3,000 acres of land belonging to the Town of Huntington and offered for sale by the Trustees of said Town. I offer you, as President of said Trustees, five dollars and thirty three and one-third cents per acre, for the whole three thousand acres, payable on receiving the Deed, in the Mechanics Fire Insurance Company's stock at par. Respectfully, Your Ob't Servant.
A. M. COTTER, 128 Fulton St., N. Y.
Should my offer be entertained I will refer you to gen- tlemen whom you will have confidence in relative to the responsibility of the Company, etc., or you may adopt your own views to ascertain the goodness of the stock.
Yours, A. M. C.
(File No. 377.)
[PROPOSAL FOR PURCHASE OF TOWN LANDS.] [No Date.]
TO THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON.
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Gentlemen .- We the undersigned will give you for the plain lands of Huntington three dollars and six and a half cents ($3.062) per acre and take the whole tract, or we will take two thousand acres on the west part and will give for the same four dollars and one cent per acre ($4.01). In payment we will give assigned mortgages (first mort- gages) on real estate, principally in the Town of Hunting- ton, the most of them for less than half the value of the property without regarding buildings & other improve- ments.
EDMUND A. BUNCE SELAH BUNCE FRANCIS M. A. WICKS
(File No. 379.)
[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.]
[Abstract.] [1855, August I.]
Meeting of the Trustees held on August Ist, 1855.
"Propositions were submitted for the purchase of the Town lands as follows : No. 1, $5.33 per acre; No.2, $5.00 per acre; No. 3, $3.55 per acre ; No. 4, $3.06 per acre. All which were carefully considered and Mr. Israel Carll and the President were appointed a committee to examine proposals No. I. & No. 2 and report thereon at the next meeting.
Josiah Smith, Clerk."
(Trustees' Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 85-86 )
[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.] [Abstract.] [1855, August II.]
Meeting of the Trustees held on August 11, 1855.
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"Resolved to sell the west half of the Town lands to Edmund A. Bunce, Selah Bunce, Francis M. Wicks, paying in bonds and mortgages on real estate in the Town of Huntington and County of Suffolk, of approved character.
Resolved, that the President be authorized to employ a surveyor to divide the above lands and immediately there- after notify the parties of the time and place of meeting, when the deed shall be executed and the securities ex- amined and approved.
Resolved, that the price at which the remaining half of the pine lands shall be sold shall not be less than $5.00 per acre.
Resolved, that the President employ counsel in the case of Howell Scidmore, who is a trespassor on Town lands.
Resolved, that a copy of the agreement made with E. A. Bunce, Selah Bunce and Francis M. A. Wicks be placed on the records .*
Josiah Smith Clerk."
(Trustees' Proceedings, Tol. I, pp. 86-87.)
[* The Town lands sold, as above stated, were situated within the boundaries of the Town of Islip and were acquired by virtue of the claim of the Town under its first colonial grant, which established the easterly boundary line of the Town, as running from the head of Nesequake River on a due south course to the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequently, the Patent to the Town, of 1694, established the line further west, running from Fresh Pond to the Sumpwams River and from thence to the sea. The latter was called the confirmation line and the land lying between the two lines (south of Smithtown) having been placed by legislative act within the Town of Islip for juris- dictional purposes, disputes arose concerning the title between this Town and the holders of colonial grants in Islip. As we have already seen by prior records, these disputes were finally settled by compromises, resulting in this Town procuring quit claim deeds from these Islip claimants of a large part of the lands so claimed east of the confirmation line. Surveys and maps of these lands sold to Bunce and others will be found in the file of maps in the Town Clerk's office, and the deeds are recorded in the County Clerk's office .- C. R. S.]
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[CONCERNING BOUNDARIES OF TOWN LANDS.]
[1855, Nov. 3.]
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON.
Dear Sir .- I called on Mr. Selah Carll concerning the owners of land each side of the Stubbed Road (so called) as was requested. Ile says the Harneds owned one side and the Town of Huntington the other side & that the Stubbed Road was a straight line beginning not a great way off from Hands' Corner and running straight. He did not know how Abel Ketcham could make the Stubbed Road as crooked as marked out on the card. He said Jacob Harned made the Stubbed Road and that he was well acquainted with the line and it was a straight line and that the town never sold any land on the Pine Plains ex- cept to the Wheelers and that was outside of the card of 2,925 acres (which I showed him), and if the Harneds claimed any from a straight line let them show their Title. JOSIAH SMITH.
Saturday, Nov. 3d, 1855. (File No. 381.)
[TRUSTEES' PROCEEDINGS.]
[1855, Nov. 15.]
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Town of Hunting- ton, held at Mr. Brown's in the village of Comac, Nov. 15th, 1855, present J. I. Shipman, Israel Carll, George D. Cooper and B. Conklin, the securities of Selah Bunce, E. A. Bunce and F. M. A. Wicks were presented and having been examined by J. L. Smith, Esq., acting as Attorney
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for the Board of Trustees the same were accepted as satis- factory. The west half of the Town lands sold to Messrs. Bunce and Wicks contained by actual survey 1,441 acres, 2 roods and 24 rods which at $5.40 per acre is $7,784.90.
Payments were made as follows:
E. A. Bunce 1 of $7,784.90 is $2,594.96.
I. Bond and mortgage of George Westeth to William Wicks, June 2, for $700, 6 per cent. interest, principal and interest, $719.25.
2. Bond and mortgage of Chas. Torling to E. A. Bunce, dated Dec. 29, 1853, at 7 per cent., principal and interest, $322.61.
3. W. C. Longe to E. A. Bunce, dated Jan. 24, 1853, for $1,350 at 63 per cent., principal aud interest, $1,420.92.
4. Cash paid to J. 1. Shipman, President, $132.19. Total, $2,594.97. Assigned to Trustees Nov. 15, 1855.
Selah Bunce 3 is $2,594.97.
I. Bond of Selah Bunce of $3,000 to pay $1,500 at 6 per cent. secured by bonds and mortgage of Neavin Smith to Selah Bunce for $2,500, dated April 1, 1851, also bond of $2,000, to pay $1,000, secured by the Nortin Smith mort- gage as collateral security, $2,500.
Cash paid, $94.97. Total, $2,594.97.
F. M. A. Wicks } is $2,594.97.
Bond for $4,150 to secure the payment of $2,594.97, se- cured by the assignment of the following bonds and mort- gages and collected security.
I. Julia & Jonah Phillips to F, M. A. Wicks, dated Nov. 1, 1854, for $1,013.12, at 7 per cent. interest.
2. Ebenezer Platt to A. Wicks, deceased, dated April 3, 1851 for $1,200, at 6 per cent.
3. Henry Jannies to F. M. A. Wicks, Nov. 16, 1855 for $300, at 7 per cent. interest.
Cash paid to J. I. Shipman, President, $20.00. Total, $2,594.96.
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E. A. Bunce, $2,594.97 ; Selah Bunce, $2,594.97 ; F. M. A. Wicks, $2,594.96: total, $7,784.90. The proposition of A. J. Bleecker, Esq., for the purchase of the east half of the Town lands together with a memorandum of agreement being laid before the Board, it was resolved: that the Board will sell the same to A. J. Bleecker reserving the felled wood, at five dollars and fifty cents per acre, twenty- five per cent. of the purchase money or satisfactory se- curities to that amount to be paid within ninety days and a bond & mortgage on the land for seventy-five per cent., also that Mr. Bleecker pay one hundred dollars down to bind the bargain, which sum is to be credited to him on the completion of the conditions of the purchase.
A deed of the Trustees to A. J. Bleecker was by order of the Board so executed, to be held in escuro until the en- tire completion of the agreement, the interest on the bond & mortgage to commence the fifteenth of November, 1855, and to be paid annually at 6 per cent.
Bill of A. S. Thompson for survey & division of the Town land for $52.00 was presented and a bill of F. M. A. Wicks for services and expenses of $75.87 which were audited and paid. On motion adjourned.
(File No. 382.)
(Trustees' Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 88-91 )
[1855, Nov. 15.]
Whereas the Trustees of the Freeholders and Common- alty of the Town of Huntington have this day sold & con- veyed to Selah Bunce, Edward A. Bunce and Francis M. A. Wicks fourteen hundred forty one acres, two roods, and twenty-four rods of land lying in the Pine Plains at five dollars and forty cents per acre as the same is de- scribed in this deed, bearing even date herewith. Now it is hereby covenanted and agreed by and between the said
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parties that if the real quantity of land conveyed by said deed, according to the boundaries therein noted, shall be less than the number of acres above mentioned, the said Trustees shall refund to the said Selah Bunce, E. A. Bunce and F. M. A. Wicks for such deficiencies at the rate of five dollars and forty cents per acre, and should there be an excess in quantity, then the said Selah Bunce, E. A. Bunce and F. M. A. Wicks shall pay the said Trus- tees for such excess at the same rate. In witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals this 15th day of November, 1855.
E. A. BUNCE [Seal.] SELAH BUNCE [Seal.] FRANCIS M. A. WICKS [Seal.]
(File No. 383.)
[LEASE. TRUSTEES TO ISAAC B. ARTHUR.]
[Abstract.] [1856, March 24.]
Lease-Trustees to Isaac B. Arthur, dated 24th day of March, 1856.
"All the right which the parties of the first part may have to erect and maintain a fish pond in the Harbour of Northport in said Town of Huntington and at such place in the Harbour as may be most convenient for that pur- pose."
Term, ten years.
Rental, two dollars and fifty cents yearly.
Trustees reserve right of re-entry in the event of non- payment of rent.
Witness SMITH BURR.
JAMES I. SHIPMAN [Seal.] President of Trustees. Recorded by Josiah Smith, Town Clerk.
(Deeds and Leases by Trustees, p. 108.)
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[Abstract.] [1856, April. 1.]
JAMES I. SHIPMAN,
In account with the TOWN OF HUNTINGTON. Dr.
Oct. 2, 1855, to services of A. G. Thompson, (surveyor) $52 ; Oct. 2, to services of F. M. A. Wicks, (labor) $75.87 ; March 24, 1856, to services of J. I. Shipman, (Pres. Trus- tees) $93.27 ; March 24, 1856, Smith Burr, Trustee, $13.50; March 24, 1856, G. D. Cooper, Trustee, $27.00; March 24, 1856, B. Conklin, Trustee, $12.00 ; March 24, 1856, I. Carll, Trustee, $17.00; March 24, 1856, N. Seaman, Trustee, $7.00; March 24, 1856, Hammond & Ackley, (legal exp.) $20.00; March 25, J. Lawrence Smith (legal exp.) $32.15 ; June 17, to cash paid Town of Islip for taxes, $8.82; Jan. 17, to expenses selling grass on Beach and Islands, $10.00 ; April 1, to Elias Smith Town and Trustee Meetings, $30.00 ; April 1, to Charles H. Fleet, (Overseer) $100.00 ; April 1, to H. M. Purdy, (Trustee) $5.00; total, $503.61. Cr.
June 20, 1855, by cash for grass on Beach and Islands, $139.22 ; Nov, 5, by cash from T. B. Bleecker, (Pine Plains) $100.00 ; Nov. 15, by cash from Selah Bunce, (Pine Plains) $74.97; Nov. 15, by cash from E. A. Bunce, Pine Plains, $112.19; Dec. 18, by cash from J. C. Hewlett, dock rent, $3.00 : Jan. 18, 1856, interest on Tirling's Bond, $24.00 ; Feb. 23, interest on Lenge's Bond, $87.75 ; March 12, by cash from E. F. Peck, (Pine Plains) $1,816.20; March 24, Israel Carll, lease, $80.00 ; March 30, W. W. Wood, lease, $3.00 ; March 30, Thomas Scudder, lease, $3.00 ; March 30, G.WV. Conklin, lease, $1.50 ; April 1, G. D. Cooper, lease,
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quit claim, $2.00 ; total, $2,446.83 ; expenditures, $503.61 ; cash balance, $1,943.22.
JAMES I. SHIPMAN, President of Trustees.
ISRAEL CARLL, SMITH BURR,
NOAH SEAMAN, BREWSTER CONKLIN,
Trustees.
GEO. D. COOPER, Recorded by Josiah Smith, Clerk.
(Trustees' Proceedings, Vol. I, pp. 98-99 )
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1856, Abril [.]
Election of Town Officers, held on the Ist day of April 1856, to serve one year.
Town Clerk, Josiah Smith. Supervisor, Lawrence Sea- man, Jr. President of Trustees, Gilbert Carll. Trustees, Elbert Walters, Zebulon Buffett, Timothy J. Terry, Charles V. Scudder, Elbert Carll, John D. Hewlett. Com- missioner of Highway, David Jarvis. Collector, Nathan- iel H. Kelsey. Justice of the Peace, Richard B. Post. Superintendent of Common Schools, Joseph H. Ray. Overseers of the Poor, Henry M. Purdy, Israel Scudder. Assessor, Bryant Scidmore. Constables, Alfred B. Un-
[ NOTE .- From a communication on file by J. I. Shipman, to the President of the Board of Trustees, dated April 12th, 1856, it appears that the Trustees then had in their hands cash and securities, arising principally out of the sale of the Pine Plains, amounting to the sum of $15,457.04. The money was after- wards applied to the payment of Town expenses, and finally to the payment of bounties at the beginning of the War of the Rebellion .- C. R. S.]
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derhill, Charles B. Velsor, Abel C. Vail, Jesse Hartt. Pound Master, David S. Conklin. Overseers of High- ways, Amos McAlpin and fifty-seven others.
Forty-five hundred dollars voted to meet expenses main- taining the poor and other charges of the Town.
Swine act re-enacted.
"Resolved, that no person being a non-resident of the Town of Huntington be permitted to catch oysters, clams, eels, fish or horsefeet within the bounds of said Town, under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents, the complainant to have half. (The inhabitants of Islip ex- cepted.")
"Resolved, that all persons be prohibited from putting down stakes in any of the harbors of the Town of Hun- tington to mark the lines of oyster beds that will in any way obstruct fishing with nets, under the penalty of twelve dollars and fifty cents ; also raise those already put down."
Trustees authorized to invest proceeds of bonds and mortgages held by the Town as they are cancelled and any other proceeds arising from sale of Town real estate.
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