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Pound Masters, Merrit Culver, John F. Youngs, J. B. Corey, J. F. Foster.
Town Trustees, Henry Gardner, Zebulon Jessup, Philetus Pierson, Nathan White, George Herrick, Abram W. Gardi- ner, Albert Reeve, Francis R. Bishop, Peter Fournier, Jos- eph R. Harris, David Jagger, John Bishop.
Voted that $600 be raised to go to the Supervisor.
Voted that $2,000 be raised for support of the poor.
Voted that $25 be raised to repair the pound at Bridge Hampton.
Voted that $15 be raised to repair the pound at Quogue.
Voted that $25 be raised for building a pound at Sag- Harbor.
Voted that $7 be raised for use of the house for Town Moeting.
Moved and seconded that a committee of three be ap- pointed to oversee the repairing the Pound at Bridge-
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Hampton. Moved that the committee consist of James L. Haines, Elbert Rose, James M. Halsey. Carried.
The report of the Overseer of the Poor read and accepted.
Report of the committee to purchase twenty acres of land for the benefit of the town, read and accepted.
The report of the Supervisor read and accepted.
Recolved, that three hundred dollars be raised for three years and the balance upon the fourth year, to meet the amount stipulated for the said land, being eleven hundred and fifty dollars, the whole sum paid.
EDWIN ROSE, Moderator.
C. W. HEDGES, Clerk.
A true copy of the original, by me,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded April 14th, 1860.
PPGE 229. (Abstract.) Came into the enclosure of John Rogers, of Speonk, in the latter part of November last, a red heifer, bush of tail white, 2 years past. Dec. 22d, 1860.
PAGE 229. (Abstract.) Halsey Stevens has in keeping a light red and white steer, two years old past, marked with a square crop of the right car and a slope under the same, a cropped slope. Recorded Dec. 27th, 1860.
PAGE 230. SAGG STREET.
At a meeting of the Commissioners of Highways of the town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, at the house of Jeremiah O. Hedges, in said town, on the fourth day of April, 1860, all the Commissioners having been duly noti- fied to attend said meeting, for the purpose of deliberating on the subject of this order, agreeable to and upon the ap- plication of the said Jeremiah O. Hedges, of said town, for the discontinuance of that portion of Sagg street west of
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a surveyed line hereinafter described, and on the certificate of twelve disinterested freeholders duly summoned and sworn, who have in due form certified that said road or so much of it as lays west of a line, commencing at a certain locust post at or near the south end of a board fence and opposite the south end of Jeremiah O. Hedges' cow shed, and running south 29 º west twenty chains and ninety links to a stake on the west side of Sagg street, opposite to and five rods west of the northwest corner of the burying ground, has become useless and unnecessary for the public use. It is therefore ordered and determined by the said Commis- sioners, that the line above described shall be the west line of said highway, and that that portion of the road laying westerly of the said line is hereby discontinued.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this 4th day of May, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING, Com's JOHN S. JESSUP, of
ALBERT J. POST, Highways.
The above is a true copy of the original on file at this office, per me,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded June 1860.
PAGE 230. On the appeal of sundry inhabitants of School district No. 24, Southampton, Suffolk County, from the action of J. W. Huntting, School Commissioner, in al- tering the boundaries of said district, there appears upon the face of the complaint to be several grounds for the al- legations of injustice which is made the basis of appeal. But it is not so set forth and substantiated by testimony or clearly presented by a map of the territory as to establish a case demanding or justifying the interference of this de-
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partment. The appeal must therefore be dismissed. This decision must be recorded by the district clerk and notice thereof must be given to the Trustees.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Department of Public Instruction, at Albany, this 16th day of June, 1860. H. H. VAN DYCK, Supt. Pub. Instruction.
The above is a true copy of the original.
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
PAGE 231.
Suffolk County, SS :
Town of Southampton, S
Upon the application of Theron Hand and others of said town to the undersigned, Commissioners of Highways of the said town, to survey, lay out or define that portion of the Country road lying between Bull's Head and the line between the towns of Southampton and East-Hampton, and also to discontinue such portions of the said road as exceeds the width of five rods ; and on the certificate of twelve disinterested persons, freeholders and subject to highway labor in said town, duly summoned and sworn, who have in due form certified that all such portions of the road over the width of five rods is useless and unnecessary, it is hereby ordered by the undersigned, Commissioners, (all of the Commissioners having been duly notified to at- tend and deliberate on the subject of this order) that the said road be reduced to the width of five rods from Bull's Head to the house of Henry L. VanScoy, and that the fol- lowing described line of survey be the northerly line of said road :
Commencing at a point on the Country road, on the north
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side of said road at Bull's Head, opposite the north-west corner of D. Hallock's dwelling house (the distance being one chain and sixty-one links) and running thence N. 66 ° E. 3 ch. 78 1k. to angle in Mrs. Grey's fence ; thence N. 57 º 30 min. E. 0.66 to the S-E corner of Mrs. Grey's garden, it being four rods across to Capt. Huntting's N-W corner ; thence N. 66 ° E. 1.67 to angle on the east side of the turnpike near Mrs. Rose's ; thence N. 81º E. to stake at angle on north side of road opposite the dividing line be- tween the lands of Uriah Sayre and Henry Howell, 17 ch. 57 1ks ; thence to stake at angle near George W. Conklin's house N. 87 º E. 31.53 ; thence to stake at angle near the house of Lewis R. Edwards (at S-E corner of his door- yard) N. 81º E. 13.37 ; thence to stake at angle on east of creek at Poxabogue S. 89 º E. 15.72; thence to stake at angle opposite Mr. Mott's house S. 82° E. 14.22; thence to stake at angle in road opposite Mott's land S. 87 º E. 5.80 ; thence to stake at angle opposite Mott's land N. 82 ° E. 6.54 ; thence to stake at angle on brow of hill opposite J. S. Seabury's lot N. 71 º E. 11.63; thence to stake at an- gle at the division line between the farm of Theron Hand and the farm of Silvanus Hand, dec'd, N. 76 ° E. 12.54; thence to stake at angle at the division line between the farm of Silvenus Hand, dec'd, and the land of Stephen D. Wood N. 78 º 30 min. E. 13.59 ; thence to stake at angle at Stephen D. Wood's cast line N. 85 º E. 13.73; thence to stake at S-W corner of VanScoy's door-yard N. 80 E. 6.52 ; the above described line being the north line of a five rod highway extending from Bull's Head to the house of Henry L. VanScoy ; and it is hereby ordered that all that portion of the present highway not included in the above described five rods is hereby discontinued.
In witness whereof, we the said Commissioners have
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hereunto subscribed our names this 21st day of June, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING,
JOHN S. JESSUP, Commissioners. ALBERT J. POST,
The above is a true copy of the original on file at this office.
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
Recorded July 2d, 1860. Posted July 3d, 1860,
PAGE 232.
Town of Southampton, SS :
County of Suffolk,
Whereas, the act regulating highways and bridges in the counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings, passed February 23d, 1830, places the care and superintendence of the high- ways and bridges in the several towns thereof in the hands of the Commissioners of Highways, and makes it their duty to regulate the roads and to alter such of them as they or a majority of them shall deem inconvenient, and to cause such highways as shall have been laid out but not suffi- ciently described, to be ascertained, described and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office ;
Now therefore, we the undersigned Commissioners, all of the said Commissioners having been duly notified to attend and deliberate on the subject of this order, having on ap- plication made an examination and survey of the road be- tween the Mill Dam at Little River and the Mill Dam at Seatuck, do hereby ascertain and determine that the follow- ing described line be the southern line of a three rod high- way between the Mill Dams aforesaid, excepting where it is otherwise noted in said survey, to wit :
Commencing at a stake at or near the west end of the Mill Dam at Little River (83 links S. 57 º E. from the north-west corner of H. F. Raynor's dwelling house) and
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running along S. side of road, N. 26 ° W. 1.17 to angle ; thence N. 36 ° W. 1.74 to stake at angle ; thence N. 72 ° W. 7.82 to stake at angle at corner of Wesley Tuthill's door yard ; thence N. 69 º W. 4.41 to stake at angle on knoll, opposite Hiram Halsey's lot; thence N. 70 ° W. 3.75 to stake at angle in front of Theodore Tuthill's premi- ses near stump ; thence N. 82° W. 3.12 to stake nearly opposite the Methodist Church; thence N. 75° W. to stake at angle opposite the premises of Wells Tuthill, 5.50 ; thence N. 68 ° W. 4.84 to stake at angle in front of Daniel Gordon's ; thence N. 79 º W. 10.29 to stake at or near the east end of Mill Dam across Seatuck. The above described line is the southern line of a three rod highway from the place of beginning to the angle at or near the house of Daniel Gordon's ; from thence it narrows down to 68 links at or near the east end of the Milldam across Seatuck.
Given under our hands this the 21st day of June, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING, JOHN S. JESSUP, Commissioners. ALBERT J. POST,
The above is a correct copy of the original, per me,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded July 3d, 1860.
PAGE 232. (Abstract.) Francis R. Bishop has in his keeping a red heifer. December 18th, 1860.
PAGE 233.
Town of Southampton, l SS :
Suffolk County.
Upon the application of Theron Hand and others of said town to the undersigned Commissioners of Highways of the said town to discontinue that portion of the highway at the north end of Sag street, which lies east and south of
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of burying ground ; and on the certificate of twelve disin- terested persons, freeholders, and subject to highway labor in said town duly summoned and sworn, who have in due form certified that all such above described portion of Sag street is useless and unnecessary ; it is hereby ordered by the undersigned Commissioners, all of the said Commis- sioners having been duly notified to attend and deliberate upon the subject of this order, that such portion of the public highway at the north end of Sag street be discon- tinned.
In witness whereof, we the said Commissioners, have hereunto subscribed our names this 21st day of June, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING, JOHN S. JESSUP, - Commiss. ALBERT J. POST, 1
The above is a true copy of the original,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded July 3d, 1860.
PAGE 233. (Abstract.) Isaac C. Dimon has in keeping a yellowish brown steer, coming three years old, marked thus : Slope over the right ear and half-penny over the left, came into his enclosure, Dec. 10th, 1860.
Recorded Jan. 4th, 1861.
PAGE 234. OGDEN'S CREEK TO LITTLE CREEK.
Town of Southampton,
Suffolk County. S
Whereas, the act regulating highways and bridges in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings, passed February 23d, 1830, places the care and superintendence of the high- ways and bridges, in the several towns of said counties, in
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the hands of the Commissioners of Highways, of said towns and also makes it the duty of the said Commissioners, to cause such roads as shall have been laid out but not suffic- iently described, and such as have been used as highways for twenty years or more next preceding the 21st day of March, 1797, and which shall have been worked and used constantly as such, for the last six years, but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office,
Now, therefore, we the undersigned Commissioners, all of the Commissioners having been duly notified to attend and deliberate upon the subject of this order, having on due application, made an examination and survey of that por- tion of the road leading from Quogue to Fourth Neck, have ascertained and determined the said road to be according to the following annexed description and survey :
Commencing on the south side of the main road leading from Quogue to Fourth Neck at Ogden's Creek at the north- west corner of Frederic Hallock's land (where the said road is four chains and forty-three links wide) and running N. 55 deg. E. 10 chains, 44 links, to a pine tree on the ditch, where the said road is 2 chains, 80 links wide ; thence N. 37 E. 11.20 to stake at angle of road at division line be- tween the lands of Frederick Hallock and Edward Griffing ; thence N. 33 deg. E. 13.07 to stake at angle near white oak tree a little east of the said Edward Griffing's house, where the said road is 1.37 wide; thence N. 32 deg. E. 10.00 to stake on brow of hill at Little Creek, where the said road is 1 ch. 25 L wide ; thence N. 25 deg. E. 3 chains, 40 links to Little Creek where the said road is four rods wide. The north line of that portion of the road between the dividing line of land of Frederick Hallock and Edward Griffing, and the garden of E. Griffing, starts from a point opposite said
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dividing line where the road is twelve rods wide, and runs so as to narrow down the road to one chain and thirty-seven links at oak tree.
Given under our hands at Southampton, this 10th day of December, 1860.
JOHN S. JESSUP, 7 Commissioners DAVID R. DRAKE,
of ALANSON TOPPING, J Highways.
The above is a true copy of the original on file at. this office.
by me, ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
Recorded Dec. 20th, 1860.
PAGE 235.
WAKEMAN'S PATH.
Town of Southampton, -
Suffolk County, S ss.
Whereas, the act regulating highways and bridges in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings, passed February 23d, 1830, places the care and superintendence of the high- ways and bridges in the several towns of said Counties, in the hands of the Commissioners of Highways of the said Towns, and makes it the duty of the said Commissioners " to cause such roads used as highways for twenty years or more, next preceding the 21st day of March, 1797, and which have been worked and used constantly for the last six years but not recorded, to be ascertained, described and entered of record in the Town Clerk's office,
Now therefore, we the undersigned Commissioners, all of the said Commissioners having been duly notified to attend and deliberate upon the subject of this order, having on ap- plication, made an examination and survey of the road known as Wakeman's Road or path leading from Canoe Place, in a southerly direction to Pond Quogue, have ascer-
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tained and determined the centre line of said road to be as follows :
Commencing at a stake on the south side of the Country road, so called, opposite to and in a line with the west end of the dwelling-house of John Jacobs, and running south 53} deg. west to stake on slope of hill, 5 chains, 18 links, thence S. 553 deg. W. to stake on ditto 2 cha. 42 L .; thence S. 38 deg. W. to stake on hill, 2.78 ; thence S. 35 deg. W. to stake on do. 3.53 ; thence S. 24 deg. W. to do. edge of woods 4.45 ; thence S. 24} deg. W. to stake 1.31; thenco S. 31 deg. W. to do. 3.26 ; thence S. 17 W. to stake at Skidmore ditch, 2.30 ; thence S. 23 W. to stake, 2.54; thence south to stake opposite the northwest corner of Chas. Harris' house, 2.18 ; . thence south 18% deg. W. to stake on slope of hill 3.11; thence S. 7g deg. E. to stake 1.82 ; thence S. 13 deg. E. to do. 3.32 ; thence S. 8 deg. E. to do. 1.88 ; thence S. 12 deg. W. to do. near N-E corner of David Fanning's new ground 5.93 ; thence S. 11 deg. E. to do. near a road leading east to the Bay 3.93 ; thence S. 12} deg. E. to stake 5.33; thence S. 19 deg. E. to do. at fork of road 4.92 ; thence S. 3} deg. E. to stake 7.85 ; thence south to stake 1.54; thence S. 6 deg. W. to do. 3.78; thence S. 12 deg. W. to do. 3.60 ; thence S. 10 deg. W. to stake 5.46 ; thence S. 17 deg. W. to lo. 3.20; thence S. 73 deg. to do. 2.86 ; thence S. 19 deg. W. to do. 2.97 ; thence S. 12} deg. W. to do. 3.26; thence S. 10 deg. W. to do. 8.84; thence S. 28 deg. W. to do. 5.80 ; thence S. 17 deg. W. to do. 4.24 ; thenco S. 22} deg. to do. 3.66 ; thence S. 21 deg. W. to do. 4.46 ; thence S. 15 deg. W. to do. at the north side of road leading across the neck, 3.38 ; thence S. 23 deg. W. to stake, 4.10 ; thence S. 15 deg. W. to do. 2.80 ; thence S. 113 deg. W. to stake at road lead- ing cast to the bay, and thence to the Point ; and we do fur- ther determine the road above described to be a passing
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road and of sufficient width for wagons to pass each other.
Given under our hands at Southampton the 10th day of December, 1860.
ALANSON TOPPING, ) Com's of
JOHN S. JESSUP,
DAVID R. DRAKE, J Highways.
The above is a true copy of the original on file at this
office. Recorded December 22d, 1860, by me,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
PAGE 236. South Carolina seceded from the United States Dec 19th, 1860.
PAGE 237. Suffolk Co. - Town of Southampton, SS :
We the undersigned Commissioners of Highways of the town of Southampton do hereby order that Road District No. 5 and 16 shall be divided into two districts, as follows, to wit, 1st,
Resolved, that the east line to divide district No. 5 shall start from the north-east corner of Howell Phillips' lot of land on the south line of the north country road, running southerly to the main highway in Good Ground until it shall strike the west line of the Pond Quogue highway and running on the above mentioned line to the Cross highway, and thence southerly to the head of a certain creek known as Wells' Creek.
Resolved, that the west line to divide these districts shall start from Slate's Brook, running southerly until it shall strike the west line of Charles Bellows' land, and running southerly thence to the north line of the South Country road, from thence running southerly to Pine Neck Pond or Drean. And all persons liable to do highway duty living
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between the above boundaries shall and are hereby assign- ed to work on said district No. 5.
And the Commissioners do further order that the cast line of District No. 5 shall be the western boundaries of the new district No. 21, said district No. 21 to contain all that portion of district No. 5 lying to the eastward of said line. And all persons living in said district, liable to do highway duty shall and are hereby assigned to work on said district No. 21. And we further order that the west line of No. 5 shall be the eastern boundary of No. 16.
Given under our hands this 13th day of March, 1861.
DAVID R. DRAKE, -
Commissioners.
JOHN S. JESSUP,
The above is a true copy of the original,
ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
Recorded March 18th, 1861.
PAGE 238. Town Meeting, held April 2d, 1861.
Edwin Rose was elected Supervisor.
Jonathan Fithian elected Justice of the Peace.
Albert J. Post elected Town Clerk.
Daniel Y. Bellows and Isaac C. Halsey Assessors.
Asher M. Benedict, Collector.
Alanson Topping, John Bellows, Overseers of the Poor.
Alanson Topping 3 years, David R. Drake 2 years, Com- missioners of Highways.
Enoch Eldredge, Hermon Woodruff, James MeChe, Franklin Jagger, Constables.
Philander R. Jennings, Enoch Eldredge elected, Thomas E. Crowell appointed, Inspectors of Election for Dist. No. 1.
James L. Haynes, Cassander W. Hedges elected, James M. Halsey appointed, Dist. No. 2.
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Frederick S. Sayre, Mercator Cooper elected, Noah D. Ellsworth appointed, for Dist. No. 3.
William R. Phillips, Edward Griffin elected, F. B. Hal- lock appointed for Dist. No. 4.
Erastus Dickerson, George S. Wells elected, Morgan D. Wells appointed, Dist No. 5.
Overseers of Highways, District 1, Theodore Tuthill, 2 Franklin Jessup, 3 Hiram Stephens, 4 John Adams, 5 Syl- vanus R. Jackson, 6 Philetus Pierson, 7 Austin Woolly, 8 Enoch Halsey, 9 Horatio G. Sayre, 10 Robert Hedges, 11 John Champlin, 12 Sylvester Howell, 13 Isaac W. Os- born, 14 Daniel Jennings, 15 Norman L. Hubbard, 16 Wil- liam Jackson, 17 Joseph E. Phillips, 18 Richard Cook, 19 Oscar B. Raynor, 20 Thomas H. Cooper, 21 James R. Warner.
Town Trustees, Charles Howell, Albert Reeves, Elisha King, Isaac Halsey, Jesse Halsey, Elias Howell, John Al- len, Hervey Rose, Albert J. Post, Joshua Corwin, Joshua Squires, Jacob Carter, Horace Foster.
Pound Masters : John F. Foster, Quogue ; John F. Youngs, Bridge-Hampton ; Merrit Culver, Southampton ; John B. Corey, Sag-Harbor.
The report of the Overseers of the Poor read and ac- cepted. The report of the Supervisor read and accepted.
Moved that $2,360 be raised for the support of the poor. Carried.
Voted that $700 be raised for the contingent fund, to go to the Supervisor.
Voted that $7.00 be raised for the use of the house.
Resolved that $500 be raised for the purpose of defend- ing the interests of the inhabitants of the town, in the pro- ductions of the waters and in all the privileges granted by
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the Proprietors in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
P. R. JENNINGS, Moderator. ALBERT J. POST, Clerk.
A correct copy of the original on file in the Town Clerk's office.
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
PAGE 239. Jolin G. Robinson has in keeping a two year old dark chestnut colored bull, with no ear mark. 27th of October, 1861. Nov. 6th, 1861.
PAGE 239. John J. Jessup has in keeping a two year old red and white bull without any car mark. Sept. 1st, 1861.
PAGE 240. The undersigned Commissioners of Highways of the Town of Southampton, in the County of Suffolk, all of the Commissioners being present, having met at the house of George Seaman, in the said town to decide upon the ap- plication of residents of the said town, liable to be assessed for highway labor therein for the alteration of the road be- tween the Indian Land, or Shinnecock Hills at the Canoe Place, and Tiana or Diana Water, do order that the north line of the said road be, and the same is hereby so altered as to run from the south-east corner of the homestead of David W. Smith as the fence now stands, S. 57 deg. W. 5 chains ; thence S. 52& deg. W. 12.77 chains ; thence S. 83} deg. W. 15.28 chains ; thence S. 68 W. 7.75 chains ; thence S. 742 deg. W. 10 chains; thence S. 673 W. 7.25 chains ; thence S. 79 deg. W. 4 chains ; thence S. 76} deg. W. 10 chains, thence S. 894 W. 2.25 chains ; thence S. 79} W. 14 chains ; said road being five rods wide from the place of beginning to the said 10th station, and narrowing down to four rods wide at the eleventh station ; thence S. 723 W. 16
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chains ; thence S. 72 W. 3 chains, to the southeast corner of the front door-yard, at the house of Alvin Squires ; thence S. 84} W. 12 chains ; thence S. 88} W. 14 chains ; thence N. 88 W. 3 chains ; thence S. 82 W. 5 chains ; thence S. 89 W. 3 chains ; thence S. 77 W. 4 chains ; thence S. 653 W. S chains (said road being four rods wide, all the way from the eleventh station to the 19th station, and thence widening to 5 rods wide at the 20th station ;) thence S. 51} W. 9 chains ; thence S. 57 W. 16 chains ; thence S. 88 W. 9.46 chains, (said road being 5 rods wide all the way from the 20th station to the 22nd station; thence narrowing down to 23 rods at the 23d station ;) thence S. 73 W. 7 chains ; thence S. 57} W. 4.53 chains ; thence S. 653 W. 8 chains, to Tiana Brook and bridge, said road being 2} rods wide all the way from the 23d station to the said bridge or Tiana Water. And it is further ordered that such parts of the present road as are not included in the above descrip- tion, and according to the above diagram, be and the same is hereby discontinued.
Dated at Southampton this 9th day of March, 1861.
ALANSON TOPPING, JOHN S. JESSUP, Commiss.
DAVID R. DRAKE,
The above is a true copy of the original,
ALBERT J. POST, Town Clerk.
April 24th, 1861.
PAGE 241. Whereas the act regulating highways and bridges in the Counties of Suffolk, Queens and Kings, passed February 23d, 1830, gives the Commissioners of Highways in the several Towns of said Counties, power to lay out on actual survey such new roads in their respective Town, as they may deem necessary and proper, and whereas a peti- tion has been presented to the undersigned Commissioners
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