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and Mr. Samuel Cummings were chosen for said Committee.
Voted,
to dismiss the 4th article in the Warrant.
Voted,
that the Committee appointed by the town &Church in conjunction to sign
the letters missive, be also appointed to convey them to the several Churches,
which are to constitute, or compose the Council.
Voted,
to choose a Committee of three to procure timber for the bridge by Col.
Howard's mill: And Mr. Brian Fletcher junr, Capt. David Savage, and Mr. Phineas Allen were chosen
for said Committee.
Voted,
to build the Pounds with round logs or poles, and to be thirty feet square
within side; and Mr. James Page and Benjamin Pettingill Esq. were chosen
a Committee to procure the stuff the winter ensuing.
The question was put whether John Badcock's rates should be abated, and
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| Meeting dissolved, Sam.l Bullen. Moderator. |
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Attest. Ephm.
Ballard, Town Clerk.
To Benjamin Brown, Constable of the town
of Hallowell.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are required forthwith to notify & warn all the freeholders and
other inhabitants of the said town, qualified to vote in town affairs,
to assemble and meet at the meeting house in said town, on Thursday the
eighteenth day of December instant, at ten o' clock in the forenoon, for
the following purposes, viz.
To choose a Moderator for said Meeting.
To choose a Committee to wait upon Mr. Foster,
to see if he will ask a dismission, agreeable to the advice of the Council.
To see if the town will grant Mr. Foster
a dismission from his Ministerial charge in this town, if he asks it according
to the advice of council, & to take such other measures respecting
dismissing Mr. Foster from his Ministerial office in this town, as the
town shall think proper.
To see what sum of money the town will give
Mr. Foster in case a dismission shall take place.
To consider and determine what method shall
be taken to procure a sum of money immediately to discharge an Execution
which Asa Emerson has against the Meeting house Committee for money due
him for the Meeting house frame.
To see if the town will direct their Agent
to call on Mr. Asa Emerson immediately for settlement.
You are alike required to warn all the inhabitants of said
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