1687-03-08[Selectmen March 8, 1687]
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At a meeting of the Selectmen on the 8: Day of March 1686/7: for the year next ensuing
there were chosen for Surveyors of the Highways in our Town of Beverly viz.: Jonathan Byles: John
Bond: and Lot Conant said: Byles his portion from the Meetinghouse unto Manchester for the
repairing of country &: town highways: said: Bond’s proportion is for the repairing of country &
town highways from the ferry unto the Meetinghouse and so all along to the outlet & so as far as is
necessary said Conant’s portion for the repairing of country &: town highways is from said
Meetinghouse along the road unto Wenham and on other town highways or bridges west or westerly
from said road.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen Nehemiah Grover &: John Black senior were chosen
and appointed for Surveyors of the General Fences or any other fences in our said Town of Beverly
for said year ensuing and as to the General fences said Surveyors are to see them set up and in good
repair by the fourteenth day of April next ensuing and so to be kept until the sixteenth day of October
next: &: so for all other fences in our said town.
At the same meeting of said Selectmen it was ordered that all swine in said Town of above
a month old are to be sufficiently yoked by the fourteenth day of April and so for and until the
sixteenth of October next and if owner of any such swine shall neglect their duty herein they shall
forfeit one shilling per swine the one half unto the Town and the other half unto Edmund Ashby who
is hereby chosen and appointed to take care and look after all such defections and so to see them
rectified for the year ensuing the date here of it is to be understood that for each week that any such
swine shall be found unyoked the said forfeiture shall be due and as abovesaid it is meant all swine
going upon the Common and only them.