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1778-05-14th At a meeting of the Selectmen May 141778. Ordered the Treasurer to pay Freeborn Groves twelve pounds in full for keeping of Susanna Ellinwood’s oldest child six months expiring on the 7th of April last. th At a meeting of the Selectmen May 141778. Ordered the Town Clerk to issue out the following warrant for calling of the Town meeting [illegible] to Mr. Edward Trask, one of the Constables of the Town of Beverly. Greeting. In the name of the Government and People of the State of the Massachusetts Bay you are hereby required forthwith to notify and warn the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of said Town that are qualified according to the Charter and Laws of this State to vote in the choice of representatives to the Great and General Court and in Town affairs, also all the male inhabitants of said Town that nd are free and are twenty-one years of age to assemble and meet together on Friday the 22 day of May instant a 2 o’clock in the afternoon at the stated place for holding Town Meetings in said Town. 1ly. To elect and depute one of more persons agreeable to the Laws of this State to serve for and represent them in a Great and General Court or assembly appointed to be convened, held and kept for the government’s service at the State House in Boston in the County of Suffolk upon th Wednesday the 27 day of May instant and at their several session or sessions etc. 2ly. To take under consideration a Constitution and form of government for the State of the th Massachusetts Bay agreed upon by the Convention of said State on February the 281778 which is ordered to be laid before the several Towns for their approbation or disapprobation and also to give their representatives such instructions relative thereto as they in their wisdom think best. 3ly. To see if the Town will mend their Highways the ensuing year by a tax on the Inhabitants and what wages they will give up per day for that service as also to determine what sum of money they will grant to be raised for that purpose and act and do any thing relative thereto as shall think best. 4ly. To determine what sum of money they will grant to be assessed and raised on the ratable polls and estates within said Town the current year for the defraying the necessary charges arising within the same. 5ly. To regulate the Jury boxes. 6ly. To determine how much or what part of the charge of the militia and hiring of men to go into the Continental Army for this Town they will have immediately assessed and raised on the Inhabitants of this Town. 7ly. To see if the Town will grant the request of Asa Brown and others which is for them to have liberty to work out their Highway tax on the way between said Brown’s house and the country road. 8ly. To choose a Constable in the room of Benjamin Lovett Jr. he refusing to serve. Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectmen at or before said time. By order of the Selectmen. th Beverly May 14 1778. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk. And there was a warrant issued out to the above said Edward Trask, a Constable, to warn the above said Meeting accordingly. Attest Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.