1780-03-01st
At a meeting of the Selectmen March 1 1780.
Ordered the Town Clerk to issue out the following warrant for the calling of the Town
Meeting as followeth viz..
Essex, ss. To Mr. Jonathan Dodge 2nd 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 to notify and warn the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly that
are qualified according to law to vote in Town Affairs to assemble and meet together on Monday the
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13 day of March instant at ten o’clock in the forenoon at the stated place for holding town meetings
in said Town.
1ly. To choose Town officers for the year ensuing and a Committee of Correspondence, Inspection
etc. etc.
2ly. To choose the County Treasurer.
3ly. To see if the town will mend their highways the ensuing year by a tax to the polls and estates of
the inhabitants and determine what sum of money they will raise for that purpose and make
such regulations relative to the highways and repairing the same as they shall think proper.
4ly. To see if the town will give liberty for their swine to go at large the ensuing year being yoked and
ringed as the law directs.
5ly. To choose a Committee to Supply the Families of the Soldiers that are the Continental Army
agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court and determine how said Committee shall be
supplied with money to enable them to perform that service.
6ly. To receive the report of a Committee appointed to draft a Petition to the General Court for the
remitting the fine laid on the Town for not procuring the militia and act and do any thing
relative thereto as they in their wisdom shall think best.
Here of fail not the make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectmen before
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said time. By order of the Selectmen of Beverly. March 1 1780. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.
Which was issued out accordingly. Attest. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.