1782-02-28th
At a legal meeting of the Selectman of Beverly February the 28 1782.
They ordered the Town Clerk to issue out the following warrant for calling a Town Meeting.
Essex, ss. To Mr. Josiah Trow Jr. one of the Constables of the Town of Beverly. Greeting.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required forthwith to notify and
warn the freeholders and other inhabitants of said Town that are qualified according to law to vote
in Town affairs by posting of notifications agreeable to a vote of the Town to assemble and meet
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together on Monday the 11 day of March next 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 ensuing year.
2ly. To choose a County Treasurer.
3ly. To see if the Town will mend their Highways the ensuing year by a tax on 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 in their wisdom shall thank best.
4ly. To see if the Town will give Liberty for the swine to go at-large the ensuing year being yoked
and ringed as the law directs.
5ly. To act on the request of Benjamin Obear and Ebenezer Trask, Constables, to see if the Town
will enlarge the premium allowed the Constables for collecting of taxes and make good to the
Constables counterfeit money they shall receive for taxes.
Hereof fail not, but make to return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectman before
said day.
By order of the Selectmen.
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Beverly, Feby. 28 1782.Joseph Wood, T. Clerk
and their was a warrant issued out accordingly
Attest. Joseph Wood, T. Clerk.