1783-05-06 (3)[Selectmen May 6, 1783]
At a Meeting of the Selectmen May 6, 1783
They ordered the Town Clerk to issue out the following warrants for calling of two Town Meetings
viz.
Issued to Mr. William Herrick, Jr., one of the constables of the Town of Beverly. Greeting. In the
name of the Commonwealth of the Massachusetts you are hereby required forthwith to notify and
warn the male persons that are twenty-one years of age and resident in said town for one year
preceding and having a Freehold estate within said town of the annual income of format that three
th
pounds or any estate of the value of sixty pounds to assemble and meet together on Friday the 16
day of May instant at the stated place for holding Town Meetings in said town at two o’clock
afternoon for the purpose of one or more persons to represent them in the Great and General Court
appointed to be convened and held for the government service at the State House in Boston or such
other place as may hereafter be appointed for the General Court to convene at agreeable to the
Constitution upon the last Wednesday of May instant hereof of fail not but make due return of this
warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectmen before said time.
By order of the Selectmen.
Beverly May 6, 1783Joseph Wood, Town Clerk
Which was issued out accordingly. Attest.
Joseph Wood, Town Clerk one