1784-02-25 (2)[Selectmen February 25, 1784]
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At a Meeting of the Selectmen February the 25 1783 [1784] they agreed and ordered that the Town
Clerk issue out the following warrant for calling of a town meeting.
Viz. Essex, s.s.. To Mr. Willliam Herrick one of the constables of the town of Beverly. Greeting.
In the Name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required forth with to act notify
and warn the freeholders and other inhabitants of Beverly that are qualified according to law to vote
in town affairs to assemble and meet together on Monday the eighth day of March next at ten o’clock
in the forenoon at the stated place for holding of town meetings in said town for to act on the
following [illegible] viz.
1ly. To choose town officers for the ensuing year.
2ly. To choose a County Treasurer .
3ly. 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.
4ly. 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 grant to be assessed and raised for that
purpose and to see if it is the mind of the town two reduce the districts or wards of the highways to
some smaller number and to order all monies granted to repair the highways to be a assessed with
other monies raised for the town use and paid into the town Treasurer and drawn out again for
repairing of the highways as other charges of the town and make any regulations relative to the
highways and repairing the same as they think best.
5ly. To see if the town will sell the buildings they own on Woodberry’s Point.so-called and
empower some person or persons to dispose of the same and see what they will do toward leveling
the fort there.
6ly. To receive the report of the Committee appointed to take under consideration the run of water
down ferry hill and act anything relative to the repairing the same as they shall think for the best.
7ly. To receive the report of the Committee appointed to take under consideration the affair of the
constables receiving counterfeit money for taxes and act thereon as may be thought proper.
8ly. To grant Asa Brown and others liberty to work out their highway taxes on the way between their
houses in the country road through Col. Thorndike’s farm in the ensuing year.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Selectmen before
the said time.
By order of the Selectmen.
Beverly February 25, 1784. Joseph Wood, Town Clerk
And there was a warrant issued out accordingly. Attest Joseph Wood, Town Clerk