1775-07-14th
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Beverly July 14 1775.
The Selectmen sat as regulators as the law directs and Capt. Josiah Batchelder Jr. was elected and
deputed to serve for and represent them in a Great and General Court to be convened, held and kept
for the service of the said Colony of Massachusetts Bay until the end of the day next preceding the
last Wednesday of May next if necessary and no longer at the meeting house in Watertown upon
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Wednesday the 19 of July instant at 9 o’clock in the morning and so during their session and
sessions.
Mr. Richard Leech chosen Moderator of the meeting for the remaining business thereof.
Voted that their Committees of Correspondence, Safety and Inspection be dismissed from any
further services of the Town.
Voted that the Selectmen of this Town for future shall be their Committees of
Correspondence, Safety and Inspection in behalf of said Town.
Voted that the Selectmen be and are hereby empowered in behalf of this Town to make such rules
and regulations in the Grammar School as they in their wisdom shall think best.
Voted that the letter from the Committee of Safety of the Town of Salem be read in said meeting &
Voted that the Selectmen take the same under their consideration and in behalf of this Town to write
such answer back to said Committee as they shall judge to be most just and reasonable.