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1684-05-23[Town Meeting May 23, 1684] 23:3: ‘84. At a general town meeting legally warned in which meeting the inhabitants of the town then met were informed by the Selectmen that they were required by Salem to perambulate a line between said towns. The town then understanding that something had been done in the year ‘79 which said Selectmen had not power to do upon which consideration it was then voted the Town of Beverly would stand to the first committee’s settlement ordered by the General court, to wit: Major Samuel Appleton, Capt. Whipple & Ensign Fuller. At the same town meeting John Green of Ryal Side did desire of the inhabitants then met that he might have a liberty to bury thence forward his dead in Beverly burial place and it was put unto the vote & granted provided he did bear his proportion in any necessary charges about the said burial place which said Green did engage to do. At the same town meeting it was voted that the then Selectmen should dispose of the old Meetinghouse for some convenient use or uses for the benefit of the town according to said Selectmen’s best judgment. At the same town meeting it was voted & granted that the then Selectmen should make a town rate accounting to forty pounds to defray town charges viz for repairing highways and for other necessary uses for the behoof of the town. At the same town meeting it was voted and agreed-upon that the town burial place should be fenced in with a sufficient stonewall and that the stones about the old Meetinghouse should be improved to that purpose. At the same town meeting it was voted & agreed that there should be a committee chosen to purchase some convenient land for the enlargement [of the] town training place & said land [when it is] purchased to be paid for out of the town Commons provided it may be to the town’s [benefit]. At the same town meeting it was voted and agreed that the then Selectmen should be a committee to purchase the said convenient land for the enlargement of the training place and to pay for it out of the town Common as in the next before record.