1696-03-23[Town Meeting March 23, 1696]
At a legal town meeting of the inhabitants of Beverly, on 23 March 1695/6, John Trask was accepted to
serve as Constable in the room of Joseph Lovett, for the year ensuing in and for said town.
March the 23rd, 1695/6, Hazediah Smith was chosen fence viewer for said town, to join with Matthew
Butman & Robert Roundy, for the year ensuing.
March the 23rd, 1695/6. At a legal town meeting of the town of Beverly, it was voted and agreed, that the
selectmen have power and are hereby empowered and ordered, to make choice of surveyors of our town's
common, to prevent the waste of wood and timber thereon, according to orders referring thereunto, made
on the day above said, as also to agree with & pay said surveyors in behalf of said town.
March the 23rd, 1695 at a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Beverly, it was voted and agreed
to that the selectmen of said town, are hereby ordered & empowered to make a rate of fifty pounds in
money, to pay the town's debt for the maintenance of the poor, and other necessary charges arising in the
town.
At the same town meeting it was voted that the town tradesmen shall have one shilling on the pound, for
all money of the town's by him received, for so much as he shall take in and pay out.