You are hereby required in the name of said State to notify and warn a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Manchester who are qualified to vote in the choice of senators for the State Legislature to be holden at the meeting house in said Manchester on Monday the Eighth day of September next at two O'Clock P. M. to act on the following articles (Viz)

1st To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting

2nd To see what method the town will take in regard to laying out a new road through this town in such manner as to meet the road proposed to be laid out from Hooksett to Pawtucket Bridge and more particularly to take the sence of the town as to the expediency of said road and to transact such other business as may be necessary to be done

in relation to said road

3rd To see what method the town will take in regard to laying out a road as petitioned for by Jonas Harvey and others from the Perham Bridge so called to the meetinghouse.

4th To see if the town will vote to pay Dr. Bartleys bill for his attendance and medicine for Caesar Harvey and Luke Halls family, and keep in their hands the Caesar Harvey farm until the same is paid by said Hall or his order and in the warning and notification of said meeting you are to post a copy of this Warrant as the Law requires Given under our hands at Manchester this nineteenth day of August A. D. 1823

Amos Weston jur

Nathl Moore

Selectmen

Endorsed

Hillsborough ss

I have notified and warned the within named inhabitants by Posting a Copy of this Warrant as the Law requires

Daniel Hall Constable

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester held at the meetinghouse on monday the Eighth day of September 1823 in purusuance of the foregoing Warrant JOHN STARK Esq was chosen Moderator Motion was made by Mr. Huse to take the sence of the meeting as to the Expedency of the road mentioned in the second article in the Warrant which motion prevailed and the number who voted that said road was expedient was one and the number who voted that said road was not expedient was Forty-five — the following Vote was then introduced by Mr. Stark which passed Voted Joseph Moor be an agent for this town to join the Committee chosen by the town of Londonderry to oppose the laying out and opening a road through this town. Londonderry & in a direction from Hooksett to Pawtucket Bridge as it is the opinion of the people of this town. that the public interest does not require said road to be laid out and that the expenses of making the road would greatly exceed the benefit to be derived from its being opened, and that it would lay a burden upon this town which they are unable to bear therefore said Agent is instructed to procure such counsell and make such defence against said road as he shall think the interest of the town requires -*

*This vote is really a reconsideration of that taken at the annual meeting in March, when the town voted not to build the road asked for in 1821 by the citizens of Lowell, Mass., and Concord, N. H., who believed that there should be a good stage road between those places. The survey was made through Dracut, beginning at Pawtucket bridge, Pelham, Windham, Londonderry and Manchester, to connect with Londonderry turnpike in Hooksett, thence by that road to Concord. Bitter opposition was immediately shown in at least Londonderry and Manchester, though the project had one strong supporter in the last named place. He was Capt. Ephraim Stevens, Jr., who cast his solitary vote in favor of the new route, which was soon to be known as "The Mammoth Road." Action was frequently taken in regard to the matter, until the town made its last stand against it at a special meeting August 16, 1828. In October, 1830, the court ordered that the road should be built, which was accordingly done by the different towns. The road, however, proved a poor investment, though from no fault of the merits of the undertaking. The building of a railroad between the objective points completely changed the means and methods of transportation.-EDITOR.