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not likely to perfect his Collection of the Rates comitted to him, and that he is desireous that Care may be taken that Some other Sutable person may be Appointed to Effect the Same.

Voted. That it be left with to Select men to advise and direct in that matter as they Shall think proper.

Mesues Nicholas Bowes & William Lowder haveing Signified their refusall to Serve in the Office of Constable.

Mesures James Scolley & John Edwards Goldsmith are Chosen to Serve as Constables for the year ensuing.

Votes given in for County Treasu' & delivered to a Constable. Mr John Edwards haveing refused to Serve as Constable.

M' Noah Champney is Chosen to Serve as Constable for the year ensuing.

Edward Loyd Esq', Mesures John White & Grove Hirst haveing Signified their refusall to Serve as Overseers of the Poor.

Mesus John Colman, James Gooch, & William Hutchinson are Chosen to Serve as Overseers of ye Poor for ye year ensuing.

Mr John Colman haveing refused to Serve as Overseer.

Mr John Legg is Chosen to Serve as Overseer of the Poor for y year ensuing.

In answere to the motion of Sundry Inhabits whose lands are abutting on Back Street who have proposed at their own cost to pave the S Street from ye Black Smith Shop nigh ye mill Bridg as farr North ward as Beer Lane, Provided the Town will come into the Charge of Regulating ye ground.

Voted. That it be left wth the Select men to do what they Shall think proper for their Encourragement to go on wth ye Sd worke.

In Answere to the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants at the South end of the Town who are Abutters on the H. way Leading from Deacon Elliots Corner South ward to wards the Neck, Setting forth the Necessity of Paveing the Sd High way, Praying to Town to order a Survey to be made of the S Highway in Order to a Speedy Amendment of the Same.

Voted. That five persons be Chosen as a Comittee to Consider of what they Shall think proper ab' paveing the S Highway & to make report there of to the Town as soon as may be.

Voted. That Coll° Elisha Hutchinson, Major Thomas Fitch, Cap Timothy Clark, Cap' Edward Martyn and m' John White be the Sa Comittee.

Voted. A grant of Three hundred pounds to be raised on y Inhabitants & Layd out, in paveing in ye High wayes.

Voted. A grant of Two hundred & fifty pounds to be raised on ye Inhabits for the Support of the Watch.

Voted. That the Salleryes as granted y Last year to m' John Barnerd & m' Jacob Sheafe, and ye Sallery & School rent granted to m' Richard Henchman be further continued untill the Same be otherwise ordered.

Voted. That it be left wh the Select men to Consider of the motion now made Ab Enlargeing the School House in Queen Street, and to make report to ye town at their next meeting of what they Shall think proper to be done.

[357.] Voted. That a Stock of Graine be layd in towards a Supply of the Inhabitants of this Town.

Voted. That the Select men do procure & Lay up for the Town, three Thousand bushels of Indian Corn, five hundred bushels of wheat, and five hundred bushels of Rhy.

Voted. That the Select men are Impowered to furnish themselves wth money at Intrest. So much as Shall be needfull for purchace

ing the aforesaid graine.

Voted. That it be left wth the Select men to procure one more Convenient Stoar House for the Laying in of Graine.

In answere to the Petition of John Smalpeice.

Voted a grant to him the Sa John Smalpeice of the Sume of fifty pounds to be paid to him out of the Town Treasury. In consideration of the Bodily hurt weh befell him by ye blowing up of powder at the Late fire we brake out nigh ye Dock

The question being proposed whether the Town will grant Some House Lotts on y neck in order to maintaine Lights there, we was Voted in the Negative.

Voted. That the Town will come in to halfe the Charge of makeing and maintaining a two raile fence from one end of the Neck, betw Boston & Roxbury to the Other for the benefit and Safety of Travillers: And that it be given as an Instruction to the next Representitives for this Town: That they Endevour to procure the other halfe part there of to be done at the Charge of the Province, wth Some Sutable provision in the Law, for defending the Same against Such as Shall demollish the Same or any part thereof.

Voted. A Grant of Twelve hundred pounds to be raised on the Inhabitants & Estates of this Town, for the reliefe of the Poor and Other Necessary Charges Ariseing within & for the Sd Town for the year ensuing.

Voted. That Addington Davenport Esq', Major Thoms Fitch, m' Elisha Cook jun', Cap' Oliver Noyes & Cap' Sam" Keeling. Be a committee to to Consider of what they Shall think proper to Suppress the Abuses to the Inhabitants of this Town by Hucksters, and they are desired to make report to the Town at their next meeting of what they Shall think proper upon that head.

And the S Comittee are aso. desired to Consider of Some Effectuall Means to Oblige persons to pave, and repaire pavem1 in the Streets against their Land, and to make report to the Town at their next meeting of what they Shall think proper relating thereto: And Also to draw up in writeing a Projection of an Act Proper to Pass in to a Law to enjoyn the Same.

Voted. That the Select men be directed to Come into the Charge of paveing the the Meddle part of Charter street, from m" Ransfords Corner upward, in Case the Neighbourhood thereto agree to pave what or So much as hath been Accustomed on each Side that is to Say not exceeding So far as one hundred pounds will go in paveing the Townes part.

Whereas by reason the Number of Overseers of ye Poor was not yn Completed there was no report by them made Ab' Regulating ye Almes House and Worke House as was Comitted to them y° 14th Curt.

Voted. That the Overseers of the Poor wth the Advise & Con

currence of the Sel: men, are impowered to prosecute the proposal Offered to the Town, Relating to makeing a division of the present Almes House & work House, So as to Accomodate Sober and aged People by themselves, and y' those put in for vice & disorder may be Seperate from them.

[358.] Or to Lay before the Town at their next meeting what they Shall think more Adviseable.

Voted. That it be left wth the Select men, to move the Gen" Court by their Next Representitives, That the fifty pounds of Gun Powder allowed by Law, for Sellers of Powder to Keep in their Houses, may be reduced to Twenty pounds.

At a Meeting of the Free-holders and Other Inhabitats of the Town of Boston duly qualified, being Regularly Assembled in a PubИck Town Meeting at the Town-House the 17th of May 1715. Thomas Hutchinson Esq' is Chosen to Serve as Moderator. Voted. That the Town will proceed to ye Choyce of four Representitives 262 Voters.

Cap' Oliver Noyes, Coll° Adam Winthrop, M' Elisha Cook & Mr William Payn, are by the Majority of Voters Chosen to Serve as Representitives of this Town according ye warrant now read.

M' Zachery Thayer is chosen in the Room of Mr Ezekiel Cravath deceaced, to Serve as Constable for the year ensuing, and Accordingly Sworn.

Voted. That the Consideration of Paveing at the South end of ye Town be deferred untill the next meeting.

Whereas the Comittee appointed ye Last meeting to Consider abt Hucksters &c. have not yet brt in their report.

Voted. That the Sa Comittee be further Continued in that Service and that they be desired make their return to next T. meeting.

Voted. That the Town will proceed to the choyce of a Comittee of five persons to joyn wth the Sel: men, to give Instructions to the Representitives of this Town.

Voted. That Elisha Cook Esq', Cap Tim° Clark, Mr Edwd Hutchinson, Mr Daniel Oliver, & Capt Edward Martyn be the Sa Comittee.

At a Meeting of the Free-holders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified & Lawfully warned being Assembled in a Publick Town Meeting at the Town-House on the 13th of June 1715.

Cap Timothy Clark is Chosen to be ye Moderat' for this Meeting. Voted. The Town will not be at the Charge of Turning the High way to pass through the Lotts of perticuler persons, in order to the paveing the High way at the South end of ye Town.

Voted that the Town will proceed to grant money for paveing Forty-two Rodd in Length of the High way in Orange Street, that is to Say, from the Town Slip by yt wch was Welcomes House as far Southerly as m" Thomas Walkers House according to the report now made by the Comittee formerly Appointed to Consider thereof.

Voted.

A grant of Two hundred and Sixty pounds to be Layd out in the afore Sd Paveing, Provided that the Owners of the Lands wch are Abutting on the Same do undertake and defray the Charge of paveing each Side of the Sd Street, the Same breadth as hath been usually done by the neighbourhood in Other paved Streets.

[359.] Voted. A grant of One hundred pounds, to be layd out in Inlargeing the School-House in Queen Street in manner as hath been proposed by ye Sel: men. And that the Select-men be

a comittee to get the Same effected. Voted. An Addition of Ten pounds p Annum to m' Wigglesworths Sallery as Usher of the Gramer School.

Voted. A grant of One hundred & eighty pounds, for defraying the Charge of two water Engines formerly agreed to be sent for.

Voted. That the Committee raised in March Last to consider Ab' Hucksters, be further Continued, And they are desired to make a Speedy return of what they Shall think proper therein, and if need be to Consult Some persons Learned in the Law Ab* the Same.

Voted. That the Town will now proceed upon the Consideration of the proposals offered by m' John Marion and other Inhabitants relating to the fifteen hundred pounds being the produce of the Blue hill Lands.

Voted. That the Worsds in ye Town Vote relating thereto y 13th of March 1710/11 (That they Lay out the Sa money in Some Real Estate for the use of the Publick Lattin School) be reasumed.

Voted. That the Vote of the Town the 9th of May 1711 Relating to the Thirteen hundred pounds and the two hundred pounds, produce of ye Townes Land in Brantree, as Recorded p 324 be Reasumed.

Voted. That the Appropriated Money being the produce of y Blue hill Lands, Shall be Applyed for the purchaceing of Corn or other provisions as the Town shall direct.

Voted. That whatsoever Loss Shall hapen by the purchaceing & Laying in of Grain or other Provisions, Shall from time to time be made good by ye Town, So that the Stock Shall not be Exhausted.

Voted. That the Select men are impowered to Lett at Intrest upon good Security all Such of ye Above Sd Appropriated money as Shall not be by them Imployed for the purchace of Corn or other provision as aforesd.

Whereas it is now represented to the Town that by reason of a Long fitt of Sickness m' John Lothrop one of the Constables for the Last year, hath been hindered from Collecting and paying in the Rates Comitted to him, at the time limited by ye Town in ther Last meeting.

Voted. That in Case the Sa Constable Lothrop perfect his Collections & pay in the Same to the respective Treasurers by the 10th of August next he Shall be Intituled to his three pence on the pound for Collecting, as other Constables were who made up their payments by the 10th of June Curt.

At a Meeting of the Free-holders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified, being Regularly Assembled in a Publick Town meeting at the Town House the 20th of September 1715. Capt Ephraim Savage is Chosen to Serve as Moderator for this Meeting.

In Aswer to the Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants who are desireous to Erect a New Meeting House. Praying the Town to grant them a Peice of Land Sutable to build the Same upon.

[360.] Voted. A grant to Mesues Henry Hill, Eliezur Darby, David Craige, Nicholas Boon, Samuel Adams, & their Assosiates and Successors for ever, a Peice of Land, Comonly Called Church Green Nigh Summer Street in Boston, of Sixty-five feet in Length and forty-five feet in Breadth, (with Convenient Highwayes Round the Same) for the Erecting thereon an Ediffice for a Meeting House for the Publick Worship of God, Provided the Sa Meeting House be Erected and improved to that use within the Space of Three years next ensuing.

Voted. That it be left to the Sel: men men to to Lay out the Sa peice of Land According to the above Sa vote.

Voted. That the Select men be directed and Impowered to make and Execute a proper deed of Conveyance of the Sa peice of Land Agreeable to the Tenour of the afore Sd Grant.

Voted. The Town will proceed to the Sale of that their peice of Land on the South Side of School Street wch they formerly purchaced of John Mathews.

Voted. That the Select men are Impowered to sell the afore Sa peice of Land for not less then One hundred pounds.

Voted. That the Consideration of the improvement of that Peice or Strip of Land below the Stone wall Nigh Capt Southinks House be continued untill the next Town Meeting in March.

Voted. The motion now made for Erecting Houseing in Some remote place, for the Lodging of Sick persons in Case of Inection be further Considered at ye next Meeting in March.

Voted. That the Assessors for this present year be desired & impowered to take into their Consideration the motion & desire of Cap Timothy Clark, Collector of ye Rates Ann° 1712 & 1713, who sayes there is yet Out Standing Abt 12 or 13 pounds wch he cannot get in; And at any time wthin the Space of Three moneths next ensuing, to make Such abatem thereof as they Shall Judg necessary.

Whereas it is now represented to the Town on the behalfe of Elizabeth Liford Grand Child to Thomas Smith Deceaced, that She the S Eliz hath a Right to a Certaine peice or parcell of Land, of her Sd Grand fathers Estate now in the Possession of this Town. Praying that her claime may be considered and that her just due May be Assigned her without the Trouble of any Contest in the Law.

Voted. That a Comittee be raised to Consider & make Report to the Town, of what they Shall think proper to be done therein. Voted. That Addington Davenport Esq', M' Richard Draper, and Mr Thomas Cushing be the Sa Comittee, who are accordingly desired to undertake the Same.

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