and pay the said Assessments unto the Treasurer of said Province for the time being, by the Twenty fifth day of December next ensuing the Date thereof and sometime before the said 25th day of December, make a Return to said Treasurer of the name or names of the Constable, or Constables, to whom you shall Committ a List of said assessments, and the sum or sums by him or them Respectively to be paid as aforesaidDated at Portsmouth the 26th day of July in the Twenty seventh year of his Majesty's Reign annoque Domini 1753 Geo Jaffrey Treas Petition of the Agents of Bow for Loan of Money, 1754. Province of July 25th 1754. New Hamp To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Capn. Gen Governor & Comander in Chieff in & over his majestys Province of N. Hampshire afores The Honble his maj'ty Council & the General assembly of sd. Province Humbly Sheweth Clem' March Daniel Pierce & Zebulon Giddings as agents to & in behalf of the Proprietors of the Township of Bow in said Province That the s1 Proprietors Comenced an action of ejectment against one Merrill for the recovery of about Eight acres of Land Lying within the said Township of Bow that the said action was carryd thro' the Law here that your memorialist recovered judgment at the Superior Court of Judicature here on the review That the said Merrill had complained to his maj'ty in Council of his haveing been deny an appeal from the said Judgement upon the review that his Maj'ty in Council was Pleased to order a hearing of the said action before him in Council sometime in the month of October next at which time The said Proprietors are order'd to appear &c and as the Getting of Sterling money either by way of Bills of Exchange or silver is at Present very Difficult if to be obtained from Private Persons they Humbly Pray that they may obtain a Vote of the Governour Council and assembly for Lending of one hundred Pounds Sterling money to Defend their Title to the said land and they are ready to give such security to repay The same as The General assembly shall Please to order or accept of and your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever Pray Prov. N. Hamps. In Council July 25th 1754 read & ordered to be sent Down to the Honble the Gen1 Assembly Theodore Atkinson Secy Vote for lending £100 Sterling to the Proprietors of Bow, 1754. Province of In the House of Representatives July 25 1754 New Hamp Whereas Clement March Esqr. Daniel Peirce Esqr and Mr. Zebulon Giddings as agents for the Proprietors of Bow have Petitioned the Gen. assembly of this Province to lend them the sum of one hundred Pounds Sterling money to enable them to carry on a suit before his Majesty in Council, now depending there between one Merrill and the sa Proprietors and signifyd in their Petition that they are ready to give such security for the Repayment thereof as the Genal assembly shall please to order Therefore Voted That Theodore Atkinson Richard Wibird and Meshech Weare Esqs and Mr. Henry Sherburne Junr. be and hereby are appointed a Committee they or the major Part of them to draw a Bill in favour of the s Petitioners on John Thomlinson Esqr. agent for this Province at the Court of Great Britain for the sum of one hundred Pounds Sterling of the Interest in the hands of the sd. John Thomlinson Esqr belonging to this Government and that the sd Clement March Daniel Pierce and Zebulon Giddings Give security unto the sd Committee for the payment of the sum of three hundred pounds Bills of credit new Ten on this Province within one year from the date of sd Bill to be by them drawn as aforesd with six pr. cent Interest in like Bills and that the sd. Committee put the s Principal and Interest when rec'd into the Treasury of this Province (taking a Receipt for the same) and that the same be burnt to ashes in the face of the Gen1 assembly in order to sink so much of the Bills of Credit of this Province, emitted for carrying on ye Intended Expedition against Canada Matthew Livermore Clerk In Council July 25th 1754 The foregoing vote read & concurred In Council July 25t Assented to B. WENTWORTH. Province of An act relating to Bow. New Hampshire} Anno Regni Regis Georgii Secundi Magnæ Brit tainæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Vicessimo nono. An Act For assessing and Collecting the Province Tax due from the Town of Bow within said Province Whereas the General Assembly of this Province have Proportioned the Province Tax for the several Towns Districts and Parishes in this Province to pay as was thought most Just and Reasonable into the Province Treasury for several years past and have Directed the Province Treasurer from time to time to Issue his warrants Directed to the Selectmen of the said Towns, Districts & Parishes to Assess their respective Towns, Districts and Parishes according to said act and the Laws and usage of this Province in such Cases and the said Selectmen to make out warrants to the Constables of such Towns Districts and Parishes to Collect the same as usual in the Province & pay the same into the Province Treasury to answer the several ends & purposes for which the said Taxes were Ġranted—But notwithstanding the care of the General Assembly in Providing a Supply for the Treasury in Season The Town of Bow in said Province have endeavoured to prevent the assessing and Collecting the Taxes aforesaid by neglecting or refusing duely to Elect Select men Assessors & Constables or Collectors to assess and collect their proportion of the Province Taxes aforesaid and when the General assembly made a special act for calling a Town meeting and choosing Town officers in said Town of Bow in the year 1755 The said Town in Contempt of the Law and in Defiance of the Government Refused to meet at the time and place appointed by authority as aforesaid; By means whereof No officers were chosen and no Taxes are assessed in said Town of Bow nor have been for several years past and the Treasury of the Province Destitute of that just proportion of the Taxes which the said Town of Bow ought to pay into the Province Treasury: For Remedy whereof and for the speedy assessing Collecting and paying into the Public Treasury of said Province the sum and sums which the said Town of Bow ought to pay into the same; Be it enacted By his Excellency the Governour Council and Assembly That Ezra Carter & Moses Foster Esqrs and John Chandler Gentleman all of said Bow they or the Major part of them Be assessors to assess the Polls and Estates within the said Town of Bow as the Bounds and Limits of said Township were Run by Walter Bryant Surveyor in the year 1749 in a just and equal Proportion Agreeable to ye Laws & usage of this Province, The sum of Five Hundred and eighty Pounds and sixteen Shillings New Tenor Bills of Public Credit of this Province being the sum ordered to be paid by them into the said Treasury and in order to the said assessors obtaining the Best account of the Polls and Estates in said Town of Bow & to their making a Just proportion according to their Best skill and Judgment-The said assessors or the major part of them are hereby directed to Post up Notifications in some public place or places within the said Town of Bow Ten days before they proceed to make the Said assessment that all persons may have opportunity (if they think fit) to give a True list or Inventory of their Polls and Rateable estate within said Town to said assessors which if they or any of them shall neglect or refuse to do within that time the said assessors or major Part of them are hereby Impowered and directed to doom such Person or Persons in such sum and sums as the said assessors or major part of them shall Judge they ought to pay as their Proportion of the said Tax & of the Cost arising in about and concerning the assessing Collecting & Paying the Same which the said assessors or major part of them are hereby Directed and impowered to assess in Proportion to and with the said Tax or assessment and the said assessors are hereby Directed to be sworn to the faithfull Discharge of their office & Speedily to proceed in and make the said Tax or assessment with a Sufficient overplus for costs and abatements and Deliver Lists of said Rates or Tax with proper warrants to the Collectors hereafter named within this act and certifie the sums in each respective list to ye Treasurer of said Province within two months next ensuing and the said assessors in their warrants are to Direct the said Collectors to Collect and pay in unto the Province Treasurer the aforesaid Sum of five hundred and Eighty Pounds & Sixteen Shillings New Tenor Bills of said Province at or before the Last day of December next and account with the said assessors for y overplus (if any be) and the said assessors to report their doings herein to the Gen Assembly as soon as may be And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Timothy Walker and John Noyes both of said Town of Bow shall be and hereby are appointed the Collectors of said Tax or assessment and that they Collect and pay in the sum & sums in their respective lists in time and manner aforesaid on Penalty of forfeiting and paying into the Province Treasury for his Majesty's use the sum in their respective lists men tioned And in collecting the same & any part thereof The said Collectors are hereby Authorized to use and exercise all ye Powers and Authoritys in the Law Given to Constables in this Province for their Collecting y Publick Taxes and if any of said Collectors meet with any opposition in y executing their office or if the persons rated or any of them shall secreet their Goods and chattels or use any means to prevent the Collecting of this Tax in manner aforesaid it shall be Lawfull for such Collectors respectively to sue the person or Persons so refusing before any Justice of the Peace in Said Province and any Justice of the Peace shall & may hear & Determine the same give Judgm therein & award Execution thereon in which no essoin Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed & no other Evidence Necessary than the list of rates under the hands of said assessors or major part of them to Convict & ye oath of ye Collector that the same has been Demanded four days & not paid and which Demand may be made by asking the same of the Person or Leaving an acco't of the sum of each respective Persons rate in such list at the usual place of the Abode of y Person rated four Days before any Distress or Suit made for ye same in manner aforesaid And be it further enacted by the Authority afosesaid that if the said assessors shall neglect or refuse to Do their Duty in making said Rate or Tax and refusing their acc't of the same as aforesaid Thet Province Treasurer is hereby authorized required and Directed to issue his Warrant of Distress Directed to The Sheriff of said Province his under Sheriff or deputy to Levy said sum of Five hundred and eighty Pounds sixteen shillings upon the Goods, Chattels or Lands of said assessors & in want thereof on their bodies & y Sheriff under Sheriff or Deputy is hereby authorized Impowered and directed to execute the same accordingly and pay ye said sums into the Treasury And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any Person giving in to ye said Assessors a list or Inventory of their rateable Polls or Estates shall be guilty in the Judgement of the said Assessors or Major part of them of giving in a false list or Inventory of the Rateable Polls & Estate the said Assessors or Major part of them are hereby Impowered and Directed to add to the Rate of Such Person as a fine not exceeding twenty shillings to be collected with said Rate or Tax for and towards Defraying ye charges attending the same which fine shall be over and above what the said assessors shall think reasonable to Doom such persons as their Proportion to said Rates and for the service of the said assessors in Doing their Duty as in this act is required they & Each of them, shall be entitled to have and receive out of what they shall so assess the sum of seven Pounds & Ten shillings New Tenor each of them and each of the said Collectors to be allowed out of said assessment by them to be Collected the sum of fifteen Pounds New Tenor each of them for such their Service; and to prevent any Inconveniency by said Town of Bow their not choosing Town officers for several years past, Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid that the said assessors or major part of them are hereby Impowered and Directed to Notifie the Free holders and Inhabitants of said Town of Bow Qualified according to Law to Vote in Town affairs to meet at such time and place in said Town of Bow as they shall order and direct some time in ye month of March next in the year 1756 to choose selectmen Constables & all other Town officers & to pass any vote or votes as they Lawfully might at any town meeting regularly warned and their votes acts & choice of officers Shall be as good & effectual in Law to all intents & purposes as if they had not neglected to choose officers in times past. Pursuant to an act of the Gens! Court of the Province of New Hamp I the Subscriber Warned a meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Bow for the choice of Town Officers and attended the same as Moderator at the Place and time appointed for said meeting which was ya 22d of April last but there was but one Inhabitant of said Bow that attended the Place and time of meeting by which means no Town Officers are chosen for the present year to assess the said Inhabitants their proportion to the Province Tax agreeable to Law Portsmouth May ye 25th 1755. JON LOVEWELL Petition for a new survey of Lots. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Gov' & Commander in Chiefe in & over his majes$ Prov. of New Hamp The Hon his Majestys Council & House of Representatives for sd Prov. in Gen' Assembly convened Jan. the first day 1757 The Humble Petition of Daniel Pierce Esq' Tho' Wiggin & Daniel Marston Gent" Willim Pottle Blacksmith & Benjn Norris Yeoman as a Committee of the Prop's of ye Town of Bow in s Province Shews That there are many Persons who claim a Right to Lands in Said Township by Titles not derived from s Proprietors & some who have made considerable Improvements there with whom the said Proprietors have had many expensive Suits at Law which has much impeded the settlement of said Township-That many of the said claimers & settlers particularly those who hold under the Proprietors of Suncook (so called) are desirous (as they say) of an accommodation & settlement of these Disputes & to become not only Inhabitants of said Bow but to hold their Title under that of sd Bow & no more to call it into Question which the Proprietors of Bow are as desirous to have effected & have taken many steps to that Purpose being sensible that these Disputes will finally prove more detrimental to themselves if ended by ye Law tho' in their Favour than any reasonable Concessions That notwithstanding the amicable & peaceable Dispositions of ye Parties concern'd there are Impediments which prevent the good effects that might be expected to result from such a temper which however willing they are not able to remove which your Petitioners beg Leave shortly to represent. That the Home Lots or first Division in s Township of Bow which were laid out for forty acres each by some mistake fall short as to some of them which contain not much more than half that Quantity and ye lots laid out by the Props of Suncook run across these oblikely so that one of those interferes with several of these in many Places That by this means one |