Acton Memorial Library


Acton Memorial Library

Early Town Records of Acton, Massachusetts

File/page number: 178

1763 May 2 Selectmen's meeting (warrant for May 17 Town meeting)
1763 May 17 Town meeting

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  May ye 2nd 1763
Then the Select men Met and appointed a Town Meeting to be at the Meeting House on Tuesday the Seventeenth Day of this Instant May at two of the Clock in the afternoon to Consider and Conclude on the following articles {viz}
1 To See if the Town Chuse a Representative
2 To See How Much Money the Town will Raise to Defray the Necessary Charges that have or may arise this present year within the Same
3 To See How much Money the Town will Raise to Support a Reading and a Writing School this present year and pass any other vote that may be thought Proper when Met Relating to Said School
4 To See How Much Money the Town will Raise to Procure the Rev mr Swifts fire wood this Present year
5 To See if the Town will give those men that ware in his Majestys Service the Last summer Libberty to work out there High way Rate which they ware assessed the Last year and pass any other vote that may be thought Proper When Met
6 To See How or in What Manner the Town will Dispose of the Pew Ground Next to the weomans Stairs in the Meeting House
7 To See if the Town will Agree to abate Fifteen Shillings and Nine pence of mr John Cragins Rates that he was assessed the year past for his Son Francis Cragins Poll by Reason of Said Francis Cragin Being in his Majestys Service the Last Summer or pass any other vote that may be thought Proper When Met Relating to that affair and the Same was Commited to the Constables

  May ye 17th 1763
At a General Town Meeting at the Meeting House it Being Legally Warned as appeared by the Returns of the Constables on there Warrants and Proceeded as follows Deacon John Brooks was Chosen Moderator for Said Meeting and on the first article it was Propounded Whether the Town will Chuse a Representative and it passed in the Negative
2 it was Propounded Whether the Town will Raise Twenty Pounds to Defrey the Necessary Charges that have or may arise this present year within the Same Voted on the affirmative
3 it was Propounded Whether the Town will Raise Twelve Pounds for to Support a Reading and a Writing School this Present year voted on the affirmative and then it was Propounded whether the Town shall be devided into Six parts as usual voted on the affirmative and then it was Propounded Whether Each Part Shall have two Pounds of Said money voted on the affirmative


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