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May ye 12: 1748
Then the Select men met and appointed a town meeting to be at the meeting House in Said town on Wednesday the Eighteenth 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 will agree to send a representative this present year
2	To see how much the town will allow the Rev mr Swift for the year past: and also to see how much the Town will add to mr Swifts salary this present year
3	To see how much money the town will raise to defray the Necessary charges that shall arise within the same this present year
4	To see how much money the town will raise to support a Reading and writing school this present year
5	To see if the town will set off Deacon John Heald and several others as a town or parish and shall be made to appear by a pitition of Said petetioners at Said meeting
6	To see if the town will dismis mr Zechariah Emery from serving as Constable and choose another in his room [stead]
7	To see if the town will give mr Josiah piper Libberty to sett up two gates across the road that: Comes by his House
8	To see if the town will give those persons Liberty to work out their Highway rates that are behind or pass any other vote that shall be Thought proper when mett
9	To see if the Town will accept of the Report of the Committee that was chosen to finish the inside of the meeting House and the same was committed to the Constable

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May ye 18: 1748

	At a General town meeting at the meeting House on the first article it was propounded whether the town will send a Deputy this present year voted on the negative and then Deacon John Brooks was chosen moderator for Said meeting
2	it was propounded whether the town will add sixty pounds old tenor to the Rev mr Swifts salary for the year past voted on the affirmative

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