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1816 255 (1816)

handle is hein.ssl/ssct0385 and id is 1 raw text is: MAY SESSIOn 18t16, CHAP. I. An Act relative to Freemert. , i it enacted by the Governour and Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, That the civil authority and select Civil autlwrIjt men of each town in this state, are hereby authorised &c. may meet to meet (if they deem it necessary and expedient,) at previos, to fr'eemaen's the place where the freemen's meetings are usually meetings, to held, on Thursday next preceding such meetings, at examine qtav 11ine o'clock in the morning, and 'eceive and exanmue ifications of all applications for admission tothe privileges of fre- candidatws. men ; and having so reeeived, examined, and appro- ved, shall certify the same in the manner already pro- vided by law. §-,. A1nd be it further enacted, That it shall be the Notice to be duty- of: the civil authority in such cases to cause no- given.- lice of the meeting to be given to the inhabitants, by publishing the same in a newspaper or newspapers, or by posting the same on the public sign posts in such towns, at least five days previous to such meeting. Provided nevertheless, That the civil authority and select-men in the several towns in this state shaft hold ] a 'meeting for the purpose of admitting freemen on the days on which freenmeus meeting's are held, as now pro- Vided by law, in the same manner as if this net had )to been passed, Geueral .lssembly, M ay Session, 181(;. CUARLES DENISON. Speaker qf he House of Jlepresentaties, 3011N COTTON SM TIT. Governaoi,. Attest. l'FImTOM .V, Secretary.