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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 15.
    
    TOWN OF WASHINGTON against RISING.
    
      Orange,
    
    1818.
   IN Error. . In this case the Court decided, that overseers of the poor might, as agents for their town, make contracts for the support of the poor of their town, so as to bind to the fulfilment of such contract; and that, where there are three overseers and one was requested, by another, to take charge of a particular pauper, his contract for the support of such pauper, wa$ binding on the town.