The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-10-30


sral Court assembled, May, A. d. 1922.
HUMBLY shew, by the Sub
n N scribers, Committee chosen for that pur-
pose-the Inhabitants, who were and are still
resident upon lands incorporated by an Act of
this General Court, passed on the 18th day OF
June, A. ID. 1896, into Precinct, by the name
OF the Second Precinct in Boylston, Holden, and
Sterling, with all the powers, privileges, and
lmmunities which other Precincts in this Com
monwealth then did or might enjoy by Law:
and which Precinct is now wholly within the
territorial limits of the Town of West Boylston.
IN the County Of Worcester-That your Peti-
TONERS, having received said Act of Incorpora-
lion, accepted the same, and Immediately or
ganized Society in said Precinct, by choosing
such Precinct officers as were necessary, and
they by law permitted TO choose, for the due
management OF the concerns thereof, and con-
tlnued so to do, from time to time, yearly and
every year, till the year 1908, when, on the
seventh day of March of said aforementioned
year, the said Precinct having been incorporat-
ed into Town, by the name of West oyIston,
by an Act of this General Court, your Petition
ers ceased any longer to hold Precinct Meet
ings tor the proper management of their Paro-
chlal affairs, but the same were transacted by
ton, without any unusual difficulty, until year
or two since, when, on account of unhappy d.
visions and sectarian Societies rising up in said
Town, it began to be doubted whether any
monies could be legally granted and assessed
by said Town for Parochial purposes. since by
the Act Incorporating the said Precinct into
Town, the Precinct was not merged in the
Town, by devolving upon the Town all the
rights, duties and property of the said Precinct.
Your Petitioners further represent, that. in
addition to other troubles and Inconvenience
arising from the transaction of their Parochial
concerns by and in the name of the Town of
-Boylston, they have been unable. by rea-
son OF the Intervention of Sectarans, to obtain
vote, TOR years past, when in Town-Meetins
assembled, to grant money TO pay their Minister
ms stipulated salary. To remedy that evil,
and because it was desirable that the Precinct
should, IN its Parochal affairs, act separate from
and independent of the Town, as well as under
ofhcers OF ITS own choosing, your Petitioners.
IN the month OF April last, thought it advisable,
that, as their Precinct duties still existed their
frecmct Meetings, to discharge them, might and
| ought to be revived. Accordingly, an appli-
cation, signed by more than ten of the freehold
eTs and qualified voters in said Precinct. was
presented IN April last to the Prudential Com
| mlttee last chosen in said Precinct, and autho-
| rlzed to call Precinct Meetings, requesting of
them TO call Precinct Meeting, for the pur-
| pose OF choosing the usual Precinct officers
but who, under an apprehension that, by lapse
| OF time, they had no authority, refused to COM
| ply with SAID request. Whereupon the same
| applicants addressed Petition to ANDREW H.
WARD, Esq. Magistrate in the County of
Worcester, requesting of him, in consequence
| OF SAID refusal, to issue Warrant for the p1r-
pose aforesaid. Said Warrant having been is
| sued by the said Magistrate, and the said Pre-
| clnct having been duly warned, the inhabitants
thereof assembled in their Meetins-House in
West-Boylston, in Precinct Meeting. and made
| choice OF the usual and necessary Precinct Of
| ficers on the Both day of April last. And
whereas there are doubts in the minds Of some.
whether the said Precinct Meeting, so holden
on the day last aforesaid, was legai-your Pc
titioners, to quiet the apprehensions of such,
desire your Honors to confirm and establish the
proceedings of said Precinct Meeting, held as
aforesaid on the Both day of April last that the
same may be in all respects, legal and valid;
or that your Honors would, by resolve or 9TH
erwlse, authorize Meeting Of the Inhabitants
OF said Precinct, for the purpose of reyiving and
| recognizing their Precinct Meetings as soon as
may be, or in any other way that to your Hon
ors may seem most proper, that your Petition
ers may act separate from and independent of
the Town in transacting their Parochial affairs.
AS In duty bound, will ever pray, by their
Committee, at a late Precinct Meeting chosen
for that purpose, ROBERT B. THOMAS.
EZRA BEAMAN.
JACOB PIERCE.
West-Boylston, June 8, 1929.