The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-11-13

10 the HoaOurGble tie Senate and the Hon
Durable the House Of Representatives.. IL, Gen
erat Court assembled, May "A. d. 1922.
|H UMBLY shew, by the Sub
III scrlbers, Committee chosen for that pur-
pose-the Inhabitants, who were and are still
resident upon lands incorporated by an Act of
ms y eneral Court, passed on the 18th day of
une, a. y. 1896, into Precinct, by the name
on The Second Precinct in Boylston. Holden. and
.'Oerling, with all the powers, privileges, and
lmmunlties which other Precincts in this Com
monwealth then did or might enjoy by law
ana winch Precinct is now wholly within the
territorial limits of the Town of West BoyIston.
"a the county Of Worcester-That your Petit
TONER'S having received said Act Of Incornora-
son, accepted the same, and Immediately or
gained Society in said Precinct, by choosing
suchtrecinct officers as were necessary, and
theyPy law permitted 10 choose, for the due
MANAGEMENT of the concerns thereof, and con-
tinue so TO do, from time to time, yearly and
everyHear, till the year 1903, when, on the
sevent day of March of said aforementioned
year, tie said Precinct having been incorporat-
ed intq Town, by the name of West-Boylston,
by an let of this General Court, your Petition
ers cesed any longer to hold Precinct Meet
ings toEhe proper management of their Paro-
chial ahirs, but the same were transacted by
and in te name of the Town of West Boyls-
ton, witout any unusual difficulty, until year
or two Sace, when, on account of unhappy di-
visions I'D sectarian Societies rising up in said
Town, began to be doubted whether any
monies ould be legally granted and assessed
by said own for Parochial purposes, since by
the Act Incorporating the said Precinct into
Town, pc Precinct was not merged in the
Town, y deVolving upon the Town all the
rights, fuies and property of the said Precinct.
-YourP etitioners further represent, that, in
| addition to other troubles and inconvenience
arising rom the transaction of their Parochial
concerE by and in the name of the Town of
West-bylston, they have been unable, by rea-
son of he Intervention of Sectarians, to obtain
vote. for years past, when in wn-Meeting
assembled, to grant money to pay their Minister
his stipulated salary. To remedy that evil,
and because it was desirable that the Precinct
should in its Parochial affairs, act separate from
and Independent Of the Town, as well as under
oticeB of It's own choosing, your Petitioners,
in thelnonth of April last, thought it advisable,
that, Is their Precinct duties still existed, their
Preciict Meetings, to discharge them, might and
ought to be revived. Accordingly, an appli-
cation, signed by more than ten Of the freehold
ers and qualified voters in said Precinct, was
presented in April last to the Prudential Com
nlittee last chosen in said Precinct, and autho-
rized 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
oo,1H, i 4 n II
WARD, Esq. Magistrate in the County OF
Worcester, requesting of him, in consequence
OF said refusal, to issue Warrant for the pur-
pose aforesaid. Said Warrant having been is
sued by the said Magistrate, and the said Pre-
cinct having been duly warned, the inhabitants
thereof assembled in their Meeting House in
West-Boylston, in Precinct Meeting, and made
choice OF the usual and necessary Precinct of
fcers on the S0th 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 legal-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 30th day of April last, that the
same may be in all respects legal and valid
or that your Honors would, by resolve or 9TH
erwise, authorize Meeting of the Inhabitants
of said Precinct, for the purpose of reviving 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, viii ever pray, by theil
Committee, at late Precinct Meeting chosen
for that purpose, ROBERT B. THOMAS.
EZRA BEAMAN.
JACOB PIERCE.
West-Boylston, June 8, 1922.