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durable the House of Representatives., an Gem
sraI Court assembled, Mag, a. d. 1922.
III UMBLY 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 l4th day Of
June, A. ID. 1896, into a Precinct, by the name
otthe 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 Petit
TONERS, having received said Act of Incorpora-
lion, accepted the same, and Immediately Or
canned Society in said Precinct, by choosing
such Precinct officers as were necessary, and
they by law permitted 10 choose, for the due
management OF TIE concerns thereof and con-
tlnued so TO do, from time to time, yearly and
every year, till the year 1903, when, ON the
seventh day of March of said aforementioned
year, the said Precinct having been incorporate
ed into Town, by the name of -Boylston,
by an Act of this General Court. your Petition
ers ceased any longer to hold Precinct Meet
ings for the proper management of their Paro-
Chial affairs, but the same were transacted by
and IN the name of the Town of West Bowls
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
monias could DO legally granted and oeeoescd
10y said Town for Parochial purposes, since by
the Act incorporating the said Precinct into a
Town, the Precinct was not merged in the
Town, by devolying 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
West Boylston, they have been unable. by rea-
son of the Intervention of Sectarians, to obtain
vote, for years past, when in Town-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 It's Parochial affairs, act separate from
and independent of the Town, as we'll as under
officers OF its own choosing, your Petitioners.
IN the month OF April last, thought it advisable,
that, as their Precinct duties still existed their
trecinct 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
miitee 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 10 com
ply with said request. NVhereupon the sape
applicants addressed a Petition to AEDREyH.
WARD, Esq. a Magistrate in the County Of
Worcester, requesting Of him, in consequence
of said refusal, to issue Warrant for the py@-
pose Aforesaid. Said Warrant having h.en IS
sued by the said Magistrate, and 4'.esaid ffe-
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 3oth day of April lost. And
-.5,e9eas there are doubts in the minds of some,
""e ,, tne, 'he said Precinct Meeting, so holden
on the day las. -c,rasa;d vas lecai-vour Pc.
titioners, to quiet the apptplans;ons Of such.
desire your Honors to confirm and establish tie
proceedings Of said Precinct Meeting, held IS
aforesaid on the 80th day of April last, that the
same may be in all respects legal and valid;
OF that your Honors would, by resolve OF 9th
erwise, authorize Meeting of the Inhabitants
of said Precinct, for the purpose of reviving and
reorganizing 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 transactng their Parcchial affairs.
AS in duty bound, will ever pray, by their
Committee, at late Precinct Meeting chosen
for that purpose, ROBERT B. THOMAS.
EZRA BEAMAN.
JACOB PIERCE.
West-Boylston, June 3, 1922
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