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BURLINGTON;
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 9 1850.
TOWN MEETING.
The Annual March meeting of the Towr
Of Burlington was numerously attended
Tuesday. JEREMIAH FRENCH vas chosen
Moderator Of the meeting and the following
town Officers were chosen for the year
ensuing.
B. NJ. WEBB.-Toun Clerk and Treasurer.
E S.. =. e. T'T'' s.l.s,n.n.
Orsrseero fthsPoor,
SAuuE1 Hryrrye1oy, J Ia Constable, and
Collector.
H. S. WHITE, q Constable.
WHY'S i5s Lyman, Listers.
Henry Loomis.
5. NJ. Pope,
". G G, Shaw. 'I''''
H. B. Stacy,
Burial Lane, Fence VieVsrs.
j. Van Sicklin,
VIM. Weston, Grand Juror.
G. B.Dow, Sealer Of Weights and Measures.
\. ". Allen, Inspector of Leather.
Edward Parody, Pound Keeper.
T. E. Wales, Tolcn Agent.
Joshua Young, Supt- Of Common Schools.
c. Noyes, Trustee of o.. s. Deposit Fund.
Samuel Nichols,
y. ShattuCk,
John Doxv,
John Miller,
John Van Sicklin,)
Il. P. Fuller, Street CoDDis,'r.
NJ. \. Eyarts.
Grand Jurors, H. P. Hickock, j. D.
Allen, J. X. Gray, John Wheeler. n.
Parker, 5. l.. Herrick, J. n. Pomeroy,
Moses Morse, L. NJ. Hsgar.
PeHt Jurors, c. F. Stamford, Augustus
Kimball, A. Prouty Jr., G. L. Barstow,
j.. \. SheId, F. NJ. vansicklin, G. G
Benedict. L. JOhonnott, F. Hadley. y. G..
Norton, pan. Ign. .Iahn Barstow. VI.
Sinclair, Horace Wheeler.
The Ballot on Overseer Of the Poor stood
for SAMUEL HUNTINGTON 326
" d. TIBBrrrs 60
" j. X. GRAY II
\ Ballot was als1 taken Oh ID Selectmen,
which stood E j. Fay 243, J.. V~ansicklin
lIS.-one on Town Treasurer, which stood
B. NJ Webb 297, c. F. Ward Sand
one on Town Agent, which stood T. E.
Wales I95, G. F. Edmunds 154.
One or two persons having called in ques-
ton the Eirnes Of Mr.. Young's election as
Supt. Of schools, Mr.. Young resigned upon
the spot but the meeting by an overwhelm-
ing vote refused to accept his resignation.
The Town Meeting Tuesday was the most
turbulent one which we remember to have
seen in Burlington. Not that there was any
special disposition to be disorderly but the
meeting was uncommonly large, and som
uneasy spirits, who apparently had been
working themselves into a state of high dis
satisfaction with the able and faithful officer
who has oficiated for some years past as
Overseer of the Poor and 1st Constable and
Collector, could not keep their speech within
any reasonable bounds. Groundless accuse
tions and even discourteous personal attacks
upon him and upon others were made. alto
gether beyond the line of pertinent remark
to the business in hand, and sometimes
quite outside of the rules Of good manners.
The natural consequence of all was a restless
state in the multitude who filed the Town
Hall-a great deal Of getting up and moving
about, and speechitying on topics as foreign to
the question as a talk about the Empire of
China would have been-All producing a
comm0tIon quite beyond the power
of the Moderator to keep down. For the
choice of several officers ballots were called
for, which consumed time and added to the
confusion.
The meeting was called to order
az 10 o'clock A. NJ, and save an hour and a
recess for dinner was in session till half
past six in the afternoon. After the several
of town officers were com
the multitude thInned off rap
dly; and for the last hour there were
not more than forty or fifty persons present.
The general result of the meeting will prove
% be good, we doubt not, though there were
me or two changes of questionable wisdom
made in town offcers-under the present cir
.umstances of the Town business still we
re not aware that any man was elected who
will not prove to be a useful and faithful
Mr.. Pattee declined serving again
IS s~elrc'man, and Mr.. W. L. Strong. was
Elected IN his stead. Mr.. Edmunds, IN reply
o a charge by Mr.. Stacy, that he (Mr. E)
vas not a proper man for Town Agent, be-
ause he had been paid considerable sums as
lawyer by the Railroads, refuted on the
pot the offensive statements of Mr.. Stacy,
nd SAID that he did not q" run for the Office
lawyer that ne did not wish for the
nee OF Town Agent, and declined "a re-elec-
on nevertheless, a large minority vote was 1
ist Tor him by those who believed that some ,
nportant suits now in progress against the t
own could better be attended to bv him Q
by another man. a
Manuscript Reports were read by the q