Sentence:  Thirty-six names were put into a box, and thirty days preceding the annual meeting the Clerk of the Society was to draw twelve of said names, and the persons whose names were thus drawn were to seat the meeting house and report at the next annual meeting “of their <WSD>seatment</WSD>.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (obsolete) The location where a person, facility, or community is established; settlement.