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ACTS AND LAWS.,
Paffed by the Great -nd General Qourt or Affcmbly of the
State 0i the Maffac&ufetts-Bay, in New-England:
Begun and held       at Boflon, irn the Cotinty of Suolk,'
bn Wedhefday the. Twerty-feirenthDay of May,' A              -no
Dorini 1778 - and         from    thenice c ontinued by Ad4
journments to Wednefdav          the Sixteceth D       of Slp.
tember following, and then met,
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An Aa      for ercaing    the Weflerly Part of the Town           of
Northampton      into a feparate Town, by the Narni            o
Weflhampton.
H,7IEREAS tbe Inhbitants of'A seweftirIy Art of rke Toaws v1 Y torh.
f    ampton, in tIe Cmlnty of Hampfhire, ha 'e reprefouled to th  Ceart
the Diffiulties they Iabour xndtr, in their pre .ewt Situaliox & n pd -
prtblnding itbemftves of juffticint Nmnshtrs and ,dbiit, rthaeft th# tUa ova
Je incorperated ixto 4 firparaT.ra' 2
Be it the~refore ena fltd Sy lt Council aid Hiap ef Iteprefiutgaws, is cilvt'
vs I Court afimiled' and by the Autkrity of tke fame, That the Weflerly Part
of the aid Town -of fAetbaixpto, f:parated by a Line four Milet Eaftw.a d Putol
from the Weft Line of the faid Town of Nsrthampt i, (and parillel thereto) &. -
be, and hereby 's incorporated into a feparate Town. by the Nme of LWeft_
brnmpton, and invef, ed with all the Powers, Priviledges and Immunitle ihai
Towns in this Statc do or may enjoy.
And be it furtier enael by the Ath. r;ty aforefaid, That the inbakitants
of the aid Town of Wtefbampton, (hall pay their Proportion of all State,
(-ounty and Town Charges, already granted to be raifed in the Town of Tj1syqi,
Northanptor ; and a'fo their PropOrtion of the Pay of the I*prefentxtive f*
the prcrcnt Tear.
'nd he it aifo enat7td by the lUborly dafrt[rid. That aCkk Strssg, EfqS Wfifet u64
be, and he hereby is authorifd arld required to iffue his Warrant to one of r the 0,-
......of Towa.O01-
the principal Inhabitantsof faid Town o * f  l.ttamptox, authorifingand r;qUr eura,
sing him to notify and warn the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the faid
Town, to meet together at fuch Time and Place as fhall be. expreffed in aid
Warrant, to choofe fuch Officers a Towns are authorifed by Ixw.a, ochpofc4
and tranfa(I other Iuch lawful Matints as fhall be expreffed in faid Warrant.l

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