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Choice of Reprcfentatives. t
A CT ' S and LAWS,
PaTWed by the Grcat and General Court or Affembly
of the Commonwealth of Mafacbuetts: Begun anA
held at Boflon, in the County 6f Si'folk, of Wed-
nefday the Twenty-fifth Day of O8ober, A. D. 1780;
and from thence continued byAdjournments toW ed-
ncfday the Eleventh Day of .jrior 178 1, and theri
met;.
C H A P. 1.
An ALI impowering Sele&nien to call Town-Meetings:
for the Choice of Reprefentatives.
V HERE,'S ly the ConJitutiok or Framne of Governm,-nn of thi (ofi. Pow. ble
j' m onweltb, Chapter tirfl, .tdc~ion 1Tird. frticle Fifth. is i decla-
red, bat the Members of the Hou/e of Reprefenta:ives 1hall be
Obtfen kAnua/ly, in the Aonil of May, tex Days at leafi before the laft Wednef.
day oft Pat Month ; bxt no Provifion is made for convening the Voters, r
regulating theMeetings, or Jor making Returns of ile Perfont ¢le d :
Be it therefore enafted by lb? &siate and HouJe of Repfefentatives in Gtneal
Court aftfmbled, and by the Autbority of ibefame, That the Selcarrmea for the SId0cme. o
the feveral
Time bet,.g,or the major ?art of them, in each ard every Town,authorircd to T(,.* i thid
chufe a Reprefentative in this CommonweAlth, be, and they are hereby ian- Commo.
power d and dircded to taufe the Inhabitanis of their I owus refpe ively, 1 I autho
VeY rifed t. cell
qualified according to the Conaitution, to be annually warned in due Courfe to,, mos-
of Law, to meet at fuch line and Place as they fhall appoint, , being ten i0gs for the
Choice of Rq
Daxa at leaft before the faid laft Wednefday in May,) for the Purpofe of prri eti, R
choofiia . one or moreReprefentatives agreeab!e to faid Conflitution ; and faid Anx,=y.
stfeiieu to,
Sete~tmne (hall prefide at a.d regulate lhid Meeting, and caufe the PR'tfom or ,,i, t
Perfons to chofen by th- major 'art of the Voters prefent, to be notified of a emga, ,Ai
fiid Choice,as foon a may be,by aConftable of faid town, and they fhall make make rettira-
Return thereof into the Secrctary's Office on or bfore the laid taft Weds- itr's o C,
Glay .in May annuall,, in Form following, viz. 0, the aft
Wedn.fday i
Purfuant to a Law of this Commonwealth, the Freeholder. and other Inha- M..
bicaots of the Town of qualified according to the Conflitution, upon Form* of thd
due Warning given, met togtther the Day f . and then did el tur
to Reprelent tiem in the General Court appointed to be convened and
leld for the Government's Service at the Siate Houfe in Boftn, ot fuch other
]Place a!'mwy hereafter be appointed for the General Court to 6onvene at,
agreeable to tie Conflitution, upon the laft Wednday of May, the'.faid Per.
fIn being chofen- by the major Part of the Eledorg pirefent at fGid Meetingo
LDated in afoieraid, the Day of in the Year of our.Lord
and ia the Year of the lrdepcodence of the t'nitcd States of
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