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1788 461 (1788)

handle is hein.ssl/ssnh0082 and id is 1 raw text is: R'oad from Barn/?had to Nvoriwood. AN A C T To lay out and clear a HI-ghway from Barn/iead to an&ed 24 Feb. 1703. Nort hwood, in this fate. IVI1EREAS a petition from fundry inhabitant; of this fate hail been treented to the General Court, fetting forth that the Road commonly called the Province Road, laid out from Durham Co Cohas, is in fame parts thoreof very much incum- Preambk hered with hills, rocks, &c. and thereby rendered a/mo/1 im- pafable fir loaded waggons ;-that a Road from Barn/lead, through a corner of Pittsfield to the main Road in Vorthwood, might be made, which would remedy the ajorejaid inconvenience -and prayed that Jonathan Clark, Efq. of Northwood, Col. Richard Sin kler a/ Barnlirad, and Capt. Reuben Hillof Lee, or any two of them might be appointed a committee, to lay out faid Highway, and fully impoweredto have the fame cleared and made pa//able. Upon reading and cnhiderin the jame, the prayer thereof appearing reae,'.able. and that making faid Rcad wonud be jervice'/A to the public, TH EP.FORE. IT ENACTED EY THE SENATE AND HOUSE D oF REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT Convened, That Tonathan Clark, Ecq. of Northwood, Richard snaaing Sink/er, Efq. of Barniftead. and Cant. Reuben Hill, of Lee, be claufc. a Committee, they or any two of them, and fully impowered to lay out by metes and bounds, a Highway, four rods wide, in fucii a courfe as (hall to them appear rnoft convenient, from the main country road in Northwood to the province road (fo called in Barniftead.) And when they have laid out and marked the fame, that.they notify the fele(lmen of the towns of Northwood, Pittsfield and Barnftead refpeafively, to clear and make the famc a good waggon road as foon as may be. And in cafe faid feleitmen, or the feleamen of either of laid towns, (hall neglect to perform the fame for the term of fix months after fuch notice, faid Committee are hereby authorized to proceed to clcar and make faid road paffable in the mamrer aforeaid ;--And -they fhall be entitled to recover all the reafonable expenditures they may be at on faid road, with coil of profecution of fuch deficient fele &men. And the felealmen refpe tively of the aforefaid towns, are hereby impowered to aefs and caufe to be collEted fuch fums of money as fhall be Iifficient to make the aforefaid SeheOmn to highway in their towns, in the fame manner as money is ail(sand col. raifed for the State Tax, unlefs fiuch towns, or any of them lea money. (hail vote to pay th'r expence of making faid road in Ibme other legal manner, and perform the fame. D AN Digitized from Best Copy Available 461

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