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handle is hein.ssl/ssvt0076 and id is 1 raw text is: A rTS AWoD LAWS. Commiffrolvers to make Reprifal. Nefhobe. ACT S AND LAW Paffed by the General Affembly of the State of Vermhont, At their Seflion at Rutland, in Odober, 1784. An a& to eflablifh the doings of a certain towr- meeting held in the town of Ne/hobe, and to alter the name of the faid town of Neshobe. 7H E R E AS, the inhabitants ofIthetbwn of Nehobe, in the month 4f March laf, were not fufficient in number to organize themfelves as a town, and choofe town officers as the law dire fs; but upon the increafng of the number of/aid inhabitants, they did on the th day ofOelober indant, meet and choofe town officers. And whereas the inhabitants offaid town have re- quefted that the name of the/faid town of Nejhobe, be altered to that of Brandon. Therefore E it enafled, and it is hereby endaled, by the Reprefentatives vf the Freemen of the State oj Vermont, in General ,fembly met and by the authority of the fame, That fuch proccedings in thesjhoice ot town officers as were had and a6ted by the inhabitants of the town of Nefhohe, nn the 7th day of this inftanE Oaober, 1784, which would have been good and according to law, had the fame been had and done in the month of March, as the law direts, be, and they are hereby eftablilbed anI cnfirmedi as legal and authentic, as though the fame had been had and done in the faid month of March : and, that the faid town of Nethobej fhall be ever hereafter called and known by the name of BRANDON. An aa appointing Commifflioners to make reprifal in a- cafe therein mentioned. F/H E R E, S, Micah Tfownfend, of Brattleborough, in Windbam county, E/qr '-e, has reprefented and proved to the fatisfalion of this Houfe, that he has been arrefled in the State.of New-Tork, by Seth Smith, offaid Stale, in an adion of trefpafs, wherein thefaid Seth flates his damages at One Thou- fand Pounds-that the faid Micah was obliged to give bail in the faid fult, in the fum of Two Thouland Pounds, for his appearance at Court-and that the faid juit was commenced and profecuted again# the aforefaid Mcah, folely ,for hir adling in the line of his duty, as an officer and fubjea of this State: And whereas, this LegrYlature view themfelves bound, by every tie ofb onour and juftice, to protett and indemnify the jubjefts and o04ers of the State, while ading agretable to their duty: Ba Paled Oft. Adb 1784. Freamble Digitized from Best Copy Available Proceedings df Nethobe o Ot. inWk. confirmed. PalTdO0& 25, 1784.- Preamble.

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