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oose Town Officers for the year Ensuing in and no person but what has been ratted one chilling at Least to the Last Province Tax More then The Poole Tax Laid in Said Town Shall be Admitted to Vote in Said Meeting and that the Assessors that Laid said Tax be directed to Lay the Towns Raite Bill, or Lift of the Last year Before them for the Regulating of the Said Meeting Then follows the form directing the constable to make a return of his doings on the order, the whole being signed by William Dudley, Speaker, Josiah Willard, Sectry. Apparently they had political troubles in the good Old Colony Times when we lived under the King. The result of this meeting was the election, among other officers, of Benjamin Willis as town clerk, and it is his writing that appears in the remainder of the book. More than half of the pages of the book are used in the lists of the taxes levied for various purposes. It was the custom whenever a town meeting was held and money appropriated for any p