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record of June 27, 1874. The board voted to receive the cannon and make an acknowledgment with thanks, and further voted to place the cannon in charge of the committee on almshouse (italics our own). Two days later the committee reported the guns received and stored at the almshouse. Though Medford had the guns and the money too, they continued to be lodged at the almshouse, and the town paid Battery C $100 for a salute on the Fourth of July, $8.90 for cleaning guns, and $15 to Uncle David Simpson for meals for the battery men. And now appears a citizen, Charles Russell by name, and others who urged the formation of an artillery company to take charge of the Swallow battery and use it in accordance with the intent of the donor. As such an organization was not a part of the State militia, its status was much like that of the old fire companies, and yielding to their desire, the selectmen on November 7, 1874, record the signing of a petition to the Governor for a license to form