TOWN LEGISLATION. 413 March 2, 1772. Inhabitants notified that if any person is taken into any family in this town, who is not an inhabitant without notice to the town, the law will be enforced. June 8th. "Voted, That the Waste Highways and Com- mon lands lying in the Town be Sold, and the money arising from the Sale of s'd Lands be deposited in the Town Treas- ury for the Use of a Free School." Council meeting, Oct. 21, 1773. The Surveyor of High- ways for the south district was ordered to lay out a highway three rods wide from the northward of the meeting-house through the land of Joshua Bicknell and Hezekiah Tiffany to the foot of Prince's Hill. " Voted. Highway from meeting-house to top of Prince's Hill through lands of Bicknell and Tiffany. Bicknell agreed, Tiffany refused. Land valued at $2$ an acre." October 21st. Highway three rods wide to the fish ditch, ordered laid out November 4th. 1773. Voted to sell useless highways and divide common lands. Thomas Barnes bought two acres of the new highway at ;^i8 per acre. Solomon Peck bought whole of the way running west from the great highway to the pound, $20 per acre. 1774. Voted a highway west from the Country highway through the land of J. Bicknell to begin at Bicknell's gate and run to the highway next westerly from said Bicknell's house. 1774, March 14. James Brown, Josiah Humphrey, Edward Bosworth, Samuel Allen, Nathaniel Martin, Moses Tyler, Esq., and Thomas Allen be a committee to draw up some resolves to be laid before the meeting respecting the infringements made upon the Americans by certain minis- terial decrees, and that the said committee correspond with the committees of other towns in this and in the neighboring Governments. June 4. That the late resolutions of the Town of New- port be adopted in this Town Relative to Non-Consumption of British Manufactured and Imported Tea.
