and shall not absent themselves from the premises without their consent; and such as are able to labor, shall labor according to the directions of the Master. There shall be no ardent spirits used on the premises, except by the special direction of the Physician.
The above rules and regulations shall be laid before the town at a regular meeting, and when accepted by them, shall be the Rules and By-laws of the Gardner work-house; and shall be read in the work-house in the presence of the Master and Inmates, at the commencement of each year, by one of the Overseers.
These Rules and Regulations may be altered or amended at any legal meeting of the town."
At the annual meeting in March, 1849,
Voted, to give Levi Heywood, Charles W. Bush, Francis Richardson and others, leave to fence off a portion of the common, and set out ornamental trees on the same.
At the annual meeting in March, 1859,
Voted, to raise $4,500, to defray town charges the present year.
Voted, to raise $2,000, for the support of schools; voted to leave $300 of the school money in the hands of the Committee to expend in the
