. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, ^•?The recommendations of the convention were that the states talje meas-ures to protect their citizens from forcible draughts, conscriptions or impress-ments, not authorized by the constitution of the United States, and that anearnest application be made to the general government, requesting its consent tosome arrangement whereby the states separately, or in concert, might assumeupon themselves the defense of their territory against the enemy ; and that areasonable portion of the taxes collected within the state migh
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, ^•?The recommendations of the convention were that the states talje meas-ures to protect their citizens from forcible draughts, conscriptions or impress-ments, not authorized by the constitution of the United States, and that anearnest application be made to the general government, requesting its consent tosome arrangement whereby the states separately, or in concert, might assumeupon themselves the defense of their territory against the enemy ; and that areasonable portion of the taxes collected within the state might be appropriatedto that object. The law passed by congress three weeks afterward, authorizedand required the president to receive into the service of the United States anycorps of troops which may have been, or may be, raised, organized and ofticercdunder the authority of any of the states, to be employed in the state raising thesame, or an adjoining state, and not elsctchcrc except with the consent of theexecutive of the state raising the same. —Holland. ( 106 ). CHAPTER XCOUNTY ORGANIZATION Previous to the creation of Hampshire eouuty the region ofcountry included within that jurisdiction as originally estab-lished was not a part of any civil division of the MassachusettsBay, and there appears not to have been need for the exercise ofcivil authority in the locality. The settlers, few in number, yetfirmly united by bands of kinship, church fellowship and mutualinterest, required no law to govern their actions, and such pettydififerences as did arise among them were readily settled by themagisterial officers appointed by the general court. However,during the first cjuarter of a century of civilized white occupancyin the region referred to the number of settlers was so increased,and the plantations were so widely extended, that the organiza-tion of a new county in this part of the colony became necessary. The three original towns comprising Hampshire county wereknown as Spr
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