The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . Franklins Birthplace, Milk Street in the year 1708, on December 8th, the selectmen ofthe town of Boston made a proposal to the citizens respect-ing a charter of incorporation, which they desired to haveadopted, as the laws could not be properly enforced underthe present form of administering the towns affairs, owingto not having a head or officers empowered as town officersto so conduct and rule, the execution of all laws an
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . Franklins Birthplace, Milk Street in the year 1708, on December 8th, the selectmen ofthe town of Boston made a proposal to the citizens respect-ing a charter of incorporation, which they desired to haveadopted, as the laws could not be properly enforced underthe present form of administering the towns affairs, owingto not having a head or officers empowered as town officersto so conduct and rule, the execution of all laws and townorders being in the hands of the justices only. Accordingly,a committee of thirty, composed of the most prominentcitizens, was chosen to draw up a charter of incorporation,which they did and presented at a town meeting March14th, 1709, b^it upon being put to a vote it was rejected. In1784 the same matter was again brought to the front, andin June, at a meeting of the town, it was again defeated bya large majority. In 1815 the question of incorporation againwas considered by the people, the debate was acrimoniousin the extreme, and after long consideration it
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