. Cranston : a historical sketch . The Caleb Arnold Tavern. 2. Old Town House on Phenix Avenue. 3. Clerks Office in Elmwood. 4. Clerks Office and Engine House, Cranston. 5. The Present Town House. 17 to the north. Subsequent town meetings devoted their attention forseveral months to levying taxes, the financial problems not being read-ily straightened out. The need of more money grew apace, however,and at a special meeting on February 19, 1762, Jonathan Randall, theTown Treasurer, was ordered to hire six thousand pounds on the bestterms he could get for six months, the debt then to be discharg
. Cranston : a historical sketch . The Caleb Arnold Tavern. 2. Old Town House on Phenix Avenue. 3. Clerks Office in Elmwood. 4. Clerks Office and Engine House, Cranston. 5. The Present Town House. 17 to the north. Subsequent town meetings devoted their attention forseveral months to levying taxes, the financial problems not being read-ily straightened out. The need of more money grew apace, however,and at a special meeting on February 19, 1762, Jonathan Randall, theTown Treasurer, was ordered to hire six thousand pounds on the bestterms he could get for six months, the debt then to be discharged by alevy on the inhabitants of the town. This was the first loan authorizedby the town, as far as the records show. As indicative of the extent to which the freemen kept public af-fairs in their own hands rather than delegate their powers to the TownCoimcil appears a vote of June 7, 17G4, that Jeremiah Field receive fourshillings from the town treasury to reimburse him for money expendedin a dispute with the town of Warwick as
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