And Be it further Enacted that M'r Jn'o. Whitney be and hereby is
impowred to Issue his Warrant directed to Some principal Inhabitant
in s'd District requireing Him to Notifie & warn the Inhabitants of
S'd District qualified by law to vote in Town affairs to meet at
Such Time & place as shall be therein Set forth to Choose all such
officers as Shall be Necessary to manage the affairs of s'd
District

In the House of Rep'ives June 4, 1752

Read three several times and pass'd to be Engross'd

T. HUBBARD Spk'r.

Sent up for concurrence

In Council Nov'r. 28, 1752 Read a first Time 29 a second Time and
pass'd a Concurrence

THO's. CLARKE Dp'ty Secry.

[Massachusetts Archives, CXVI., 293, 294.]

This act did not take effect until January 5, 1753, when it was signed
by the governor.

On June 3, 1771, thirty years after Groton Gore had been lost by the
running of the provincial line, the proprietors of the town held a
meeting, and appointed Lieutenant Josiah Sawtell, Colonel John Bulkley,
and Lieutenant Nathaniel Parker, a committee to petition the General